skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very much a similar issue and their were multiple silenced whistleblowers to that as well.

I am glad my whistleblowing moment passed because recent history (last 30 years) tells me you do not want to become one.
Antenna gain is a function of directionality and vice versa. Patch antennas are also good because they have often very low "backward gain" but at the same time they are not very directional forward, so they are good to be placed in a corner of a room or near a wall.
The Russians built the largest nucleur weapon of all time just a year or two ago. Its hardly an escalation when other countries are doing the same thing.
This is the scariest thing I've read in a while. Plutonium itself inside of nuclear warheads is unstable?
I think I would have noticed far less of the placements if it hadn't been for the "warning" before the episodes. :)
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shocking children as in electric current? it's so awful i didn't even consider the possibility of it being done, i'm fully against such kind of torture.
You don't need to install (ana|mini)conda just to get a package manager, would be why I would use Pipenv over Conda. Miniconda alone requires somewhere close to 400MB of space and comes with a whole bunch of extra things I don't need just to manage packages and virtualenvs.
Interestingly enough there's a scene in a famous German novel, IIRC Homo Faber[0] by Max Frisch, in which the protagonist, in desperate circumstances, trades his watch for a ride. (I think it's for a ride -- it's been probably 15 years since I last read it.)

At the time it struck me as really odd, but now that I know some people who own expensive watches I sort-of get it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Faber_(novel)
I'm not sure when was the time you grew up, but this travel situation was already like in the 1990's just a bit less global (less effective spying maybe) and though documented a lot less publicized.

When you're not an American citizen, even at the time you could be detained indefinitely in high security prison without being able to tell anyone. The story of the guy to whom it actually happened on the motive that he was involved in importing super nintendo legalish accessory (game genie or disk copier or something along these lines) in a different country should still be floating around. Then there is this guy on whom they pulled gattaca stuff as in vacuuming his laptop keyboard and run the collected dust through lab analysis. This is pre-TSA stuff, so IMHO the travel situation in the US has not really changed in nature, only in scale.
Funny related reading: Imre Lakatos - Proofs and refutations
My solution is to use CyanogenMod (now LineageOS) and deny access when apps request it. To applications it looks like they can access my contacts, but if I deny it, they only get to see an empty list.
Using openhab 2, some scripts and a couple of zwave lightbulbs with adjustable color temperature, I've created something very similar. The lights turn on automatic using presence detection and change temperature using a simulated sunset. I'm working on a ray-tracer, simulating a true sunset, which would allow different lights to produce various parts of the spectrum. The problem lies with the bulbs, which do not allow enough fidelity over RGBW (either color or warm light, not both).
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pipenv allow you to completly ignore the virtualenv. Like node_packages. It seems a detail, but giving a lot of python and js trainings, I came to realize newcomers needs little help like this.
>Another advantage: they almost always appreciate in value over time

On balance this is not true for any non limited brand new watch you buy. On balance models that appreciate tend to be discontinued, or a combination of rare reference/variation/materials.

I agree though, If I had a lot of cash laying about, i'd buy lots and lots of good examples of vintage watches from marquee brands.
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Has anyone noticed apps switching from requesting individual permissions to relying on Google Services permissions lately?
For instance, Google Maps now need Google Services to have permissions to [1].

This makes it even harder to track which information apps are actually collecting (in case you grant all permissions to Google Services).

[1] http://i63.tinypic.com/1zwt91.jpg
I realize this sounds silly, but I like the fake-candle LED lights that are about 2.5 inches in diameter. I don't know what brand we have, but these [0] look similar. One is (barely) enough to read with at bedtime, but two or three might work great. At two AA batteries, my kids can leave them on all night, and the tiny LED hasn't drained much. (I think I change batteries maybe every couple months.)

- Can read OK with one, probably fine with two or three
- 2x AA batteries; rechargeable ones work fine.
- Easy for kids or parent to hold/transport
- LED circuit flickers, seeming more like candle light. Probably not as good as the pattern you saw linked on HN last year. ;)

The real wax texture is both weird and cool, but the down side is they scratch easily. I wish I had them in plastic, honestly, but now that the kids have wrecked the surface I no longer care as much. ;)

https://www.amazon.com/Flameless-Candles-Remote-Control-Pill...
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everything right to the point of FAA having to ban the device specifically...? i'm not sure this 'everything right' territory.
Few countries (if any) are really free.
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I thought these things were only possible with xprivacy. Which Cyanogen versions have this functionality?
Imagine you walk into a shop and the first thing that happens is the owner jumps in your face and asks you: "Hi would it be okay if we call you?"

Everyone is trying to push their notifications on you these days...
That is so disingenuous. It's part of the Trident system that malfunctioned. Not just a specific consumer device.
Both Netflix and amazon have season in progress with weekly releases not as much in the US tho.
I don't even notice them and even if I had I wouldn't mind. I mean characters will use a phone in the series, the production might as well get something out of it. It becomes a problem when the plot is built around the product placement e.g its done a lot in modern family
But if a website comprises only native advertising, Internet PR, and sponsored articles, Adblockers might start blacklisting the whole site.
> also important to note they made the players play thousands of hands over weeks

To your point, I wonder how they account for mental and physical fatigue. To a computer it makes no difference to play thousands of hands over such a long period of time or hundreds of hands over the course of a single day. Humans on the other hand don't have the same attention span as a computer.
From article it seems that real productivity killer are the social media.
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There is a lot of interest towards well-made 14 inch laptops with enough ports and great build quality in this community.

These criteria seem to exclude Acer at whole, but as an owner of Acer TravelMate P645 for already 2 years and loving every moment of it, I decided to submit this here in case somebody looks for a much cheaper alternative to Thinkpads. The new P658 to the best of my knowledge is the only ultrabook to sport VGA, HDMI, Ethernet connection and USB type C in a slick aluminum-magnesium body.

This post is not endorsed by Acer in any way. I just like the laptop very much and at a price of around 1000 Euros in Europe it makes it really competitively priced.
If you find a feature nobody has used for the last 6 months... and its to do with some long term calculations... probably safe to say they use it annually.
We have the end of year reports that generally kill the database when people try to run 5 years worth of data through them every christmas... they never touch them during the normal working year though.
How would expect to control a population if not by ideology and propaganda ? Keep them as dumb and uninformed as you can, keep them busy working or else they may ask questions and initiate change that would jeopardize the caste in power.

Most people actually believe they live in democracies while there are no democracies on the planet right now though a couple countries are not so far from it.
google brain^W deep mind is working on starcraft.

on a related note, hopefully a benevolent gai emerges before human society implodes.
> Also notable, IMO, is the lack of a tool like rbenv or rustup for python

Does pyenv not meet your needs there?
I'm also waiting a.) for my money b.) someone to get my Note7. They've sent twice someone without packaging material who wouldn't take the Note, then never react to my inquiries. Samsung customer support in Germany was one of the worst I've ever experienced.
So we're reverting back to killing trees.
The internet essentially turned news into a free market commodity. The Editor has been replaced with the Eigenvector in that good ol' recommendation algorithm everyone uses (I assume some variation of PageRank), to infer what's most relevant to the current user. By virtue of this alone, an echo chamber is being packaged and delivered to users on content platforms.

The seemingly insurmountable problem is to get people to consume content that challenges their preconceptions, as opposed to having them validated repeatedly in exchange for a dopamine hit.
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The naming is odd, because the syntax hasn't changed, only the semantics of some operators have changed.

An example of syntactic sugar is list comprehensions. It's a new syntax for expressions using map, filter, etc. It's "new" syntax for something that can be described in terms of the "old" syntax without altering the semantics.

Given the name, I was expecting some kind of macro system or hacks to the Python parser.
I like to bite into the crisp cold flesh of the Apple with my incisors and proceed to consume the apple, core, stem and all.

I now understand my world view was rather narrow in this regard. A whole spectrum of equally valid methods for apple consumption are now clearer to me.

But previously, I was unaware of the seemly widespread under-served demand for pre-cut apple.
CCP Greys discussion about thought germs is extremely interesting look on how and why misinformation spreads. I much less rigirous look at the topic but very accessible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
a black market for network connections... gibson must be proud.
Any app can capture everything you put in your android clipboard and it does not need to ask for permission to do it.

So don't copy passwords into your clipboard!
This is really, really good! Prepare for acquisition offers in weeks :D

A feature I'd love to see, which I haven't seen anywhere, is filtering by day of week. I want to search for 3 day holidays that start on a Friday, for example.
I think since CM10. It's called "privacy guard."
I think I can achieve similar with an Android 6.0+ stock ROM, but still some apps refuse to work and shut down once you reject their access to some resources.
It's not complicated and the interpreter is super light though
Sorry but first I started to hear about this kind of stories was under Clinton and people from the generation before mine told me it was the same when they were my age. Could date to even before AFAIK, maybe the cold war / WW2.
They are authorized.
All companies has to apply this "specialized line" for Internet accessing. If there's anything they do not like, they could find the person responsible for this easily.
they don't want people to have access to inconvenient information. dates are inconsequential.
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Very very long. First of all, this bot was capably only of analysing heads up play. At the WSOP there can be maximum 10 players at the table, and with each extra player, the number of combinations to analyse grows exponentially.

Second, in the WSOP it is key to exploit weaker opponents. This bot was able to find almost perfect play against expert opponents but exploiting weak play is a different ballgame, especially if you are facing a mix of strong and weak players at a multi handed table.
The real productivity killer is multi-tasking and in my opinion the problem with using digital media is that it's too effortless to start multi-tasking.

There are already apps that restrict yourself to certain programs or websites - that might be a solution for people having trouble with multi-tasking.

I can't imagine writing on paper that's for sure.
Amusingly I didn't notice the warning!
The closest thing I've seen is something like Ryanair's trip planner, and that's just for flights. Where have you seen this tool elsewhere?
I currently use CM12.1 (Android 5.1.1). No xprivacy or xposed stuff.
I've just started watching House of Cards this month, and there is a disclaimer from Netflix that the show contains product placements, so at least they're being honest about it.
My own muses and solution: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13316924653/bette...

Basically, back in the Symbian/UIQ days, we worked on this and came up with a way to embed apps within another visually even though they were separate apps with separate permissions.

So an app wouldn't need all the internet access stuff just because it embeds ads; instead, an ad-service running on the phone would embed ads in the space given to it by the app.

We primarily wanted to show contacts and online status etc inline without each app needing to be able to read your contacts or find out their online statuses.

The host app would basically use a UI widget that took a 'url' to what was going to be shown, and apps registered as providers of various url schemes e.g. uiq_contact:phonenumber_goes_here?display_options=whatever
Isn't this solved with run-time permissions model since android 6? Customers can be informed before requiring individual permissions, in a context where it is understandable, such as requiring WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE when saving a picture. Am I missing something?
Another problem with fixing something like that statistics code is that it makes it to impossible compare to new results to old results.

I have a piece of old code like that myself kicking around that tends to overestimate a certain value. I also have some new code that uses a better model and gives a more accurate value. The problem is I cannot really roll out the new code since it will make all the new things look worse than all the old things, even if they're actually the same or perhaps even better. So I use the old code, because even if it's wrong, at least it's wrong in that same way as all the other results and people can make relevant comparisons.
What do you mean? Do you have an example? Is this some kind of work-around?
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I wanted to comment on the same thing, IMHO something like `pip uninstall --all` would be a better choice. Great work otherwise!
Google Play Services won't give an app any more than that app has permissions for. If you request location updates from Google Play Services, for example, but your app doesn't have the fine-location permission, you won't get GPS locations.
Cool stuff! One thing - not _every_ link needs to open in a new tab. For internal nav ("about", "contact") I'd prefer links open in the same tab...
Classic business case study, yes. Perhaps in direct contrast to doing everything right, unlike Intel's FDIV recall and J&J's original Tylenol recall.

I'll bet that if you do word associations with "Samsung phone" a lot of people will say "fire," "exploding" or something similar. Now if you were trying to create that association it would be great marketing, but I'm guessing Samsung's marketing department was going for a different association.
I'm enthusiastic about the potential for this technology but I don't like either of these options. I feel like both the customer and the product. I'd like an open source, neutral voice assistant that is working for me, not trying to exploit me.
I always find it far easier when working on personal software projects to sketch out ideas on a notepad.

From drawings to pseudocode it all seems far easier.
Which is great for UBI as the social contract makes explicit that everyone is a beneficiary of it. The people who need it then will have both their dignity and the will to make more of themselves.
How is that not no limit?
Only if all competitors did the same. Unlike cable or terrestrial broadcast television, with Netflix the consumer has choice and can simply go to a competitor (this includes piracy). If Netflix starts experimenting with advertisements, they will give competitors a chance to move in on the subscribers that won't stand for it.

Losing subscribers is fine if they don't go anywhere else (because they can't), but losing subscribers to a competitor is a risky move.
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Speaking of security... Did you know you can turn on SSL (for free) for your Tumblr blog these days?
That's irrelevant. I am evaluating the comment on the merit of the argument contained within it.
Can they access this while running in the background?
>The drawback is that you make it crystal clear to everyone that you have money. That's the one thing that always troubles me with luxury items. How do people who own Porsche's or Ferrari's cope with unwanted attention, assuming that they don't want it.

Well, who said it's unwanted?

Besides, they often have bodyguards, and of course they don't regularly mingle with commoners. Difficult to get robbed in some Swiss chalet or some expensive neighborhood. And there everybody has money anyway, so they don't stand out much.
I'd pay real money for a book that goes this in-depth into any subject, especially stuff that isn't generally public knowledge. The subject matter isn't even all that important. If this is the future of advertising bring it on.
Those are policies and law, not people. Silicon Valley is not representative of the U.S. quite the contrary, specially since driving while black might be linked to heavy use of predictive policing[1] in California (yes the minority report thing), Facebook is definitely not what I would consider representative of people, actually the contrary again.

I have to say that I had the prejudice that the U.S. people were racists and traveling around the place proved me otherwise.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_policing
Because people don't want to die in the ensuing conflicts over limited resources that climate change is going to bring? Because shrugging one's shoulders at the thought of widespread environmental collapse, starving populations, and the breakdown of ten thousand years of civilization is a horrible thought? Because as the droughts and famines kick in, the people that suffer the most and the most immediately for the first dozen years will be the poor and those in underdeveloped countries, while Silicon Valley programmers sip their Soylent and write comments on Hacker News like this one?

Jesus, grow some empathy.
My solution is to buy an iPhone. I don't mean that as a snarky response, as I'd very much like to use an Android phone (And if it's just to be able to use Tasker).
But I simply don't have time to bother with this stuff anymore, so I pay ~200$ more in exchange for my time (and privacy).

Secondly, I don't want to give anyone money that gives a crap about my device's security and privacy.

There was a similar article on HN a while ago that came to the same conclusion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056288
You don't need to go as back or as obscure as Homo Faber.

Selling your watch for quick money (usually in a foreign country or after being robbed, crashed etc) is a common film staple in tons of adventure/noir etc movies.
The thought of regressing to the kind of life I had as a kid: I'd go a hell of a long way for that not to happen. Having some handicapped children, who are wonderful but resource intensive. The fact that I am so fortunate as to live in a world where to get ahead all I have to do is work my ass off--I live in a stable country that still rewards grit a lot of the time. Fear.
I own a thermo-corrected quartz watch and I can't measure the drift on it. Between the twice yearly changes due to daylight saving time the drift is less than a second. I continue to be amazed that I can have something this accurate strapped to my wrist.
Slightly tangential, but yesterday my Gmail app kindly informed me that I need to give Google Play Services the following permissions in order for it to function:

- Body Sensors

- Calendar

- Camera

- Contacts

- Location

- Microphone

- Phone

- SMS

- Storage

This promptly led me to discover K-9 Mail.
Not entirely incidentally, Google's Calendar was so helpful as to suggest that I install Google's fitness tracker to integrate with the Calendar. I politely declined the offer, and installed Etar.
Yes, you can write a background service that will be called when there is a change in the clipboard. You can even close the app and it will be restarted in the background when a clipboard change happens.

I know this because I wrote an app[1] that does precisely this and looks for a specific URL in the clipboard. I was surprised when I found out I don't need to ask for permission to read clipboard changes.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.schueller....
IANAL but I also think it might be illegal not to disclaim it in certain places. Not sure about UK, but it definitely is in certain European countries.
Then use one of the offline challenges.
Thank you, fantastic comment. It reminds of this quote -

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."

I am guilty of procastination, analysis and obsessive research my whole life. Its not going to help if you spend a month finding out the perfect diet or perfect vacation and then realize you could've done something instead - perfection is an unattainable goal.
No, it's just that I noticed something weird with some apps. For instance, Google Maps is now relying on Google Services permissions instead of asking for permissions for itself [1].

If I'll give these permissions to Google Services, it means any app also using Google Services will automatically have access to the allowed resources.

[1] http://i63.tinypic.com/1zwt91.jpg
It's not obvious to users that READ_PHONE_STATE means the ability to obtain your IMEI, and if an app just exits when you deny a permission (or lies to you about why it needs it) what do you expect most users to end up doing?
That was only four, only in Beijing, and 22 months ago.

The plants in the OP's story are what I referred to.

They probably will decommission coal plants over time as more solar capacity comes online, probably east to west.
Those phones were lasting for a week on single charge but novadays phones are hungry, many people carry external power banks or whatever they call them these days. I would happily use swappable battery. Design could also be improved so you can quickly slide empty battery out and charged one back in. Phones could have tiny built in battery which would make the process without the need to turn off/on the phone.
Not really technology-free; retrogressive rather.
>Is there a reason we can't have both?

If you mean UBI and a job guarantee, I suppose not, however it's going to cause inflation to spike pretty high.

>It's not 1929 anymore

It actually kind of is. Wages have stagnated, the wealth of the 1% has ballooned, infrastructure is crumbling and the far right is on the rise.

>Modern construction jobs require trained workers with trade licenses who demand middle class salaries and benefits. That is a lot more expensive per-person than a UBI.

Just guaranteeing paid work to the ~30% unemployed is far cheaper than giving a stipend to every person in the United States.

Even if you include the cost of materials it's not going to come close.
How is the correct and safe functioning of the system they are voting to renew "orthogonal"?
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