skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook created a new feature. They made an ad for it. The ad included a Sikh person.

http://www.salon.com/2014/12/10/whats_up_with_the_rag_head_w...
Conversion rate for the entity paying for the ad is number of purchases against number of visits. A low conversion rate indicates a bad marketing activity.
Voting Rights Act of 1965?
If you still want to comment on movies on IMBD but don't want to direct your comments to Facebook or some other website sign up on "The New Internet" (areyoureal.com) you can comment ON TOP of ANY page of the internet including movie pages located on IMDB.
Show HN: CalcMonitor, a classroom compliant smartphone graphing calculator
Students in STEM classes need a graphing calculator. These are expensive yet technologically old devices and while there are cheap or even free alternative available for smartphones, most teachers would never allow a student to use a smartphone calculator. To this end we have created a classroom compliant, smartphone graphing calculator app called CalcMonitor.

www.calcmonitor.com

In essence, students download the app (for free) and can use it like a regular graphing calculator (although it has many more features). The app also comes with a so called "Exam Mode". When a student enters Exam Mode, Wi-fi and cellular functions are off and the app keeps track of how long the student remains in Exam Mode. When the student exits Exam Mode, the app prepares a report with information on time started and time exited as well as student name etc. and stores it on the phone. In the paid version of the app, the report is then delivered to the teacher (who is designated by the student at the start of Exam Mode). In the free version, the report is not delivered. However, for a very small fee paid by the institution we are able to deliver reports to all instructors at that school.

You can download CalcMonitor here and check it out:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.setelis.calcmonitor.free

Thanks for looking! First time posting on HN so please forgive any lapses in etiquette.
If they ask you "is there any hidden data on this device", you would have to respond in the affirmative. Lying to a border guard is a felony, there's no cute technical solution to this. They will, according to their own paperwork, make copies of any data they find interesting for future analysis.
As was mentioned in Blue Mars "If you can’t afford housing then the right to vote is a bad joke." People are too frightened and insecure to participate meaningfully.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13627356 and marked it off-topic.
Ah, not the author's fault then. Just unnecessarily opague terminology in the canon. I'll redirect my irritation to his predecessors (Constructive Logic seems a much better term that doesn't do any violence to the rules of English).
Something like HTTP2 for email and then companies using email as a low-level back-end for communication needs. Imagine FB posts backed by email. Chat backed by email. And so on. Pipe dream.
+ a huge percentage of people who think global warming is caused by humans and happening do nothing about it. the sales of cars are rising, the gas is being bought, the whole USA is under a 24/7 air conditioning, the gluttony is at its highest, the production and consumption of chicken and beef too, etc.

From my perspective the difference between believers and non-believers is invisible.
A lot of the failures of the law I put on Republicans. They knew it was going to pass, and yet they decided to ignore it for political reasons instead of working to fix some of its broken provisions.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...
Supply of land is finite, credit infinite. The supply / demand curve doesn't work here.
If you still want to comment on movies on IMBD but don't want to direct your comments to Facebook or some other website sign up on "The New Internet" (areyoureal.com) you can comment ON TOP of ANY page of the internet including movie pages located on IMDB.

Also, to your point our platform eliminates these malicious "trolls" you speak of. By authenticating each user, their real name will be attached to comments which means they are less likely to "troll" if it is attached to their reputation.
For a large portion of the population, "Obama" is/was an inherently negative word.

While it's true that the word simply indicates it was "his" plan, this is also intrinsically linked to extreme negativity and calling it Obamacare was extremely loaded.

I can understand why this could be seen as propaganda.

In response to your edit, I think this was a good way for Obama to take things in stride. But it doesn't change the inherent negativity for most.
Perhaps I spoke too broadly. You're right, many disciplines try to understand thought. From CS to philosophy to neuroscience to psychology etc.

My real point is that thought is not visual or textual. Those things are simply ways of transmitting thoughts. When I have a thought, and I write it down, and you read it, I am simply hoping you are now having a thought related to the one I had. Some interaction in your brain is similar to the one in mine, when I had the thought. Civilization has spent a lot of time in mechanisms that correlate thoughts between people. Hence, language. Hence literacy. Etc.

Now we are trying to create a shared language between humans and computers, where we both understand each other with minimal effort.
I don't think you can blame anyone for this. Someone coined the term, and it seemed like everyone ran with it. People probably don't know it's the same thing because premiums keep rising. It has never been affordable.
i don't like centralising development on github, but i welcome the competition for more user-friendly systems. I think the pressure is increasing for other service to provide an equal experience both for exploring an contributing to a project.
"Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses." -H. L. Mencken
It's not fantasy. Fantasy is a world where you can tell the police "I know how to open that thing that you have a lawful order to investigate, and you don't, so any crime of which I'm suspected is now uninvestigatable, nanny nanny boo boo". The analog with other difficult locks is just fine; the fact that these locks are so good that they are unbreakable doesn't really change anything about the accused's obligation to cooperate with lawful orders.

The protection in the Fifth is to prevent a perverse system of coerced confessions, where innocent people can be placed on the stand and forced to falsely confess before the court. This has been expanded to preclude other types of unreliable confessions. Impeding the execution of a legitimate warrant, even when that warrant is issued in order to obtain evidence to prosecute oneself, is not protected by the Fifth Amendment.

The Fifth is not there to allow criminals to get away with things, antagonize the police, or make it hard for society to maintain order. It's not there because keeping "one innocent person out of jail is worth 50 guilty going free" or similar sentiments that are frequently expressed. It's there to prevent a common corruption in the justice process.

>Why should the innocent defendant be made to languish in jail indefinitely because the police/prosecutor are inept and incapable of doing their job without reverting to unconstitutional tactics?

Because he's violating a lawful order. If the accused wants to challenge the legality of that order, he can file a lawsuit to do so (and from the article, it sounds like he has). But unless the judge supervising that lawsuit issues a stay on the order in question, the accused is still obliged to comply and can be detained based on his/her refusal to do so.

Reformation of the contempt of court power is probably reasonable, however. This guy should be charged with obstructing justice and tried instead of kept in prison indefinitely. It'd probably be good to set an upper limit of something like 12 months on contempt of court detainments.

I'm not a lawyer.
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> I have a friend who eats 3000~4000 kcals

Does he keep a detailed food log? I have power lifted and worked out for over a decade now. Every single skinny person who has asked for my help to gain weight has told me exactly what you said above, "I eat 3-4k day and just can't seem to get any bigger." As soon as I put them on a food log we find out that nope, they are barely crossing 2k calories and are like most people who severely under/over estimate how much they eat.
Are you using a system to hide information from us? Answer in the negative and you just committed a felony.
Most people don't realize that child pornography is "any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor". Under a bad cop, any sexually explicit pic of a person can be deemed "under 18 years of age", unless you have the actor's ID on file.

And there are many, many underage actors. Even if you buy legal porn which claimed actors were above 18, you are guilty. Especially if you've bought it. Here's how: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_fabrication

In other words, I've ceased to believe people convicted of child pornography were paedophiles. The condemnation is simply unrelated to the moral standards of the person.

Hence, if he has any picture on this hard drive, he's right to plead the 5th.
This is actually what I'll be doing when I visit Hawaii later this year. Same with my laptop.

Visiting the US now demands exactly the same measures as visiting China.
> So how do you protect yourself?

Have all expected social media, with expected contacts (family, friends, colleagues, etc) and activity. But carry disposable stuff, because you can't trust it after it's been taken for inspection. If asked, just say they you're worried about theft ;) Or if you're on business, that it's your employer's policy. Which it should be.

For anything that you want kept private, be very careful to compartmentalize it from your meatspace identity.
Hey wow, what a terrible top comment. I think I count a bit of ad-hominem, some appeal to authority, a no true scotsman, but I don't see single concrete response to an of his ideas. Have you even read Taleb? Are you even aware of his philosophy or what his points are?

You make no argument that makes me think you have read a single one of his books.

First: Taleb was independently wealthy from prop trading before he started his writing career. You would know that if you read like anything about him. He didn't need the fame or money and is primarily sharing his ideas for the good of humanity (as all good philosophers of science should).

Second: You completely ignored his core point which is that we need less top down induction based normative globalized structures and more anti-fragile, small nation states similar to the bottom up style of Switzerland. This is basically the core argument of Incerto, that our systems are based on intellectuals who misapply their models because they lack real world experience. THESE are the pseudo-experts, not NNT as you so flippantly label him.

Go read a book.
Getting aan index of (millions of) files on s3 is very slow for us, like, days. Is there anything you do to work around this? It seems since this is not an AWS Lambda project the client first has to acquire an index from S3 before concurrency benefits set in?
Same with Neil Young's "Keep on rockin' in the free world", Dire Straits' "Money for nothing", and other songs even in other languages.

Personally, I've soured on the idea of being ironic in songs. Most people will miss the irony, they only listen to the catchy chorus, and more often than not, the lines you meant as absurd will be proudly paraded by the same people you were mocking. Take the recent "We the people" by A Tribe Called Quest: the chorus, taken alone, is a bigots' anthem on a catchy tune; I bet it will soon become a mainstay at neonazi rallies and the likes.
Netflix's website is a good example of business processes driving engineering. Their streaming and DVD rental functionality are totally siloed. They have different movie queues, UI designs, and subdomain names. The user experience could be so much better if the UI was more seamless. I assume this is fallout from the streaming and DVD businesses being run by different organizations. It's as if Qwikster still lives, but is just called dvd.netflix.com.
Something cool I saw recently was that Mercedes has a new wiper system where the water spray/jet system is built into the wipers. So the screen gets sprayed milliseconds before the blade wipes it away.
And is this a good idea?
I read that diets can make things worse by altering metabolism . Metabolism slows when on a diet, but when the diet is over metabolism remains slow, so it becomes very easy to regain the weight and then some.
That was the answer the man in the case gave. The judge believes he's lying. His 16 months of imprisonment show that his problem is far from solved.

The better answer is to have a second encrypted volume on the disk. Perhaps put a few pirated movies on it or some personal documents as a justification for why it's encrypted. That way, when they ask you to enter your password, you enter that one and unlock the volume that's mostly not incriminating. The way that TrueCrypt and other encryption programs work, it's impossible to prove that there is a second encrypted volume.
Could i have a dualboot jon-doe os on my phone, presenting the most boring person ever?
I don't get it. Do they feel that ¬¬ϕ = ϕ is invalid or contingent? Or is it just a matter of taste?
Your personal example seems simple enough, the other 2 seem like massive undertakings for one person though. I'm sure they started simpler. Are you willing to share any profit or traffic stats about your site?
Given that the primary point of the act was to make healthcare more affordable, it's not really propaganda.
I wonder how well they will support some more advanced virtualisation. I.E. Booting a virtual machine with PCI GPU passtrough in Windows Guest with Linux host for gaming, or booting a virtual machine with PCI GPU passtrough in Linux Guest with Linux host for some deep learning with CUDA.
> So how do you protect yourself?

"Sorry, sir, I use a password keeper and left the password file at home. I do not have any passwords with me."

That's not a lie, and I would love for them to explain to the judge if they did ever choose to detain you as to how this is not a valid and legal excuse and non-cooperation in any way.

And if you are in doubt about saying something like this, actually use a password keeper, it's a good security practice.

Further, do not bring any electronic device with you.
What does you being a white man have to do with anything?
Really? I won't use a computer without it for production work. You get one bit-flip/GB/year. With 128GB or more in most of our desktops, it's not worth the risk.
Another example of why democracy does not work at least in its current form. So is democracy really something that countries and people should be pursuing?

Example: US presidential election. I'm not the worst enemy of Trump and I'm not his supporter either, but I still can easily understand why many people voted for him. He was direct and gave simple answers to (seemingly) simple problems and what's more, he actually has kept his promises so far. I can't say I remember any politician ever doing what they promised during the elections, but Trump has done it.

Still person like Trump with his ideas is not fit to be the president of United States or any other country either really for the obvious reasons that have been discussed here as well many times. However, as long as we live in democracy things like Trump can and will keep on happening. I hate to sound arrogant, but if you give equal rights to vote for all people despite their level of education, understanding of the world, politics, environment and many other things there will be more Trumps and other kinds of problems. I'm not trying to support dictatorship, but instead maybe there could be some kind of limited/modified democracy or something which is somewhere in the middle of dictatorship and democracy.

Considering the current events, I don't think there will be much choice soon.
Why is it so low? I think I read it happened after the 2008 recession, but why so low, and still? seems extra unusual.
Centralizing around proprietary software is not a good idea generally.

Git is distributed, so when GitHub goes down, every developer has a backup of entire history. However, issues are lost forever. Python does not use "issues" feature for good.

One way to avoid email without centralization is setting up Gerrit. That is how Ring [1] and LineageOS (former CyanogenMod) [2] manage their "pull requests".

Still, being able to submit patches via email is an absolutely necessary skill for everyone who considers himself a hacker. Lack of it makes you unable to contribute to many great projects, such as all suckless [3] projects and Linux itself.

[1] https://gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com/

[2] https://review.lineageos.org/

[3] http://suckless.org/
After reviewing the info you provided, I beleive you are mainly right. The only exception i can think of would be a situation where trump possesed inside information due to his position, then shared it via twitter early. That would be a violation, but it gets complex, and im having trouble formulating the exact line.
A possibly-related topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption

How can they even be sure that the decrypted message is the real one? I assume currently they're just using human heuristics (i.e. I know it when I see it) to tell if the decrypted data is actually valid?
Yeah. I once had a recruiter tell me to show up at a company that made sewing machines. Mechanical sewing machines. I don't think there was a single computer on the premises. The recruiter and I had a good laugh, then I fired him.
I clicked chat now and it said login with Facebook...that's when I decided to nope out.
It also feels like it has conflicting purpose: to make new friends, and for dating. I understand these aren't mutually exclusive.

Anyway, just my $0.02
Welcome to the world where smartphones from cheap Chinese company like Lenovo are planned to be obsolete by a year.
No, Linus created a piece of software and called it Linux. It is his creation and he named it.
Use Arduino, Sensors, Servos, and LEDs to Create Life-Like Behavior
Replying to myself. Roqua has a nice description of the motivation elsewhere in this thread, with regard to how a constructive proof can offer more insight into the thing being proven than a mere 'yes, it's true'. I can see their point.
A "fast paced" and "dynamic" environment is a huge red flag for me.
why? I fail to see the logic, both are bad.
spec = specifications. This could be 1. requirements gathering (use case focussed in words of client) -> 2. functional specifications (use case focussed in terms of developer / exhaustive) -> 3. technical specifications (low level plan on how to implement). Often 3. and sometimes 2. aren't done explicitly, but are part of iterative / agile methodologies. 1. however, must still be done imho
That seems so obvious I wonder why it hasn't been done before. I suppose those wipers costs a bit more since it must include some kind of conducts for liquid and multiple hoses(?).
Customs, water rights, environmental protections, trade agreements, equal rights, bill of rights, sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health...
Life after death? Resurrecting a modern ruin
There are a lot of things worth leaving to the states, but the way insurance works, the financial feasibility depends a lot on how big the buying group is. It's why healthcare bought on behalf of a company is cheaper and better than healthcare bought by an individual, and it's why PPACA created marketplaces for individual insurance buyers.

It's almost certain there are things that are feasible when the US has a certain healthcare policy that aren't feasible on the state level. I'd guess that single payer is one of them.
I mean automate the content. So you write it once for your main website, then you've got a script that simply compiles and formats it so you can copy/paste it into your newsletter. MailChimp/ConvertKit might have APIs for automatically sending it, too, and if not Zapier can certainly help.
It's a perfect opportunity for a rewrite.
See also: A History of the World in Six Glasses

https://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/a-history-of-the-wor...

The book covers: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and cola.

It was a fun read.
Con: "Preference will be given to EE Candidates"
There is a difference between unpredictability and instability. Things like this cause instability and can destroy the market altogether.
No, it's the "abolish BS laws" hill.

How about creating child pornography being a crime? That's what's actually hurtful.
> — ... threat to TRANSPORTATION security, which is theoretically the only reason someone should care when you’re crossing a border, boarding a plane, etc.

This is not a fact. Transportation security is not the reason border security exists. I think warrantless devices searches at borders should be illegal and I feel they are unconstitutional, but it's not true that border security boils down to only transportation security.
I'd settle for information about the industry the company is in, sometimes I see job adverts that lack even this basic information (I'm picky about the industries I work in, so perhaps this isn't a big deal for others).
All people should have shares in companies that own robots. Or they should at least have a claim in the return on capital.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/basic-income-fu...
> the West and South will lead the economic growth, where as North and East will drag along

What drives this divergence?
Pros: What the actual job is, the industry sector and the pay

Cons: Guru, Ninja, Rock Star and Passion. I am 55 with a shit pension and your 'Uber for salads' is not something I am passionate about. Never will be.

Complete put off: Other than the cons is reading the ad and not knowing what the job or company is about. If you can't spell it out your are either incompetent or deceitful.
No kidding... Having to update a list of a dozen or more accounts to a different payment method when switching banks is hard. Doing that when your card expires, you will often miss one or two.
It is up to you to put "[architecture] what" into your commit message. Signed-off-by is a legal procedure, it should not be automated, you should do "git commit --signoff" yourself. "[PATCH]" is added by "git send-email".

If you don't want to setup your client properly and keep using some GUI or Web client, you can format your patch with "git format-patch" and submit whatever files it produces.

OpenWrt rightfully expects you to read at least "man giteveryday", which is titled "A useful minimum set of commands for Everyday Git" and includes "format-patch" and "send-email" in "INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPER (PARTICIPANT)" section.
Some might say thats a downward trajectory
Thank you for taking the time to not answer the question but raising another question instead. I have serious doubts that ECC indeed is the biggest scam out there.

How does ECC compare to the fiat money ponzi scheme?
Meanwhile on HN: "man jailed indefinitely for not decrypting hard drives": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13629728
It actually is.