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However, demanding that the President do anything simply isn't reality.

It's OK if we differ on whether one should attempt to constructively influence the current administration, or not.

But I have to strongly disagree with you on the other half of what you're saying. If your rights are being trampled, or the physical well-being of your loved ones is being directly threatened -- as is the case with those being denied access to health care, or who find their long and meticulously planned applications for asylum are suddenly throttled -- then yes, demanding that their rights and physical well-being be protected is the only responsible and dignified course of action you have available.

And on top of that -- it's the only way people have ever won and safeguarded their rights, throughout all of history.
I suggest runbox.com.

https://runbox.com/why-runbox/email-privacy/
Certain types of eating sounds make me angry; but I found that I could grin and bear it if I rationalized it. I think it's probably more productive for people to manage it than to insist that nobody make eating sounds around them.

P.S: I think it's important to draw a distinction between feeling annoyed and feeling angry. In the case of this, the feeling is definitely anger, the same way I feel when somebody I care about is being wronged.
Up to 1.87M Michigan workers' info may have been compromised
If you are Chinese, it's probably not a good idea to use a Chinese email service (or any of the "joint ventures" between American companies and Chinese ones).

It goes the same for Americans. If you want privacy from the U.S. government, don't use American services, or U.S.-hosted services.
Mindfulness motivates people to make healthier choices
in his book "Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison" by John Kiriakou, he tells about the "20 rules" taught to him by the cia to survive in an environment like prison. he briefly discusses these 20 rules in interviews. i dont have the book, does anyone happen to know what these 20 rules are?
I'm not sure what the order of events was but I should certainly link that blog post.

https://engineering.instagram.com/dismissing-python-garbage-...
I think it depends on the app. I wrote an app that read from the GPS sensor and sent the position to a server of mine. Google didn't get any data. However if you want to use other sources to get a more precise position (example: wifi access points) I think that Google must know.
"I feel going so far as to say it does not stop websites from collecting info on you is maybe a bit too far."

This is not a personal attack. Just have to address this. If you think that you cannot be identified because you use a "private" window in a browser when you were using a logged in browser 30 minutes before from the same IP with the same OS and the same screen size, with the same background apps making the same http requests, you are mistaken. Your entire search history is fingerprinted, associated, shared, and sold. And this is just scratching the surface. As a mild example, Facebook associates IP's with Facebook accounts, then tracks Chromecast requests from those IP addresses to sell that information to media streaming companies. Everything you do, everything you like, everywhere you visit, is one metadata search away. Duck Duck Go cant fix all that, but they can keep no IP correlated search history. And that says alot considering that in todays market that information is worth millions.
The delivery of the content is paid by all of us, because the cost of advertising is of course priced into every single purchase we make. The idea that "the internet is free because of ads" (not your point, but the idea is brought up all the time) is wrong - we're not just paying by suffering the ads, we are literally paying with our money for that nonsense.
UBeam finally shows off its wireless charging tech
Why was this flagged? It seems relevant to many here and reasonably written.
Rx not encoding side effects in the type system, as ReactiveSwift does, is very unfortunate.
I got a non-touch bar 13" MBP and the tests back up what I've experienced over the past couple weeks. Normal usage the battery is stellar, do something high CPU bound for a long time and you'll suffer.

Coding I've been doing in my spare time (Euler problems) the battery life has been 10 - 12 hours with medium brightness. Stellar compared to anything I've had before,

Using the coconut battery app though I can see when my CPU is taxed (churning out truncated harsahd numbers or w/e) I see the estimated battery life go down to about half that.

I think that's pretty fair for the machine, and I doubt any other small notebooks would fair much better under intensive tasks.

Looks like what really ate them was the 15" model could get the discrete GPU stuck on without cause, which kills the battery.
I vehemently disagree. This misty eyed myth of slow-life travel in the good ol' days with much exploring the unknown is balderdash. At least to the extent that google maps somehow precludes one from being able to do it nowadays.

I remember those glory days before Google maps. When I was a kid, and we had to drive to someone's house as a family, we'd pray that dad knew where we were going. If not, it was a minefield of stress and frustration as we'd try to fathom the vague instructions given to us by the host, and navigate around a city with poor signage.

We'd all arrive half an hour late, flustered, angry at each other, and in no mood to enjoy ourselves. Fuck those times.
I've a genuine question here. So, what are the STEM graduates doing who didn't want to work for the cheap wages? Did they find something that pays better? If not, why didn't they take up the lower wage job since it's better than nothing?
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looks like C++/CLI (C++/CX reused its syntax and maybe parsing code, but they're still distinct)
According to this article, misophonia occurs in China, too. There is even a support group in Baidu.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1030060.shtml
This sounds about right. They improved the efficiency of the machine overall and they felt that they could decrease the size of the battery and retain the same unplugged runtime under "normal use."

Add a "pro" workload with more frequent CPU or GPU intensive tasks, then those efficiency gains count for less and you start to notice the smaller battery.

Did they make the right choice? The smaller battery does make the machine lighter and probably contributes to the additional thinness they were able to achieve, but you can also make a good argument that for pro users, heavy workload battery life matters more.
Loss of selling privileges can be a big problem too, and incredibly hard to fight.

The store I work for once lost selling privileges for spurious copyright claims regarding books we had bought directly from large established publishers. Even with the publishers themselves (and sometimes the authors, too) writing on our behalf to state that there were no violations, it still took about two weeks to regain privileges. During a busy season, two weeks is a long time to be without profits for a small retailer.
> callously indifferent

I actually agree on that one. But he has tremendous amounts of money and power.

In the current small, interdependent world, callous indifference can do a heck of a lot of damage.
Guaranteed to be secure? Are you joking? Aside from the fact that nothing is guaranteed to be anything in the security world, if you go read the documents put out by Snowden there just no way you'd say that.

More like it is that there are any number of zero days floating around at all times many of which Google doesn't know, and the government itself is regularly taking data from these companies and then gagging them, and when that doesn't work, rooting them directly.

Outside countries are just as susceptible to hacking, but they can't be as easily made into gagged cooperators.

And google may have a lot of smart people but they have a collossal attack surface due to sheer size and product offerings. And they're made of humans. They run hackathons soliciting bugs and regularly find them. No one is perfect, definitely not google.

The overall security picture out there is grim, and it's very rational for people to control the risks they can and part of that is using outside of the US services
Man, I have to ask, how the hell does something like this actually evolve.
If you cut out every publisher currently set up as a revenue-based organisation – would you be well informed?

I don't know if I would be, heck I don't know if I am now. But if 99% of them were cut out, I would still be suffering from information overload, there's just so much of it to indulge in. Seriously: all the press you mentioned could go away and my life wouldn't suffer for it (I hardly read them anyway). Meanwhile, I'm still forced to pay a special tax to fund my state's 500-million-eur-a-year BBC-wannabe news/entertainment/propaganda machine. And I hardly ever read them.
Ask HN: Why don't developers unionize?
I'm not talking about your Dad or Grandma's union of yesteryear but a new type of union focused on collective bargaining for issues that matter and taking decisive action.

Our new style of union would:

- Encourage corporations to take security and privacy seriously

- Advocate for those affected by automation

- Aide in the creation of standards

- Support free and open source software communities

- Strengthen the efforts of organizations like EFF, Archive.org, Tor, etc

- Advocate for a free and open internet

- Counterbalance corporate interests

Once upon a time, unions did a lot of good for working and middle class people and they failed ultimately in the end.

It seems we as developers have the power to create a new type of union. A new model that disrupts old ideas for collective bargaining and actually does some good in the world.

What will our legacy be? Some things in life are greater than code.

Why don't developers unionize?
So far none of the reviews (including this one) have been that relevant for makers/hackers.

I have the new MacBook Pro and yes the battery isn't great. On average you're pressed to get 3-4 hours of realistic development use. I say "realistic" because all the test I've seen have been very artificial and don't mirror a typical hacker's environment (using Chrome/Firefox with a zillion tabs open) multiple electron based apps (hear: Slack, Frontapp etc), with sublime and terminals running.

This contrasts the 7-9 hours of realistic use I'd get with a 13" MacBook Air (which I still think is Apple's best machine ever made, in spite of it's non-retina screen).

Just a heads up the changes to the keyboard are terrible (especially the arrow keys layout). Surprisingly the virtual escape key hasn't bothered me as much as I thought it would, even in vim.

The other thing you should be aware is that this is the first MacBook where I get unintentional input on the touch pad when typing. It's really annoying to be writing and have the mouse jump the cursor position to another part of the doc. This is something that I experience all the time on non-apple HW (and scoff at), and it's really sad to see Apple's once perfect touch pad drop to that level.

If you're thinking of buying the new MacBook Pro, my short answer is "don't", see what you do about hanging out until the next revision or possibly switch platforms.
What happens if you need to alter the color of a texture that's been loaded? For example, if you want to do diffuse shading on a sphere with a texture mapped to it. Do you first need to convert the texture pixel back to linear space, apply the shading, and then correct for gamma?
So what do you plan to do with this?
This is exactly how it works and I've done precisely this in real live, a UG to GmbH conversion. It is a non-issue.

In fact the whole UG thing is setup towards this exact goal, conversion to a full GmbH (you even have to sideline profits to accomplish that).

There are indeed some valid things in that comment, others seem just wrong.
Same, I do my best to stay away from politics but even a damn BSD story ends up with politics. It's not so much complaint to author but just a grim realization...
Haha, So basically its saying brains use the old JVM 'Stop the world' garbage collector?
OVH is one of the largest hosting companies in the world. They have an excellent network, great prices, and a fondness for privacy.
> If you use some provider in another country, the attack vector has to be way larger, right?

If you just mean "Google has more resources than most European services, so it's probably more secure", you have a point, but it's not entirely accurate, and that's because of how Google handles encryption. It prefers to keep the encryption keys to itself, so from that point of view it will always be more vulnerable than services that don't do that - small or large.

And if you meant "because the NSA wouldn't target Google, or it would just target those companies more" then I believe that's completely false. Google is absolutely a high priority target for the NSA. Any large company is, no matter where it is. We've learned that by now.

Also because Google actually did get completely owned by the NSA a few years ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/30/google-re...
As someone who was hoping the article would have some kinds of solutions or cures, I was pretty disappointed by this.
Using a map is not inferior. Quite the opposite. Once thing I noticed with most people who use GPS directions is that they have no idea where they are, no idea of their environment.

When you use a map, you see the geography of the territory as a whole. You know if you go North or North-West, you know what is located near your itinerary and your destination, you know the different possibles ways, which ones are more direct or straight, which ones are longer but less steep and winding (and you know why: because of some geographical obstacle that you will later remember as a landmark as you walk/drive by it), you have a general idea how to recover if you take a wrong direction at some point or if for some reason you have to change your route.

These are quite many points for which the real map is superior.

And please: there is no "critical" tool there.
> "I don't think Walmart isn't capable of giving Amazon any hard times"

Actually, thinking Walmart is capable does not follow from not thinking they aren't capable. The subject doesn't think they are incapable of giving any hard times. Overall this is perhaps the weakest vote of confidence in Walmart possible, I would read this: "There exists the possibility that Walmart is capable of giving Amazon one or more hard times."

That's the best I can do.

edit:
On reflection the word 'thinking' is crucial, because is suggests a level of uncertainty. Without that uncertainty: !(not walmart is not capable) <-> walmart is capable.
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This also depends on what you're searching for. If you're hunting for a lot of academic stuff from journals, DDG just isn't good enough. On top of that its agonizingly slow. I try to give it a chance everywhere: phone, office workstation, home laptop. It's just not enough.
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Why did it fail and what was in the code?
Did you bring up the number of apps which either block a tone of sites with a simulated con or notify you until you reopen the app to keep you off you're phone?
"Unwritten pact" is a overly sensational but I do think they have a point.

Many publishers are entirely, or mostly ad supported. Their expectation is that when you read their content you also glance at the ads. If they can't make money off the ads they can't afford to produce the content anymore. (or more likely try different monetization approaches)

This sounds like some sort of deal to me. And the impact of breaking it is apparent to anyone who thinks about it for more then a couple of seconds.

That being said I find that many sites have obnoxious ads (or other content) and I simply hit back if it is too much. (and I consider my tolerance quite low) The content simply wasn't worth that much to me, and I can likely find equal or better content without the shit surrounding it.

Ad blockers are blunt instruments. They generally affect all sites and whitelisting is rare and based on the good part of the site, not how awful the ads are. This seems like the wrong motivators for publishers. The "turn away" approach directly penalizes sites that are unpleasant.
Because GMail is being served warrants for overseas data?

Most email providers will comply with search warrants on individuals, regardless of the government.
This site is pretty cool
If it wasn't for Steve Jobs we might have agents like Hollywood actors. To me the real question is why don't we have agents like actors and basketball players? We could be like actors and have both a union and our own agents. But thanks to Jobs conspiring to hold back engineer income we have a situation where we are often leveraged into poverty.
This is absolutely right, you don't have to pay personal taxes in Germany if the money remains in the company (it may be a little more difficult, but in essence this is correct).

The company however would have to pay company taxes in Germany.
The dirty secret in ML is that logistic regression, SVM, and random forests often work better than deep learning on real problems.
Weigh the cost of corporate controlled robots peeking at your emails against the increased probability of extra-corporate attackers pilfering your data.
> because the fact I had any knowledge of Java.

Because you even knew the word "Java"!

We were somehow part of a swirling cloud of folks somehow trying to buy Lycos about then. I don't know that CMU knew how to think about pricing such things. At least not the parts we were talking to. IBM seemed to be getting on with Doug Tygar's Citadel group, though, so it might have just been us that didn't know what we were doing! :-)
Happy to hear that. Do you have any feedback on how it can be improved? I am currently planning on spending some time to make simpleform better.
Yeah, I don't get why this was flagged. I posted the article. It does a good job pointing out alternatives.
What the article was moving towards - but never actually said - is that there is a fear that reform will "throw the baby out with the bathwater". For example rather than fixing the rules so that spots go to the right people, changes may just reduce the overall number of visas.
>Runbox will not disclose account information or email data to authorities unless presented with a Norwegian court order.

Isn't that the same as what's happening here?
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This. Ad tech Will last till the end of internet. It is a good place to be, remote include.
Makes complete sense...
"Governments Should hold journalists accountable for prejudice. As long as people don't pay for media, expect the quality to be low. Advertising looks like a desperate stand by the media."

I was with you right up to here. This part...nope. Government should most definitely not be the arbiter of bias.
Well for starters, fine-tuning can be done in a variety of different ways. You can pretrain your model with a larger, different dataset, or you can train an autoencoder that learns some useful representation of that larger dataset and use the encoder as a base for fine tuning.

Another approach I've seen that was really cool is Model Distillation [0], which is basically the training of a smaller NN with the inputs and outputs of a larger NN (where the output is slightly modified to increase gradients and make training faster).

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.02531v1.pdf
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> it's the fight or flight response

One time I was watching TV, a nature documentary, with my pet rabbit hopping around nearby. You should have seen her reaction when they played the sound of a rattlesnake on TV! Poor bunny was out of the room in no time and stayed quivering and stamping for quite a while.

So when I read about things like misphonia or even food aversion, my first thought is that these people may be showing the rough outline of genetic variants that may, in the right circumstances, be advantageous. (Of course most times it's maladaptive, but you need that initial variance for evolution to act on).

Lo and behold: https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/something-to-chew-...
Why is the attack vector bigger?

Are you saying that everyone else outside the US is somehow incompetent? The 300 million in the US are super special and the other 6.7 billion people are stupid? Cause 'murica? For example all the countries in the EU, Canada, Australia, etc.

Or are you saying privacy laws in the rest of the world are somehow worse? For example, the EU has generally much better privacy safeguards and is generally known to be much more consumer friendly than the US.
Well,the less obvious option I had to Google to find. It doesn't just set my account as inactive, it deletes it so that I no longer appear in friends lists as a referencabl e person.
I don't understand why this is bad.

The argument makes sense. If you are conducting your business via email using an American provider, expect it to be subject to American law.

I don't see how this could be unusual or a shock to anyone.
Thank you for asking madprops. I think the ability to create rooms gives room to multiple dispersed mini temporary communities, these terms used because right now as it is it's not a place to be online/present all the time, but to create a space when the need be. But what I really wanted to say is that I think the fact that there is a common shared element among any room created, that being the radio, gives way to an interesting cohesion. The admin of the site can broadcast whatever it wants to all the rooms through audio when it pleases besides the regular music programming, that could be announcements, messages, news. Also the common known element can be something in common with people in other rooms, giving something in common to talk about and be part of.
Vue isn't going to surpass React. Unless it migrates its API to clone React.
Your argument is bad for two reasons. One, being 'up to the task' is subjective. Two, nobody but Peter Thiel knows why he got the citizenship. My argument is good because I argue 'If you invest in tech, you help the economy, and that is good' which has no assumptions or opinions in it.
When I was five years old, I made a little play-dough man by unbending paperclips, winding them together and wrapping the play-dough around the wires. I must have spent at least a half-hour on it. I went out onto my street and showed it to a neighborhood kid, who promptly grabbed it away from me, crumpled it up, then threw it on the sidewalk and stepped on it. So, yeah.
Try doing that when the stuff you need to find is at least 100 miles away.
I really hope they get a product to market. The wireless charging aspect is boring, but it'll be cool to modify it for frying things, messing with dogs and stuff
Do you know any Indian or Chinese people in the Bay? They switch all the time. Getting your H-1B transferred isn't hard.