skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In France a retailer similar to BestBuy has a "Lab"[1] that usually has objective reviews, using a set of standards to compare items of the same category. Here's an example: [2], you can scroll to the conclusion to see the grades, but you also have an explanation behind it.

[1] http://labo.fnac.com/

[2] http://labo.fnac.com/video-photo-numerique/appareil-photo-re...
I think DxO Mark's credibility is easy to call into question. First of all, they offer services to "improve" manufacturers scores. Second of all, they rate their own equipment. Finally, and probably most importantly, they are just flat out wrong sometimes. Look at how highly they rated the Xperia Z5 camera, which was a horrible camera for actually taking pictures.

All this said, DxO might be a perfectly credible source, but it's still doesn't reflect real world performance [1]. There are so many additional factors to consider when actually taking pictures.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/29/11535102/smartphone-mobil...
just counting users would make twitter worth way more than it is. monetization matters
The seal on a binaural head is likely a bit better than you'd get in real ears so inflates the numbers a bit. However, it's still expected to have better measured bass response from the IE phones despite this.

But, the frequency response doesn't tell the entire story in terms of what you 'hear'. For example you don't 'hear' much under ~60hz. What I mean is that frequencies below this are mostly not picked up by your ear drums but rather other senses feeling the pressure waves and your brain is wired such that it get's mixed into your perception of sound. The larger driver in CA headphones tends to activate the 'feeling of bass' more than in-ear headphones which can lead to the perception of louder-bass despite measurements favoring in-ear.

This effect tends to be more significant if you're listening to music with a lot of sub-bass, EDM for example.
Well, you've got two choices about how you want usage of user-implemented generic container types to look:

1) there are no parameters on the container types, every usage involves a cast to or from 'void*', 'interface{}', or the equivalent, and usage is effectively not type-checked.

2) there are parameters on the container types, subsequent usage isn't cluttered up with uninformative type-casts, and the types get checked by the compiler.

These lead to the same code at runtime (or can, in a Java-style implementation of generics); however, the Go maintainers seem to act as if the first is more maintainable and less error-prone. That seems ... odd, to some of us.

(There are other possible implementations of generics, of course. In fact, another post by the same author, [1], lists "everything is boxed" as a bad outcome that he'd like to avoid, in favor of specialized implementations for containers of, say, characters. But scenario 1, the Go status quo, effectively requires that everything be boxed when using a generic container type written the only way the language allows you to write them. Scenario 2 at least potentially gives the compiler other options. But the Go status quo doesn't avoid the "everything is boxed" bad outcome. Instead it mandates it -- with additional compile-time clutter.)

[1] https://research.swtch.com/generic
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Thanks but I am based out of LA
If you can, I suggest you take a little time to travel if it is possible for you. Go to some countries with very low costs if saving money is a concern.

Try some new foods, exercise, write a journal of everything you learned. Just try to decompress for a few weeks.

Then you can start fresh with some good energy and direction.
But a $75,000 model T Ford from the 1920's wouldn't. When there's no correlation at all you can find a datapoint anywhere you want.
Gold and silver buyers would disagree.

Though I suppose "purity" is considerably more exact than, "quality".
Great, looking forward to trying this.
Bullcrap. Another made-up story from WaPo based on anonymous sources and internal leaks. The NSA has not confirmed anything from this story.
Correct, they are a fashion item. The point is to be seen wearing them, not to sit alone in your silent apartment with a nice headphone amp and concentrate on your music.

Do Oakleys block the sun better than $5 checkout counter sunglasses?
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Can someone correct me if I am wrong, but it seems relatively easy to make an encrypted peer-to-peer messaging system.

I mean, simply use a public/private encryption algorithm that has proven to be highly secure:

- Share your public key openly

- Anyone can send a message to you using your public key to encrypt the message

- You decrypt with your private key on device

Do all the encryption/decryption on device and viola, secure messaging. (This is basically how https works.)

Of course this only allows a single device the ability to decrypt the message.

However, if you want to allow multiple devices to share a private key, they can simple send each other their own private keys using the same encrypted protocol.

In addition, for super paranoid use, a master password could be used to salt the private key so that would be required with the private key to enable decryption. (Which is similar to how password keepers basically work.)

What am I missing?
Thank you for this comment, definitely gave me a different perspective.
In which case the routine in the US is to over charge them, hold them without bail (by ensuring bail is too high for them to be able to pay), and scare them into taking a plea deal. And isn't a plea deal a kind of confession?
I dont mind the touchbar. Got used to the no-feedback esc key. But oh dear the keyboard, hell no. Been using it for 3 months now and I cant for the life of me use that thing. Its probably because i switch between this 2016 15" mbp and a 2012 13" mbp. The trackpad is just as good but cant see why they had to bump up the surface area to such an extent that the right click is soo far off to the right bottom. The missing (old) usb port and missing hdmi port is still a mess. I like my 2012 13" mbp which I upgraded to 16 Gb ram myself, better than the new one.

Edit: just wanted to add that I find the 2016 mbp is amazingly light and the screen is gorgeous. Battery life is great as usual. In summary just the missing ports and the flat keyboard that I do not like.
> It's not important if generics make the "language specification" more complex. What's really more important is if it makes the real-world language usage more complex.

This is what he was talking about when he mentions "more complex, less readable software." On the other hand, he doesn't mention the language specification once.
The stuff in the papers is not taking "Russian" to mean "bad." It's looking at serious allegations of collusion with the Russian government, known interference in the 2016 election by the Russian government, statements by various administration officials that they had no contact with the Russian government, and then using meetings with high-level officials in the Russian government to imply something bad happening.

With this comment, the idea is that crypto software built in Russia could easily be compromised by the rather un-free Russian government, which seems pretty reasonable. Of course, the fact that this fellow no longer lives in Russia scuttles it, but that's just not being fully informed, not "xenophobia."
I spent some time a while ago developing my own system to create CYOA books based on Markdown (called Ficdown). The goal was to develop a simple way to write books without having to write code, and that could be exported to normal e-book formats like epub, mobi, or html with clickable links used to make your decisions as you read the book.

I ran into a lot of unexpected technical complexities in the compilation step, for example trying to remove unreachable branches of the story, and optimizing situations where branches merged back together, or removing variables that were being tracked that no longer had any effect on the story from that point on. It was a fun exercise. It makes me wonder how earlier CYOA books and series were actually written. How hard was it to keep track of the various branching plot lines? Were there ever cases where "bugs" were published? I was a massive fan of CYOA, especially Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series.
CIRCL-Changing the property rental experience
in my experience, most lab gloves work fine with capacitive touch screens
How do you expect the government to know about people who have lots of suspicous cash? That's what the reporting laws are intended to help detect...
"In April this year, a Kojima Productions executive applied for the company to join ITS Kenpo, a health insurance society for companies in the gaming and internet service industry. Joining such insurance organizations is crucial to employee welfare, but the application was not even accepted. When the executive asked why, he was told by ITS Kenpo that all applications are screened by the board chairman before being reviewed by the board, and it could not show this application to the chairman."

I'm sorry, "could not show this application to the chairman"?
This is not true. We use Chime for text every day. It doesn't have all the 3rd party integrations that Slack does, but it give you the same basic functionality.

Disclaimer: Work for AWS.
This is a huge problem that will derail your product if you are not careful. My general advice is: "Think about a specific person" for which you are building you are product. And build features that make that single person as happy as possible.
But why the 70D still not filming at 60fps in 1080p ?
Canon is in such market dominance, they probably do this to keep the semi-pro market on the prohibitive 5D Mark IV.

The consumer Market needs to know these kind of things, but there's no user-friendly website for comparing objectivly products. Just Amazon reviews, "Tech websites" and the Wallmart seller.
Yeah. The authors misinterpreted their own data. Go to figure 3. Take the best headphones at each price point (the bottom-most points in the scatter plots), and there is an obvious correlation between price and quality.

A better conclusion would be "headphones with poor audio quality exist at all price points"
unless there are computational aspects to your work, which these days there usually are
The problem with truly objective benchmarks is that it has both value and cost, meaning there becomes a market for the information itself, separate from the product.
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"Money laundering" is illegal by definition, so this is a meaningless question. Try rephrasing it.
-At least one thing which counts BIG to Nikon's advantage in the lens market is the backward compatibility; just about every Nikon F lens made since -uhm- 1959? will mount on a current Nikon DSLR.

(Yes - some will not meter properly, and a couple of rare ones may damage mirror - but the vast majority of Nikkor lenses are still usable, many of which can be bought for a pittance.

This may or may not be important to a user.
> You can see an educational portal listing the cost of the management license at $30 here, which isn't really a complete picture, but demonstrates that we aren't talking about something they give schools for free

You need to show that those licenses were not included in the gift. And let's just assume that they're not that stupid.

> Note that this is kinda of well-hidden, but that last link cites the "total cost of ownership" of a $149 Chromebook over three years as $588, which should give you an idea the difference between the hardware they give away, and the eventual cost of everything you need to deploy the suckers.

For a budget windows laptop or tablet the hardware cost would be higher and the support cost unlikely to be lesser.

> Schools is definitely big money for Google

Schools are a tiny segment for Google that would not hurt them in the slightest to lose. The margins on low-end hardware are not exactly the stuff dreams are made of, and they really are making peanuts on ChromeOS. We can and should contrast this to Microsoft, who has been playing the "loss leader" pricing game in educational circles for far longer with far more success.
I got out of that game by starting to buy bluetooth earbuds in bulk from eBay. They are less than $10 a pair (Bluedio N2) and surprisingly comfortable (YMMV. I take off the 'struts')

One side stops working after ~5 months, they get chucked immediately and I pull a new pair out of the box. Zero anxiety about babying expensive gear.
Gold and silver are fungible commodities. "Retail product" is implicit in GP's context.
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It seems the problem logicallee is working is the massively growing destructive power available to individuals or small groups.

Technology is accelerating to the point where the destructive power that was formerly available only to state actors with proper command & control systems is now available to small states, groups, and even individuals -- chemical, bioweapons, delivery by drone, etc. It is now possible to mail-order custom gene sequences for garage bioengineering (yes, they do try to filter the requests against homebrew bioweapons, but the operative word is 'try'). Even computing power -- I'd be surprised if a random dozen people on this forum, properly motivated and funded, could not take down the US power grid within a year.

This scale of mass destruction in the hands of individuals is a far greater scale and scope of problem than the ability of any nutjob to go to WalMart and buy a hunting rifle to point at you, me, or a Congressman.

It is the kind of real problem that keeps serious security pros up at night. And there are many of these scenarios becoming more real all the time, even if logicallee's nuke example seems too fictitious for you.

The real question he's posing is whether its feasible to build an automated system that's sufficiently private and intelligent so that it could scan the comms without violating privacy while only alerting on genuine threats.

I think it's an interesting idea, but even if implementable, would fall to the <Who Guards the Guards?> problem. What is to prevent the people who build, maintain, operate the watch-system from abusing it? Nothing but the same level of ethical training that we have now, so this is simply adding one level of indirection.
And there's lots of Tor posters hung up at USG labs (e.g., https://www.torservers.net/wiki/_media/tor-relay-poster.resi...). I was pretty surprised, at first
You think you're a rebel? I have my tabs set to three spaces.
It really became a meme, not sure if there's a de-facto replacement.
It's explained in the article. The chairman is also a chair in Konami. You literally cannot show him the application without ruining your career.
OK, fair enough, "no product ever" is probably too broad. But for consumer products, I stand by what I said.
Your point is taken, but surely you will agree that there are at least some ways to make money surreptitiously that should be illegal?
Could you link to a "microarray" microphone that's available for purchase?
If being imprisoned and enslaved isn't cruel and unusual punishment, I don't know what is. The constitution doesn't prohibit shit with its useless words in this case.
While it sounds like the op is joking, a friend of mine recently researched online banks and recommends Goldman Sachs Retail Bank as a good choice. Similar offerings as Ally.
Leaving aside the many other problems with your comment, I'd like to draw your attention to this better-informed comment from svantana:

> You could, for example, have a bunch of expensive headphones with frequency response that varies randomly in the [-1,+1] dB range, and a bunch of cheap headphones that are in the [-10,+10] dB range -- that would also show up as uncorrelated.

> Indeed, they did find a significant difference in magnitude response _error_, although the effect was quite small.
and yeah, currently Internet is a spying tool of USA.
(shrug) they clearly are ok with some generics. In my mind if they argued that they'd rather support more widely used data structures at the language level instead of user defined generics thats a logically consistent position.

In fact, if I could get a) a type safe concurrent map b) a promise/future construct and c) a fast concurrent queue for single writer multi-reader, I'd probably be ok with the set of generic data structures provided in the language.

If they fixed their variance rules along the way as well, I'd probably lose any actual arguments against the type system when it comes to the systems I build.

The question is of course, are those the only ones that fall into that category? Who knows but those are the ones I run into the most pain for.
You also get the benefits of being able to change between pedestrian and road user modes. In road user mode the highway code applies and you can be just regular traffic and not hemmed in.

The London Critical Mass riders were crucial back in the day for taking ownership of the highway, so that pedestrian protestors can then do the classic march up the road, unmolested by cars. Reclaim The Streets was therefore reliant on bikes.
Sure. But just like one could source an ATMega, one could source an ESP8266 and replicate the work. It's an easily-available drop-in component. So I don't actually see anything inherently different about the new crop of Arduinos from what we had before.
And the follow-up: The Cyphernomicon (1994) http://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/cyphernomicon.t...

Ah memories...
Read: https://www.mdmawiki.org/wiki/Is_MDMA_Neurotoxic%3F

Also the "mormon study" linked above is a good one to check out.

Short answer:

> "High and/or frequent doses of MDMA have been shown to be neurotoxic in laboratory animals.7 However, no properly controlled studies have shown cognitive impairments in human users after a period of abstention long enough to rule out temporary effects of MDMA, polydrug use, and a partying/unhealthy lifestyle."

From https://rollsafe.org/how-to-take-mdma/

Also:

> “I am slightly reassured,” Baggott said, “that we haven’t seen an obvious epidemic of mental health problems despite thirty years of widespread MDMA use. But we absolutely still need to consider potential neurotoxicity when considering giving MDMA to people.”15

> MDMA researcher Matthew Baggott: “To the best of my understanding, doses around 1.5-1.7 mg/kg MDMA (roughly 100 to 125 mg MDMA) are unlikely to cause long-lasting serotonin changes. Studies by MAPS have looked for changes in mental abilities after people participated in their studies, with some participants receiving 125 mg followed by 62.5 mg, and have not found any changes.” MAPS study protocol involves 3 - 5 week breaks, and a total of 2 or 3 MDMA sessions in total.

From https://rollsafe.org/mdma-side-effects/
So let me get this straight: you came at me out of left field trying to bully me with a lot of false accusations, got me down voted by everyone and as a result I have to wait like for 1 hour before I can post a replay and on top of that even as you are telling me "sorry", you are still changing my words, I never said he "should start trading", I just suggested he should look into "the stock market and try to develop trading systems" – this can be done without a single penny be put out in a trade...

Based on all this I don’t think your apology will cut it for me, so please have a bit of dignity and stop commenting after my posts, you have lost the privilege to get answers from me anymore, so don’t be a troll...

Thank you and have a good day.
CYOA still lives, but in different forms.

Japanese Visual Novels are basically CYOA with pictures. The number of decision points varies depending on the book in question, but the basic structure is still there.

Twine [1] is a system that allows you to create stories, essentially CYOA but with the option of adding variables. For instance, you could have an option that is only selectable if you found a key earlier. This bridges the gap between CYOA and classic text adventure. Since Twine outputs HTML it is also easy to port wherever you want.

Finally, there are a number of online community CYOA. This being the Internet, the quality is varied and many of them are pornographic. Probably the biggest is Addventure[2]

[1] http://twinery.org/
[2] http://www.addventure.com/
I don't even know how to start. The US present themselves as paragons of freedom, and then they blatantly violate every kind of basic human right.
I meant a scenario of an activity currently considered money laundering the OP thinks should not be illegal. "should" is the operative word here. Does that make things more clear?
I read the WP article you cited, titled, "The secret American origins of Telegram, the encrypted messaging app favored by the Islamic State".

If Telegram isn't that secure, then why are extremists like IS using it over Signal or WhatsApp? I know Telegram has better features for big groups and much better multi-platform support, so is that the reason? I'm legitimately asking without any snark.
And to be clear, you have to pay for it because they buy all test products at retail and don't accept any ads or include any affiliate links. I don't always 100% agree with CR, but they are super committed to objectivity.
> When employees show up and realise there's no Slack, they start to analyze all other company decisions.

If I hire you, and your concern is "why can't I use this one specific chat service", I hired the wrong fucking person.
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My bank, when it can't send payment through ACH, will cut and mail a papercheck to the address on record.
I think the actual money laundering should be illegal. What bothers me is that, in chasing money laundering cases, it makes what is supposed simple things, very painful. I'm US lawful permanent resident, but European citizen too. Now, because of US regulations, pretty much ALL European banks do not want anything to do with me. If I ask to open a bank account, they'd rather not to. If I want to open an investment account in EU, they pretty much say "we do not want your business". If I transfer money from MY account in EU into MY account in US, I most likely have to JUSTIFY it. If I ask for a wire transfer, some foreign financial institution respond "oh, you are a US person, we don't want to deal with the reporting requirements". It's like the fight of terrorists: I think we all agree we should prevent the next 9/11. But when you have to pass through TSA, you cannot bring your laptop, you need to handover all your passwords, etc - even though terrorism is "illegal", you wonder if we are fighting it right.
I just launched a new version of my side project last week. So I have this exact same situation. I have to make decisions of what to prioritize.

Here is how I have done it. First I have been asking as many people as I can to try the site and provide their opinion. Indiehackers.com has been super helpful in this regard. Then I try to fix all of the issues that affect the basic functioning of the system. Can people create an account without issue. Can they sign in without issue. Can they create a new food dish without issue.

So tackle all the basics, what is core to the system. After this, try to work on any features that will provide more value to the users, things that will get them to use the system more.

After I finish these, then I move on to the new features.
It's very similar, but you get most of the paid options from slack for free and the apps seem to be more reliable in my experience.

My biggest problem is getting groups to move from slack to discord. People just use what they're used to and if their company already pays for one of the connections then they are going to be running it all of the time anyway.
It was important to me, which is why I have a D5300 - I like shooting the same late-60s, early-70s glass on which I first learned. But the DSLR market is relatively niche, and odd therefore; most casual users not satisfied with phone cameras (and most are!) go for a point-and-shoot due to their relative simplicity.