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Did you grandmother consider peritoneal dialysis? It allows one to do it on a daily basis from them home with no needles. Either by machine while they sleep or manually while awake. These are supposed to have less side effects because the treatment is done on a daily basis vs alternate days for hemo-dialysis. The technology is much simpler than hemo-dialysis... literally a bag of water that is pumped into the body.

Sadly I had to learn about all this because I found my kidneys were failing a year ago. Everyone needs to be careful because there are very few warning signs of a failing kidney.

I'm not on dialysis yet but right on the border. I really wish I had the financial resources to invest into these companies to help them reach success.
IoST strikes again! https://twitter.com/internetofshit
Example: HN gleefully ate up analytics on the AM dataset. What men were saying, searching for, the ratio of men to women, etc. Will we do the same here?
Why didn't you call it "parallelogram"?
I don't understand what issue you think this solves. You're describing houses that abut each other and are 3 stories tall. This
would be a multi level apartment building if you didn't insist on making everyone stretch their living space across three floors and you didn't assume people want most of their housing to be in a basement. I don't think neighbors "driving across your roof" is a selling feature for most people, so I don't know who you think would prefer this over multi level apartments. Or perhaps more comparable, row homes.

From what I understand here, your proposal boils down to "make the lots half as big, build the houses directly adjacent to the street, and dig a basement that extends under the street to get some interior square footage". Yes, you could do this, or you could lift the whole thing up one level so the basement isn't really a basement (though I doubt it saves you anything since it's got to be a beefy structure to hold up to road traffic, and it's still going to feel like a basement). I just don't understand why you would do this and who would want to live in this Morlock ghetto. This sounds ugly and expensive and pointless when you could build dense housing without doing any of this.
?? I can't hear you? The only thing I could make out was ANY
This is great, too, and I think there's a PDF floating around:

https://www.amazon.com/Self-Discipline-10-days-Thinking-Doin...
Just as a counterpoint: I (think I) absolutely do think in a specific language. I don't know if I do so all of the time -- there could be times when I don't and don't realize it -- but most of my conscious thought does definitely take the form of words, and sometimes even a well-formed internal dialog.

I speak a second language fluently, and after spending several weeks immersed in that second language I'll sometimes notice that my internal speech switches to it as well, especially when I'm thinking about concepts that I've verbalized/discussed in that language.
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> Honor killings usually happen in tribal and rural segments of Pakistan--not the kinds of people who use Muslim Match.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing#By_region
I believe they meant that 4G use is data-restricted because of carrier pricing.

I get fantastic 4G speeds on my iPhone, for quite a while it was faster than my home connection. But I could never use it that way due to the carrier pricing structure.
Gove might actually be worse. It's like a bad dream.
Aaaaand, it's back.
Yeah, these people are just sawbones. Not statisticians. Their expertise is limited to how many freebies they can get from drug companies.
> being in a constant state of noob-ness

This is pretty much euphoric for me. The best thing is to overcome obstacles by finally realizing how to reason about something new.
You're getting downvoted, but there's a grain of truth here. If our perspective is, "It's ok that people were on this site, but bad that it leaked because consequences," shouldn't we be willing to focus on how to remove those consequences and the system that puts them in place?
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It's still the result of stereotypes and over-generalization. Islam is a religion with over a billion followers: trying to make any sort of statement about all of its followers is a fool's errand. I'm reminded of what my religious studies professor said: "There is no such thing as Christianity: there are Christianities". The Christianity of Pope Francis is not the Christianity of the Westboro Baptist Church, and the same holds true for Muslims.
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It's an addition to SNS, which is AWS's notification service -- you set alerts, and if a server goes down, or any other thing you set up a trigger for, it messages you. It's just expanding to new markets.
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If you always declare object fields as final then you're forced to initialize them in the constructor, so there's no risk of null there. Reading a field in the constructor should be a red flag, as should literal null in your code. Local variables should of course be final too. At that point you only need to check for null around library calls. I'm not sure how much a test actually helps with that - if you don't think of the possibility that a library call might return null then you wouldn't write a test for it either, if you do think of it then you wrap the call in a null test in the same line (don't try to get clever and store possibly-null values in variables).
Seam carving works great on scenary images. I have accidentally used it on a collection of portraits, and every image ends up at the bottom of uncanny valley. They are so frightening that I can't look at the thumbnails and have to remove them under cmd.
No reference to research, just a plug for a newly published book. Skipped.

P.S. The book itself might be interesting and have references, I don't know.
Which makes him or her no different from the terrorists themselves, though I can understand the suffering if you have lost someone. These are just normal people after all that will be harmed. Some random teenagers sexting in the Middle East.
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I think that Japan's population density and relatively small size makes it much easier to make money on railways.
Not for mobile devices.
Hey thanks! I actually built something with the plugin itself that does exactly this. Lost motivation to see it through though. Might just go ahead and release pro on code canyon now.
Even between wifi at home and work, streaming Spotify while driving and miscellaneous app usage off wifi gets me to basically 4GB a month. I can keep downloading more songs since I'm on Premium, but I think even with that I still actively have to watch my data usage and make a conscious effort to conserve data. I dunno, it's just nuts to try to do anything online without breaking your data cap in the world of 1080p and high quality audio streams
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Binaries in a SECCOMP cannot by any means read/write arbitrary files. They would need access to open(), socket(), etc. there is only read(), write(), exit() and sigreturn(). Only the intentionally inherited file descriptors are accessible.

As for your "kernel attack surface is lowered" argument, it's incredibly silly. If read() and write() ever had a vulnerability we have much bigger problems than binaries in a SECCOMP. It's like saying SHA256 isn't secure because there is technically a risk of collision.

Determinism and robustness aren't valid, they can use checksums to verify data coming out of the SECCOMP container. Same effect, much less effort.

And for your argument against de facto security: security reasoning isn't binary. It's a risk based assessment. Nothing is 100% secure and context matters. Binary thinking and dogma are incredibly dangerous. Spouting "Rust is secure" is dogma, it's not true. Rust is "99%" secure, unknown unknowns will always be out there.

In this case, context is important. My point isn't that c-brotli is as secure as rust-brotli. My point is that using c-brotli doesn't introduce any significant new security risk on the client-side given that there are lots of other c-based libraries already interpreting file data. Given that context, reimplementing brotli in rust for the purposes of increased security only marginally accomplishes its goal. It's like optimizing the part of your program that takes the least time, lots of effort for almost no gain.

On the server side, there's no gain at all to porting c-brotli to rust since you can already use SECCOMP and checksums. It's just wasted effort.

Am I saying there is no valid reason to port things to Rust? No. I'm saying it's invalid to port a library to rust for security reasons if you already have effective means of mitigating binary attacks, I.e. SECCOMP and checksums.
It might be PR, but he's just basically following the law and not breaking it. Spanish IRS (Hacienda) must publish the list of debtors who owe more than €1M by law.
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Another problem is throttling and support. If you end up on the bad side of their spam filter it's tough to convince them to unblock you. They all have API's now that you can pay for access to, so they try and push you that route.
> The combination of personal ownership of data, worldwide visibility (if you want it), and iPhone/Facebook-tier ease of use.

OK, I am totally down with that set of goals. But...

> You own your Wordpress install and it's world visible, but your mom needs you to administer it.

That's not clear. Have you ever actually used Wordpress? It's actually pretty friendly to non-technical users. But OK, let's accept as a premise that Wordpress is beyond Mom's ability, and that this is a problem that needs to be solved. There are two possible ways to solve it:

1. Modify Wordpress to make it more mom-friendly

2. Throw out everything that has been done in computing to date and start from scratch, rebuilding everything from the ground up (well, except that we're still going to run on unix and hand-compile Hoon to C when performance matters, but we'll let that slide).

Why is approach #1 so unlikely to succeed that we should even try #2?
> But I could never use it that way due to the carrier pricing structure.

Why do you think they're able to keep that pricing structure?
What I mean by memory model is the way our brain handles access to information and structures the flow of thought. Thought can exist without emotion, and likely does in many living things, but I think the way we structure language is specifically related to our capacity for emotion and the way we attach abstract emotional states to sensory stimulation. I would consider emotion the precursor to symbolic thought in the specific way we do it.
I'm starting to look through the code right now. A scroll through their open source page indicates they're using libsodium, which is a good sign that they avoided most of the foot-cannons alluded to on this page: https://gist.github.com/tqbf/be58d2d39690c3b366ad
nice example of mise en abyme ;)
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Their participation in activation usually makes some of their followers/friends to try their chances as well (or just buy it to see whats so great about it). Those people will try the product themselves and hopefully some will pick a liking for it and even recommend it further.

Social media is simply new channel in BTL and is important to Brands as they grow the awareness that there's increasing number of people that's simply oblivious to ATL.

As for sales figures, we actually work within targets, sometimes esoteric ones like "get hastag trending on specific day". We also rarely work alone, more often than not being just part of bigger picture happening simultanously. Brand then reviews performance using market research companies or sales figures and tell us results, so its hard to say if sales change would be same or different without us.

As for long term sales, that depends more on Brand's strategy and its reception by the market. Digital is part of this strategy's realisation, but due to nature of the medium, we are playing short game here.
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There may be more usefully discriminable levels of abstraction than those. Where to draw the line between thought and unthought? It seems an uninteresting question to me. Should I draw a line between the United States of America and the people thereof? They are distinct, but the latter is a part of the former, and without their aggregate the former would not exist.

Usually I equate thought and consciousness, but perhaps there is a useful distinction there?

In mammals sentience precedes consciousness precedes sapience. In machines the necessity of the linkage is not clear. We can imagine sapience without consciousness, at least, but consciousness without sentience seems more questionable.
As far as I'm concerned there is absolutely no difference.

Maybe you should only make this connection if it is the same individuals that make contradictory responses. Otherwise, HN is not as homogeneous as you seem to think.
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That doesn't _explain_ anything. Compare the level of detail to http://www.fastmailstatus.com.
On politicians excluding anything:

"I have no plans to stand for Prime Minister" - Everyone who ever stood for Prime Minister.

"I can tell you I'm absolutely not. The one thing I can tell you is there are lots of talented people who could be prime minister after David Cameron but count me out." Gove, June 3rd to Sky News

A credible way of reversing Brexit without quite the same direct slap to those who voted leave would be to delay long enough for new leader, call general election, winning party stands on a Remain ticket. There'd be outrage, of course, but rather less than another referendum "wrong answer, try again" or just ignoring the referendum.

Having fixed term parliaments complicates a little as I think there has to be a vote of no confidence. Perhaps that's the final outcome for Cameron? Fitting, if so.

I don't think it's very likely, but I am sure it is being considered seriously.
I doubt wireless data will get really cheap give than wireless bandwidth has a physical limit. There is only so much capacity and the infrastructure is not cheap so providers need enough customer to subscribe to pay for it. That means oversubscribing customers or throttling in some manner. Ask yourself if you would prefer 75mb/s for burst use vs 75kb/s sustained use?
Maybe so. If you just want the effect, you could release smoke just for show, without actually destroying anything.
Sounds too hard. Isn't there just a pill?
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I hadn't seen this discussed here yet. This seems like a more user-focused approach to "IOT". That is, enable people to find out how much it costs to run each device. In turn, market smarter devices/switches to customers based on what they could actually save.

While in the residential world it's a "nice-to-have", in the commercial world it's potentially massive amounts of savings.
(Off-topic meta-conversation.)

HN tends to downvote any political comments, especially comments that turn the discussion more political, even in a story that already tangentially touches on politics. The HN guidelines more-or-less document the former; the latter seems like a natural consequence. In general, politics is almost always off-topic here; there are many other places to discuss politics.

(Personally, I tend to agree with http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/ .)

Downvotes are a symptom of that: people downvote politics they disagree with and upvote politics they agree with. Politics, more so than many other topics, tends to bring out "downvote = disagree", not just "downvote = not a contribution". That's in addition to the people (myself often included) who downvote any comment that turns the discussion more political, because such comments typically reduce the quality and novelty of the discussion.
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We even have these so called 'honor' killings here in NL:

http://www.nltimes.nl/2014/04/25/honor-killings-rise-netherl...
a Roguelike dungeon crawler is cool, but i'm not-so-secretly hankering for a procedurally generated text adventure in the style of.. well.. text adventures, requiring programming-orientated input.
Honest question: what is the philosophical basis for the trend I seem to often see (expressed here as "Why read at all?") that pure entertainment is not a valid part of "the best way to live"?
"Dubliners there was the unlovable A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which starts well, charting bold, clear routes, like “Araby,” through the trackless waters of childhood, then fouls its rotors in a dense kelpy snarl of cathected horniness, late-Victorian aesthetics, and the Jesuitical cleverness that, even in Ulysses, wearies the most true-hearted lover of Joyce."

Do others also find this article very hard to read? (Esp sentences like the one above)
I think I understand the points you are making, but wouldn't they be mitigated by a decreased number of blocks because more transactions are fitting into a single block? Or is the point that increasing block size strictly in order to increase network throughput has non-obvious flaws?

(Honestly asking. I only know the basics.)
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I find this comment offensive. You're implying the primary harm here is done by the hacker, not the people actually stoning others to death.
Athletes score very highly on specific measures of intelligence:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

http://discovermagazine.com/2010/apr/16-the-brain-athletes-a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligenc...
Am I the only one who really hopes it's Android Nutella?
Yeah, I'm pretty excited. I've wanted to do something like this for a long time, and finally quit dragging my feet. Well, I got as far as ordering some books and some of the components I'll need.

The first two things I'm planning to do are:

1. implement a Z80 test circuit that will let me just blink some LED's or whatever they do. This is apparently one of the most basic things you can do with a Z80 and doesn't require much in the way of supporting components and what-not.

2. Figure out how to write bytes to, and read bytes from, an EEPROM using an Arduino. I found a bunch of Youtube videos and websites on this topic, to use as resources.

Sometime after that, I'll start investigating what it takes to read a program off the EEPROM and execute it.
Those 5.25 drives makes me pine for slot load optical drives and discs formated for packet writing.
Google's infrastructure is almost all custom. There's a lot of people who would be out of a job if there was suddenly a >30% premium added to Google's infrastructure when compared to OEMs. If you want the laws to change, change the laws. The issue is the government, not the companies that are simply playing by the rules.
Pardon me, but out of curiosity, were you joking or serious? (I found your comment hilarious, and while I have never seen a smart dishwasher, I can't rule it out, hence why I'm asking.)
Its important to note that Pakistan is pretty damn liberal. The tribal regions and the main land have nothing in common. People have affairs, drink and everything without worrying about death. The tribal regions probably don't even have internet.

I didn't expect hacker news to also jump to conclusions like this lol.
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As a Computer Engineering student, what sort of courses do you recommend I take in order to work on robotics? My only experience with the field so far has been high school robotics competitions really.
I've been reading the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman recently, and this is exactly how I feel about them (especially the one I'm currently on: volume 9 "The Kindly Ones").
At 12 i would have had the first clue about how to write either of those games.
Huh good catch. Google Keyboard on Android has both symbols and they're only 4 keys apart. I hit the wrong one.
Winning academic competitions:

Generally not. USCIS considers academic honors to be pre-career, or preparatory for career. I'd omit these, as they can make you look small.

Exceptions might include very prestigious international competitions with a lot of media buzz, or cutting-edge postgraduate or fellowship work.

Breaking world records:

Interestingly, there's no O-1 category that this really fits into, even though it's clearly evidence of extraordinariness. I've had good luck fitting it into the "prizes and awards" category.

This works best if there is some media buzz around the event that features the record-breaker, that you can also compile in the media coverage category.

Building very large digital things:

Probably, if they ship, if they're successful, and if they make peoples' lives work better. This could be an "original contribution of major significance." You'd have to show specific examples of the impact of your work on the field as a whole, i.e., how it was a game-changer.
I think most professional athletes are highly intelligent, but some never learned to apply it to anything other than sport.

Watch Kobe or LeBron on the court. There is an incredible awareness of the shifting context of the game and the available moves. In the greatest athletes it is faster and more fluid than in most athletes.

It's a constantly shifting analytical mode that leans heavily on training and instinct, but is full of novelty. Consider that opponents spend weeks watching tape in hopes of understanding how to anticipate what Kobe will do.

In terms of physical metrics (size, speed, etc.) professional athletes are pretty close to average. I think it is a combination of intellect and general desire to win that makes some people become great athletes.

Because of what I like to call Cartesian Blindness (viewing the world through the mind/body duality) we assume it's simply a matter of great athletes having superior muscle fibers, etc.
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I'm asking why it's important in an minimal note-taking environment. Or how it "shapes up" your thoughts and ideas as the landing page states:

"Shape up your thoughts and ideas with our real-time character, word and paragraph count."

For me, keeping track of such things is only very rarely important or interesting, and it certainly isn't part of my thought/idea feedback loop.
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I don't know. It's just as likely they found nothing and asked the Spanish to take a second crack at it. Irish tax law is stupid enough already. Europe sounds like they are jumping the gun.
Why would you think that would possibly do anything useful.
I seem to recall that the C64 floppy drive had as powerful internals as the C64 itself.
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I really abhor remarks like this one, suggesting that there are things people "should" or "shouldn't" read. As another commenter remarked, it's pretentious.

What's more, it's deceptive, because it sounds sage and insightful and worth pondering, particularly because it's well-worded and comes from a famous author, but in point of fact it's just another guy saying "Read what I deem to be of quality, not what you enjoy reading." His own skill as an author does not change that.

There's something of value to be found in most written works, one way or another, and they all have different purposes.
Seeing as 5G (and 4G before it) are both packet switched networks, you can encrypt the things you do however you want.