skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would hurt you on speed. It's much faster to just pull numbers out of your head as fast as you can write them down. That should be protection against using an algorithm. Even if you do have a fast algorithm, it would still get slower as you age, so you could use it to compare yourself at different ages.

The test might also be scored using randomness tests that would pick up the repeated use of the same algorithm, like the one you described. Distribution of letters and their (ASCII?) bits won't be perfectly random. You could also hand code exceptions for known algorithms as you discover them.

That's what interests me. Monitoring your own cognitive ability as you age for early detection and tracking of neurodegenerative diseases. For this, you need a test that's resistant to practice.
The US could deny airlines which don't implement the ban entry into US airspace. The US could also forbid them from landing in the US. The US could also raid the planes after landing or arrest anyone carrying a laptop bag that wasn't checked in as luggage. The US could do any of these things and there would be nothing the EU could do about it because they all would happen outside EU jurisdiction.

As a European citizen I'm not sure what you believe the EU could practically do to prevent such a ban as long as it is only about flights into the US or within the US. It's literally none of our business.
While I agree that the prior comment was condescending and not very helpful, I think the key arguments (already put forward elsewhere in this discussion) against the "they have good intel" argument still stand and so far have not been plausibly refuted:

a) I would assume the U.S. would share such intelligence at least with their allies. So why has no other country except the U.K. implemented similar measures? Do they all willingly risk their citizens lives?

b) Why only flights from certain countries (until now Middle East, starting now apparently also Europe)? Don't you think a plane bomber from the Middle East would just put their bomb-infused laptop into the cargo hold, fly to the U.S. and then take it out there and into carry-on on a domestic flight?

The counterargument to b) is that the countries on the ban list have lower carry-on security measures in place than the countries not on the list. I personally would doubt this, especially given the variety of countries not affected by the ban, but I don't have hard data on that.
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> Laptops and tablets denied access to the cabin and added to checked baggage means that devices with a history of lithium-ion battery fires could set off a deadly conflagration in a cargo hold — where no one can put out the fires.

Very funny.

We get the message "Europe is a terrorist breeding soil".
Not sure what I think about the subscription idea. That seems a lot like a support contract; and then what's the added value of having this site in the middle of the transaction?

"A lot like a support contract" is precisely what this is intended to be. The reason for having the site in the middle is that the vast majority of open source software developers don't have a clue about how to negotiate and manage a support contract.

When I first started thinking about this, I started at "we need to make it simpler for open source developers to sell support contracts" -- it was only a few weeks later that I decided that it might make a lot of sense to combine "support contract" with "some people will simply want to contribute, whether they get anything back or not".
I wonder how the statistics would be for Eastern Europe. Orthodox Christians celebrate name days, it's a tradition that even the non-practicing Christians and atheists usually follow, i.e. the day associated with the saint whose name you have, or just somehow associated with your name. If you give your child a unique first name, then they don't have a name day, so it's really uncommon to give them names outside the list of several hundred traditional ones (might be even a few thousand, given all variants). On the other hand, last names have much more variation. I would say at least half of the people I know are usually called by their last name.
Except the article is all about a future in which this might very well be a senseless pursuit -- in which the technology keeps things healthier better than we ourselves could.

In which case the position you've forwarded is in trouble.
Microsoft is trying to mitigate the hemorrhage that is the mass exodus of its customers from Windows to competing operating systems. It's not about "real support" for Linux or Mac. It's a sad attempt to keep people tied to Microsoft products, by enticing you to use these tools even once you've abandoned Windows.

What they should be doing is fixing the critical issues people have with Windows; namely, Windows 10's (lack of) privacy settings, advertisements in Explorer, harassing people with taskbar notifications for using Chrome instead of Edge, and the utter shitstorm they allowed to take place with malware-levels of bullshit with forced and unattended upgrades to Windows 10. With the way in which Microsoft pushed out Windows 10, I can't understand why anyone is still using Windows except for gaming. That maneuver should have cost them so much more than it did. Microsoft has lost all credibility, and trust is unlikely to ever be regained.

tldr; Microsoft Windows' users have had enough of this crap, and are migrating elsewhere. Instead of fixing the issues people have with Windows that are causing them to abandon it, Microsoft is creeping into the competition's ecosystems in some desperate attempt to maintain a partial grasp on its users.
I agree, wouldn't it be nice! Unfortunately delivering Apple's library code might be outside of Microsoft's control.
> because you seem to believe that we support and work for an evil, manipulative and deceptive regime.

Oh boy, what planet are you on? Evil is subjective, but manipulative and deceptive? absolutely.
> ...which is why Opera's solution is better ;)

I think perhaps you've lost sight of the original point you were making?

* I asked why I would want this, with the implication that this a product without value.

* You then gave Facebook Messenger and Electron apps as examples that there is a demand for this type of thing, basically saying that they've proven the market for this feature.

* I pointed out that the reasons people use those are not because they want to surf and message people at the same time.

You saying that Opera is better because it lets people surf and message at the same time in contrast to Facebook Messenger doesn't support what you were just saying. If anything, it undermines your point because you were originally using it as an example because it was the same as Opera's new offering, and now you're trying to say that Opera's different to it.

> many people do still use the web interface. Usually just because it's quicker and easier.

It's not quicker and easier for messaging-while-surfing because it doesn't actually let you do that. So pointing to it as proving the market for Opera's product that lets you message-while-surfing is a tad silly, don't you think?

> To be frank, your complaints sound a lot like "I hate this feature ergo it's stupid and nobody will use it".

I don't hate the feature – why would I? I don't have to use it. I just think it's pointless. It's more like "I think this feature doesn't have any compelling use-case and it's stupid for Opera to build it because there isn't a non-negligible market for it". And so far, the only answers I've had are:

* Because people do it already (even though the examples given don't show that).

* Because it gives better performance.

* Because Opera fans are weird.

* Because desktop window managers are so bad that having two windows of different applications side-by-side is difficult.

So far I remain unconvinced this feature has value.
Did you try your postal code minus the letters? Afaik[1] usually only the numbers in your address are verified anyway.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Verification_System
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> Maybe they are just applying greater precautions to areas deemed high risk for attacks

Yes, sure, EU countries are the biggest risk areas in the world.

11/s airplane attacks were from EU or Middle East countries, weren't?
RDS vs. Aurora vs. EC2 benchmark
I think you're going to have to accept that what you are doing is disliked and considered unethical by the majority.
Although Soviet filmmakers in the 1920s disagreed about how exactly to view montage, Sergei Eisenstein marked a note of accord in "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form" when he noted that montage is "the nerve of cinema", and that "to determine the nature of montage is to solve the specific problem of cinema". Its influence is far reaching commercially, academically, and politically. Alfred Hitchcock cites editing (and montage indirectly) as the lynchpin of worthwhile filmmaking. In fact, montage is demonstrated in the majority of narrative fiction film available today. Post-Soviet film theories relied extensively on montage’s redirection of film analysis toward language, a literal grammar of film. A semiotic understanding of film, for example, is indebted to and in contrast with Sergei Eisenstein’s wanton transposition of language “in ways that are altogether new.” While several Soviet filmmakers, such as Lev Kuleshov, Dziga Vertov, Esfir Shub and Vsevolod Pudovkin put forth explanations of what constitutes the montage effect, Eisenstein's view that "montage is an idea that arises from the collision of independent shots" wherein "each sequential element is perceived not next to the other, but on top of the other" has become most widely accepted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_montage_theory
We had this before with the "binary bombs" and the "shoe bombs", each of which turns into a permanent ban. We already have explosives sensors at airport security queues.

Every time the subject is discussed every thread suggests a whole new bunch of obvious ways to smuggle things onto planes, or otherwise commit acts of sabotage. Not to mention that the terrorists seem to have adapted to the simple, hard to stop plan of driving trucks into crowds.
"Who I'm gonna call if the software has some bugs?"

It's certainly understandable, but it's also worth remembering that for almost any business the idea that they could call, say, Microsoft and get their bug fixed is pretty much a fantasy.
Will have an eye on it.

I maintain an OS-Project and for me it would be a great feature if contributors could receive the money (up to 100%).

The main problem for me is, that i did not have the time for many request, with or without money, it will not change anything for me, but it could encourage others to do something for the project.
I'm kind of surprised that it didn't have some sort of Data Protection warning near it already, but I'm not sure if the EU data protection directive covers Norway as well.
The author stated they did ocr for the first diagram.
That's been building for 50 years. Lookup the "Project for a New American Century"... and that's from the nineties.

At the backbone of all of this is the military Industrial complex and security complexes that defeat any sane measure to remove their stranglehold over political discourse.
> That's not really controversial or interesting.

It is to me. So far it seems that everyone takes this for granted. I disagree: I have yet to see a problem created by the "each class has an interface" rule, and I have seen countless problems created by classes without one.

So: what problems are caused by interfaces with only one implementation?
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There is a good Micheal Chricton interview somewhere out there where he says meaning is just a post facto story we learn to cook up over time. You ask a 5 year old WHY they want a particular thing and all you will get is BECAUSE. Over time that 5 year old realizes he better come up with a good story people want to hear cause everyone keeps bringing up this WHY question for every other action he takes.
There is no why there is just the fact that you want chocolate ice cream right now or you want to climb that mountain or save the world. The why part is just a story you need when others look at you quizzically.
I think the core of the issue here is that at some point, the nuisance outweighs the risk. How long will this ban be in place? Until the terrorists forget how to make laptop bombs? In the meantime, how many hours of productive work is being lost?

To put it another way, let's say the US got intelligence that terrorists now are able to make bombs out of, say, shoes. Should everyone be forced to remove their shoes before boarding? A silly and contrived example, to be sure, but it is meant to illustrate a point: Where do we draw the line between safety and inconvenience?
I suspect it's more to do with the optimisation of the method. For example, calling List.Count in a tight loop is much faster than IEnumerable. Count.

I don't use resharper so don't know if it watches out for this, but no doubt there are plenty of other examples.
Yeah, I've been wearing various different models for about 30 years, I'm 42 now. I've been blogging about is for about 13 years now, what started out as a blog has turned in to more of an informational site type of thing: https://www.hearingaidknow.com/

Modern hearing aids mostly avoid feedback by having a cancelling algorithm built in to the software - they are very effective these days and you would barely ever hear a squeak. But also, there's a type of hearing aid called receiver-in-canal/ear (RIC or RIE) which has the sound output in your canal and the microphone in a small unit behind your ear and because they are far enough apart feedback does not occur. I'm wearing GN ReSound Linx 3D RICs at the moment, they are amazing tech, I can remote programme them from my iPad and stream phone calls + music directly through my hearing aids.

As someone said in another comment it is friction holding them in, a moulded aid in the canal does fit snuggly, which is what I have, but for less severe hearing losses many people wear a round one-size-fits-all flexible rubber tip in the ear, it does press against the canal enough to hold it in place but is super comfortable.

I've never once had a hearing aid pop out of my ear and I've worn them doing all sorts of sports activities.
https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8238-retail_surveillance_retail_...
Flying is already such a dreadful thing. Even a one hour flight takes 5-7 hours when you count in all the extras. In my experience, a 1 hour flight like London - Brussels, is not much faster than a 7 hour flight like London - New York. Airports are a text book study in what monopoly and fear mongering politicians do.

- On the day of the flight you go from your departure city to the airport somewhere far away in the outskirts. That's easily an hour, in places like New York or London it can be significantly more.

- Depending on whether it's a domestic flight or an intercontinental flight, and depending on the airline, you are asked to show up anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours before the flight.

- In the airport, you sometimes go through four or five or six lines where you are checked; There is a check in, might be baggage drop, there is security, passport check by, check at the the gate, and sometimes even again when entering the airport.

Once you are through security you are forced to spend time in what is basically an overpriced shopping mall but dragging around your coat and carry-on.

If you fly with a budget airline, or if you fly to America, you are often forced to wait in crowded waiting areas at the gate, usually without seating for everyone.

Sometimes you are stuffed in a bus that takes you from the gate to the plane. These busses are literally stuffed like a Japanese metro.

On the plane, you often wait in your chair before takeoff because a connecting flight with passengers has not arrived on time or because the runway is too full.

The flight itself is rarely comfortable, but that's the necessary part of the trip. Most flights could not be much faster than they are, except on long distance flights if supersonic planes were allowed.

At the arrival, you sometimes wait again at the tarmac.

Then you go through passport control again.

You warit for luggage.

And you need transportation from the airport into the destination city.

Upon arrival, you have spent what amounts to a full working day or more, even for short flights, and you are exhausted. If someone could take away all the assaults on passengers that the whole airport experience is packed with, flying would be much better, with or without your laptop.
Maybe because a lot of people don't think they need a computer science degree? I mean, look at the tech scene. The general 'message' running throughout is of people who dropped out of school to focus on their startup or picked themselves up by the bootstraps to learn to code to escape a more mundane career.

There's a general assumption (rightly or wrongly) that programming and general tech skills are self taught, and that may lead to people thinking the idea of a degree for the 'theory' side is useless.

Is this picture right? Eh, maybe, maybe not. But I'd say it's definitely how the tech world is perceived, leading to a lots of kids thinking other degrees are more useful (in case they decide to switch to a different career later in life).

This may also explain why computer science enrollment is much higher in countries like India too. There's still a heavy focus on education in the culture there, and people from the region might see a computer science degree as being as necessary for a tech worker as a law degree is for a lawyer.
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They have shared the intel with their allies and with the general public. If you guys want to get ahead to conspiracy theroies saying that is is fabricated then you need to explain why other stuff like the moon landing and vaccinations and global warming is not fabricated. You cant have it both ways where all the stuff you like is all true and all the stuff you dont is some kind of conspiracy

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-yemen-raid-idUSKBN15I2...

>Why only flights from certain countries (until now Middle East, starting now apparently also Europe)? Don't you think a plane bomber from the Middle East would just put their bomb-infused laptop into the cargo hold, fly to the U.S. and then take it out there and into carry-on on a domestic flight?

Because its not designed to be a perfect barrier against all conceivable terrorist attacks - such a system would be burdensome and crazy, that why we take precautions based on the risk posed by the targets.

Im sorry but the mere fact that you dont think the ban is implemented in a very effective way is not in itself evidence of conspiracy or fraud on the part of the government.
If a store has a warning at the door that this happens inside, it's good because now I can avoid getting inside the store and silently hate and boycott the brand.

If a store has a warning label on the device engaging in this, it's bad because it's too late for not entering the store. I'm gonna complain right now at the store manager, maybe call the cops or sue. I'll be vocal about actively hating the store, the brand, the manager, the employees.

If I went to a store engaging in this without telling and I later learn about it, then I'm calling Keyser Söze and it's pitchforks and beheading time.

I suppose it will take a couple more generations of brainwashing to have the population ready to accept this kind of highly invasive technology. IIRC about 10 years the big brother awards was awarded to a french industry group for their blue book describing how to condition a population to accept surveillance and control technology over a few generations.
Good point. But what does "procurement" mean in this context? The plain meaning is "obtain", but that doesn't really make sense here. The word isn't used elsewhere in this document but is presumably defined somewhere.

If it is interpreted to mean "use", then the case is a loser as you say. But I wouldn't want to be the lawyer tasked with arguing to the judge that "the legislature meant 'use' but decided to say 'procurement' instead".
This tool looks really nice, great design, although the feature set is very similar to Nostromo.io or Trello. Curious to find out what's the difference.
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I like it's minimalistic design and lack of BS. Wondering if you know any other sites like that. No matter if paid/free and whether it's business or not.
You boycotted Nintendo because of what Rare did to their own game when porting it? Do you also boycott Microsoft now that they own Rare or do you have some kind of weird double standard?
Again, why not include domestic flights?

...

Actually I think this will be extended to domestic flights sooner rather than later.
I'm in my 30s and still in school plus other venues where Facebook is used "to get work done". Most of my family and in-laws are overseas (in different parts). I dispute your claims. I'm not convinced that fundamentally usage of Facebook is different in different parts of the world. The memes are different etc etc. But I don't see how it is a critical piece of infrastructure anywhere.
I was in college when Facebook didn't exist and then it did - so I've experienced both realities. Somehow I lived. It's very useful now and students gravitate to it because it is pervasive and easy enough. Fine. But if it disappeared tomorrow.. life would go on pretty much as usual. People would find other ways to communicate.

You bloviate but your comment is without any real substance or examples.. just hand wavy people do different things with it. Still doesn't change the fact that it is just another ad and meme delivery platform that happens to have some other useful features with less pervasive but usable substitutes. School events and class.. yeah be a bit of a pita for a bit.. but there other ways if it came to that.
We have pretty strong laws regarding this. It has created several news articles for the past week, and the Norwegian Data Protection Authority has already commented and said they don't believe this is legal. Stickers where added after the initial discovery.
If religion is a "virtual reality game" then it is one with very real world effects. For instance, only religious people reproduce - the rest have sub replacement level birth rates.

Though I suppose one could regard liberalism and its sub-ideologies (feminism, diversity-ism, etc.) as virtual reality games as well, with the real world effect of not having children.
What about someone who leaves work to raise their child? Just because they aren't making money doesn't mean their work is unimportant.
>Citation needed on that one.

People need to read the article which talked about this

or other articles where the evidence was widely released to the general public and shared with everyone.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-yemen-raid-idUSKBN15I2...
If you would be able to earn a good hourly salary for the issues, could you 'make' time for it?

We believe that merging a PR is work and should be rewarded with around 20% to ensure a good code quality. It's weird to hear you say that you want all that money to go to the contributor. I'll keep that in mind and will ask more people about their opinion. Thanks for the input.
I think Tesla alluded to building heating elements into the tiles to keep snow and ice from building up, but I am not sure whether this is making its way into the final product. (Also unsure how this would play out in a snowstorm well below freezing temperatures).
Last time I tried it didn't even work well with cygwin, every app would take a minute to start up while it tried to talk to systemd.