skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the past journalists either would not have accepted that kind of treatment from the companies they were reviewing or they would not let it sway their opinion

I don't know if this is now or has ever been the case.
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Yeah, I was thinking of "Spectral Music":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_music

Tristan Murail is a well known composer of spectral music.

http://www.tristanmurail.com/en/outils.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Murail

Also worth exploring in terms of modern music theory are microtonal music and atonal music, both of those are playing with incorporating the physics of notes, overtones and harmonic relationships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtonal_music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonality

Apologies for only bringing Wikipedia links, but they are pretty good launching points for learning more.
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Couldn't someone with WhatsApp/Facebook's resources find a way around the blockage?

Write a bunch of different protocols and switch randomly - or use steganography - use machine learning to evade the block - buy a bunch of existing apps and hide the data in their protocols - put up a fake weak encryption, detect "dissident" talk, and in that case generate a long nonsense recording for the censors from the voices of the speakers, hiding the true message steganographically :-) - or basically anything they can come up with.

Or - Saudi Arabia is not such a big market - make a complete theatric fuss about it and complain about human rights and so on, close all FB and WhatsApp connections and burn all bridges, and milk it for publicity.

(Only being half serious here :-) but I would be really tempted to do something mischievous in their case rather than comply.)
Looks like a very small number of sites are affected (1,000 - 10,1000 out of 1.2 million total[1]). Nonetheless, it's a serious bug and to be safe it's probably advisable to assume that your site is vulnerable if it is running Drupal.

1: https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal
Hah.

I think you're off a bit though. There is a place for diligence at early VC stage, but it is almost entirely about the people.
> I find this problematic as it makes many components less portable, as they are bound to a given router / state loading paradigm.

Interesting, I find if you "reduxify" everything, even the top most component becomes somewhat dumb and agnostic. With react-redux, it won't even be aware of the dispatcher.
Those issues also exist with human driven cars. Every driver today already controls how their car is driven. Many of them do not maintain a safe following distance and some refuse to pull over upon police request. We have systems to deal with bad drivers.

A police remote engine kill switch doesn't even require a self-driving car. Limiting engine power upon receipt of a radio signal has been technologically possible for decades.
What do you mean by magic here?
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Maybe they know it's going to be blocked anyway, and they are avoiding getting into the cat and mouse game of trying constantly new ways to get around it and are just telling the user they're not even going to try. It's not ratting anybody out, it's not being complicit with anybody, it's simply saying it's not even going to try to encrypt. It sucks, but you know who to blame? The Saudi government.
A manufacturer can hardly argue that they have a safety reason to keep you from repairing your TV, printer, or cell phone.

I believe this is not the strongest argument to make. There are plenty of products that do have legitimate safety or other regulatory concerns, where there is a good reason to prevent someone who doesn't know what they're doing from meddling.

However, the relevant point is whether they know what they're doing, not whether they have the blessing of the manufacturer. I tend to think that saying devices in regulated fields can only be modified by someone suitably qualified and experienced is reasonable, but that in such a case the owner and the qualified person modifying the owner's device should not be artificially constrained through things like unnecessary regulation or intellectual property laws.

There are also ethical and economic questions around supporting fair competition in markets for replacement parts from alternative sources or examination and modification of source code in the case of software. On the one hand, we do have IP laws to encourage creators to create and to protect them from someone ripping off all their hard work the day after their multi-year, multi-billion R&D exercise finishes. On the other hand, those laws aren't supposed to be there so an inventor can sell an artificially crippled product and then charge extortionate rates for servicing , replacement parts or essential updates to correct defects in the original product. There's a lot of room for progress in this kind of area today, IMHO.
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Sounds like someone should reinvent the railroad...
> (except Airbnb themselves).

And the sellers on AirBnB who don't want to deal with the complicated mess that will cause.

And the buyers on AirBnB who don't want to pay the prices that dealing with that mess will cause.
Drupal has a built-in update mechanism and it's been around for years. Administrators receive update notifications via email, they're surfaced in the status page, and there's a site-wide admin notification on every page when there's a security release available.

You can update both core and modules (similar to plugins for WordPress) using the web interface, which is included with core, or use a command-line utilities like Drush for Drupal 7, or Composer in Drupal 8.

There's lots of very valid reasons to be critical of Drupal, but:

> Drupal is exceptionally bad at this.

I don't think that's accurate.
The OP included a screenshot [0].

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/rQu9Ocf.jpg
I'm talking about the likely legal framework that the systems would be implemented against. The technical details would of course be important.

But for instance, other systems could record and report vehicles with anomalous behaviors.
At some level, making an outward show of being a good person and being a good person are indistinguishable.
> In everything I've seen, heard, and experienced re: Agile, the core of it is "lots of small, fast waterfalls."

Not every problem is decomposable that way, and one of the major failure modes of Agile is when you see people trying to shoehorn problems that can't be decomposed like that down into two week sprints.

> If a customer thinks shipping once a year is "agile continuous delivery" they are wrong, just like if a car on the freeway thinks "35mph is fast enough" he is wrong. I mean, for him, sure, but not when attempting to interact with others cooperatively.

Not all cars are on freeways. This analogy borders on absurd.

There are many businesses where infrequent software updates make tons of sense. For example, if you work with field deployed hardware that is not connected to a network. I worked with hardware like that in some defense situations before.

Submitting updates to the actual devices made no sense whatsoever except on an infrequent basis. The devices could not be connected to the internet for security reasons.

If you delivered software to a firm like that, and took the cocksure attitude that you seem to know better than the customer, you'd rightfully lose their business for reasons of poor software practices.

Man, the dogma of Agile is just so frustrating. It really gets me down.
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> And the sellers on AirBnB who don't want to deal with the complicated mess that will cause

If you cannot guarantee clean sheets, working smoke detectors, potable water... then you really should not be offering your house as a place to stay.
The article you linked doesn't give any substance to the claim of actual harm when taking into account the facts of the case before the FTC as is. All you're doing is proving that there's no harm done as is thus my position remains correct. So again, I'll ask you one more time: is there actual proof of actual harm (property or life loss) from sponsored content in Let's Plays? If not, then will you admit your thesis is a false comparison and needs to be focusing on the matter of uniform disclosure (note that PewDiePie does this in the videos now and it's on the top of every video description he posts on YouTube)?
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Thanks for the detailed answer!

>This should also answer your second question: You target some cells higher up in the hirachy like CMPs or even MPP and HSC (stem cells). Other tissue, other stem cell type. And ultimately obviously some lineage commited (cells aimed to become a certain cell type) iPS cells (which are stem cells generated from normal body cells). Thats all possible, the only thing really missing is good understand of epigenetics (only a question of time) and some way for reliable epigenetic programming/modification. (Sorry if thats too short too complicated but maybe it guides you in the right direction)

If I understand you correctly, we can replace the cells in charge of producing other cells (stem cells) to make the changes lasting, but we are not yet certain how the changes will play with the rest of their environment (epigenetics).

>I am not entirely sure why you would need to replace all the existing cells. Some additional functionality might be sufficent. Where this is not the case, you usually go for irradition (and full replacement).

To make an example, let's say I'm a secret ginger carrying the mutation that makes me far more susceptible to skin cancer[1]. And let's say we know what exactly to change in DNA to fix my problem. Now, I don't know how the skin producing machinery works, but I guess replacing it in one go isn't an option. So, if we go with changing cells higher up in skin production, can we guarantee that in due time they will replace all (or most of) the skin with modified cells? As a bonus question, since we limit ourselves to targeting only particular cell types (skin in this case) that means the rest of the body is carrying unmodified DNA, hence, those changes are not hereditary, right?

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/12/one-quarter-of...
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Maybe it's just a matter of definition, but I think that's a very tortured argument. I would say that oppression and slander are acts of violence, and coercion is typically done using threats or leveraging some form of oppression. As for extremist content: sure not all extremism is (openly) violent, but are you really arguing that most extremism is non-violent, to the point where it's just "extremism is given a bad name by a few bad apples"?
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Yeah, it's possible. Just not pleasant. What they're doing (and how unpleasant it is to operate) will depend on exactly what they mean by:

> Your instance might experience a short period of decreased performance

and how tolerant they are of unplanned reboots. I suspect what it means is that they'll throttle your VM (or maybe pause your IO) so it can't interfere with finalising the migration.

That being said, this is Google. They've probably thrown more man-hours at this than anyone else would think sane. I'll note that this is in the context of automatic migration away from "maintenance events" (whatever that covers) - it sounds like they think they've automated away a lot of the reasons we were having to keep an eye on things, but they're still vulnerable to hardware failure (obviously).
If substantial numbers of consumers are demanding fixable/open electronics, a manufacturer could comply and fill a great need! My guess is that market is v small. Regulation is unneccessary here.
I think it would be pretty easy for people to add their info. Let me make a sample tomorrow.
> I'm not sure if it was intentional or not but it's interesting all of your alternatives are solitary activities? How about talking to the people you are travelling with (family/friends)

It was intentional, and my point was that the author wasn't really railing against headphones exactly: humans have been engaging in solitary activity in public for eons, and the author is attempting to headfake readers into believing it's a recent phenomenon.

> How about talking to the people you are travelling

When traveling with friends/family, I usually talk to them. With strangers it's a dire gamble: on one hand, I choose my travel music/movie/book ahead of time and they are guaranteed to be interesting. On the other hand, the gent or lady the next seat over could be a great conversationalist or they could be really annoying and I won't tell them to shut up for civility's sake.
I think Stingray is here to stay. And Harris Corporation is a privately owned public company.

Any idea what would happen to me, if I were to design, develop, produce and sell IMSI-catching devices?

(serious question)
Seems like that's more an issue with the problematic guests infringing on your house. Perhaps this is simply a matter of noise fines, etc should be applying to the homeowner and the guests?
>Higher-order functions are extremely common and useful in all functional languages.

Yes but higher order components as you call them, seem to be an abstraction that you would only use because the base unit of organization is a React component. I'm of the opinion that design patterns emerge due to deficiencies in the language or abstraction level, and that they can be avoided.
One idea that I ran across is that as SES rises, genetic contributions to success start to become the greatest factors.

Low SES environments are likely to cause malnourishment and other problems that cause people to fail to live up to their potential.

Thus, genetic explanations for inequality are more plausible among populations of high SES.
This write-up is amazing! Dear everyone reading this, from now on, please have more of a sense of humor and playfulness like Zach, instead of the self-important and dry stuff that typically gets posted here. This is literally the only post on HN that I read in its entirety in years.
It's not about protecting some industry, it is about the fact that people have an income with Airbnb that often isn't declared.

Where ever there is money made, the government wants a cut.

If it creates too much overhead because of too many small fish where it's hard to track them it will usually be outlawed.
I will update the docs to acknowledge that consistency guarantees may be compromised if the relative speed between servers in a cluster or clients is a nontrivial fraction of the speed of light.

Let me know if I don't have that right.
> The issues with IoT devices being bricked, Tesla 'ownership', and so on really do need scrutiny from a functional body with a hint of the public's interest at heart.

Oh great, another bureaucracy.

Why should manufacturers be forced to make their products repairable by users? Why don't they have the right to make a non-repairable product, and let the market decide whether or not it succeeds? If people really want repairable products, some company will be able to make money by selling them. The market is an excellent way to track consumer preferences -- far better than a bureaucracy telling companies how to make their products.
> I much prefer the Python C API.

Your other reasons for going with Python make sense, but this one surprises me. Isn't the Python C API's reference counting tedious? I've written bindings to C libraries for both Python and Lua. With Python, I always use something higher level than the Python C API, like Cython or ctypes. With Lua, I've cranked out lots of bindings using the Lua C Api directly.
Totally agree. Once you get used to it, it's very well done and great UI.
These regulations are a heck of a lot more complicated than just those, some are proposing creating zoning issues for this stuff for example, which really has nothing to do with the quality of the rooms offered.
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I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think ObjectiveC metadata is covered by the Fairplay code encryption.

If that is the case, then you can just download the .ipas using iTunes, and then run classdump ( http://stevenygard.com/projects/class-dump/ ) on them to get a list of ObjC classes. From the class names, you can then figure out which frameworks are linked in the app binary.

No jailbreak required :)
David Davis has been appointed 'Brexit' minister. He wrote this illuminating piece two days ago, description his vision of what that should actually entail. I guess Mrs May was impressed.

http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2016/07/david-davis...
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IMO its no more trouble to put state in a redux store than in the component directly and doing so makes my components more consistent. I'm not a react guru though so maybe I'm missing something.
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From what I've seen, part of the "result" is a connection to a linux terminal. Not exactly easy to pre-bake that.
"Per hour" is rather ridiculous. I'm talking about per crash. There are a couple million vehicle crashes in the US each year, so if it really is 99.9999%, that's two or three ethical crises per year here. Among a billion vehicles it would be maybe ten per year. And honestly I'd be surprised if it's that many. When have you ever heard of a crash where there was any kind of ethical dilemma in the response? People keep imagining scenarios, but I've never heard of one happening in real life.

As for speed limits and such, I'm talking about the car's ethical choices in crashes, not the ethics of the programmers.
Beautiful answer, tremon. +1
we shall, as a society, realise that software is some cross between literacy and legislation and that the right to read (and write back) software that affects us is fundamental to the good operation of society, and we will advance together.

Or we won't and we will end up like North Korea, pretending reality is somewhere it's not.

Nature is not going to care if we don't board the clue train.
>Education is not a checkbox on the road to getting a job

Hit the nail on the head.

There is education for its own sake, for personal intellectual growth - reading, writing, and discussing philosophy, literature, (pure) math, social sciences, etc. which is really best served by a 4-year residential experience with others who actually care about it.

And there is education for

>what skills and experience would I need to be valuable in the workplace.

which may be best served in MOOCs, community college, specialty career training schools, or simply on the job.

Their unholy alliance in the university system is making both worse. Education for its own sake is dragged down by people who don't want to be there and don't really have the mental horsepower but are simply collecting a credential on their way to a job. It's made unaffordable to those who actually want it by all this demand from people who just want credentials.

Career training is dragged down by adherence to the structures and costs associated with liberal education (dorms, classrooms, libraries, etc), slowed down by all that "distracting" liberal education imposed along the way.

It's time the two were severed entirely.
That article doesn't mention leasing, but that seems like a reasonable compromise. If you, as a manufacturer, are hell-bent on locking down your firmware and parts supply, then you have to stop pretending that you're selling anything. Only providing leasing is a way to be honest with customers about your intent.
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So they're never able to update their pricing because they were featured on TC? Makes no sense.
So, honest question... What is stopping a government- or non-profit-run VC firm from investing pretty much randomly, where all of the lottery winnings go right back into the fund? Or does randomized investing not put out a net win in the end? Including companies that really go on to make billions, I would think something like this would be sustainable. But again, I have no idea. It just seems like it would be worthwhile to have an investment machine which didn't need to pay for someone's megayacht in the process of reaping returns and investing that money in even more companies.
Yeah, because I'm totally going to be interested in listening to a bunch of Al Jazeera reporters try to do Al Jazeera America again. Totally unbiased reporting, that. :P
Unfortunately no :(
AirBnB is great when you can co-locate a household and a rental room. A permanent resident that rents their spare spacetime is an increase in efficiency.

The problem is when landlords terminate leases to convert to full-time AirBnB properties. That isn't efficient, it's adding another hotel to the 'cartel'.
> Yeah, I was thinking of "Spectral Music"

Oh. It has not been my understanding that spectral music is about beat frequencies.

Beside the point: My experience of spectral music has been that it's a neat idea that seems worthy of trying out. Then, when you do it – test the hypothesis, so to say – it turns out that nope, didn't work, sounds awful.
I think we agree. I said I was in favor of light regulation, I just don't want to step on an individual wanting to rent out their home. It's hard to draw bright lines from a legal perspective on what's OK and what isn't, and we need to think about that for sure. For instance, let's say I get an out of town job offer. I think it'd be fine for me to rent my place out on AirBNB by the week, especially since I live close to the beach. I'd have management headaches from weekly turnover versus just getting a long term tenant, but that's on me. But where's the line? If I bought the houses next door and did the same, that's probably less OK. But the key is light regulation, not protection of the lodging industry for its own sake.

If your goal is to keep housing affordable, you need more housing. Going after AirBNB (barring those running large hotel-like operations) isn't addressing the supply issue.
I was able to view it on mobile Safari just fine.
I believe you would be correct in your assumption.
I asked one of the engineers how they did it and that's what they told me to much chagrin.
Yes, some of that is PR and yet to be proven. But an appropriate sensor suite for the task of autonomous driving is not really a question. There's a right way to do it, and a wrong way to do it. For robotics researchers, there's really two ways of looking at things. Some say "look, we as humans are proof that the only sensors you need to do autonomous driving are two cameras (out eyes). So the real research question is, how do we make a system that works with just these sensors?" The other camp says "In order to get away with just two sensors, you need human-level AI. We are not there and we're not going to be for a long time, so let's work within our current capabilities and engineer a proper system."

As a community, robotics researchers now know what kind of engineered system works. In the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, EVERY car that finished the race had a 360 degree velodyne laser. It was very much a game-changing sensor for autonomous cars.

For Tesla to now say "Oh, we'll do the same thing but without all the fancy sensors" is just incredible. Speaking in terms of the information that the cars acquire, Tesla is driving blind compared to its rivals.
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If everyone did the right thing all the time, then no industry would ever need to be regulated in the first place.