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AI-Powered CRO tool announced using evolutionary computation
It's so easy to back up nowadays, if you don't have a backup of your iPhone when you install a major OS update, what are you even thinking?
I speak to my friends and family in India on a daily basis, I also visit India almost every year and I stand by every word I wrote above. If you think life in India is up to the standard of living of any other developed country, then you need to educate yourself.
It's apparently not hard to raise several billion dollars if you're trying to sell pet food online, create an app that dispatches taxis, or post extremely short messages on a web site.
Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading

http://www.zionism-israel.com/Fallacies/Middle_East_29.html
Really? A developer Ubuntu setup without installing Ubuntu Make [0]?

[0]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-make
That does seem to be the case. It actually could be an interesting sales move. If the price would rise linearly, the saturation point in which the logos become "too expensive" would occur faster in sales. Gently lowering the additional value (from 40 to 20 and i assume from 20 to 10) would let the saturation point occur later, thus having more sales in total.
Protecting Yourself from Laptop Theft (1997)
I would just like to point out that in Israel the media is not free and open, there is a military censor through which all publications must pass. People have been charged with posting pro-Palestinian statements on facebook or Palestinian poetry.
>> Saving a Life is more important than theoretical slippery slopes.

This is a very sad thing, assuming that a life itself is the most valuable thing in the world.

The truth is: if you value your life more than your freedom then sooner or later you'll be made slave.
Brilliant! However, they are quite pricey at 500$. I always thought making a custom logo would be expensive, but buying a ready made one could be much cheaper, any thoughts regarding the pricing?
I can't be bothered to dig right now, but you're saying that a company with 5000+ employees did not use any consultants at all, zero, for 2014 and 2015? I really can't believe that.

Edit: there are many ways to hide bribes, of course. Typically it involves overpaying for something. It would be hard for even a non-corrupt tax authority to tell the difference between having bad negotiation skills and bribes.
The coffeeshop in my building (Spyhouse on 945 Broadway) just won #1 roaster in the US award. It takes 3 months for an employee to certify as a barista. The coffee they make is the best tasting espresso I've ever had in my life. Clearly they know what they're doing. The coffeeshop down the street has a similar setup, but it's not even 80% as good. I'm ruined.
Your comment is a little off-putting.

It would be like me writing "I sincerely hope India doesn't fix its infrastructure so their best and brightest decide to come work in the US".
> Cubans always drink espresso sweet.

Is it because Cuban coffee is always smoky and overroasted? Or maybe I just bought the wrong Cuban coffee.
That makes sense, and oddly enough I was just (literally for the first time, 10 minutes ago) looking at switching out Ghostery for uMatrix. Decision made, thanks.
The alternate, Aldous Huxley version of lock-in, instead of the George Orwell version of lock-in.
The problem lies with the assumption/argument of 'moral'.

The systems we live in are systemically corrupted by money (and/or power).
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I see what you're saying, but I think that the onus should be on the government to clearly demonstrate where the value from collecting this data will come from.

What improvements has the Charleston PD made with this data? What improvements are they planning on making? They offer precisely one example of a man convicted for murder using that information, but while they claim it's "crucial", we can't exactly go back and see if he would have been convicted without that one particular row in the database.

We can't even get the data without paying nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

Fine; let's use data about me to improve things. But tell me what you're going to improve, tell me how long you're going to keep the data, and find a damn good way to reassure me that it won't be used to harm me, either.
I think you're an advanced version of a putinbot :).
> Ads are toxic. Why don't we ban them?

Because there's no way to do so that doesn't run into serious issues with Freedom of Speech, in both letter and spirit.

Who decides what's speech and what's an ad?
I'm not sure thieves would specifically target a home where the owner is clearly known to be able to defend such a theft with swift, lethal force.
> America’s most innovative company

Apple?
A rose by any other name smells just like Google Wave's Zombie?
Google very actively employees people from outside US given all the BS in US Immigration system they usually move them to
UK or Switzerland or whatever dev center that has much more reasonable options.
Brain drain from developing to developed countries is far from a clear win. Here's some good links talking about the effect of emigration of Kenyan health care workers (mostly to the UK and the US) on Kenya:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1538589/
https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/cont...

Half of Kenyan-trained doctors live and work outside of Kenya. That represents a multi-million dollar direct cost just in the governmental and societal resources used to train those doctors, and a much larger cost to society of the limited health care infrastructure thanks to a loss of so many workers.
Efficient market hypothesis.
How comes that it's fine for some athletes to be genetically favoured- maybe because they put up muscle mass more easily, or because their blood has a higher concentration of red cells, and it's not allowed for others to use drugs to get to that same level; however athletes that have lower resistance to muscular or bone strain are allowed to get on par with the others through the continuated use of drugs?
6.6M plaintext passwords exposed as site gets hacked to the bone
If you want a smaller screen take a gander at the iPhone SE. My biggest disappointment with the keynote is that they didn't update the SE's internals with the new A10, expanded memory, and storage. It's kind of annoying that the company assumes if you want a smaller screen you must be on a tight budget and willing to accept compromises. This holds true for most Android phones too, smaller screen == poverty option.
Ubuntu Make – Popular Developer Tools by Ubuntu
That's only because it's a nearly universal social convention in places where tipping is expected. We don't tip because the business is set up to expect it, we tip because society expects it. Businesses are set up to expect it because that's the universal social convention, not the other way around.

If suddenly a big social movement arose that condemned tipping, the landscape would shift, restaurants would stop accepting tips and start paying their staff more, and life would go on. It doesn't happen only because people are happy with the status quo.

That's not the case with advertising. There is no social expectation that you must watch ads. Quite the opposite, in fact: virtually everyone avoids ads when they can do so, with some interesting exceptions like movie trailers.

If you set up a business whose viability depends on your customers doing something they don't want to do, with no social convention to back you up, then you're going to have a bad time. And that's your fault, not your customers'.
There are simple ways to intuit the answer to this problem (simpler than the "heuristic" argument the author gives), but Newton's argument is amazingly bad. Surprising he could have thought that way.
A coke and a smile
Source code: https://github.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-make
Makes ya think, don't it?
I wonder how they prevent their CPUs from burning up when they do this and there happens to be some kind of heavy load in the background...

Is someone up for a free warranty Macbook replacement? ;)
We will soon begin to find out!: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26766095
Ineffiency puts an upper bound on tyranny.

Regardless of whatever you think the police are "sworn" to do, we have incontrovertible experimental evidence that they often do not have our best interests at heart.

You know what also makes the jobs of police officers harder? Checks and balances. The right to a lawyer. Miranda rights. The fact that they have to get warrants.

It is hopelessly naïve to assume that anything good can come of giving the police more authority.
Yeah. In fact, there is a lot of networks but they are made because people want to experiment and operate a server then they wonder what they could use it for. Here, well, we had a goal and IRC was a solution, as once you have your channel you just have to add an iframe on your website and tadam, a fully functioning live webchat with permissions! ;)
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And Reagan was a lifeguard, what difference does it make?
I am not sure many of the issues Dr. Anna Patterson raised here are applicable now.Web is way different now compare to 2016.
> We do not pay H1B's less.

According to some people I know (they are all on H1B) typically H1B offer is 10-15% less than average at software big corp such as Microsoft and Google.
My understanding of a provost's role is to be as senior as possible without having to do any administrative, managerial, or executive duties -- so they can focus entirely on academic topics.

Is that basically what you're going for with the PB analogy, except s/academic/startup-mentoring/ ?
How do you know that? Russia doesnt publish what Russian intelligence is doing. They also don't have a Snowden who leaked almost all their secrets. That we did is only reason you can make thag comparison. I'd love to see an equivalent dunp for Russia to do the comparison. ;)
Interesting that Bezos new rocket will be using Liquified Natural Gas, LNG.
Cheap and I suspect inherently safer and eaiser to handle than Kerosene or Hydrogen, though slightly less energy dense. Safer because is same temp as Liquid Oxygen, SpaceX may I think have caused reliability problems for themselves using super cooled Oxygen.
JavaScript library to create responsive and minimalist modal windows
10 man-years are not though.

I'm a postgres fan and booster myself but I'd need a good reason to migrate a data backend on any project I'm managing.
What the world needs is a solution to funding orders of magnitude more startups than currently get funded.

YC is in the incredibly fortunate position of having this opportunity but instead it looks like Sam Altman is falling into the same trap Larry Page did with Google. He's turning it into a bit of a rich guy's playground...

On behalf of the world that wasn't born into a world of wealth and elite connections: Please shine your massive resources on the many thousands of deserving little startups!
I asked Sam in a live webcast he did some months ago whether YC would build a chatbot for the fellowship to replace mentors and he said they would try. I wonder if they actually did and it'll be included in the MOOC.
No, I think you're conflating when I'm specifically talking about just getting better service.

See there's another slight disconnect with service in Russia versus service in the US. You ever have someone go out of their way to make something easier or better for you as part of their job? Go the extra mile? That's not really the status quo in Russia. You goof up your registration form at the post office (one mistake on the 4th page of a 10 page document)? Guess who's filling it out again, even if the office worker has white out handy. Only have 30 minutes to take care of something at the nearby government office but it happens to be 1:45 pm and time for the official's tea break? Guess who's not getting their document done.

When people are talking about greasing the wheel, it's getting access to systems they otherwise don't have. It's people going the extra mile on demand, getting the inside scoop, making sure a document gets processed today, taking care of problems for you internally. Do the big bribes happen? Yeah, I'm not denying that. My point more is that the "bribes" that are talked about so much aren't really what we normally think of as bribes.
It always blows my mind to see people willfully misinterpret the meaning of a statement.

In this context there is obviously a belief that the police are doing something they should. Whether it's illegal, or immoral, or legal but contrary to the spirit of the Constitution, or whatever the reasoning may be.

They could just as easily have said "anything that makes it more difficult for the NSA to track my interests and whereabouts is bonus points" and I think a majority of people on here would probably agree with that statement.

Just because it's a local cop sworn to protect Americans vs. an NSA analyst or FBI agent doesn't make them any more likely to actually do it.
Thanks for kindly pointing that out. I've updated the title and omitted "SHOW HN:".
Building open source community: decentralisation and empowerment – video
Sounds like the ultimate solution to emacs carpal tunnel syndrome.
Agreed. I guess everything is subjective, but when I read the article state:

> While the [ctrl-r] method is more powerful, when doing some redundant task, it’s much easier to remember !22 than it is to muck with ctrl-r type searches or even the arrow keys.

how?!
I realize it's a joke, but it also seems quite unlikely to be true. To me, this is the biggest weakness of YC as an organization: a pernicious belief that what applies within
their community applies to all communities.

I have to wonder what kind of world Graham sees, if it's one in which all communities would welcome a person like Sam as leader. No disrespect to Sam and his substantial leadership qualities.

Edit: It's also a commonly recognized form of racism: using people of color as ideological puppets, making claims on their behalf rather than letting them speak for themselves.
Down voted? This is what causes self-censorship. Ironic how it's on a post about censorship.
Did Facebook know that they will be worth 100s of billions when they started. Neither did Google.

Anyone who is net positive on the welfare system should be welcome to US. Even a company which makes a million dollar profit per year in 5 Years should be welcome.
Serious question: what will the tolerance be for loss of human lives when crewed flights start? While it's entirely different, government space programs have endured many [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...
Student loans prior to 2005 were still backed by the government in the case of default. Little incentive for banks to worry about it.
In reality number of people trying to game the system is to a point preventing relaxation of rules.
With conferences, a strategy that worked for me is to research the attendees beforehand. Some conferences let you tweet "I just bought my ticket to XYZ Conference!", and I would then search for that & add everyone who tweeted it to a Twitter list of attendees. Then you can read their tweets, check out their websites, and get a sense of those people before you ever meet them. You'll quickly discover who you find interesting & resonate with.

[If your conference is savvy enough to have an attendee profile page, definitely take the time to browse though them.]

Then, you can engage with those people over Twitter, via email etc. If you end up building a friendship, then before the conference has even begun, you might arrange meeting up in the hallway between keynote presentations - finally meet that person you've been talking to on Twitter!

Another thing that has worked for me is to always take the extracurricular conference activity. I've always gone skydiving or bungee jumping when the conference offered it, and that's been how I've made some of my awesome new friends. I'm not a thrill junkie or anything, but there's something about sharing an experience like that with people, you end up opening up to people as you share your collective fear / vulnerability & excitement.
> things seem a lot less discreet in dasher

There are discrete versions of dasher that operate using a single digital switch or actuator, rather than an analog input. As long as you can feed in one bit of information, Dasher can work with that.
I don't have any hope for other hardware. The only hope that I have is that Intel will change their mind and remove it, or make it fully open source.

The sad thing is that ME isn't even developed by Intel, but a third party. They sublicense it to Intel. So even if Intel would be willing to distribute the source, they couln't.
As an iPhone 6 user it was a phone that felt like it was designed to be in a case. The goddamn camera even sticks out, so it doesn't sit flush without a case on it. I never had my iPhone 4s in a case, but I put the 6 in a case the first day. Personally, I wish Apple would just make the phone thicker so the camera can sit flush and use the extra space for more battery and a headphone jack. I wouldn't even mind if it weighed a few more ounces.

All of the talk of the different color options ends up being kind of moot when you have to put a case on the thing anyway.
You're so wrong on so many levels.
I blanket block every ad (or whatever the list currently has). If a site has ads, I'll manually block those too. I'll go into their code and find their ad service url and add it into my list. I'll do whatever it takes to remove them, regardless if its simple or not. I do not want to see them and I will continue to visit those sites. I just wish a good adblocker would come to mobile because I'd use it there as well.
The uBlock Origin name just adds to the confusion. The original developer (gorhill) should create a totally new project name. Word would spread that uBlock was the old thing and no longer maintained and that gorhill's new project was the future.

Even using a name like "uBlock Next Generation", which is less ambiguous than "uBlock Origin" and suggests "this is the new project", would still cause confusion. People unfamiliar with the project history would just call it "uBlock", leading to the same donation problems.
But you still get the gist of it though, right?

....
I'm really torn on this for the same reason I'm torn on what to do with the people in jail for marijuana offenses:

On the one hand, yes what's happening is wrong. On the other hand, you CHOSE to go into debt knowing that you would have to repay it after you graduated. Just like people who CHOSE to deal marijuana KNEW it is illegal.

Disagreeing with the law doesn't entitle you to break it. Similarly, disagreeing with your loan terms doesn't entitle you to not pay them.

I CHOSE to go to a cheap state school to avoid this fiasco. Now others who didn't choose prudently get "relief"?

At one point do we just say, hey, you made shitty choices, sorry. Where is that line? I'm not saying we shouldn't do something, just offering up a different point of view.
Well, once again my intuition completely fails in a probability problem. My thinking was the more rolls you make the more uniform your distribution of the number showing becomes. In the limiting case as number of rolls -> infinity you are guaranteed to have 1/6 of the rolls be a 6. So the probability of at least 1/6 is less than 1 for a small number of rolls but approaches 1 the more rolls you do. Intuition is like a good friend who likes to mess with me at weird times.
>They could just as easily have said "anything that makes it more difficult for the NSA to track my interests and whereabouts is bonus points" and I think a majority of people on here would probably agree with that statement.

Perhaps I have a different view of the NSA than you do, but I would have had the same response to that. Like the police, they exist to protect us, and if they're doing something irresponsible/immoral/illegal, they should be made accountable and corrected, rather than just made less efficient at it.

Information is a powerful tool, and can be utilized to protect us in powerful ways. IMO the problem is not collecting the information, but how it's used. I'd much rather see a super-efficient all-knowing and well-intended protector than an inefficient bumbling mess.
Also this:

> Big infrastructure requires fancy equipment and skilled engineers, who aren’t likely to be unemployed. The most at-risk Americans, if they’re working at all, usually toil in fast-food restaurants, where the average worker makes $22,000 a year. They’re typically not trained to labor on complex civil-construction projects. Subsidizing Big Mac consumption would be a more effective way to provide jobs for the temporarily unemployed than subsidizing airport renovation.
>I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive;

-Harriet Tubman
The Importance of Remembering to Reward Your Best Customers
This is close to what phabricator (https://www.phacility.com/) does and personally I dislike it.

I like bringing the right tool from the job rather than the massive hodgepod mega site
So we should presume guilt whenever someone is accused without evidence of domestic violence?

If it's currently possible to get a SWAT team to show up and break into someone's house with an anonymous phone call, I sure as hell don't want to give police the idea that it's OK to show up and take someone's guns because they got an anonymous phone call accusing them of hitting their wife.

> I'd further like to be able to query that database as a civilian

You need to consider for a moment how this can be abused. Who do you think is going to be targeted for robbery? You'd be efficiently putting guns directly into the hands of criminals.

How about you stop worrying about the statistically negligible threat that your gun-collecting neighbor is secretly about to go berserk? We don't need to spy on each other all the time.
That's precisely what we're doing at eero. We have engineers focused on each part of the stack (wireless firmware + drivers, core OS, application layer, mobile, cloud, and data) and are pouring our efforts into a single sku. It's time that people had the network they deserve...especially since they run our homes.
Doesn't have to be all electromagnetic. First or second stage could be. And it would be used for cargo perhaps, not people.

Yet it doesn't seem any private enterprises are trying to do it realistically. So you're right, calculations are probably telling them it doesn't work.
First my iPhone (SE) restarted and was suddenly wiped (could restore most via iCloud backup), then the update bricked the phone and I have to restore an old version via iTunes. Not the greatest experience so far..
I often see statements like your one about the car but it's entirely irrelevant to this thread.

And if you get into enough disputes with your neighbors that you feel you need to know what things they've purchased perhaps you should focus more on conflict resolution and less on their shopping habits. Because your definition of "unusual" may be very different from theirs, and whether or not I purchased a handgun, or a rifle, or a shotgun, or a Bowie knife, or a pallet of rifle ammunition is not my neighbor's business.

People outspoken in favor of gun ownership have been routinely swatted by those who disagree with them. Nothing is gained by giving those mentally ill people more information with which to put innocent lives in danger.
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