skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to imply the owner's right to "access" their device ends at the moment of theft.

I don't think it implies that. But the two rights are in conflict and need to be balanced. One does not automatically override the other in all circumstances. It would probably ok to access the phone to locate it, but spying on the thief like in the video seems to clearly cross the line of legality. Of course, this also depends on the jurisdiction...
Encryption must come standard
One of the nice things about D is that it offers multidimensional indexing. For instance, you can write x[1, 2..6], and you can do it for user defined structs. In my case it makes it really nice for interfacing with R.
I think JavaScript is a perfect entry point in a way that Python doesn't seem to even try to be. Sure there are warts and syntax problems and it's a little weird but beginners for the most part won't even run into that. But for that one small, minor downside, all of the upsides far outweigh it. It's used everywhere (almost literally) so it will always be relevant. It's super trivial to get something to print graphics on a screen, where Python graphical frameworks are scattered, outdated, or limited in functionality. Compare PyGame to Phaser and you'll see what I mean.

JavaScript is the right way. Python is right for a budding computer scientist who won't care that they're limited to a terminal for months while they learn. Javascript is right for everyone else who wants to see some immediate and modern progress while they're learning.
You don't have to root your phone to use Cerberus.
However if you want to keep Cerberus running even after a factory reset you have to do this (from Cerberus FAQ):

The easiest way to install Cerberus as a system app is with the "Convert to system app" feature of Link2SD: install the app, open it, long-press on Cerberus in the list of installed apps and select "Convert to system app".

I had Cerberus installed for several years. I converted it to be a system app after watching the video. Now I secretly hope to be able to record something similar if it gets stolen.
Basic income will require a major shift in attitudes. We already have a situation where even highly profitable companies refuse to pass on to their employees more share of profit than absolutely necessary. Why would the people who make these decisions support basic income? And they are the ones ultimately in power.

I bet even if basic income was implemented media would soon be full of stories of slackers not doing anything and soon politicians would run on a platform of cutting basic income. So I the end it wouldn't look much different from what we have now.

I think it would be much more important to address income inquality. Maybe the share of national income that people like Altman receive is just too high? How about making sure that someone who is working 40 hours per week can actually live off that income ?
> This is distinct from the sorts of 3-lane roads (more common in Europe than the US) where the central lane is designated simultaneously for passing in either direction. (Which conversely seems really dangerous.)

It was somewhat common 40 or 50 years ago but it's gone pretty much entirely (replaced by either alternating 2+1 or 1+1 with turn lanes and the like in the middle) because it is, in fact, extremely dangerous.
Is it possible that those undertaking frequent sauna bathing have overall healthier life habits? They might exercise more, eat better and sleep better than those who do not
And you should spend more time around criminals to know that when patterns emerge there is a high likelihood of the same outcome.
To be fair, there are GCC built-ins that allow you to tell the compiler that arrays are nonaliasing, but you're right in that it's more difficult in general to get a compiler to spit out fast numeric code with C than it is with Fortran.
You might be overreacting a bit to the comment you're replying to. The way you quoted something he didn't say next to something he did say is uncharitable.
In the 70s, when Fortran 66 still ruled the night, the usual suspects at Bell Labs wrote Ratfor, which was pretty much what Coffeescript did to Javascript, bending the syntax towards C.

When you compare the current Fortran standards to its '66 version, you'll see how much progress it made.

And I hope that you can actually use it these days. Round the turn of the millennium, it was still quite common for people to use Fortran 77 because that's all that was supported or fit in the general codebase.
Tech Upgrades Just Aren't That Great Anymore
Considering it was still the film makers phone, and he was recording through his phone (and the person holding the phone knew it wasn't his phone, and that the phone had a camera that could record when the user wanted), what would the illegal part be? Just curious as to what specific law covers this.
I've seen one of those predictors. It looked at an honest signal, captured in a way that would be fairly representative of the population at large. Since the data had some location information attached, you could attach every point of signal to a congressional district. The model was simple, comparing the signal per district, and then building an electoral college map. It didn't nail every state, but it wasn't off by much, and gave Trump a slightly smaller victory than he actually had.

I won't mention the signal because I want to keep my job. However I'd be surprised if there weren't at least a dozen companies that have access to some honest signal with such a good sample of the population at large as to be better at predicting the election than any pollster.
What don't you like about Julia's syntax? Is it more than the 1-based indexing and "end" statements?
The pandas library has a period data type if you're looking for one.
Tumblr isn't even there as of now.
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>There is a difference between being aware events are happening

Going off another tangent, if I ever write that essay, I plan to address this point.

Why do people follow the news? How much do they need to be aware? For most people, over 95% of the news they are aware of are useless to them. They don't make any (direct) decisions based on them. So why the need to be aware? (Not asking you personally, just bringing up the point in general).

(However, while they do not make any decisions, they do draw conclusions much more often, and this can be reflected in where they spend their money, and who they vote for).

>By your logic, everyone is misinformed because there is literally an infinite amount of news and sources now.

In the pure sense of the word, sure. But the curve is not linear. The shape of the curve is a bit like a shifted sigmoid. If you read a little, you know a little, and much of it may be false. As you read more, you'll hit a threshold where your knowledge goes up dramatically, as well as your ability to remove the false things you heard earlier. When you go even beyond that, the curve becomes very shallow again. You could read forever and keep learning more, but the marginal gain (in knowledge) is minimal. Likewise, the marginal gain in reading just a small amount is minimal as well.

>It is far better to get summaries and dive deeper when something interesting comes up and/or you have time.

Let me ask you this: Think of the times you did dive deep (and I mean very deep - not just a few hours on a topic, but following every bit of news on it for months).

Now compare your knowledge on the topic with the person who only heard it through the NPR sound bites. How often is that person misinformed when you listen to them talk about it?

In my experience, it was "often enough". I don't want to say "more than 50% of the time" because I didn't do a thorough study. But it was often enough that I don't kid myself about my knowledge when I listen to NPR news summaries. I have to assume everything they're telling me could be wrong.

>At no point did I talk about drawing conclusions.

I hope you've asked yourself why you listen to the news. (Again, no need to tell me if you don't want to, just something you should ponder for yourself).
Excellent. So the role of the tank is detection and not a means to accelerate proton decay?
> If anything happened, my watch would vibrate, then my phone, then my laptop would ping, as would my iMac and then my tablet went off.

That must be like leaving in a Tom & Jerry cartoon!
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The shift in attitude needs to be that slackers are being paid to stay out of the way of people that want to work and that's a good thing
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> Verbosity is so much worst than syntax complexity because you ends up having dozens of different patterns that do the same thing overall but with subtile differences on edge cases.

So vague.

> As long as you introduce syntax to help with what people are actually doing (and not juste because it looks cool) syntax addition enhance the code readability.

So you are saying Rust's syntax is doing just right. But this has nothing to do with other language design. Just open your mind.
Quite a lot of enterprise features made it into the free SQL Server Express this winter.

[1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlreleaseservices/sql-serv...
There's a lot of activity for D in this area. For instance, there's a BLAS replacement[1] with good performance. Supporting numerical programming is a priority for Walter and Andrei. There's more work to do, but it is adding enough functionality that it will be a realistic option for those that like the language.

[1] http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...
> 30 kph is a speed limit and thus an exact number, not an approximation to 1 SF. Thus, 18.6 mph is more correct than 20 mph.

No, because the imperial speed limit corresponding to 30km/h is 20mph, and imperial drivers would have encountered that and thus would have a clear and absolutely trivial frame of reference. Likewise 50km/h and 30mph.

18.6mph and 31mph is not correct, it's worthless pedantry completely missing the point to the disservice of the reader.
Thanks for a complete and interesting response.
There's a few decent enterprise app review sites, but as an IT Consutant by trade my startup/SME customers were lost in the mist of searching through thousands of similar apps.
So I decided to create evercloud (evercloud.co), a simple tool to discover the best business apps. My team and I have put countless hours into research, focus groups, and first-hand testing of apps we promote to be proud of the apps we showcase. I guess you could describe evercloud as an aggregate of the very best apps and tools for startups & SMEs.

We're also building out our blog (which you can find at the bottom of the homepage). We launched to our personal contacts and customers and we soon got thousands of visitors to v.1 of the site. We stopped the service to start the project from scratch because honestly the site was a mess! We're very happy now and hope to build out a product that becomes more and more useful (every day we partner with new companies).

We're also creating some cool software to accompany this platform, combining AI with a tool to keep track of the apps your company uses, but that's a couple months away I'd say :)

Any feedback would be amazing! Thanks for reading
As with all things, it also helps to be responsive and reliable. Journalists are usually on a deadline, and need a quote NOW. The first person to respond with something usable is what they'll go with.

Of course if you aren't at all selective about the topics you are willing to discuss you will become the lazy journalists' best friend.

There are certain people who, if quoted in an article, will immediately cause me to stop reading, as their presence is a strong negative signal. You probably don't want to be included in such august company, so be at least a little selective.
Thanks! Have done this, I think! Wondering if I should now delete this thread
Previous HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13100191

(though sadly there seems to be no more actual evidence (as yet,) than previously reported by Cracked)
There are a few in SF.

Archimedes Banya (www.banyasf.com/) is my favorite. They have a real Finnish sauna that gets up to 100 C (or over) along with a pool for cooling off that is less than 10 C. They also have two Russian baths and a Turkish bath (steam room). To get that real Finnish/Russian experience, you can even bring your own alcohol. Clothing is optional on one half and required on the other.

There are others in SF, but I haven't been to them.
I listened anyway... if that's in any way accurate it's the best explanation I've heard yet!
In some sense, yes. I remember the class were my physics professor explained why the SU(5) could be The Group of the universe and why it failed (IIRC the predictions were 1% off with the experiment, a good try, but enough to be discarded.) You could feel how sad he was that SU(5) has to be discarded. :(

In some sense, no. The SU(5) group includes all the symmetries of the hyper-dodecahedron, were you can rotate it in the 4-dimmensional space to exchange one of the vertex/particles with another. But it also includes more strange things, like half mixing two particles.

a -> (a+b) / srqt(2)
b -> (a-b) / sqrt(2)

This is more difficult to explain. Technically, it's a rotation in the plane x-y of 45 degrees. And you can rotate another angles, for example in some particles decays the important rotation is 13 degrees. And you can mix three or four or five particles. All of this is more difficult to imagine, but it's easy to write analytically.

The use of geometric shapes like the hyper-dodecahedron is more a nice visualization technique. It's easier to explain than the details of the SU(5) group and it provides a good intuition, even after studding the theory with more details. So I prefer to ignore this technical detail, specially for a popular science article.
Sure, there's never going to be unanimous agreement. Put it to a vote. I'm mainly just talking about letting the public choose which issues the leaders should focus on, and holding them accountable if they don't.
> Some people have both

I don't think this particular combination is possible, for the record.
Well. I'm not english native, I think I mean precision. :)

For me great writing is to convey a specific thought succinctly. A lot of the writers mentioned here aren't expressing something radically new like Plato or Descartes, but rather taking a small step describing nuances from a previous thought – hence precision.

Also, like computer science, I believe the field is entitled to a language describing concepts that aren't directly available without further studies.
Well for one thing, as they say in TFA, they're a programmer and programming teacher.

What are any of our membership credentials aside from being people who program?
> The shift in attitude needs to be that slackers are being paid to stay out of the way of people that want to work and that's a good thing

The people who work, who I assume are the intended audience of your argument, will also be aware that their income taxes are going directly into the pockets of the slackers.

The perception that hardworking peoples' income tax goes to people who do not deserve it is at the root of much of the opposition to welfare programs today. It's such a strong sentiment that it makes it difficult to get political support for even the rudimentary safety net we have now -- it would be an even more potent political argument against UBI.
So ummm, what kind of nutrition does graphine have?
> This transaction just doesn't make sense to me at all.

As a YC applicant I feel I am in a position to offer an explanation.

Money is very hard to raise for many first time founders; 120k is a fortune at this early stage. YC offers access to its rolodex and being accepted (whether the startup succeeds or not) is a badge of validation that opens many doors internationally.

The trade-off is worth it.
Can't wait to see what the next big project will be!
"they can be interpreted in many different ways."

This is the clincher for me. How can you make a serious argument if what you say is open to interpretation? For every variable the possible meanings multiply exponentially.
You may as well be saying anything, no-one will ever be able to test or refute it.
In science a huge amount of effort is put into making things as clear as humanly possible, and still lots of problems in communication arise.

Postmodern writings can certainly be enjoyed in the same way as dense literature, for the use of language, references, cryptic meaning, and so on. But demanding to be treated as a meaningful addition to the corpus of human knowledge is simply narcissism.
This makes sense to me. I saw similar things in newspaper comments sections. I have a weird habit of always scrolling to comments sections of news articles. It gives me an interesting snapshot of a huge range of opinions. On political articles, I consistently saw so many comments from Trump supporters, with some consistent threads of opinions (as well as more fringe or extreme ideas) that just weren't being represented strongly enough in the general media. I also of course saw comments from Hillary supporters and Trump haters. Their arguments and thoughts WERE already being represented strongly in the general media - there was not much new that I learned there. Something that Obama hasn't addressed is just how biased our mainstream newspapers and magazines were in the run-up to the election. As someone living in a highly liberal area (and who is not aligned with Trump's politics - before I get criticized to infinity) I felt I gained a lot of understanding for why people were supporting Trump, not from the dozens of mainstream newspaper articles I read each day, but from comments sections. I view that as a media fail. I was the only person of my peer group who was not shocked about Trump's win. I'd also add - the media strategy didn't work. Marginalizing people's voices and points of view - often people who felt marginalized in other ways (economic etc), strengthened their resolve to vote for the person who DID hear them (which was Trump.)
Another prerequisite for basic income would have to be the separation of health care from job based health insurance.
How much computing power, work and money is it to produce visualizations like this? I'm handy with cytoscape and DAG concepts but I don't know where to get real time datasets like this, or how to automatically construct them for other forums (eg say I wanted to study the social networks on Reddit or HN). Ideally I'd like to be able to work with something like this interactively although real-time operation isn't too important.
From the point of view from someone else: the consumer side of things, and the way I start to approach and recommend companies like this. Basically, if the company still seems to be in growth first phase, I avoid recommending or using the product. This is generally because at that point in time, the product still doesn't have a solid financial plan.

B2B offerings are less worrisome, and I imagine with the the SFO culture, easier to sell. After all, if your investors can introduce you to other companies that could use your product, well, it comes across as organic "growth." But at least it has a real business plan. Whether it sticks around, well, again, that really depends on the company and what they are offering.

In the end though, most often I see this working out poorly for the consumers in the long run.
It seems like a number of R packages use Fortran. I'm on Mac and it needs to Fortran compiler to be installed so that at least some of the R packages can be compiled when doing updates.
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?so, does the bridge work the same as an exit?
What is speculation is the connection between things. The entirety of your last point, and most of your 2nd-to-last point are also entirely specious.

The point is, there is no more evidence that Trump, Thiel or anyone else connected with the administration will act in ways contrary to the best interests of the American people than there is that Trump is bigfoot or hillary clinton is a space lizard.
> Wolfenstein in still under copyright. This project would not be lost because of extended copyright law.

Yep and will be for another 100 years or so assuming Carmack et al live another 30 plus the 70 for post-creator-death. Thanks Mickey Mouse! :D
I fail to understand how this:

> I'm obsessed with minimalism. I want all my possessions to fit inside my backpack. I own one pair of socks. I sleep on the floor.

is compatible with that:

> I have literally created over 500 accounts in my life. I have more than 100 apps on my phone. This so-called software diversity makes my life miserable. I came to the conclusion that we need to create a single app that does 80% of things.

I guess the problem lies in "100 applications that do things". What do they actually do? What are the 100 things they do? I don't have any app. I don't have any smartphone. Nobody had a few years ago. What problem do they solve that you cannot solve otherwise?
This calls for an evolved Spider-Man storyline :)
I don't think that growth is a false signal. One major thing that kills startups is that people don't want what the company is building. The second derivative of revenue is a good way (i.e. signal) to measure product-market fit. The other major cause of death is cofounder breakups, and that's hard to predict.

Regardless, it's tough to predict the future.
hmm good ideas!
I'm now thinking about reaching out to tech startups and getting collaborations with them - we provide part time/remote interns, they provide learning opportunities and beef up their CV - plus maybe even some money.
Either enforce the laws or eliminate them. The media is fully complicit in fueling narratives with respect to immigration by conflating illegal with legal. Contrary to the spin the permanent resident and naturalization figures being double to quadruple the next country (Germany) shows America welcomes immigrants. Which countries make citizenship and owning a business easier than America?
Interestingly, Python 3.6 has just tried to fix the DST problem in the datetime library itself. See PEP 495
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0495/
I find a single pair of socks would make my life more complicated.
> your innovations may simply reduce the standard protection

I've spent a ton of time debunking this myth. Read my other comments; this can only happen if you don't use independent keys or if you somehow break the encryption. I'm not going to waste more time explaining it.

> but they will not gain you anything

Same as above.
It's not clear to me exactly what you're trying to say, but it doesn't seem to be civil and substantive like the guidelines ask, and its effect on the thread is just what we don't want. Please don't post like this.
I don't think the author's math is wrong here. Looking at this sentence, he/she is not taking the average for both like you described, but applying growth rate to revenue for each individual company:

If we applied the companies’ monthly growth rates to their reported revenue, then after just one year the 22 companies would be generating about $21 billion in combined monthly revenue, or $963 million monthly revenue per company.
Indeed, the purpose of having biological and chemical weapons - as well as the delivery system he was perfecting before the invasion - was to ensure he had a free hand in whacking his less powerful neighbors, aiding terrorism in the region, and hitting his Kurdish population. They were a threat designed to prevent EU and US intervention. His four-stage rocket, which came close to completion, was designed to have enough range to strike European capitals. Of course, he's putting the best spin on it all that he can - whyever not?
"Reasonable expectation of privacy" is a constitutional consideration. Some states in the US make covert recording illegal even if the participants are in public. E.g. http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/massachusetts-recording-law