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While it is true, they have minimum pricing, if you want the items without compensating the publisher for them, you CAN stiff them. For instance, you can change the sliders so 100% of your money goes to charity, and then you didn't pay them for the books at all.

Sure, not what you want, but worth noting. Particularly useful if you want something on offer, but don't like the company selling them and don't want to support them. For instance, I can imagine a lot of people stiff EA when EA has a bundle available, and go 100% charity. :)
He didn't say he wouldn't accept the results. He said he would wait and see, you know, kinda like Bush v. Gore.
All of the economics courses I took in college were undergrad. It says something about the field if the comparison is between graduate level economics classes and undergraduate level engineering classes.
> To say there exists conscious experience doesn't add anything ontologically to 'it's self-evident that there are thoughts'.

So you consider qualia and thoughts to be identical? Because I'm drawing a distinction between them and saying the former doesn't exist, while the latter do exist. They certainly seem qualitatively distinct since there's so much focus on qualia in the hard problem.
The price of Addams Family appears to be inflating such that it's always at the price point I'd be willing to pay 5-10 years from now, for the current value of "now". Around 2000 I though for sure I'd buy it by 2010. Now I doubt I'll ever own one, if this keeps up.
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Completely. There is absolutely no way to understand how the election result compares to voter intent.

The record of that intent consists of smudges on dirty touch screens.

We could come close to at least questioning with aggressive exit polling, but the real problem is no voter using those devices can ever understand their vote cast.

They walked in and did something. That's all they really know.
> Please post civilly and substantively on HN

Did the author edit his comment? This is what I see:

> Go and Chess AI are SERIOUS and REAL problem. It is something which goes back for thousands years and will be remembered for another thousands years.

> AIDS and other contemporary diseases will be soon forgotten after their extinction.

That is both civil and makes a substantive point. There is nothing trolling about it. Nor does it suggest that AIDS is either fake or unserious: it suggests that someday AIDS will not be a problem (I think that's very likely, in the sense that bubonic plague is no longer a problem).

I can only imagine two possibilities: the author's original post was trolling, uncivil or unsubstantive; or sctb had a knee-jerk reaction.
Ironically, Russia is particularly good at it.
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> But I believe PDFs are watermarked (don't know how they'll do it with this bundle), so if you lend it out and the copy gets into the wild, so to speak, they can trace it back to your account.

The thing that distinguishes Humble Bundle from the rest of the "book sellers" for me (I know you can't really call them "book sellers") is that they offer no DRM what so ever, and, by purchasing a pack for a ridiculously low price, you're contributing to a usually pretty good NGO/foundation in the process.

I usually share the hell out of a current bundle that looks interesting to me to everyone that I think might be interested in it while the offer lasts.

Me personally, I could never provide a copy of the bundle in public (however, I would share a book or two with someone I personally trust in case they missed the offer) because Humble Bundle is doing something that I don't see anyone else doing: providing awesome things for cheap and supporting some awesome organization in the process.
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The "foreign intrusion" angle is a red herring. In my opinion, the assumption that a foreign hack would be the most likely vector for vote manipulation, which is being played up in tech circles, is the best evidence that the vote was in fact manipulated.

A tech worker or contractor with "alt-right" leanings could easily manipulate the vote without being detected. And there are plenty of them...

Play up the "Russia couldn't do this, you're insane" line and everyone assumes we're looking for outside intrusion by a foreign power, when in fact it is far more likely an intrusion would come from inside.
The original SDL support was a JavaScript implementation of just enough of 1.x to get things compiling.

SDL2 cross-compiles to JavaScript properly and should be used by most things now.
This is talking about a show on History Channel called "World War II"

Of course, you got me (and probably a lot of other people) to click it because it sounds like an argument for the historical event not being believable.
I thought you had some more details, what kind of fingerprinting, when, how etc.
I'll refer you to this book by a female writer, it is a light read and she presents the point that I made far more eloquently and persuasively than I could in the limited space of a HN comment: https://dontmarry.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/the_manipulate...
> Voting as a concept has changed beyond what mr. Halderman is willing to admit.

I don't understand what you mean. Why specifically can't we use the technology he describes?

> Have you ever tried to inpelement a modified d'hont method manually?

Where in the U.S. is that method used?
You will probably get tons of bad comments on KeePass security (specially for 2.x the "Professional" version, since its developed with .NET C#) but KeePass threat model is way more easy to handle/secure than any of those cloud based password providers. Just remember to keep it updated and use password and key to protect your database.
Plus remember to read the Security section for clarification on "ways to pwn you": http://keepass.info/help/base/security.html
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Good point. I have a Kinesis Freestyle on my desk at home, a Goldtouch on my desk at work, and a Goldtouch Go! in my laptop bag. They're all much better than any laptop keyboard I've ever used (although the Go! is a bit floppy). I should use them more than I do. I still want a decent keyboard in the laptop itself, though.
Consciousness is a suitcase word, poorly defined. Instead of consciousness, how about we consider more clear notions such as perception, decision, reward, action, memory and attention - all of them developed through learning. Such notions can describe the "mind" completely. They are much more concrete, and are being investigated in AI (reinforcement learning).

We are just self replicating, self preserving processes. The main function is to maintain equilibrium in the face of entropy. We need food, water, shelter and companionship to survive. In order to get those, we need to learn to operate in the world and reason about it. It's nothing magical, just reinforcement learning and other kinds of learning - a little semi-supervised learning, for example, and a lot of unsupervised learning.

All this grand system exists for the sole purpose of protecting its existence. It protects its own life and self replicates, which is another kind of survival. Consciousness is that which protects the body, that is its sole purpose.

If you are not conscious in the morning, you don't drink and eat, and in 3 days you're dead. That's why you need to be conscious every day. That's the greatest miracle of consciousness. Our species would not exist without it. But it's better to work with clear cut notions, like perception, action and reward.
> I can't make the leap from evolution selecting for consciousness for some utility to dualism. Can you make that more explicit for me?

The philosophical objection to the idea that consciousness is functional is that, it this were so, then consciousness would be able to affect the physical world. I feel this way, and because (and ONLY because) I felt that way I move my arm. But how did my actual "feeling" of anything cause my neural network to exhibit different outward behavior than it would have had I not felt anything at all?

From there, the claim is that you need to import dualism (by saying that the world of feelings somehow communicates back with the particles that and energy that make up the neurons).

I don't think that's the only way to solve the problem, but it's a common objection.
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"Terrorists and serious criminals will always seek to avoid detection."

And normal people too, assholes.
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I don't think that meditation is useful evidence for the hard problem. Personally, I don't need further convincing that the hard problem exists, and I'm sympathetic to the usefulness of meditation as an exploratory tool, but it is a practice that requires you to basically accept consciousness as dogma and then spend a lot of time studying it. Its structure is just too cult-like to be useful for convincing others, and you should be worried about letting it reinforce your own beliefs as well.

It's kind of bad PR. Supporting the existence of the hard problem appears awfully woo to begin with (undeservedly but understandably). When people appeal to meditation and psychedelics, which have even stronger woo connotations, it really doesn't help.
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"It got trump elected" worked on my 17 year old daughter :)
I looked at a few technical books I have and none of them are in 8.5x11 or A4 sizes. Most books I have are much smaller than that, and more easily handled.

PDF spec actually supports different page sizes (crop box, trim box, bleed box, media box, etc) for different pages. But it seems like what you what is essentially two separate PDFs with different page sizes combined together, and the reader picks one based on the viewport. I'm not sure PDF spec natively supports that, but PDF does support JavaScript and I can imagine JavaScript querying the viewport and then hiding/showing pages.
Good to see, even if it doesn't impact me. I like the idea of penalties for non-payment.

I've never had a problem collecting $5,000, but people will regularly avoid paying small amounts ($500) because (I assume) they know you won't put as much effort into collecting.
Meanwhile, GCC works fine on Windows. (Mingw builds normal non Cygwin programs.) There's no need to bow to cl.exe just because you want to build for Windows
How often you find yourself locked out of your house obeys Murphy's Law, add lots of security and you will find yourself annoyingly locked out for silly reasons all the time. Have just the one simple lock on the door and you probably will not end up locked out, particularly given there is a key under the mat.

I had a laptop of mine retrieved by the police from a big rubbish bin. The screen was broken, it did boot up though. Another time I had the broken screen after being hit by a car. These things happen and I am always sure I can get in even if keyboard/screen/mouse isn't an option. It is more useful for me to be able to somehow access my machine even if broken, I imagine there will be circumstances of that.

When the police retrieved my laptop I wasn't exactly worried about my obvious login password or whether I had locked down that mysql port sufficiently. The thief wasn't even literate so those extreme security measures wouldn't have helped.
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Sorry for the delayed response! Good idea with the status bar. If you refreshed the page the collection should be imported. We're working on fixing that.

Are you still having trouble with the fields?
The benefit is being able to trust they won't be used offensively. Being able to trust those patents were open for use, and not at risk of being weaponized, is a major benefit.

You have to bear in mind, for probably 99% of Google's patents (as I said, we don't really have an exact official number including acquisitions), Google is entirely capable of either selling them to Intellectual Ventures et al. or going patent troll themselves when the market turns against them (or their business model becomes illegal).

The fact that so far Google has been accommodating with a small number of patents and currently claims to be against using patent litigation. What Google engineers preach and what Google legal does (see also: support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership) are two different things. In fact, much like Microsoft, as we can see with a combination of open sourcing and patent litigation.

Aim to be Tesla[0], not Oracle.

[0]https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
Speaking only for myself, I'm sticking with Mithril.
Yeah. I think sctb is overreacting. thro32 just has a cynical view on what the public values, and has a long view of history.

The namespace collision between Go and Golang infuriated me before I realized that--- Go has lasted thousands of years, and could very well outlast Golang. :D
I was speaking about this comment in particular.

"I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election, if I win,"

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/20/politics/donald-trump-i-will-t...
You left out the interstate system, one of the largest public works projects of American history with lasting economic, social, and political impact.

Big money does change stuff, it can just be really hard to determine what exactly it will change and if it will ultimately be good.
Hi, thanks for letting us know. It was an issue with scaling (HN kind of took us by surprise :) it should be fixed now! Sorry for the late response!
Yes, always. That way I can refactor much faster because I know the tests will catch me.
I've found the cite I was thinking of: 95% of blockchain activity is on Chinese exchanges in yuan. It doesn't say it's all speculation, perhaps they're all buying drugs and paying ransomware with it ... but I wouldn't bet that way.
http://www.coindesk.com/state-of-bitcoin-blockchain-2016/
There is a new D2C company out there called Hubble. They don't offer custom base curve or correction for astigmatism, but I was able to get one year's worth for $265.
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That's a great idea, we're definitely working on expanding the number of integrations. Watch this space!
This effect is the reason my default is to be skeptical of benchmarks of new software. It's easy to be fast if you're willing to be incorrect or incomplete.
About 99% of Linux (or even more) is drivers. But indeed there should be useful references in the scheduler, locking primitives, memory management and core networking code.
What is social media ? Best option relative to what ?

Without any details, I'd say the best social media option is going out with friends for a walk or a chat or alternatively traveling on your own in a foreign country for an extended period of time.
Are there any migration guides from jQuery to Vue which are noteworthy?
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Studies have shown that if you call someone you disagree with an extremist, fruitful conversation is extremely unlikely to happen.
> .. how much custom code would it take to make Love2D work?

Someone is working on it:

http://tannerrogalsky.com/mrrescue/

https://github.com/TannerRogalsky/love.js
51 votes? Why do they keep crowing about that figure, when they don't say WHO the voters were or how many there were or how many opposed it?

My reaction was, 51 votes in a city of millions? And then... do they mean it only passed by a margin of 51 votes? Why is that figure in the headline, if not?
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We'll provide a REST API :)
No, it's nothing like that. They're talking about highly localized signals via phased arrays on both sides. Additionally you underestimate the capacity of wireless: LTE has no problem doing 30 bits per 1 hz of spectrum. These will run at a lot more than a 1 gbit globally shared last mile.
Cellebrite was acquired by Sun but they're operating freely. Sun just wanted the IPO.
Would you say the same thing about the Democratic primary?
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And even more comforting? The fact that Indonesia still imposes the death penalty for drug trafficking.
The well-developed, well-security-researched, well-deployed application platform you're looking for is the web. You get exactly this sort of setup if you use WebGL: you interact with an API that expects to be called by unprivileged hostile applications, instead of with a library that helps your direct access to the graphics card driver. Every individual application lives in a separate protection domain (an HTTP origin), and communication between them is limited to message passing with the consent of both sites. The language itself avoids all assumptions of direct access to system resources.

Running everything in a web app is, admittedly, a fundamental change in the stack. But it's fortunately one where a lot of people have independently put work into making this happen. I do my most security-sensitive work on a Chromebook (using the SSH and mosh apps from the Chrome app store) for precisely this reason: it's the right security model, and it's available in my local computer store and works.
> The researchers cautioned that the study may not generalize to the LASIK population as a whole because of its small sample size and short follow-period, which was typically three months.

The short follow-period is a problem with the study. I had halos for the first few months and dry eyes for the first year. Nowadays (~4 years later) everything is fine.
This is really cool. I know Lua is a commonly embedded language for plugins and stuff. So now that we can support Lua powered extensions for web apps, I'd like to add to the list of naive questions here, coming from someone who's never used the language. What benefits does Lua provide over other langs for such a purpose? Is it the ecosystem of libraries that makes it unique in that respect? Or the actual language lends itself better for user scripting over, say, running JS code through JS-interpreter or just eval-ing validated JS code directly.
Nice. Finding a place in London is hard and you have to be quick and ready to sign at first sight. Anything to make it easier and save time is good.
There are enough extreme regimes, (Mexico, Iran and other ex-USSR), who are willing to pay money to spy on their citizens.
These things aren't mutually exclusive, and I think it's pretty clear that they all played a role.

Also, bear in mind that a determined cheater will take any edge they can get, regardless of how small.
> There is no risk-free choice if you are unlucky enough to have poor eyesight.

What's the risk with glasses? Losing/breaking them?
The problem with 'qualia' and 'consciousness' is that these concepts seem to reify something existing separately from their content. The other problem here is that 'thought' is a complex and compound entity while 'qualia' seems to imply something atomic. So let's not use this concept.

Just realised that I seriously intended to argue with you about probably the single most mysterious thing known to humanity. Feels stupid.

Anyway, what is a thought in your opinion? Is it just a physical thing? What is 'experience of red'? An illusion?
(Again, I feel stupid trying to achieve something here :)
There are special polarized glasses for night driving. They are not blackened. When someone goes towards you with unregulated headlight which blinds you, it really helps.
Don't blow your wad on an announcement when you don't have the sign-up procedure in place.

Also, the title is perplexing. I thought DigitalOcean was a VPS provider, not a "support community" provider.

So I visited your site, but there's no explanation of what this is. I looked at the three "examples," but the links just dump you onto pages with a search field and what looks like a FAQ.

I would have expected a list of features this thing offers, and why it's different from competing products (if there are any, and what they are). And maybe a screen shot pointing out some of said features.

I've just spent several minutes HUNTING for an explanation of why I should be interested in your product, instead of reading a concise description of what it will do for me and how. That does not bode well.
>This is talking about a show on History Channel called "World War II"

No, he was retelling the actual events of WWII in way that would have it seem fictional, highlighting how absurd the whole thing actually was. It's comedy.
We have now a first prototype, fully tested, so, with this campaign we expect to improve our first version but both chips will be available. We use ESD protections structures provided by the foundry.
TL;DR

Were this year’s deviations from pre-election polls the results of a cyberattack? Probably not. I believe the most likely explanation is that the polls were systematically wrong, rather than that the election was hacked. But I don’t believe that either one of these seemingly unlikely explanations is overwhelmingly more likely than the other. The only way to know whether a cyberattack changed the result is to closely examine the available physical evidence — paper ballots and voting equipment in critical states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

He goes on to give an overview of voting machines' vulnerability and methods for resolving the problem.
What is the quantitative effect Trump has on media readership?
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Please no one start a flame war over my title. That's not my intention. It's just that he is the most famous Tweeter at the moment who is getting an international publishing platform for no charge.
you don't sell the usernames. the usernames are owned by "the business" and you're selling the business and in the process of doing so, pass along the credentials to the social accounts.

thats perfectly fine. imagine big company X gets sold. Clearly the new owner wants to retain the social accounts and theres nothing wrong with that.
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You really ought to give Spotify Discover a chance - my Discover tab is amazing - it feeds me a constant stream of new wave, dream pop, outsider music, early electronic music, ambient, underground rap - stuff that I like, but haven't heard. The more you use Spotify, the better Discover gets. Don't write it off before giving it enough data to help you.
Building a DB is a large endeavor, it's hard to see being able to get people to buy within only a month of contact for it (without playing with it and such). If you were to start from scratch again with RethinkDB, do you feel this logic still applies?
My vision is constantly getting worse every year. I can just change glasses. I thought about surgery, but what I would do next year? Surgery again?
the intent being to discriminate based on a protected class. Yes it can be faulted.
Agreed, but you also look rather hypocritical saying "The results are perfect don't question them!" and then a week later "I question the results."

This reveals partisan hacks on both sides of the aisle.