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ryanlol, do you in fact understand how our adversarial system works in US? This aint Finland. Anything you say to them is to be used against you in court as a confession. Anything making you look innocent is tossed out as hearsay. To get confession, feds and prosecutors can lie to you to set you up however they can with unclear limits they're always pushing. As in Russian hacker story, this includes fake job offers or asking you to "help them out" by giving them info. You, esp if a hacker or Tor developers, should never talk to FBI under any circumstances as odds are they're building a case. They often spend weeks to months on that, too, while giving you rope to hang yourself. Then, if you dont, they drop it all on you at once for shock.

So, her situation may be anything from a help request to compelled assistance to imprisonment in making. Who knows. However, any defense lawyer would tell her to not talk to FBI alone under any circumstance or volunteer assistance that makes her look criminal if taken out of context before a jury. Her lawyer is happy to hear their questions and mediate answers. So far, they wanted to bypass him. That's reason for concern.
I have been following the conservative movement for 50 years and for that whole time it has been vocally hostile toward universities. That is a fact.

>What is a 'financial corporation'? Is there a non-financial corporation that exists?

A financial corporation is one that makes its money from services involving money, such as loans or managing pension funds. I find it very hard to believe you didn't know that.

>How have universities abandoned education to favor entrepreneurship?

They put the focus on hiring non-teaching staff, earning money from patents, and forming profit-making partnerships with corporations, and neglect teaching, such as substituting low-paid adjuncts for regular staff. I find I hard to believe you didn't know those changes have been going on.

>How were universities previously not like businesses

For centuries, since their founding, universities saw themselves as engaged in a service to society, like churches or charities, and university presidents earned a modest middle class living. It is only within recent decades that they decided to maximize cash flow. You really didn't know that?

>how do student loans - which have existed for quite some time - make them be 'be like businesses'?

Students become like customers. The goal is to get as much money from them, and loans make this easier.

> If the axes for conservatism are democracy, the free market and religion, where do people who only care about 1 or 2 of those items fall?

They attack the universities for only 1 or 2 reasons.

>Since college enrollment is rising significantly, how is it keeping people out of universities?

Conservatives have conflicting goals here. Because they think universities are hotbeds of marxism, they want to keep students out. Because they see them as recently becoming hotbeds of entrepreneurialship, they want to support them. Besides, conservatives, fortunately, are not the only factor at work.

I take it you are a conservative. Why don't you say what you think of universities today, like how they are good or bad?
Note: Gov. Jerry Brown(CA) not Gov. Kate Brown(OR)
Given the insane mask costs for lower geometries, the ASIC is most likely an Xilinx EasyPath or Altera Hardcopy. Otherwise the amortization of the mask and dev costs -- even for a structured cell ASIC -- over 1K unit wouldn't make much sense versus the extra cooling/power costs for a GPU.
> Doing it on the network means that the transcode is happening multiple times, which can result in playback issues if you get a source segment from two different transcodes.

Not necessarily. H.264 Annex G specifies a way to encode lower quality subset bitstreams in a higher quality bitstream. Drop some packets and bam, you've got a lower quality stream.

AAC specifies something similar for audio.
You're joking, right? (I'm seriously asking.)
I really wish more startups focused on ending loneliness. It has to be the worst problem afflicting advanced countries, but it's all but ignored for fancy hi-tech stuff and anything that will make you're life slightly more convenient.

I've started Krewe (https://www.gokrewe.com/get_started) to help people make a group of friends in their neighborhood and build a strong local community, but I think there should be other companies who's focus is on fostering real personal interaction.
The name means "wooden coffee shop" in Swedish.
Do you think that putting a disclaimer of your sketchy behavior excuses your sketchy behavior?
Do we? Because I feel like the airlines beat passengers like pieces of cattle. I know I'm not alone in that sentiment.
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This.

Whether it's what they intended to sell or not, ISPs, through their own marketing material, sell a connection to "the Internet", and unfortunately for them that term cannot fairly be applied to just Comcast's network anymore (though it would make for a comical court case).

If they can't provide what is advertised, specifically "Internet access", then it's false advertising and I expect, and will fight for, my money back.
> Tesla stock is down in after-hours trading, but that doesn't mean much. If the stock is down significantly at the close tomorrow, the market didn't like this.

Well... there's all kinds of information asymmetry in investing. Musk generally has a clearer picture of the company's future than investors, such that signalling theory postulates that when he decides to issue equity, this may be interpreted as him viewing the equity is overvalued. i.e. selling an overvalued stock makes sense. Particularly, selling an overvalued stock prior to bad news coming out that would negatively affect the valuation, such as a growing rate of cancelled orders. Just making something up here.

As such, knowing nothing about the firm, and only the timing of the equity issue, most investors are usually inclined to interpret an equity issue as the stock being overvalued somewhat, and adjust accordingly.

So the market not liking this may just be a function of general principles of finance, and have little to do with the specifics of the company itself.
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Yes, real property is different from goods and chattels in meaningful ways. But I don't think your initial arguments for a dearth of affordable property exploit on any of them.
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I love the surveys! It gives me an opportunity to muddle what Google knows about me.
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Microsoft originally paid $7.2 Billion for Nokia in 2013.
Taiwan is Chinese -- just not necessarily People's-Republic-of-Chinese.
Only in the sense that I disagree completely and shown that you're wrong. ;-)

There's no guarantee that building luxury housing lowers prices, which is what you were implying. You have to take it on a case-by-case basis.
C++ programs written using UWP make heavy use of references, like all C++ programs, and are highly vulnerable to use after free.
The issue with contracts isn't interpretation. The legal system evolved and develop procedures in how those contracts are executed. It is done through a form consensus building between two parties and the jurisprudence. There is procedural component of that involves human judgment and also provides avenues of appeal. The human element also serves as a sanity check within the legal system: intent and the consequences of a clauses matters more than what is stated. Ethereum, right now has none of this. The execution of the contracts are blind. Also, if software can be any indication of things, complex software with a lot of interacting parts tend to be very complex, and with no human in the process, with no consensus amongst those involved, what is being executed by those clauses and the intentions of those clauses can be worlds apart. I think in the realm of software, when this happens, people label this disconnect as a bug...
This was the first thing I thought of as well.

The UK government's Traffic Sign Manual[0], and in particular Chapter 7 (The Design of Traffic Signs)[1] are bizarrely interesting reads. Maybe that says something more about me than the documents though...

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/traffic-signs-man...

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Can someone explain this - occasionally the TSA will put people who are not pre check into the pre check line. Sometime s they will randomly select people to use the precheck line and sometimes they do this to expedite long lines. So if they can selectively flout their own rules why have them in the first place? Isn't security an all or nothing proposition?
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Sounds like you're lucky enough to have a carrier where MMS still works in Hangouts, or you never get MMS messages.
You point to two cases where the legal definition of "affordable" doesn't refer to subsidies, but don't the large majority of those units, in point of fact, enjoy subsidies? Your precision is helpful, but apsec112 could still be basically right. ("California newspeak" clearing referring to the way words are typically used, not legal definitions.)
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How well does this handle a biased source of random numbers in one or more of the inputs? If someone has set up your random number source to be more easily exploitable (or just done a really bad job setting it up), does combining it with another poor source with this approach mean the results are still useful?
Do you have a timeline on when will GraphQL be supported in horizon?
Poe's law in action.
As communism experiments show, enforcing economic equality also produces a superclass that treats the rest of society poorly. :)
Wood specifically is like 50% carbon by weight, no?
Wal-Mart has to fix their shipping process. After much nagging about my failure to replace old with new, I ordered a new collection of underwear, undershirts, socks and gym shirts and shorts. I used Wal-Mart's site for it, since they had the tagless shirts I liked.

That started a near-endless procession of white plastic bags containing one and exactly one item in them, arriving at our apartment each day, over a period of two weeks. I ordered something like a dozen different items and not one came packaged with another. Trying to keep track of what I'd received and what I was missing was daunting, not to mention how much they must have spent on shipping.
Now that you are free to talk about it, could you explain how ASICs stack up against GPUs, in practical terms?
On your first point: people have known about this for a long time. Rum, for instance, is mostly produced in warmer climates, and the aging process is 2x to 5x faster. A 3 year rum tastes like a 10 year whiskey. And indeed, Buffalo Trace ages its Blanton's brand whiskey at the top of a meal rickhouse, where it can get the most exposure to the shifting temperatures of the natural world. (it pays off, it is one of the best bourbons you can get for $60 or even more).

Second: Scotch is aged very differently from bourbon, mostly regarding the barrel restrictions bourbon has (new charred american oak, only). A number of scotch distilleries actually buy barrels off of bourbon distilleries after the casks have been used. Thats also why bourbon is almost always much sweeter in profile than scotch or other whiskies. (Also Laphroaig is delicious).
I have tons of friends at Facebook and have gone to the Holiday parties for the last 7 years. I have heard a few similar stories, but the vast majority seem to love it. I think if someone is willing to publicly shame a company so big because of their bad experience, it really shows their lack of intelligence. Certainly experiences vary and if it was really a toxic environment for women, why do so any women love it?
Patent went to emergency room based on a blood test that Theranos had to retract
Political boundaries are so yesterday..

Foxconn is wherever they decide to move their head office
I agree. But business models are not created equal. Personally, I'd like more of those giving useful technology and less of those that are artificially limiting it.
Without examples it's hard to say. Python isn't static, and it's type system isn't as capable as MLs.

I'm entirely unconcerned about random formatting systems destroying whitespace. Some eat angle brackets. Maybe I'm not copy+pasting enough. I find "for beginners" to not be useful as a measure of anything - anything can be said to be confusing for beginners. But I can see how people might come to a different opinion.
"Barely has samples out" is not really true. Rational Spirits Santeria Rum, produced with his rapid aging tech, has been sold for months now.
Can anyone explain the management at Google and why they continue to produce these products that seem to be copies of copies of programs that have been failures, before they even launch? Is it like an octopus where the 7th tentacle doesn't know what the 1st is doing?

I'm very curious about the decision making process at Google these days.

If the world needs anything, it's one more messaging app. /s
What should that be number be compared to, though? What they're selling is only a piece of what they bought.
Even if the result is effectively the same, won't there still be a place for a small number of high-end distilleries that age things naturally? The ridiculous duration is part of the appeal of the product, and something that (some) consumers want to signal, right?
(strictly speaking, I'm being bitterly sarcastic)
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Sadly so. Few years ago I thought we'd all be on IPv6 by now.

BTW just today I was thinking about IPv6 VPNs. Seems like a good way to extend one's Intranet of Things to one's mobile devices.
Not to defend that acquisition, but Microsoft is keeping the Lumia business, this is JUST the feature phone business. Also, $2 billion of that wasn't part of the sale price, but a 10-year patent licensing agreement.[1] Microsoft is keeping that patent license, as well as the patents that Microsoft acquired outright in the deal. It's apples and oranges to compare the total purchase price to the sales price of part of the acquisition.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-takes-control-of-noki...
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The tech industry is full of stories of meritocratic success, sophisticated technology and abundance of wealth. For the average person working at, or with, one of the big tech companies is going to sound like a good idea. Maybe not the opportunity of a lifetime, but few people can afford to search for those, just a decent job in an industry on the rise. They can't really know that the janitor isn't getting rich anymore, heck he probably can't even afford to live anywhere near the offices.
Well, this is horrifying:

"In creating a DNA profile for the victim, Kim had typed three separate samples, two from blood and another from saliva. The resulting DNA profiles, which should have been identical, varied substantially. This alone was cause for serious concern—if the tech couldn’t be trusted to get a consistent DNA profile from a single person, how could she be expected to make sense of a complex mixture like the one from the vaginal swab?"
Humans can't write bullet-proof contracts OR bullet-proof software.

Combining the two and suggesting that the result will somehow magically be more secure and less hackable - in any sense - is nonsense.
"So"?

If you're evaluating something today, how does it change your decision that we were late to market with Compute Engine (and in this specific case "bring-your-own-kernel")?

If it's about future boring stuff, I think the list of boring stuff isn't too long ;).

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine.
Because people like wearing shoes, having entertainment on the plane, and carrying valuables that would be unwise to check?
I'm old enough to know better. I have no excuse.
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There really are very few 'journalists' anymore, certainly none on TV. It's all marketing now, for big business, doing and saying what is in the best interest of those businesses, regardless of the facts at hand. Trump brought news organizations big dollars, and so his faults were ignored, in favor of the next paycheck. Same thing goes on the other side with Clinton. If you want journalism, you better dig up lesser players that serve an internet audience. Not that they are all journalists either, just that they are more transparent about their motives.
Indirectly the whole messaging and social media culture is built on this simple premise. There are a ton of companies doing it, just not how you would expect it.

Note: I know it causes more lonliness
Online tests are a good way to maintain or solidify knowledge, but university degrees are definitely more rewarding for most people

The most rewarding aspect of university study is the exposure to intelligent, educated people who are working on awesome projects. While I personally disliked many aspects of academia, the value of this community is hard to over state and it doesn't exist when you are taking online courses from your own home.

I definitely don't believe people should leave work and go back to university in any but the most exceptional cases, however. If I were to take three years off for further study it would cost over $300,000 in lost income and course fees alone, and I don't even make that much compared to many HN readers.
Oh wow. That's one of my favorite maps too both in TFT and in dota2 :) Thank you for your effort!
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As a Brit, I often experience opposing horrors. Using a UK card in the US without notifying your bank is just asking for a gubbing. I don't blame them either... the only store I've been in over the pond which used EMV, earlier this year in fact, was Riteaid. Most stores don't even do the traditional cursory signature check. There aren't even token safeguards in place to stop magstripe cloning techniques straight out of the 80s or 90s.

It's so risky from a fraud perspective that interesting travel cards like Revolut now let you toggle magstripe transactions in their app.
Not really. Watch the Healthcare Triage video. The odds kind of wash out. You're very highly emotionally affected by your own anecdotal case, but that would be a particularly potent example of Survivor Bias.
Consumer VR is in it's infancy. Embryonic almost. In the early days of desktop computer, how many different OSes and hardware configurations were there? In the years of the automobile before the Model T, how many wildly different types of car were available to the public?

One platform to rule them all will come in time, but we should be happy that for now the ecosystem is competitive, it means the consumer gets a voice in deciding what shape the tech will take
Doesn't work with a dead finger.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/16/why-a-disembodied-finger-...
The cool thing here is that it's already widely deployed in production, so we know it actually works and that it's not just vaporware. The "more details to follow" is thus a lot more convincing than for a lot of similar-seeming announcements of things that don't actually exist yet (and often don't ever).
Git doesn't need a server and isn't heavy. You can just commit on a local repo.
> I would be fine with maps and E-mails

So you'd like a feature phone that's a smart phone?
Well.. yeah?

New technologies always results in lots of competing platforms, then consolidation, then stagnation, then a new competitor entering, new features, market chaos, then consolidation again.

And people will complain at ever stage.

And it has always been thus.
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by the way - from the female perspective, there's no way I would consider using this product...and I can't imagine any other women that would either.
>signed under duress

So he took out a multi-million dollar loan "under duress"? Unless Comvest hid in the bushes with a "psst kid want a terrible loan" and a knife, I highly doubt that's going to fly.
It'd be fascinating if a few barrels of Laphroaig were sent someplace warm, but equally as coastal for aging to see how it changes the tastes.
This is likely the beginning of the end. With such a massive loss of trust, especially in the healthcare space, it is hard to see how the company could ever recover in the eyes of customers, investors or employees.
IE (and Edge) has some custom build of Flash installed without needing separate download, which I believe is why the parent commenter excluded it.
> Purely as a guess I'd think that the gaming market is bigger than the AI researcher market.

Machine learning isn't just targeting the AI researcher market though -- it's widely used by a huge number of companies, and of course, by many of Google's most important products. I would argue that those markets combined are larger than gaming.
And now you know why fingerprints are a really bad security device.

They're fine for casual authentication, but really poor for actual security.
2002. Intranet for a major auto maker. Still going strong. Large percentage of the original management and accounting code intact. Still in development.

1999. DynamicIP tracking script from the dial-up days. Tiny but it's been telling me where my home internet is for 17 years.
Why is it a good idea to get off the grid? Genuinely curious. I would think that a networked connection of energy input/output nodes that is globally optimized would be a good thing. Not sure why it's better for anyone to have every node (home) operate independently.
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I assume you are excluding the government subsidy of the mortgage interest deduction for the "luxury" housing?
Because nobody[1] buys computers anymore.

[1] Yes, I'm aware the computer market is huge, and there will continue to be a huge market for computer based VR and I'm completely wrong about this. BUT the mobile market is bigger.
I played the backgammon game against the ai.

The backgammon game stuck on me (I couldn't get my pieces to move). Fortunately refreshing un-stuck it. I don't have flash.
Fairly intuitive moving. Moving pieces "home" was difficult.

I won however, (against the ai). Pretty wild game.

Reminds me of the good old yahoo games.
I started with Bootstrap but ended up with this one - http://www.getskeleton.com - as it's just 12kb uncompressed and unminified, and one file, very small but it covers enough to be productive and look nice by default.
>That means some patients received erroneous results that might have thrown off health decisions made with their doctors.

Put them in jail.
Jim Murray is a professional shill/troll. His Whiskey Guide is an utter joke to anyone who actually enjoys the spirit.
Alberts is the canonical cell bio text in most undergraduate biology programs.

Phillips is more of an introduction to biophysics, so would require some degree of comfort with calculus and physics (e.g., classical mechanics, some E&M, and some statistical mechanics). The preface says only calculus and elementary physics is required.