skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we lived in the same moral universe as them, they would be doing the right thing. The thought does give me pause, from time to time.

But the point is not to redeem Manning's actions in a utilitarian sense. The facts are that she saw something (war) she found unconscionable, she wanted to do something about it, and she sacrificed about as much as she possibly could without dying-- maybe more, now that she's one of the least free people on the planet. It's not that hard to comprehend a moral philosophy where she does actually deserve points for effort.

If you're asking me to just look at utility, it's very hard for me to get around the fact that the book is still being written. I can see the argument that indiscriminate leaking causes damage, and damage to well-functioning systems is bad, but I can also see the argument that the historical record is full of state secrets kept for banal or evil reasons and the proper functioning of the current intelligence apparatus may be doing more harm in a human sense than could possibly be justified, if we just knew it were happening.

The irony is that ultimately, I just have to trust that there are enough people with good hearts working in the system that if something unconscionable is going on, it won't stay secret for long. So in these circumstances I'm actually much more worried about not judging by intentions enough, lest the well-intentioned decide to stay home.
I recently turned 28, have lots of gray hair. I don't do anything to cover it or care what others think of it.
Windows and Amazon are consumer facing products. Azure, AWS, Play Store publishing and Google Cloud are all developer facing products.

(And no, I do not equate consumer Windows support with enterprise Windows support either, and as it turns out they are not the same level.)
I'd certainly give him a better chance at success than most athletes have post career. He might be the next Magic Johnson. But as Michael Jordan has shown, tenacity and work ethic on the court don't necessarily translate to business success.
Uber Is Positioned to Slingshot Ahead of Google in Driverless Cars
How do the more probable sequences get shorter codes?
The obvious solution here is to allow people to replace their phone's battery.
This is actually very common and much more sophisticated in the B2B world. Look into companies like http://id.kickfire.com/
iOS 9 runs hilariously badly on the iPhone 5.
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>On the 1st of August, 2016, I downloaded the publicly available data through their ranking API. I selected all users who were active during the past twelve months, traded with real money, and had at least three trades. The results consist of 83.3k traders who fulfill these conditions.

What may be interesting is to see a graph where the number of trades a person executes is on the x axis and on the y axis is median return. Do people who make more trades make more or less money? It would also be interesting to look at a window larger than 12 months. Do people with trades going back years do better than people with trades going back months? Is this gambling, or can some people build some skill in this?
Although "create value" brings up images of corporate board rooms for me. Attempting to talk about interpersonal relationships without invoking capitalism is difficult. :(
hmm I could see it being the case that each individual car contributes more to the pollution, but if the total number of cars is reduced in a given area at any given time, it makes more sense to me that the aggregate pollution would decrease, no?
> What I'd you get assigned a number that used to be a spammer?

In fact the particularly evil ones will probably do that. It makes sense say to put popular numbers there, as it would discourage people from black-listing.

The blacklist would have to somehow know that this is an indeed a good number (say the number of a local hospital) and not actually a spam number.
http://twiki.org/ is written in Perl and can be installed in-house.
Hello all,

This is my project. I say "my" project but really intend for this to be open to whomever. Any questions, feedback, code, or feature requests are welcomed.

Here is a post explaining why I forked the project and where I intend to go with it. http://justinholcomb.me/blog/2016/06/14/chyves-project-prean...
And almost no one got those updates other than Nexus and a few high cost mobiles.

I can still buy 4.4 phones as new on my city.
This is interesting to me. A lot of what I know about posture indicates that once you are conscious of your bad habits, fixing them isn't all that hard. Something like this could very easily give people a clear indication of what their bad posture is a result of, and pretty quickly help them out of it. The low tech version of this is posture taping [0], which works, but is probably a considerably less attractive option to most people, and certainly less targeted.

[0] http://www.physioadvisor.com.au/health/taping-techniques-upp...
For me it doesn't at all. As long as you wouldn't commit suicide if your spouse died, it is a clear yes.
Despite billions spent on cybersecurity, companies aren't truly safe from hacks
I wonder if, as common carriers, they are even allowed to arbitrarily block calls.
Chances are he forgot about you. But contact him anyway.
I'm 28 and I wouldn't give it more than 5 to go full gray, as it's progressing quite nicely. I enjoy the grays :-)
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> How do you enable 3rd parties to make calls on your behalf?

Why should that be possible? If anything the disadvantages of nuisance or even scamming obviously far outweigh the benefits.
Many people are excited that self-driving cars could potentially save a million lives a year, which will be an incredible achievement.

We need that sort of excitement and effort for cancer research. Eventually 40% of Americans will get cancer, for example:

http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics
When it comes to disproof of course this is the case, as a single person my perception is limited. It also helps to be a bit more specific, because that level of salary is the minority for just the cash component. But once you include bonuses, perks, etc more people do get compensation like that.
I also had ADP1 - and I think that the latest official update was to Donut, aka Android 1.6.

Not that it matters much today...
There have been some updates today: a commission has just finished to investigate the outcomes and given a negative assessment, but the mayor of Paris has stated that she will not follow the advice of the commission and carry on implementing the plan to reserve a portion for pedestrians.

Source (in French): http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2016/08/22/la-commissi...
This is legal[1] in Europe if you consented to receive marketing emails from "partners" of a website you subscribed to (through an opt-in, not an opt-out checkbox).

You subscribe to website X, you opt-in to offers from third-parties, and this allows X to share your e-mail address with Criteo. Then Criteo sends you marketing e-mails for the account of Sears (but they surely don't share any PII with Sears - the e-mail is sent by Criteo).

The logic isn't that "browsing Sears is considered as having a preexisting business relationship with them". It's because users opted-in to third-party communications from a website they may have signed up with, back in 2008.

Other similar use cases include sending you an e-mail for website X when you browse website Y because they know you are in front of a computer/phone and this increases chances of opening e-mails.

Doesn't make it more or less "right" though and it's surely very surprising for users, myself included.

(On a tangent, what still looks like a legal gray area to me are the Data Management Platforms (DMP) - everyone shares user data in a big bucket/database provided by a common partner, all users are identified with IDs but not directly with PII, how much data can companies push/pull legally?)

[1] Not a lawyer but worked with legal teams on these topics. Laws still differ slightly depending on the European country you're talking about, but the GDPR will soon be unifying data privacy regulations. Right now the French and German Data Privacy regulations are some of the most restrictive ones.
You can't reasonably say that Paris is in a valley because of two small hills (altitude 130m, only 100m above the lowest point of Paris). When there is no wind pollution accumulate everywhere.

Paris is in a very good position for pollution: in a middle of a plain, not very far from sea with a regular wind from west.
> Even if it's not Russia, the release of the hacking tools gives weight to the argument that nsa/fbi should not be able to demand companies to create a back door in their products.

Not really.

iOS already, today, for no other reason than to prevent downgrades, verifies every firmware upgrade/restore with an Apple server, which sends back a per-device signature. Technically, it would not be difficult for Apple to have that same server authorize a special spy firmware only for specific device IDs. The only way this could result in a mass compromise is if Apple were hacked, but hacking Apple already gets you that - the hard part isn't writing code to spy on people (especially if you've hacked them and thus have full iOS source code), it's signing it.

This is different from exploits for code vulnerabilities, where there's always at minimum a secret (the location of the bug) that can't get out, and in some cases going from there to a working exploit is also difficult.

At worst, if Apple went beyond compromising that one phone and set up an ongoing process to compromise phones as requested by law enforcement - then there might be some sort of online portal, and maybe it could be hacked either directly or by stealing a legitimate agency's credentials. Maybe then the spy system could be used by unsympathetic governments against their enemies, though only by stealthily submitting individual requests; there would be no way to exfiltrate something from law enforcement that would compromise everyone. I don't think that's what most people are thinking when they talk about a back door "getting out" or whatnot.

Personally, I agree with Apple's refusal to create and sign a spy firmware on ethical as well as pragmatic grounds. But there's a lot of misinformation about the issue.
It matters a lot if you are relying on asynchronous semantics. You risk deadlock if the request blocks.
bryant|stibel has actually been investing for a couple years out of a smaller fund in LA but they've been fairly low key about it. this seems to be the big coming out party, with a much larger fund to play with now that kobe is "retired". =)
I have the exact same issues with my N5. I think I'll have to get myself a headset rather than shouting down the speaker phone.

I'll feel sad not to be on the leading edge for the first time in years (had Nexus 4 before)
I agree 100%. I'd also add that it is possible that considering our biology is constantly evolving, genetic enhancements and defects will play a part in whether or not an individual gets cancer. I assume some mutation played a part in mine since my doctors can't find any obvious causes considering my young age.
Seems much ado about nothing. This certainly isn't direct democracy, and certainly isn't anything new. Presidential candidates have always "pivoted" - i.e., changed or moderated their policies to appeal to a larger voting bloc. Adams is looking at this situation through rose-tinted, pro-Trump glasses. When Hillary pivots (e.g., now opposes TPP) it's cynical persuasion and politics as usual. When Trump pivots it's a revolutionary, modern, web-enabled implementation of direct democracy. Give me a break.
> It used to be totally fine for one shopkeeper to mention to another that he saw a customer looking for a particular item.

Huh? Outside of some tiny village the shopkeeper would not know the name and address of customers that are just browsing. If a shopkeeper hired private investigators to stalk those customers, following them around everywhere gathering as much personal information as possible, it would probably run afoul of some law.
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I guess, but I don't think I need that library? Or at least, not badly enough to complicate the type system.

It adds complexity, so I'm not convinced I'd save any time.
We need something similar in UK and Europe. For the last year I've been getting 3-5 calls a day on weekdays and a couple of silents. Always the same scams and spam - Bank misselling, upgraded boiler or glazing. Something changed or I was just lucky up til the start of this year, but it's got really annoying.

I wish I could simply globally block international and unknown numbers unless on a whitelist. Every blocking solution I've seen works on individual caller IDs, which is obviously useless for witheld or spoofed calls. Sending to voicemail is a sort-of solution, but results in a lot of half scripts recorded - they must always start speaking the moment the answering message starts playing.
You can get high by drinking... water. You can get as euphoric as drinking alcohol while being sober if you learn to enjoy your life (as opposed of chasing the "perfect life", where "perfect" is defined by other people, ads and unrealistic expectations).
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Comments like this are ridiculous. It wasn't a pared down operating system by any definition. Features just weren't available if you didn't have the requisite hardware.
The outcome is an over-congested and polluted Paris.

No, the proposed changes aren't the "cause" of congestion and pollution. Rather, they're caused by too many people driving cars (when they don't really need to) in the first place.
>started to notice how little I had in common with the people I spent time with

What do you mean by this, specifically? I've wrestled with the idea of finding people I have more "in common with," but I've ended up at a place where I think the idea of "best friends" is kind of an overblown myth, or at least it's a LOT rarer than people think it is. What's the fun in hanging out with someone who's the same as you, anyway?

I'm come to realize that, while I tend to think I'm losing touch with old friends because "we don't have a lot in common anymore," it's far more often just because one or both of us is being a shitty friend and the relationship isn't giving enough satisfaction in return to continue investing in maintaining it for one or both parties.

>how rarely we talked about or did anything that was really meaningful for me

But really, if you always did "meaningful" things and always had "meaningful" conversations with your friends, then nothing would actually stand out as "meaningful." Maybe there are other reasons to converse and hang out with people than finding deep meaning in everything. Most people seeking out that deeper "meaning" tend to have to find it for themselves, they don't just discover a perfect group of like-minded individuals who can evoke the meaning of life from their deep, intellectual conversations with each other.

>sometimes I notice some couples or groups of friends around me, having fun, laughing together, and it bothers me

I think this is sort of a social darwinism version of the imposter syndrome. It seems so easy when you see a group of people laughing together. It seems like they just effortlessly entertain each other, but nobody sees the inner workings behind the scenes. Nobody sees the fact that Jenny secretly hates Stacy, but hides it because the group is fun to hang out with and Stacy is always there, or that Steve is dating Brian's ex and Brian says it's fine but really secretly hates it, etc...

This idea where you see couples or groups of people who just seem to effortlessly get along, and it seems like they aren't even trying is totally false. Sure, there are people for whom social skills come far more naturally, but relationships of any kind take effort by both parties to maintain and grow.
Good point. They could offer a small competitive advantage though. Many people in my neighborhood constantly change between Optimum and FIOS. Maybe if one had robo blocking, it would slightly tip the scales in their favor?
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Sadly the way you do things has changed since then though. I remember doing android development in the 2.3.1 days, and the method of doing dialogs has transformed into fragments since then, so although my old code I wrote back then will run and work, it isn't the recommended way. Nor are the UI guidelines I followed back then.

I appreciate that things change (like the UI guidelines every year apparently!!) but if a clear roadmap was laid out back then, it would have saved a lot of time.
If we manage to make cryonics work what tells you that people you know will not do it in the future or technology didn't make them live much (much) longer than expected? Why accept something as fact when there is an above zero chance that you can live longer?
Look at it his way: it can't get any worse[1], so you've nothing to lose the next time opportunity presents itself.

1. Probably
As a former owner of 2013 Nexus 7 with LTE... it was permanently behind software-wise.

Well, at least until it died by the way of sudden reboot of death. Things might have improved since then.
One difference is that a house didn't normally cost more than renting. It required the down payment, but after that could very easily be cheaper than renting and it was its own investment. So you were able to invest in other things while also investing in real-estate. This of course assumes the price of housing is reasonable, but it was for many years and still is in many places.

Another big reason to prefer a house is that Apartments are very often not family friendly and have very little sound proofing (to protect others from your crying baby and to keep others from waking your finally sleeping baby).
Study on online charter schools: 'as if kids didn't attend school for a year’
You're forcing me to respond. You can't just remove my modifiers and then claim "heavy accusations".
Note also the irony of supposing someone's state of mind while advocating proof.

You've already shared your opinion on the past tense and I've disagreed. I'll add to that the use of third person instead of the first. Hopefully this will be my last referral to the OC.

I'm simply claiming that it is probable that it was an attempt at manipulation and that my reaction had reason and purpose outweighing it's "harshness".
I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognize. If it's important they'll leave a message and I can call them back.
I think you misread the announcement. To me it reads that >50% of the total traffic is now coming via IPv6 from IPv6-capable content providers ('FaceTubeFlix').
As another commentor mentioned: you're not comparing against a 0% baseline, but against the relevant index fund. Or, at the very least, against normal savings accounts interest. So taxes can indeed turn a winning position into a losing one.
I am legitimately afraid for founders who show up to meetings/ pitches unprepared.

Kobe Bryant was an idol of mine growing up, and the stories of his obsessive preparation and competitiveness are simply incredible. He is an extremely smart, driven person. I can envision him being ruthless.

Link to a random Olympics all night training session story: http://www.businessinsider.com/kobe-bryant-woke-up-at-4-am-t...
I totally see this not only in the startup scene but life in general! in every trade there is a charlatan that will fake mastery of the skills needed to succeed.
You'd think that MS would want to replicate their success with Win95. The task bar and start menu is easily the most iconic UI to ever come out from them and made them jump ahead of MacOS in terms of usability - and apparently it can all be traced back to this lab. The people responsible should all have been promoted to A level where their lab becomes the equivalent of a Steve Jobs product curator.

But it seems like MS at some point got on the high horse and started thinking that they can just shove anything down user's throat anyways. When they lost the entire segment of the fastest growing computing market, a competent CEO would have gone back and study why their 95 UI was so successful that everyone wanted to buy their product instead of being forced to.
I would have done this if Do Not Disturb didn't also block notifications. I want notifications, but don't want phone calls. I have been trying to figure out how to make that one work for awhile now.
How about "Be helpful"?
Interestingly, all those other metrics you listed are very tied to GDP and economic growth, which means GDP growth is a decent measure for all those other measures.

Maximizing one is not the answer. We want to maximize all of them. And in that sense GDP is a great measure since it impacts all of them greatly.

Even sustainability is linked to GDP growth. Green technologies are typically the most expensive, and we need growth so that we can one day afford them across the board.
So a contact in your phonebook can have many phone numbers associated with it. We can make an open source contact that includes all of "possibly spam" numbers and if you have that contact on your phone, you'll see "possibly spam" is calling.
The sponge also converted 20 percent of the incoming sunlight to steam. ... The researchers’ current design builds on a solar-absorbing structure they developed in 2014 ... that was able to boil water to 100 C and convert 85 percent of the incoming sunlight to steam.

Even if they're a little confused about turning energy into matter, it does make me wonder if it's possible to manufacture something cheap, flexible, and durable enough that you could carry a "solar still" blanket for survival purposes. Just unroll it over some moist sand or vegetation, and it would distill and collect water that you could then drink out of a little tube.
Gitlab's in-project navigation recently changed, Everyone on my team was confused.
Everyone is missing this. They used simple random forests and survival models with basic k-fold cross validation. There's no breakthrough in ML here!
If the updates would contain only security measures - but they don't. So I rather have an "insecure" device instead accepting an update that makes me want to throw the previously satisfactory device into the wall.[1]

But this is also not an option on iOS, because of the apps support and you have to update eventually.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J6R0NnqOzc
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Perhaps, it's getting to that point. In my case, if I decide to drop landline as part of my Comcast bundle one of these days--I keep it for various non-essential but useful reasons--the number of spam calls I get will probably be a factor.
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When you're in the trenches, it's often hard to know what's being presented externally.
The players that are mentioned at the beginning of the article were very big shots, incredibly good and powerful players. They would basically run their teams. Romario, one of the greatest forwards of all time was known for "owning" the team. He, not the coach, would say who would play and who would be on the bench. Any antagonist would soon be fired or negotiated to other team.

And these guys most certainly knew he was a fraud. If i recall correctly, they outright admitted so in the brazilian articles I read about his guy. They just didn't care because he was part of the gang.
If you're on android and are rooted, root call blocker works great. I had to do this a few months ago and only let through calls in my address book. Funny thing is all this started after I added my number to the do not call list