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Unclear why the parent deserves downvotes for the post. One of the points of criminalizing gross negligence with respect to the handling of classified information is to remove the element of intent -- just negligence is sufficient to convict. The FBI totally side-stepped the issue in its haste to exonerate Clinton when "lesser" people have been charged for less egregious handling of classified information. I don't see how anyone can claim there was no special treatment of Clinton in this case.
Because most humans feel bad when they see situations like this, even the ones that weren't taught "this is bad" by a religion. Religion just has better marketing.

I believe it is part of our human nature to care for other humans. Why else do people give money away without getting anything in return (even if you count it as an altruistic act)?
For all of wordpress's problems, backwards compatibility and API stability definitely isn't one of them! Their dedication to backwards compatibility is very impressive (and probably the biggest factor as to why the technical underpinnings are still such a mess after all these years).
I'm not arguing in favor of the current laws. I'm arguing against the this particular misleading statement.
Unfortunately the FP rate is just unacceptably high, you end up overloading your SOC (which means your analysts end up flagging a lot of real threats as FP)
>It also is crashing after 15 minutes of map usage as it seems to overheat.

So it might be worth checking in "Developer options" if "Force GPU Rendering" is checked. If it is, try un-checking it and seeing if it keeps your phone a little cooler.
Sure, and the level of infant mortality was dramatically higher than it is today, higher even than most societies living in extreme poverty. I doubt many hunter gatherers survived into their eighties either.
Ask HN: How and can a government block social media in a whole country?
I don't want to discuss politics, but I would like to know the legality and even the technical process involved in a government blocking social media. Here is the background to my question.

I am from Zimbabwe. There is a movement that is sweeping across the country protesting Robert Mugabe. Workers have not been paid and people are tired of his regime. Most of the campaigns against him have been voiced mostly through social media as it is dangerous to protest on the streets. Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp have now been effectively used to plan a nationwide stay away planned for tomorrow. However, the government has threatened to block all social media to prevent this from happening. So I would like to know whethere this is illegal and at a technical level how they could actually do it.
> "Unfortunately, our infrastructure on AWS is working "

> "I learned recently that we are a profitable company, more so than I thought. Looking at the top 10 companies by revenue per employee, we’d be in the top 10."

Congratulations. You just convinced me to go with AWS
He monkeyed with the courts, and didn't hire enough judges to do the work, and so a person had to wait so long for his case to come up that he got sick of waiting, and went home, and so never got what was coming to him.

He made a lot of new jobs, and give them to loafers that nobody knowed nothing about, and the poor people had to pay the bill, whether they could or not.

Making us pay taxes without asking us whether we thought the things we had to pay taxes for was something that was worth paying taxes for or not.

Time passes, but some things don't change.
If "machine learning" is a tactic for (relatively) quickly selecting programs that do specific things out of the set of all possible programs, then... The sky is the limit! Especially if some new tactic is discovered.

NB. I am not a computer scientist.
This is a red herring. The article in question is not advocating a return to hunter-gatherer societies, it is utilizing them as a means to look what a what a society without post-industrial-jobs might could look like in terms of daily life and hapiness.
ZFS uses a sort of machine learning for cache eviction ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_replacement_cache )
This. FDA estimated 80% of antibiotics are used for livestock. Cite: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr965/text
"I just don't get this argument: are people seriously claiming that the hunter-gatherer lifestyle is better for us than our modern society? In the modern world life expectancy is significantly higher, as is prenatal and neonatal care. People in the modern world are far less likely to die of infectious disease, starvation, or really any form of violent/"unnatural" (meaning not due to old age) death. And how could you measure the happiness of hunter-gatherers relative to people in the modern world?"

I don't "get" why we're arguing about it at all - we don't need to. In 2016 there exist authentic, functioning hunter gatherer societies and it is possible to witness and document them.

Here is some witness and documentation:

http://www.vladsokhin.com/work/crying-meri/

... perhaps scroll down to the photos of women being cut open and burned at the stake for witchcraft, or the mutilated survivors of tribal justice.

Looks like a real party.
"The defendant merely published the string 'Apr 2016 -'" is what the defense's pretrial motion will say. It's not what the prosecution will say.
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what could be harder to believe?

her husband sold us to the banks when he was president.

they have made hundreds of millions off those banks in intervening years.

That Should be enough, has everyone forgotten 2008 already? it appears so.

millions of people lost money and jobs because of the 2008 financial crisis, and deregulation of the things that lead to the crisis falls squarely in their laps.

they don't even pretend to be against the banks, even though just about everyone in America feels like those banks not only stole from them, but got away Scott free, and they got giant bonuses for doing so.

somehow that's not enough, and lucky us, they're so misguided and fraught with iniquitous thoughts, they keep getting caught out on things, and it not only has no influence on her candidacy but people seem to rally to her to protect her from her own truths.

we seem to have easily forgotten (thanks to trump) that there is little to no difference between the parties (only a topic that comes up after someone is elected and they turn out to be just like the previous one), they are wholly owned subsidiaries of the United corporations of America.

nobody wants to hear this, and it's bound to knock me below 50 karma again, but how is it that, I hear this again and again after someone is elected but then election time comes around and it's back to a clean slate and let's just keep this moving forward.

it's like they started the election news cycle even earlier to keep us enthralled and remove our ability to think rationally by bombarding us with irrelevant crap, when we know the real issues, we talk about them for years.
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I don't know, I live in NYC and after I bought a filter I started drinking a lot more tap water. There's still something in the water that improves that waters taste after it's removed.
This is SO interesting! I am surprised by how companies are trying to solve AI problems... Machines normally take you 80-90% there, and using humans for that 10-20% left is an amazing idea. It's also a great monetization model for many companies.!!! Also, Clara is awesome :)
> those who are strongly opposed to HRC use the term "traitor" frequently

Those people also use the word "traitor" when they are cut off in traffic, or when the mailman accidentally delivers their Guns & Ammo subscription to their neighbor.
Some heavy Excel and Sage users would disagree.
Still haven't heard from him!

The meeting didn't go well since it reflected poorly on us that one of the founders wan't present. I'm giving it another week as advised by other people here, in the mean-time I make sure to call him at least twice a day hoping to get to him
>How is a "work-free world" even possible? There are always problems to solve, who will solve them? Finding and applying solutions is work and one or more people must do it.

Dont get caught in pedantic details.

A world where only e.g. 10% of the population needs to work on anything, and any other work is all automation, still qualifies as a "work-free world" compared to 100% of human history.

>Getting paid is orthogonal to the effort. Even if performed voluntarily there is still work that needs to be accomplished.

It's not, because getting paid implies work you do for the wage, and not necessarily because you like it (as is the cases for billions of people. Nobody, statistically, really considers their calling doing 9-5++ accounting, park valet, taxi driving, serving at McDonalds, waiting tables, garbage disposal, transporting goods, digging for coal, and thousands of other jobs). And even if you do like it, you do it under the terms of one or more bosses, company imposed deadlines, etc, just because you also need the money.
Well, I know if you're charged, you have a right to be represented by counsel of your choice under the 6th Amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistance_of_Counsel_Clause#C...

I wonder if that extends to witnesses not charged with a crime in some way. Or can you be denied counsel of your choice under questioning?!
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The global average life expectancy is still much better today than in a hunter-gatherer society, as is infant mortality, prevalence of infectious diseases, etc.
If venture capitalists want to give you lots of money at ridiculous valuations I don't see why its incumbent upon the startup to create a worse deal for themselves. At the end of the day its the venture capitalists that will lose.

However the VCs aren't stupid, they understand this which is why most insist upon liquidation preference. Ultimately the high valuations will end up working against the founder because these unrealistic expectations mean that those with preference will win and the rest will get nothing.

When signing a deal you really need to consider what happens at every outcome. Not just the binary choices of wild success and abject failure. You can bet your adversaries in the negotiation have already done this.
> Sure everyone believes you. Such an honest and genuine person.

I think that this sarcastic tone is unproductive, but the downvotes are a shame, as it's true that there have been ethical issues with ABP in the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversy_over_...
I agree the discussion is often non-existent. If you examine the comment history you will find it is typically because a respondent doesn't often address my points or answer questions (see the comments on this post), or it because I have been rate-limit'd.

Can you tell me where I can read more about frivolous lawsuit addiction? My cursory search has revealed nothing.
How far are we from a full removal of X dependencies from any of the major DEs? I heard mention of Wayland in this video and it got me a bit excited.
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Awesome! Drop me an email (in my profile) if you want to talk/brainstorm/share progress, would love to hear about it :)
There are a very large number of cheap locations with good schools. Especially when you include private schools.
What about the crime of "gross negligence" in the Espionage Act?
I agree that they should have used a different word like "employment", which is different from "work".
I'm merely assuming that your working life is at least that long, and that the salary/options tradeoff is something you can make throughout, as you change jobs.

If you go hardcore for options, then you might take every job with a reduced salary and a chance of striking it rich. If you're totally against then you might take every job with a more established company (or unconventional startup) that pays better. The tradeoff of potential riches versus more certain earnings is as I described.
Productivity per hour in France is higher than the UK. So is productivity per worker. [1] It may be higher than in the US.[2]

[1] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c413ca76-ce3c-11e4-86fc-00144feab7...
[2] http://www.insee.fr/en/insee-statistique-publique/connaitre/...
Can you comment on if you believe these to be actually effective? I don't see how when the USG says that you cannot divulge that you've received any type of NSL, they can easily say you must continue to act like you have in the past.

I just don't see a court or a judge upholding a "cute" or "technical" workaround for something like this. Haven't there been rulings in the past where these aren't valid, ie just like the article above once you do get NSL's etc you must take them down or be at risk of non compilance?
>Yes, that's an understandable idea, but constructing and maintaining the technological means to the end requires at least as much work as ever, though it is work of different kinds.

But the point of automation is that it doesn't really.

One computer software can eliminate 10,000,000 clerical jobs, and that just needs 100 people to write it, deploy it, etc. You don't suddenly need new and expected jobs to create/deploy that software, and those you do are an order of magnitude less than what where needed before.
>"If you are a founder with reasonable engineer cred"

Can you expand on this? Are you of the mind that engineers should only trust other engineers?
>But this is a contrived and frankly ridiculous premise.

Tell this to the legal porn producers (or legal marijuana sellers/producers) who get their accounts frozen and shut out of the banking system.

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/news/a24813/porn-star-b...
Depends very much on the test. The study I did for rapid influenza tests showed that their accuracy was pretty bad. Very sensitive, not at all specific.
"The ideal of school is to have provided a well rounded education such that the individual at 16 or 18 can start to make informed decisions about their life"

Right on, for example, phys ed. In my school, we had a wide variety of activities over the years. Almost like: here are some physical activities, hope you find one you like so that you can enjoy being healthy.

"History? Should have been teaching you about sources. Bias. Propaganda. Analysis. Argument"

Wow, I always criticize the way history is taught by bringing up Christopher Columbus. They focus on the names of the boats, not the fact that the majority of people, including the leaders of his country, thought he would fall off the world. You brought up an interesting point.
there is an entire complex of private contractors who name themselves as 'non-profits' that profit heavily off of 'helping' this system.

if you just eliminated ALL nonprofits, ensured that money donated to them was NOT tax deductible and taxed ANY and ALL ownership of non-profit owned property, you would have more than enough money to feed and house all the homeless.

the only problem is you'd have a lot more people who work int he non-profit sector unemployed.

it is a form of corporate welfare for supposed do gooding where 90%+ of the money winds up in the pockets of administrators employees and contractors all in the name of 'helping' people.

homeless people would literally be better off if there were aboslutely no government or tax subsidized services offering them help and NO WAR ON THE HOMELESS LAWS punishing individual non-institutionally affiliated people for helping/feeding/housing the homeless using informal resources.
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Sadly, both Firefox and Chromium still run on GTK3. Especially Firefox is annoying, as their recent update to Gtk 3.20 broke a lot of things for me.

If they could just use Qt instead... but nooo...
I don't think automating it would be a good idea. I'd say update it monthly or quarterly (so it's not too burdensome) and do it entirely by hand. Then when you receive a letter, just cease to do that.
When we are deciding who's rights to infringe outside of prison to prevent future crimes, it is absolutely pertinent to compare the average citizen to the ex-con, in addition to many other factors like the severity of the future crime. This is especially true because the author isn't arguing that we should be making other ex-cons register (inviting the comparison between the recitivism of sexual ex-cons and non-sexual ex-cons), he's arguing that we shouldn't make sexual ex-cons register because it's ineffective and cruel. The other types of criminals are basically orthogonal to this argument.
As someone who follows Semantic Versioning like the bible when my API changes I find it incredibly interesting that there is an open source community willing to go about it in such a backwards way. Why wouldn't it be GTK 4.0-ALPHA, GTK 4.0-BETA, GTK 4.0-RTM in which case RTM is the final release that's stable? Why would you release an API as an X.0 that is unstable?

Maybe I'm not as "with it" as I thought with open source communities but I've just never seen this (and I'm sure there are edge cases but GTK is big; seems like something important you'd want to be more stable than not that adheres strictly to semver).
Sorry to be such a curmudgeon, but I'm very weary of the "awesome" thing and self-describing your project as such lessens the chance I'm going to look at it. Could I appeal to your finest nature and ask you to change the title? Seriously, just usinig "Blurring the Lines Between Linux and Windows with Winbuntu" would have been perfectly fine (and would comply with the "don't editorialise titles" rules [0]).

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A civil war in the US would be brutal. On the US and on global economy.

The devastation of modern western society would be absolute. I can't even begin to imagine what the outcome would be.

Mind you, the US government has the largest military force in the world by far. Bigger than the next 3 or 4 biggest militaries combined.

Does anyone really want to fight that? The answer is probably No.
As much as I love phage therapy (and have loved it for more than a decade now), it's miles away from being as useful as antibiotics, or as functional.
I'm not a GTK user, so maybe I'm missing something here. And I certainly agree with the version number complaints. But these quotes trouble me: "what GTK really needs to do is sit down and flesh out a decent API" and "And if you’re having to mess with your API on a continual basis, you’re doing it wrong. Like, the whole software development thing, all wrong."

I think there's an conceptual error here. There are a lot of bad reasons to change software, but I think there are two really good reasons: 1) circumstances change, and 2) we have learned something. Or conversely, I think the only time software can have a static design is when circumstances are static and you never learn anything.

There's this common notion that if people just sit down and think really hard, they will design the perfect thing. That's a mirage. The iPod went through more than a hundred physical revisions before launch. And it has changed a great deal in the 15 years since. Is that because Apple didn't just sit down and think enough? Nope. Even the humble paperclip evolved over decades. If perfect software ever happens, that belongs to a future age.
This is my understanding as well, but I've also read that the security clearance system does not apply at all once you become POTUS.

Should be interesting whether she is cleared for the security briefings while running for President, though.
That might work. What I do with https://github.com/tedyoung/awesome-java8 is require a few sentences for each submission that's describing what makes it useful and/or different from what's already available. Curation is definitely work, and kudos to @vhf for keeping up with it, but setting a higher-bar for entry can help (unless your goal is to just amass a bunch of links).
or just use the "web" link below the title.
Not may researchers agree with this view. Note the decrease in discovery of new antibiotic over time. Cite: http://smellslikescience.com/a-need-for-new-antibiotics/ Also if you need more info, more people are estimated to die from AMR then cancer in 2050. Cite: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30416844
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Ok, I will give you a source: please look at this article's url. That is it!
Actually, when I don't do work for my employer, I make video games. It still is work, even though I don't get payed in money, but it is also much more fun than playing video games others have created. I even would say it is driven by the same desire.
burning karma as breadcrumbs to a fantastic idea.
Google uses LGTM quite heavily in UI labels and conversations, e.g. "I LGTMed it".
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>It is an utter and simple fact that due to tech being an everchanging landscape, any book more than a few years old is going to teach bad habits or explain concepts incorrectly.

Concepts change meaning and good habits turn bad every few years?

Shitty books are shitty, OKish books will be probably be fine for a language intro, even if they are old.
It's not even VPN, it's a DNS service that masks your location, similar to unlocator.com
I agree, DNS as a service is still a relevant business model when targeting other use cases. But I disagree with the use of term 'pirate' here.
Two things,

1, you keep attempting to make my argument a straw man escalating the emotional impact of the consequences. First it's prison, now it's a bullet in the head. No one is claiming physical violence by the government other than you.

2, It's impossible to provide. Any case that lost would be secret due to national security reasons. You assert that this hasn't happened. Fine, believe what you wish. I assert that we don't know if it has happened or not. Because, again, we'd only know if the defendant "won".
And to give an example for this "what we're pushing under the carpet is that they were forced, by racism, to be raised with it as their first language", I mean things like segregation, separate (under-funded) school districts and communities, etc.

Separating from the society at large is how you create and enforce such dialects to particular subgroups.

And segregation didn't end in the 60s: "Despite recent trends, blacks remain the most segregated racial group. The dissimilarity-index indices in 1980, 1990 and 2000 are 72.7, 67.8, and 64.0, respectively.[8] Blacks are hypersegregated in most of the largest metropolitan areas across the U.S., including Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC.[4] For Hispanics, the second most segregated racial group, the indices from 1980, 1990 and 2000 are 50.2, 50.0, and 50.9, respectively".

And:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_segregation_in_the_Uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
While she likely got it in the hospital, it should be noted that a fair portion of the population carried C. difficile in their guts, and could develop a symptomatic infection purely as the result of a disruption of the less hardy elements of their gut flora.
To me this seems like the right approach - either you start with some massive amount of data that's not quite adapted to the problem (think Google), you start with full automation and have to basically write the decision tree yourself, or you generate the appropriate labeled training data like this.

However, it seems like there are some scale issues if you start upmarket like Clara Labs has been. I wonder if there's benefit in having a cheaper more mass-market version as well that can be used to generate larger amounts of data and test algorithms better?