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For privacy concerned netizens, especially UK based ones, I highly recommend checking out DNSCrypt[0]. It securely tunnels all your DNS requests to an endpoint of your choice.

I've used it for about two years and it's very reliable, even on a laptop. I do recommend using it in conjunction with a caching DNS recursor such as Unbound[1] to save bandwidth.

It also works great on OpenWRT if you have that luxury.

For UK residents, please also consider changing to an ISP that cares about your online rights. I only know this one: http://aaisp.net.uk

0: https://dnscrypt.org

1: https://unbound.net
And they run MY software, without giving much back.

-- disgruntled open source dev
Yeah, but the encoding of the possible states, etc are all based on the actual board game. We made an abstract version of the game and fed it to a learning algorithm.
The AMA is part of the problem, sure. But advertising and the pleas of patients who have been 'educated' by those ads are always going to have some affect on doctors, even if they don't recognize it themselves.

If you stop this madness at the root, (consumer advertising of prescription drugs) the part that doctors play in this also dissapears.
And as cool as that is, this is even more terrifying, as a hundred zergslings dodge seige tank cannons and destroy them.

https://youtu.be/IKVFZ28ybQs

It's enough to make you scared for the future of humanity.
Sounds like a positive outcome, to me.
SC1 is not a weak point, it's generally considered to be better balanced, and is the "gold standard" for RTS's. SC1 also has far more training dataset than SC2.
Yeah, and adding hot air plus a load of flammable material to the mix doesn't make things any easier. Also, I don't think the optimal load sizes for standard-sized washers and driers match up terribly well.
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Not a weakness per se, but rather a lost opportunity for learning how to assert yourself. Violence is the purest form of assertion, and can be extrapolated into nonviolent aspects of life later on.

Being bullied (and fighting back) made me consider the philosophy of violence as a kid, and made me strong. It also taught me to stand my ground and take no shit from anyone, which was true in school, in the workplace, dealing with customer support, you name it.
You're also assuming fatalities which are not common. You're also assuming that the software company will be able to be found liable after both a waiver and a proven history of safety testing. Currently we have about 15 fatalities per 100k drivers. 40% of those are alcohol related so I'm going to count those as saves right away. Many of the rest are weather/sleeping/texting/etc that are easily savable. Even if we pretend those will all still happen, the goal is a 10x safety increase which would mean .9 per 100k. Even at your outlandish 10M number that would not kill the company, but the reality is closer to 1/10 that amount and even less if the legal hurdles are properly-managed.
Taming Hipmunk's iOS code
> This last point is the whole issue

Man, you guys are like scared little cretins, scared to leave site of the shore!
Anybody tried a sigmoid curve of some sort? You get high granularity at the low inputs where you're more likely to want it, a mostly-linear bit in the middle and saturated output on the high end.
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I remember my grandparents trying to make sure they got all their evening chores done so they could sit down age watch Wheel of Fortune when it came on. They didn't have a lot of free time on weeknights, but it was because of how they chose to spend it.
Hell, a lot of the shit I do at work is BS to make it look like I am busy or that I care. We could go to a 4 day work week and probably not lose productivity.

A lot of the time in my 60 hour weeks is just sitting on meetings I don't even need to attend. Or flying to a client when we could have a phone call.
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Extends the warranty https://www.americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/benefits/det...
It bothers me that one tactless moment from Clinton seems to get more attention than a lifetime of tactlessness from Trump. The guy openly insults anybody who doesn't unconditionally support him, but Clinton has one quotable moment of frustration and it's all of the sudden the evidence we need that politics isn't polite anymore?
A better comparison would be REITs to the S&P500. This comparison ignores financing, maintenance, taxes, repairs, and insurance costs of owning property.
yes, but the article talks generically about "drug companies", there would be no specific company that could claim to be affected.
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If the CIA is going to be modelling their operations after Charlie Stross short stories, they might want to actually read to the end: http://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/

tl;dr: doesn't go well there either.
Testing new IoT wireless network range in San Francisco (Spoiler: 1-2 miles)
Not sure why this doesn't get voted up more... The money has to come from somewhere. If 90% of the countries are basically just squeezing the drug company, then they have to raise prices where they can. The U.S. subsidizes the rest of the world.
How have law suits against schools faired when a victim is punished for defending themselves in these situations?
Strongest storm on Earth slams Taiwan, targets China next
Guccifer 2.0 just released 600MB of new internal DNC documents
Talk about the refactoring from React Rally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk--XUEorvc&t=8542s (starts at 2:22:22)
Judging from the last few decades the economy is due for a blow-up soon so incomes will drop again. This is a little late in the cycle.
GNU Make has a Guile scripting interface, although distros don't usually ship it compiled into their 'make' packages (for whatever reason). On Ubuntu/Debian, you can get it by installing 'make-guile' instead of 'make'.
The dialogue is the unspoken truth. The age limit was actually instated to prevent kids from working damaging factory or repetitive jobs. There are much fewer of those nowadays.
There's not really an analogy with student to make.

One program sabotaged the operation of existing technologies.

The other program advanced the technological state of nuclear weapon development in hopes that its flaws wouldn't be discovered until operation.

At best, this program pushed the Iranian nuclear program two steps ahead and one step back.
Buy 5, Get 1 Free
OR
Buy 10, Get 2 Free

I'm no mathematician, but...
Modern web technologies as opposed to XUL, the previous UI layer, which is ancient and very decidedly non-web.
The zero-data Internet for kids is coming
I think you are confusing the focus that is apparent in the micro of the game or micromanagement which requires high APM to the macro such as getting enough bases to keep on creating units to fight and troop composition.
This version of Guile makes possible better asynchronous code via https://github.com/wingo/fibers/wiki/Manual (which is the implementation of something similar to Python's async/await)
I really wish I could understand the people that are:

1. "patriotic" but don't respect those who stand up for ideals in the Constitution

2. "anti-government" or "anti-authority" but don't respect those who stand up to challenge the blind power grabs by the government and say things like "fix it from within" (when they would never, ever say the same thing about the IRS, for example)

3. "libertarian" but again, don't actually seem to care about liberties other than the Second Amendmend and finding ways to defund public services so they can pay less taxes.

Just seems like a lot of cognitive dissonance at play among the libertarians who don't support Snowden.
He's also a legitimate whistleblower, for his disclosures to the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2003 (which the government concedes went through proper channels).

Moreover, he shows not one whit of repentance for his crime.

I haven't looked into Sterling's own statements about the matter; but I would imagine that it had to do with his assessment that the operation he was exposing was so reckless (not just in execution; but in the very conception of the idea of attempting to spoof the Iranians with flawed weapon design plans that they can easily cross-reference with other sources) that he felt the general public had a right to know about it, which trumped the proscriptions of the various statutes which he is alleged to have violated.

You don't have to agree with with this stance. But arguably the public does benefit greatly from having this information become generally known.
Those few percent mean that millions who aren't at the top are moving ahead.
I don't want autopay from my bank account. Automatically paying with a CC is ideal and then just making one payment to CC. Then you can dispute if you are billed the incorrect amount. I don't think my power bill, for example, will take credit. Plus is fluctuates from $400-$800 a month so I like to see how much it is before I pay.
Hold on... How is this a chilling effect from mass surveillance? Signing a petition is an act of public announcement that you support something.
"While you’re doing the first episode, you go, “Oh, this is really working. Let’s let this be the thing that slides through to the next episode.” So we’re reacting to what is working the week before, instead of having some grand design. And then later on, the design starts to reveal itself a little bit."

Is that what makes big companies fail? They plan too much?
You do realize that milk is heavily subsidized to be priced where it is, right? I would much rather pay a local farmer the market amount and have a relationship with him than to pay into the bureaucracy and support those subsidies with all kinds of taxes.
Well, that's another strike against Lenovo.

I'd been a customer for 20 years.
Interesting you mention that. I am currently obsessed with building a robot with great vision. I.e it sees things in 3D space rather than just pixels. This things can be queried like a Dom API.

I'm studying up on udacity about ML and CV. Reading papers and just exploring the domain.

I think the future is amazing.
It's not the thing that's being sold that is the problem. It's the systematic ways that the peddlers lie and game the system that prevent us us from making the choice in "lifestyle choice".

Seems they got to you too. Or perhaps you're one of them.
You mean the transition to an information based society but without author-centric notions of copyright?

Most of the successful companies of the last few decades deal mainly in intellectual properties. Most of the successful companies in technology derive their profits from other people freely giving away their intellectual property.
It's incredible how much time you can blow on the internet or TV, vs what you can do with it in the real world.

I went for a run last week, and got to marveling how I had run from my front door into the mountains & back, how gradually the time had passed, and how those two hours would have zwip vanished in a forgettable blink had I been online.
> Nazis killed approx 40M people. Communists add another 100-200M to that total.

Without wanting to start a political battle here, this is not behavior that is limited to political systems. Western democracies have inflicted their fair share of death and carnage as well, though because they are "our team" we tend to see our behavior as justified and the other teams' behaviors as unjustified.

Humans with sufficient power will always eliminate any potential threats to their power, and do what they feel is necessary to expediently reach their goals...once that course of action has been successfully justified. That justification happens via one of or a combination of two ways: 1) rhetoric, propaganda, coalition building, education, etc. (various means of influencing those that might present road blocks to accept the behavior), and/or 2) possessing sufficient power that challenging the behavior is not an option.

Once corporations are able to politically justify eliminating those that stand in their way, they will...all humans in history with sufficient power have done so, and that is never going to change. Many large corporations already have more wealth than half of the nation states on this planet. That is a lot of power. The cornerstones of future political justifications are happening in things like TPP effectively raising the corporation to the level of nation state in some regards.

It will happen, it is only a matter of time. Initially it will be the ability to capture and imprison those threats to their power, and eventually it will lead to war and killing. This is the nature of our species. It's not going to change.
Serious question: how do you propose to address

(a) some people can't make meaningful contributions to the economy because they lack the intelligence to compete with machines

(b) some people can't work because globalization means that their potential contributions can be done cheaper by someone in the middle class overseas who is happy to work for less than US minimum wage allows them to work for

(c) some people refuse to work because the benefits safety net (including disability for unverifiable conditions (source: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/03/disabili... ) is more comfortable than work
This feels reasonable if it's systematic bullying, and maybe I'd give the same advice in that situation, but in general I don't think it's a great strategy for a kid to always push back "just as hard" because it will escalate each argument they get in.
Here's where you're mistaken: cops are at the end of the day mostly just normal people like us. There isn't some secret reservoir of especially heroic people to draw on. They are not expected to place their lives at unnecessary risk (like trying to negotiate with an armed, unstable person) on behalf of the public. They in particular must avoid these risks because they deal with large sample sizes. Attempting to negotiate with armed, unstable people is a great way to ensure you will eventually be shot dead by one of them. I didn't say this wasn't a case of an 'innocent' man getting killed. Law enforcement has a playbook for situations involving armed opponents that favors protecting the life of the cop, his fellow officers, and any potential innocent bystanders. There's nothing irrational about that in my view or in the view of countless researchers and policymakers who have designed that system (and who by the way have a lot more experience with the reality of law enforcement than random internet commentators).

Bottom line: If you display a gun and emotional instability in the presence of a cop, you have forfeited your right to necessarily walk away alive. If you think that's unreasonable, then I suppose that's your opinion.
It's interesting to consider Google's data from another perspective:

> “Uber logs as many miles in 24 minutes as Google’s autonomous cars have logged in their existence,” they wrote. “While none of these miles are fully autonomous today, we just point out the scale of experience that can accelerate the development of the AI, mapping and learning for autonomous cars.” [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-12/google-ca...
I think you were right and I was wrong using the term arrest.
Just move to EU. Two year minimum warranty period for consumers.
I have some contractor friends and they say that they feel so much more respect. When there is overtime involved the client usually pushed it to their salaried staff because there is no cost to them. I went on vacation for a week and couldn't go a day without someone contacted me about some BS at work. There is no mental break at all anymore. I'm a enterprise consultant so any over time I work is basically free money for my employer.
It's really up to the payer as to how much you are billed. I have heard of them passing along the negotiated discount, but it doesn't always happen.
Hmm. All I'm saying is that when encouraging violent reactions to things you should do so carefully and explain the difference.

But I'd also explain why you shouldn't play on tall staircases or leave serious wounds untreated. Maybe I'd make a terrible parent?
Well, it literally is a real time strategy game. It's just that once the meta stabilizes, macro advantages become fewer and fewer and micro skills become the deciders. Perhaps at this point it might be better to refer to it as a real time tactics game. The AI would presumably not fail at micro so it would dominate at this point in the game's lifecycle, but it might be able to be taken advantage of at a macro level.
Ask HN: What is a good multi-user solution for encrypted cloud data
I am currently looking for practical solution for the storage of sensitive data. It seems to me that the solution is not trivial taking the following requirements into account:

* the usage of a cloud provider (e.g. Google Drive or Dropbox) as a data storage platform.

* cryptographic protection (e.g. veracrypt) with decryption on the side of the client

* possibility of backups

Does anyone have some good practises or designs on how to build such a company internal system? We have access to servers, cloud providers, etc, but we do not want to spend much time in coding this ourselves.

Thanks!
Yup. The answer is to just be really, really funny. And only hire other really, really funny people (Bill Hader)
Nothing is unforgiveable. Not even failing to defend the country on 9-11.
Why do you think this won't happen if you write that exact comment here? Quite sure for writing here we are all added to the database or our attention factor gets slightly increased if we already are in it, maybe depending on how critical the word cloud of our comment looks to their analytics software. And don't think it's different if you are a US citizen or not. They probably add people from everywhere. A few billion data sets are probably not as big a deal anymore nowadays.
The corporations in this instance are essentially exploiting bugs in human biochemistry ("we like fat and sugar even when we've already had enough resources"); people are making these lifestyle choices at least in part because the corporations are actively influencing the choices.

Once you grant that the corporations are at least partly complicit, it's just a matter of multiplication. If the corporations can degrade enough people's quality-of-life, then in principle yes, they can ultimately have been Worse Than Hitler (TM).

So the question is actually, "To what extent have the corporations degraded people's lives?", and if you really must be binary, "Are the corporations Worse Than Hitler (TM)?". You are simply not addressing the actual question; you have answered the question, "Is murder equivalent to someone making a certain lifestyle choice?".
We should hope that all perspectives could be voiced here, if they are reasoned well and non-combative. If we feel strongly about something, it usually signals the end of thought and the beginning of belief. It's valuable to understand an angle that challenges popular opinion, so that we can question our beliefs, begin to think again, and remember that everything is a probability, rather than an absolute.

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Jane's addiction's song "Stop" opens with the the following spanish words.

"Senores y Senoras Nosotros tenemos mas influencia sobre sus hijos que tienes. Pero los queremos"

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we have more influence over your children than you do. But we love them."

Speaking of addiction. Youtube, and the internet in general can be very addicting for young children. I created smartmadre.com (beta only!) to help parents manage their children's internet addictions. The 2 core features are.

-Learning system that will deactivate your child's access to time wasting websites. In order to get internet access back, the child has to spend a few minutes earning points on readtheory.org, quizlet.com, khanacademy.org or typingclub.com etc..

-Optional youtube monitor allows parents to see in near real time what videos a child is watching and what ads youtube is showing your child.

Parents have a right to decide what content is not appropriate for their child. SmartMadre.com aims to provide affordable and simple to use tools so that parents don't need a computer science degree to control network traffic in their own home.
"This exhibit sponsored by Intel Corp" ?
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The people in the bottom, middle and top aren't always the same people.
I prefer to just get a large chunk done for most stuff, because personally the hard part is getting (re)started at all and figuring out where I got to.
While I also agree Manning deserves a pardon, to be fair, he was significantly more careless than Snowden.

Basically all the arguments (lies) they use to damn Snowden can be fairly applied to Manning.
Or if you're going to a really important meeting, you can get Jason Statham.
do you make it a habit to shit on peoples' achievements as foregone conclusions because of their upbringing? do you realize that this is an extremely transparent projection of your own insecurities?
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It's similar to Waze (another Google owned company). On my iphone, most apps allow you to give location permission with three tiers of access: 1) Always, 2) Only when I'm using the app, 3) Never. I'm ok with them using my data when I'm using their app. It's a trade. But Waze went and limited the options to 1) Always or 3) Never. Letting some app know where I am at all times is unbelievable. This was the point I was most thankful for the my phone's permissions granularity. None of that opt-out BS.
Competition doesn't force prices down unless there are at least four suppliers. Two are not enough - price collusion, implicit or explicit, results. With three, some price competition may appear. An EU study indicated that it takes four before prices really get competitive and fall to near actual manufacturing cost.

There's a huge price difference between drugs where there are at least four suppliers (those are really cheap) and ones with fewer suppliers. When there's one name brand drug and one generic equivalent, the generic drug tends to be only slightly cheaper than the name brand. (Some of that comes from retail pharmacies, who tend to price that way. Costco doesn't; they just mark up everything they sell by about 15% over wholesale.)
itym "shocked, shocked!"
That's a lovely strawman you built there.
I think the meaning of “elite” is clear from context here (i.e. C. Wright Mills' economic, government, and military elites). He certainly didn't mean elite academic mathematicians, etc.
How did they manage to reduce price by half (AFAIK) ?
Does Amazon subsidies echodot now?
The info in https://lyft.github.io/envoy/docs/intro/comparison.html#prox... about Proxygen not supporting HTTP/2 is not correct. Proxygen has had HTTP/2 support for a while (https://github.com/facebook/proxygen/blob/master/proxygen/li...).

Disclaimer: I work on Proxygen at FB.
I fly in the US transcontinental fairly regularly and have never been on a wide-body aircraft for it. The largest plane I've been on was the longer version of the 757. Usually it's more like a 737 or A320 variant.

I find it rather odd because for my most common flight leg (LAX<->IAD) There are a minimum of 7 flights per day on United. I would have thought they would save money by combining some of those.
Technically everything on the list is a choice. You don't necessarily have to bathe.
> Can you imagine telling a victim of a mugging (or worse) to "just ignore them" the next time it happens?

Isn't this standard advice, to just give them your money and avoid escalating the situation?
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