skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a bit of a culture clash at play here.

Most Americans are conditioned to defer to cops and cower when interacting with cops. This is the part of idolatry of uniformed men (aka 'thugs with guns') in the USA. For them 'common sense' means kneeling whenever a cop lays an eye on you.

In much of the rest of the world cops are treated as government employees, paid to risk their lives in confrontational situations (as they don't have many other skills, that is the main reason they are paid for in the first place.) It is not uncommon for a citizen to confront a policeman and request him/her to be civil. You don't get beaten or shot for that.
Unless the camera and light are on the same circuit, it is possible to bypass the light via some software change.
The article frames the question as a sort of strawman in some ways. Rather than ask "is running good or bad for you?" you could ask "is an alternative form of exercise, that has fewer damaging side effects, better?" For example, would you be just as well off walking, skiing, or biking? My understanding is the answer to that is even less clear.
I'm not the guy you're asking, but I've spent some time 'in solitude' studying without an academic institution. I'd read philosophy books whenever I have down time. Consciously replacing entertainment with books works as well.

Philosophy to me is less about studying philosophy itself as a topic but encountering different people's various personal philosophies about things. Kierkegaard's "The Present Age" and Glenn Gould's perspective on anxiety helped me a lot.
That's a really powerful way to put it. I doubt this will make the front page, but thanks for posting
Similarly Hilary advocates for banning encryption yet makes her staffers using Signal application to encrypt their correspondence.

Our government is full of hypocrites.
Angular 2.0.0 is here
That's not at all how it works. One doesn't get that body type from running long distances, one runs long distances well because they are predisposed to that body type.

Consider, for example, a swim meet. If you look at the competitors in prelims, you'll see a variety of body types. By the semifinals, you'll see a smaller variety, and by the finals, you'll likely see a field of competitors with similar builds. Most look at that and assume a build like that of those in the finals is the result of an intense swimming regiment, when actually it's that body type that enabled swimming success. The entire field of competitors may have put in similar levels of effort, but the physiological advantages genetically granted to the better swimmers is what resulted in their relative success.
GIRL TRIES TO COPPY SIA DANCE
Source? I'd hazard a guess that it's likely only marginally more accurate than lip reading?
I think I understand but anyone should free to correct me. In every single other environment there is little to no distinction between "front end" and "back end". In fact, other than the web, the ui is a library within the language a developer chooses while in the web the scripting language is secondary to the ui.

These concepts may hurt or cripple early developers since html/css is obvious and easy while the concept that globals, scope and the database is in an entirely seperate location seems odd. What makes it worse is that xmlhttp requests arent very kind.

The concept of the single page app and "serverless" architecture seems to be a fools errand to build (or influence big names to build) complex html applications without the need to spend money or wrappers to bridge the gap. Meteor, northwest.js and electron are celebrated for attempting to accomplish these goals.
This is a very weak analogy.

What the NSA is doing right now, and what the FBI would like access to, is in no way similar to taking pictures of you on a busy street.

What the NSA has is every intersection wired up with cameras, recording 24 hours a day, and all of it indexed with facial recognition and license plate readers.

No organization should have that much information or reach at their fingertips, no matter how virtuous the mission or the people working there.
And who do we trust to do that? More importantly, is it even possible?
For what it's worth, I've had success browsing issues accross repos using the https://github.com/issues page. E.g. to view all issues that are in both redux and react-redux:

https://github.com/issues?q=repo%3Areactjs%2Fredux+repo%3Are...
It reminds me of any number of apocryphal-but-true-enough stories I've heard over the years, which always take the same form: (1) young engineer / machinist / programmer gets rare and unfamiliar task, and makes judgement call; (2) young engineer fucks up spectacularly, causing huge loss / damage / embarrassment, to the point of fully expecting to be fired; (3) young engineer is not fired; (4) boss / manager explains "well, either way I have to pay for the damage -- I could do that and fire you, but then I'd just have to hire someone else who could do the same thing you did next week. Or I could pay for the damage and keep you, and know you'll never make the same mistake again."

Somebody who messed up but acknowledges it as a mistake, and is therefore unlikely to repeat it, may be more valuable as an employee than a random new hire who may or may not make the same mistake again in the future.

Of course, someone who makes a 'mistake' that is in fact indicative of an underlying personality flaw or tendency towards bad judgement, is a liability and best gotten rid of. The job of a manager is to decide when a person is one versus the other.
The problem here is fat trolling.
Useful sass mixins
Internet access as important as food, water to refugees, UN says
> Even the most ardent supporter of personal freedoms will admit that the government observing you over a network is the same as taking pictures of you with a telephoto lens on a busy street.

Is it? If i'm having a 1 to 1 conversation with someone online then that is a private conversation. There monitoring my traffic is more like opening the letters I would be sending that person.

More fundamentally though, the meat space public/private divide does not map at all to the cyber space one, all analogies and laws to apply one to the other are flawed.
I'm not a big fan of analytic philosophy, quite the opposite. Continental philosophy is much more my speed (though there are plenty of parts of even that that I have big problems with).

I consider analytic philosophy to be a blight upon philosophy in general. It started off dominating universities in mainly English speaking countries, but has moved on to gain control over many others. It's even started to co-opt philosophers traditionally considered to be in the Continental tradition, such as Nietzsche and now even Heidegger (who used to be absolutely despised as analytics, but now is seen by some as almost one of them).

As a result many if not most philosophy students now see all of philosophy through an Analytic lens. They usually come out of their training thinking Analytic philosophy is the only "true" or "serious" way to do philosophy, and even when they encounter Continental thinkers, they view them effectively as being Analytics, usually completely missing the point.

It's not clear how much non-Analytic philosophy will still be taught in another 50 years, perhaps not very much. I think that will be very sad.

As someone famous once said, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Many Analytics seem not to have learned that lesson. To be fair, neither have many famous Continentals (a certain degree of arrogance and myopia seems too often to be a prerequisite for fame in philosophy), but at least they're not taking over the world with their rather narrow perspective. I'd like it just as little, for example, if everyone who got a philosophy degree was a Heideggerian.

That said, I don't want to come off as saying that I consider training in analytic philosophy to be useless. Training in logic especially (which many analytics consider a prerequisite for doing any kind of philosophy) can certainly help to "make your mind like a razor". I'd just be careful that all that probably exclusively analytic training doesn't make your mind like a hammer and everything you see like a nail. There are other ways of looking at the world (and of doing philosophy). Some of them might even be just as valid and useful.
So the guy who decries "going dark" when it comes to encryption wants us to literally go dark with our webcams. It's like a dystopian comedy setup.
Ditto, because most things I use online load in the >10 second range and don't "install" in any meaningful sense of the word.
This is like the coal burning power plant telling you to make sure to sort your recyclables into appropriate containers, to make the environment cleaner.

Also people enjoy and feel good about accomplishing small things. Putting a sticker on your laptop is a small easy task. Do it and they feel more "secure" in an instant.
If it was on my radar I would much rather have an LED for microphone active (laptop and phone) than webcam - precisely because I can put a sticker on webcam.

Better still a hardware switch.
So, RDP/VNC to a server running a full desktop GUI application with folder redirection to access local files?
Are we really still building a brick wall between "nothing to hide" and "prefer to keep personal"? I'm asking this as far away from the legal and moral realms as possible; do people just not even deserve the basic benefit of having aspects of their day-to-day kept to themselves, even if it might not be inherently and/or objectively wrong?

Because that's the question I hear being begged when the "you have nothing to hide" counterpoint is brought up. You've got nothing to hide, so let me just look anyway. Sure it's none of my business, and I have no actionable legal right to it, but it's not illegal so why don't you want me to see it?
In terms of electronics it is fairly trivial and it can be inspected by eye (or microscope) if the manufacturer decides to not encapsulate everything on a chip (which presumably would be the point of such a feature).

Just have the only positive voltage rail going to the camera be the same one that is directly powering the LED. The firmware will be turning this rail on and off, hence turning the camera and the LED on and off simultaneously.
> [Lee concludes his data] "don't support that more is worse. But more may not be better." [Williams concludes] 40 miles a week [...] were 26 percent less likely to develop coronary heart disease than those running just 13 miles per week.

So to sum up, running is way way better than doing nothing. More than 40 miles a week may have not only diminishing returns, but negative consequences.

I'd guess most people here don't realize what a crazy time commitment running 40 miles a week actually is. Even if you can pull off 6 minute miles (4 hours/week), there's still a need for rest after the run, more sleep, more food, replacing shoes and clothes as they wear out. The extra time adds up.
I guess this is just as good place as any to bring this up. In current OS X, you cannot disable your mic. You can turn down the input volume, but never disable. All malware needs to do is raise the input volume and it can listen to you to its hearts content.

And its worse with your iPhone.
Sprints/HIIT have been to shown to be more effective at what many people are trying to get out of running - in better shape and body composition changes.
I have 5 years to go then!
This is pretty far off. I'm 6'4" and weighed 165 when I ran cross country competitively. I didn't look like the type of runner you're describing, neither did 90% of my teammates. Running more than a mile at a time won't turn you into a stick thin marathoner. Olympians are hardly what people should be comparing themselves to if they're looking to get into running.
Ha, right. Police only ever beat you down and jail you when you've broken the law; what a laughable myth.

Did you even read the original article?
From a user perspective it is hard to know whether the webcam LED is software controlled. If it is software controlled, e.g. by the webcam driver, it is prone to manipulation and could remain off while the webcam is recording.

Of course, there are many cameras that do not even have an activity indiator (LED), e.g. stand-alone cameras, or simply your phone front and back camera. I find it a good habit to cover all cameras, regardless of wether they have an indicator.
The webcam cover up is interesting to me because it's the only "weird privacy thing" I've seen regular, non-technical people do. A good amount of people at my university, most of which use social media liberally and don't care about encryption, cover their camera up.
Analytic philosophy has made my mind a razor. [...]

Formal mathematical training (graduate) will do that to you too. I often find myself thinking with abstract algebra ideas (groups, vectors, vector spaces, commutation relations, etc).
Distance running has no effect on ones weight...are you really saying that?

Exercise can change your physique dramatically. I've been a state-level bicycle racer (170 lb and skinny), master swimmer (195 lb brick shithouse), triathlete, road runner for decades.

Different distances lead to leaner or stockier builds.
You're correct, and I probably should have had big air quotes or whatever around that term.

Upthread is strong with hyperbole from an American perspective, and that "neo-" is just to distinguish having strong governmental social programs/services/safety nets (often caricatured as "socialism" from both the right and the left) from old-school destructive actual Socialism.
Rust is an awesome community. They are patient and helpful to newbies. As oppose to the 2 other communities i know of, the rust community can handle criticisms maturely. Its so refreshing. Cheers to rust!
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I keep mine covered because I work remotely a lot and I don't want to accidentally shirtless video chat someone from bed when I meant to make a different type of call.
Actually, I refuse to commute by car because of the risk of accident and the health impact of the stress of driving and the sedentary lifestyle.
Front end development is crazy these days. I remember on my road to learning Java EE banging my head on the wall trying to put together things like dependency management with Maven, ORM's, and all sorts of arcane concepts and patterns. It took me a long time to get to that point but now it seems all too familiar.

As someone coming up to speed with frameworks like React and Angular 2 it feels like that all over again.
Thanks, our team was literally lamenting about lacking specific reviewers when migrating from phabricator to github enterprise last week. Looking forward to it!
Short and mid distance runners spend equal amount of time in a gym doing squads and upper body exercises as they do running, and the diet is completely different between two of them, that is why they have a more muscular look compared to their long distance runners.
Blue paint tape makes the on/off process at least a bit more bearable.
Even if it was, most of the time when people are taking surveillance webcam photos (a hacker or a person trying to recover their stolen laptop) you can take the picture so quickly that they probably won't see the light.
There's more info on future plans here:
https://angularjs.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/angular2-final.htm...

Specifically:

> Bug fixes and non-breaking features for APIs marked as stable
> More guides and live examples specific to your use cases
> More work on animations
> Angular Material 2
> Moving WebWorkers out of experimental
> More features and more languages for Angular Universal
> Even more speed and payload size improvements

And immediately:

> Semantic Versioning
> None of what I read in TFA I really understand to be a hostile work environment, as the term is defined.

Your colleagues joke that someone is coming to rape you, and you're supposed to laugh? I'm not a woman, but I can imagine a woman being really hurt by such a joke. Given the fact that 1 out of 6 women in this country are victims of sexual assault[1], I think it's a joke in poor taste, and does not belong in a workforce.

[1] https://www.rainn.org/statistics/scope-problem
Tldr,

Gossip. And making a story out of nothing.

(Goes to read Lobsters/reddit.)
Nothing to share on companies, but women couldn't even vote everywhere in Switzerland until 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appenzell_Innerrhoden
When you say, "this has never happened at my company." I am curious what you mean by that? The article describes several anecdotes which seem to me to paint a fairly broad brush.

Never at the end of a meeting at your company has an employee joked about their spouse?

Never has someone at your company ever used a violent metaphor to describe losing a sale, or the servers crashing, or learning the release just slipped another month?

Never has someone at your company been passed up for promotion and was upset because they felt that they deserved the job?

Never has someone at your company had to interview a job candidate without proper training on how to run the interview, or proper time to prepare?
Yes and this is known as Betteridge's law of headlines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Genetics has a huge role to play. Alberto Salazar had a heart attack at 48. Now, maybe running gave him a few years before his first incident as it sounds like he was already taking medication for high blood pressure and cholesterol.

The point being once you get into serious mileage like the 30+ miles per week, doing 15-20 mile training runs and racing 1/2 and full marathons its best to view them as personal performance goals vs health goals.

Also, as someone who has run long distance for about 10 years now, take it from me that rest is as important as the miles. Making sure you have rest build into your training plan and after your goal race. This will help you avoid burnout and injuries. Remember, all training really does is takes your body to a stressing point. Its the rest portion that allows your body to respond and adapt to the stress which in turn allows your body to perform at a higher level of performance.
> I think I understand but anyone should free to correct me. In every single other environment there is little to no distinction between "front end" and "back end". In fact, other than the web, the ui is a library within the language a developer chooses while in the web the scripting language is secondary to the ui.

It depends. A desktop application may have a backend, like a central web service to connect to. Even if it doesn't, there is still likely to be a logical separation of layers which may or may not be in different languages (think c++ backend with a c#/xaml front end).
Short answer: good!
Not to diminish any of the other claims but I found this one to be a bit of an eye roller -

Describing another incident, she wrote, "I was walking back to my cube from the break room and passed a group of managers exiting a meeting. The Area Manager told me to smile as I walked past."
"While this is a small thing, it was notable as this is one of the most commonly reported forms of subtle sexism."

No matter how hard I try, I can't fathom how that could possibly be construed as sexist.
I switched from "heel strike" to "ball of foot strike" when running. (Just tilt the front of your foot down.) It took a couple weeks to adjust. After a couple months, my chronic knee pain faded away, to be replaced by chronic pain in the knuckles of my big toes.

Doing the ball strike puts an immediately noticeably less of an impact load on your knees/hips.
Between surveillance states, cyber attacks, and probable rising energy costs, it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of things general became much less global. If you want to hear one of the greatest pessimists of our age, I recommend James Howard Kunstler. He's written some books, does some podcast appearances, and keeps a blog. He's the first person I ever saw put forth a convincing argument for why the internet may be a temporary phenomenon.
What was wrong with that slide?

It specifically mentioned "[his] girlfriend". Although potentially cringe-worthy, there was no generalization. The contents could have been entirely factual.
I used to sit out back and feed the squirrels, and a couple of blue jays learned what I was doing by observation. Although they never got as close as the squirrels (which were almost hand-tame within a few weeks), they did warm up quite a bit and didn't even freak out when their babies were hopping around right next to me. Maybe the same proxy method would work with crows if there are any willing squirrels in the neighborhood.
Interesting you bring this up. I also felt that maybe <5% of the links I've clicked on have really changed the way I think or led me down a path that ended up changing my path in life. How do you put a price on that? You can't, really.
Can someone confirm if this is actually true? Sounds too far fetched that you cannot disable the mic (i.e not muting, I assume?).
You mean like apt or chocalatey or any other package manager?
How would you know what action they took?
Your slower thinking part of the brain came to that conclusion.

The fast thinking part considered the advantage of more, which is what the intention of Amazon was here.
Brogue
Where can I find it?
Backend: Java
Frontend: AngularJS, React
How often are you told to smile?

How do [would] you react to someone telling you what emotion to feel, much less to outwardly convey, regardless of what's actually going on inside you?

It's offensive and inexcusable, regardless of gender or intent.
Well, yes, of course there are. A design pattern you just pulled out of your ass wouldn't make for much of a pattern.

So, that form of expression I just used, I'm just wondering if that one is still allowed? It seems pretty colloquial, but these things do change over time.
I've been enjoying these comments, particularly the ones by pmoriarty. I'm not really adding anything meaningful here: I used to have a negative reaction to philosophy. Somewhere in the past few years as I was getting into my mid-30s, I've been finding myself studying it more.

I will say though, I'm approaching philosophy from Eastern studies. It's my understanding that a philosophy degree in an American university is heavily focused on Western philosophy. I know nearly nothing about Western philosophy (that is, nothing more than the average Joe on the street).

However, whenever I read something written by people who are trained in philosophy, I marvel at the clarity of the writing, even if I don't always agree with them.
It actually seems less weird to me in a university setting. Most university students live in small quarters, so they're more likely to have a computer in front of them while they're nude, using drugs, having private conversations or doing other private things.

They're also around lots of new people of varying levels of maturity who could have a decent chance of getting physical or network access to their computer, much more than neighbors in the rest of the world.

A creepy stalker or blackmailer spying on a university student through a webcam sadly doesn't seem that farfetched, especially for women.
In addition to the attacks that others have mentioned here, I've also heard folks comment previously on the possibility of turning on the camera very briefly, just long enough for a single still shot. If it was done fast enough, the brief flicker of the LED might not be noticeable.

(Like you, I had always assumed that the power for the webcam was literally in series with the LED, so that disabling the LED would render the camera inoperable. That seemed like the obvious way to do it if you wanted to provide a truly reliable signal. But evidently that's not the case.)