skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you are ready to believe that physics and chemistry created simple organism which through the process of evolution become more complex organism eventually turning into us.

But you can't believe that this evolution will continue?

Perhaps it's exactly because their argument is empty of spiritualism that they see the world more clearly.
The question of whether Pebble is abusing kickstarter came up last time around as well. I think it's ultimately up to kickstarter and I would guess they are okay with it given their 5% take ($35k in the last 45 minutes, ~$1M last time)
There certainly is propaganda masquerading as news in America (and other Western nations), and it's absolutely true that some people are deceived by this. However, there is also a wide variety of media, and it's certainly possible to find articles that are well-developed and not "full of bullshit".

(I imagine there are also ways of getting information beyond the curated "official news" in China; not living there, I'm not aware of the ways, of course. Perhaps, in China, you have to seek? In America, you do the opposite, you have to filter.)
It's the 8-char password that I find absurd - that would take about 2 hours to brute force max.
I feel the same way. Pebble isn't kick starting anything at this point. They're just crowdfunding interest free R&D loans with pre-sales, which is fine, but the use of the Kickstarter platform for the THIRD time seems disingenuous.
Google aren't in France in order to better serve up search results - that can be done from anywhere. Google are in France to sell advertising, they are carrying on a business selling services to French companies.

One of the big things in the UK was Google claiming they sold all their adverts from the Republic of Ireland not the UK and thus could pay Irish taxes. This was despite having lots of sales staff at their London office...
Does this affect performance? Esp for things like photoshop?
That's not small at all. The expected effect size is 0% over so many generations and political upheavals. 5% is ridiculously high for 700 years!
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Is this actually a thing in USA? Where you need a lawyer to do your taxes? Cause I'm in the EU, and this never happens.
> Medicine is now working on really hard problems

It's not about "what" is being worked on, but how. I think he 's referring to the lack of major centrally-planned projects like the US space program, or the LHC. I think its true that the way scientific funds are being allocated favors short term but unambitious goals. As an example, both the BRAIN initiative and the human brain project have set rather vague goals that point to incremental steps rather than giant leaps.
Question: I've been deliberating getting a smartwatch so this is good timing. However, I've been trying to cut down on screen time and distractions. Is getting a smartwatch a good idea?
Addendum: make filing taxes a largely automated task where data are shared with the government so the online submission is merely a review of what is already on your W-4 (or what have you). Make it so dead simple it should take no more than 15 minutes for the average citizen with a computer. Anything that is purchased or paid to you should already be built in: if you paid mortgage interest, the deduction is automatically applied from data supplied by the lender; if you installed solar panels on your roof, the vendor will have already informed the government and the correct deduction is pre-applied; if you registered a corporation in your name, the filing service will relay your costs to the government, as will your lawyer, if you did not file personally. If you paid interest on your student loans, the taxman will know long before April 15.

Tack on a processing fee for manual deductions that scales with the potential cost of an audit.
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Same here. Happy overall. If only they supported more unicode chars...
Core is super cool, but I feel there's a big miss for tracking heart rate. I suppose you could cobble it together with Wahoo Fintness TICKR X and merge the data after the run, but it would be awesome to combine those two products.

Also would be great to see it tie into other devices like cadence / speed sensors for bike rides.

Does show that these types of devices are just around the corner, which is exciting. For me, I'll keep on trucking my phone with me until I get full integration with tracking heart rate and cycling metrics.
It's hard to tell what they are from the website, they look like Knex but with spherical connectors - that's not a bad thing at all, but is there more that I'm not seeing easily?
That's seletz's point.

It's easy for people to embrace the rhetoric that China is a bound society and the West is made of free societies. In reality, the shape of the bindings is different. A free society wouldn't have forced a man to flee because he knew he wouldn't find justice after revealing an uncomfortable political truth to the public that is oppressed by it. America's methods are different, but being a superpower and an empire demands supreme authority in key areas.
As expected, there's some buffoon trying to bring in unwarranted dissent under the guise of caring about OSS.
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" -- John Gilmore.

Even back in the slashdot days I always thought this oft-repeated quote was more of a hopeful rallying cry than an actual statement of fact. And I think it's been clear for at least ten years that it's definitely not true.
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> Congress diverted funds collected from the "9/11 Tax" (per-ticket fixed fee used to fund TSA) to other parts of the government budget. The union is requesting emergency funding for 8,000 additional TSOs, which would only bring it back to 2011 staffing levels.

There is a good chance they are deliberately trying to cause long delays so media will get outraged, and then they can say "it is because of not enough funding, we need more money, call your Congressperson".

Remember the "sequestration" a year or two back, how they started closing parks, while still spending billions on defense and other things that public would have little involvement in. This could be something similar.
I fly frequently through a limited set of airports.

I rarely see the millimeter scanner at less than max throughput.

That said I regularly do what I can to slow things down, and sometimes take the pat down in favor of hassling the staff.

Attrition is damned right. The TSA scam is awful, and I hope we can get rid of it soon.
No, people are judged on intent. Laws are meant to be applied as written. That's why you hear about people getting off on a technicality, and why you hear about obviously dumb rulings like two teenagers who get into a relationship and end up guilty of paedophilia. That obviously wasn't the intent of the lawmakers, but it's the result of the law as written.

The notion of intent is a very important protection in law ... for the accused. For lawmakers, not so much.
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I teach Data Structures at UC Berkeley, and this is one of our most challenging problems each year: find a one-line expression to get the least significant bit of a number. x & (x-1)! It exploits some very interesting magic of binary numbers.
No one said programmers were expected to; however, not having that experience makes judgement of what is or isn't a bad question baseless. FizzBuzz and all such trivial code tests are fantastic interview questions because most applications can't program, that is exactly the point and purpose of FizzBuzz, weeding out liars of which there are many due to high salaries in comparison to other fields.
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Introducing Snapstorms.com. Why, Oh, Why Snapchat?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10129914
personal experience, a person my wife hardly knew begged us to let him come stay in england for a short while so he could establish himself here. where he was staying in rotterdam had been overrun with migrants, he was regularly getting mugged in the street and people were banging on the doors in the middle of the night aggressively demanding money. perhaps a distinction needs to be made between ideological racism and generalisation learnt from experience.
This depends a lot on the country. For example: I'd say most self employed people in Belgium use an accountant to file their taxes. Some (a subset) of those also have a tax lawyer who helps them optimise certain things.

Self employed people (i.e. entrepreneurs) who make decent money will have a tax lawyer, because inevitably, you'll bump into an unfriendly tax collector somewhere down the road.
Yes, that is a great idea but imagine writing unit tests for your code. Imagine someone is reading the tests as you write them (and has people whispering in your ears to influence what you write). Now, these people are trying to find edge cases. Remember that they just need one good edge case to pwn your code.

Will you start writing more unit tests? Will your tests get more elaborate?

My abstraction is bad because it doesn't cover another issue: public policy through taxation. We encourage things we consider "good" using taxes and we discourage things we consider "bad" using taxes as well. A lot of people support tax "relief" for things like mortgage loans, education loans, dependents and so on. If we want to simplify the tax code, these deductions must go away.
Hell, just roll things back to how they were before 9/11. I think it makes sense to have metal detectors, but we don't need to be taking clothes off or going through x-ray machines
Israeli profiling is far more sophisticated than "blatant racial profiling" as the above commenter baselessly claims.

For one thing, many Jews in Israel are of Middle Eastern origin and appear identical to Muslim Arabs. The Israelis use several layers of profiling: a preliminary sweep as you are checking in, which assigns you a particular "risk level" based on your country of origin, profession, behavior, and other details (probably if you're wearing Muslim attire, that's taken into account as well).

You then have to undergo several more levels of scrutiny from very well educated, highly intelligent and intensely trained specialists. They can and will frisk, pat down, and strip search if needed. They can open all of your luggage and check every inch of it if they're suspicious. Or they can wave you through if they're satisfied of your innocence.

Here's one journalist's impression of the Israeli system:

http://www.businessinsider.com/israels-ben-gurion-airport-se...

For the Americans to adopt the Israeli system would mean recruiting some very sharp cookies, training them very well and compensating them commensurately. The U.S. government's track record of such achievements is not that great, unfortunately. Certain groups like the Navy SEALs, certainly, but to hire, say, 100,000 such people to operate the 5,000+ airports in the U.S. is dauntingly beyond reasonable contemplation.

EDIT: also worth mentioning that Israel is 20% Muslim. They wouldn't just "not let in" Muslims; on the contrary, they have to accommodate many different ethnicities and religions every day. It's an extremely diverse country.
I assume it will run standard pebble apps in headless mode.
> P.S. I never got into ASP/ASP.net ... is that what people use .net for most these days?

For web development, yes. MS's REST framework is called WebAPI, and most people pair that with Angular, but you can use your poison of choice. If you want a more traditional MVC framework, there's MVC. If you want be all hip and cool, you can deploy a web api container to one Ubuntu machine, and the your frontend to another.
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The commenter's name should alert you to obvious biases.
yes. And it's already supported in many clients without plugins, many companies just sign their mails. You probably don't even notice that if you don't know where to look. It's very unobtrusive compared to gpg.
My friends in autocross and doing track days buy used Mazda Miatas. I'm told that Mazda got the "feel" just right and the handling is excellent with a few upgrades and the cars are cheap[er] to buy and run. I haven't (yet) but I did wring a few rural miles out of a stock 1999 ragtop my wife's friend owned and it was a fun car.
You could remove the TSA and let airlines do their own security checks at the gate. Airlines really don't want their planes hi-jacked.
Anytime I install software or sign up for a service on my work laptop, I am entering my company into a (perhaps) binding legal agreement that I haven't done more than skim at best, and has not been reviewed by our corporate legal team.

It's fairly common to see clauses that state the terms may change at any time without notice, and continued use of the service means you agree to any changes made. That seems completely unenforceable to me, but I am not a lawyer.

I've often fantasized about a legal framework similar to Creative Commons, but for TOS, that would protect the interests of both users and service providers.
Swift is not even safer than Objective C since you can pepper your code with ? and ! and get the same runtime problems.

I would even say that it is less safe as time pressure and having to spend time on such trivial things combine to make you lazy about it and just add them to keep the compiler happy.
It pairs with the watch, which is tracking heart rate. Think of Core as a phone replacement to run the watch, not a watch replacement.
I do suffer from impostor syndrome sometimes :).

That said, most of my peers who are objectively better than me are already employed, and it's up to employers to select from the available pool of employees. My responsibility is to truthfully present my skills during interview.
Google makes money in France. Given France's economy size, it's probably billions. They need to pay taxes to the french government for the privilege of doing business there, so the government can sped it on schools and other infrastructure, so the french citizens can be prosperous.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11760832
That's the life of a developer, I'd say. Frameworks, languages and platforms come and go, so planning for the far-away future doesn't make much sense. It's much more important to grasp the core concepts, learn quickly, and keep the interest in continuous skill set development.
Yes that's what I do too and my external drives are also encrypted with it and use the same password. So one password on start-up mounts those as well and always to the same drive letter.

Having all memory sticks encrypted makes for wonderful peace of mind.
I dont think it is even possible to hide it from government
Evolutionary, not revolutionary. We haven't discovered anything really new in a while. CRISPR-CAS9 and the like may qualify but still I'm not sure they stack up next to the discovery of DNA itself.

All that happened from about 1945 until 1970. Then it stopped. I find it impossible to believe that we learned everything there is in 25 years. Something is broken.
Many runners don't like carrying a heavy smartphone during exercise. The iPod shuffle form factor does have a certain appeal to those.

The bad news (for pebble) is that runners have been using wrist mounted gadgets literally for decades (HRM watches go back to the 1980ies), so they are trying to leave the wrist in the single market where wrist-worn computers are actually established.
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You don't have to but you can; and apparently it's good politics too. Google made a big deal of its new office space in the center of Paris when they opened two years ago.

Edit: of course, the right for an Irish company to do business anywhere in Europe is also one that can be abused. Separate companies are not needed for rights to be abused and offices to be raided.
I don't have any files on my personal laptop.

I have a USB key or two on my key-ring, and in theory I have an external hard-drive although currently I don't use it.

I keep code on a VM and GitHub.

In general I don't really have anything I can't lose or have made public. Instead of looking at my laptop as a thing I have to protect I look at it as a thing that will inevitably be lost, damaged or replaced.
I think that's where Bitbucket Pipelines comes into play. Their YAML file is similar in concept to TravisCI and others. Jenkins Pipeline has a jenkinsfile which is also similar in concept but is based on Groovy. While there's a learning curve for that, I would argue it's definitely more powerful.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/configure-bitbuck...
Seems Pebble has lost their direction. Their original product was excellent. A information UI on your wrist.

But then came their update, and it was all about "timelines" (thanks but no thanks, i know where this is going having dealt with Facebook and Twitter "timelines").

And now this, whiskey tango foxtrot...
I understand Microsoft is making progress, but I can't see how the are positioning themselves very well against Google in the markets they compete on.
How is it an abuse of the platform? From the beginning, Kickstarter had often been used to fund individual product launches that were not company or product-line launches.
You're not alone: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-1223

Dear Atlassian: This request has now been open for 9 years and has 247 votes.

9 years.
Since the new algorithmic timeline you already have no way of knowing what shows up to who and when, it's up to them to decide who sees what based on inflating whatever engagement metric they think is important at a given time. (And who knows whatever other factors.)
To be fair the issue is a lot more nuanced than that. For example, because of that trade we live in a quite peaceful period. This income in China has been used to bring hundreds of millions of people out of absolute poverty and into a middle class - where people have some luxury money and aren't engaged only in sustenance farming. I think this is an extremely valuable and positive thing, would you really want to stop this trade and put hundreds of millions back into poverty in order to feel a little more morally correct?

Sure, it's not perfect, but it's a lot more complicated than you might think at first glance.

https://ourworldindata.org/world-poverty/#declining-global-p... - look at the second graph here, trade with China and other developing countries has simultaneously brought more people out of poverty than ever before.
What's the purpose of the raid? To seize file cabinets filled with documents? Wouldn't a company like Google have most of their documents in the cloud?
> while Win10 is not being able to overcome past Windows versions in market share

Windows 10 past 20% market share
http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-os-ww-monthly-201504-2016...
In America, there's at least one clear example of this - laws against "structuring". Basically, they say that it's criminal to arrange financial transactions with the purpose of avoiding laws about financial transactions.

As an example, banks are required to report all deposits of $20,000. It's a right to deposit $19,999 into a bank account, nothing wrong there. But to deposit $19,999 five times in a row, rather than than $100,000 all at once? That's structuring, and it's illegal.

I'm not aware of a general "law against circumventing laws" but there are certainly specific ones banning classes of behavior that exist to avoid other regulations.
my friend recently left his macbook pro at the jaipur airport after they made him change security lines. They held onto the computer in security because he didn't hand them the token, he took off to delhi, called the airport, and someone managed to track his macbook down and give it to a friend who he had authorized. incredibly surprising, but he still had his numbered plastic tag in his pocket by accident.
There are three distinct values: unshattered, shattering, and shattered which appear to correspond to 00, 01, and 10 with 11 being an unused state. This will always occur in boolean with 2 bits and 3 used values (unless someone stupidly gave it an undocumented purpose).
Hummm not really. Or better saying, as much as the US look like with some judicial decisions of theirs

Like password vs fingerprint
The parent comment's theory is not that they hold onto assets, but that they hold onto social ties. A person born into the upper class will have better connections, get a better education, and act dress and speak like a member of his class, and marry into other upper class families.
> At points I've tried to keep three ORMs/DB libraries in my head at a time: AR, DataMapper, and Sequel ... At least AR has any story around things like optimistic and pessimistic locking

That's rather dating your "at points". DataMapper hasn't seen an update since 2011, and Sequel's shipped with optimistic and pessimistic locking since early 2010.
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I don't use photoshop, nor can I offer anything other than my perception but I haven't noticed performance being reduced in any way.
Um, not a native English speaker here. Though as long as I can articulate my thoughts to have a meaningful discussion, I don't think that's being an issue. I would rather you focus on the topic and contribute your thoughts or counter-arguments, than focusing on trivia or throw off 5 cents party stuff to close this fruitful conversation.
The people with the most to lose in taxes have no problem paying specialists to handle it for them.
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Just so you're aware, the firmware password on a Mac can easily be bypassed by anyone with an SPI writer. [1] Using a teensy and a chip clip, someone can clear the password or bypass the password check completely.

So, it will keep the honest out, but for someone who knows what they're doing, it will only prove a mild inconvenience.

This obviously doesn't help them bypass FDE, but in case they want to steal the laptop and not have a brick, the SPI writer works a treat.

[1] https://trmm.net/SPI_flash
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I think core should be marketed to the elderly, as an emergency button in case of theft or medical emergency. They would sell millions in Florida.