skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technologically I don't see why that couldn't be done. Transmit known coordinates, do a rough estimate of your distance using signal strength, and add that to the position error. If you get lat/lon from another device and it looks like that device is 300ft away, then your position is lat/lon ± 300ft.

It could be tricky to do securely. How do you prevent a malicious device from spoofing bad location data?

Android and iOS do something sort of like this already, determining position by looking WiFi base stations with known locations and attempting to do some triangulation. This can speed up a fix if the GPS signal is having trouble, and can be essential for indoor location because GPS signals don't penetrate structures well at all. My understanding is that the database gets built up by the devices. When they have a good location fix, they'll report back on the WiFi base stations they see, so that the mothership can build a database of where the things are. This is a little bit like what you describe, but with a really roundabout data path.
Argh shit. Google feel like a cancer on my phone now, it'll be the shove I needed to try out whatever the open source one is now, Cynagon's successor.

Whenever a company goes public, it turns into a shiteating, environment-killing, public-interest-killing monolith. Or is that just some of them?
Not an "API", but git has a terrible UI... yet the error messages (and guidance included in response to correct commands) are the best I've ever seen. They guide the user through a typical workflow.

A similar guidance is pop-ups in games (e.g. when next to car, "F to enter").
Once again, when do I start hearing apologies from the supporters of closed source and mit/bsd (which allow tivoization like google did with android)?

When do we finally realize RMS was right all along?
It is interesting that wages spiked and yet hourly rate is being considered the only relevant factor by many. Most of these jobs require behaving in a servile manner toward some assholes who have zero respect or commitment and start the process with a drug test in order to make the fundamental lack of trust explicit. The way corporate America treats candidates and employees is unacceptable at any price for many people.
The only practical use cases for bitcoin as a currency are money laundering, selling drugs, evading capital controls and tax evasion so the least regulated exchanges are going to draw a lot of volume.

As a store of value, you’re depending on its continued use as a tool for criminals for it to appreciate in value beyond pure beanie baby-style speculation, so you depend on you still depend sketchy exchanges to drive the price.

When the futures contracts come out, there is going to be a massive price correction as bitfinex isn’t going to be able to print enough tether to counteract all the shorts.

Once the price of bitcoin starts dropping, people are going to try and cash out of bitfinex en masse, causing a run on the bank and collapsing the whole house of cards. I wouldn’t be surprised to see sub-1000 bitcoins by January.
> Of course they have involvement with this, why wouldn't they?

I think you give them too much credit and unnecessarily slander Intel, which has little reason to go along with NSA (no large DoD contracts, almost all consumer and B2B market).

Also, you overestimate the amount of resources NSA has. If they have enough money to overcome Intel's appetite for risk, then why doesn't the NSA just run every single internet and hardware service out there? Your threat model needs to have bounds. It's worthless if you expect the adversary to have unlimited resources.
It is difficult to even describe a productive hand tuned to fit the individual Emails setup compared to standard.

Here are some of my favorite Emacs things:

Helm + Projectile. Helm will fuzzy complete almost anything in Emacs. Projectile is project management. Together get to any Git repo and file there in very quick. Helm is an option to compare to IDO. I rarely use IDO due to Helm.

Magit, widely regarded as a good Git UI. Using is believing. Better than command line or most GUIs for me.

Various editing nodes are good enough (Python, Lisp of course, Markdown).

Org mode is it's own beast, but if you like outlines and productivity tools Org is very nice. I use it, not extensively. It holds my todos and meeting notes and makes it easy to ha e very complex notes in one doc.

Basic text editing. I think Vi has some things it does better than Emacs here, but it is still very powerful and rewards learning the finer details.

Realizing you are in a Lisp machine. A calculator is no further than your Emacs window. Learning to hack Lisp and elisp is its own reward.

I think the time spent learning it is worth it. I think the math checks out in terms of efficiency. I also know Emacs is not going anywhere. Same with Vi.

There is much more to it all, but these are things off the top of my head. There are many smaller things that connect up how I work via Emacs... But there is a lot to it.
Only with a fair amount of pain (basically, `fossil merge --cherrypick`, then `fossil purge` for the original branch).

That's because mutable history is not part of the normal workflow that's being encouraged by fossil. You will see that "wrong" branches are simply tagged as "mistake" in the Fossil or SQLite repositories [1]. Branches are merged rather than rebased and the web UI is built around the assumption of having branches as distinct, named entities, rather than having them coalesced into the mainline. Fossil also uses autosync by default, where commits are automatically pushed to the master repository, which further discourages changing history.

If you simply want a local checkpointing mechanism (where you snapshot revisions at intervals with the intent to later combine them into a single meaningful commit), that's what private branches or `fossil stash snapshot` are for. Commit metadata, such as commit messages, can be changed later, but the edits leave an audit trail.

A major reason here is specifically that changes are supposed to always have an audit trail.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/timeline?n=100&r=mistake
I use GitHub to have a publicly accessible, discoverable, and searchable presence for the repo.

Perhaps we should build something like gnu social (or diaspora, but not as bad) for code projects, or build on existing distributed social networks.
You guys are doing all this theorizing, but I live in the Midwest because that is where my family is. That's part of QoL.
Ask HN: What is your note-taking workflow?
Digital? Paper? How do you track over time and follow up on notes? How do you mark up pre-existing documents like research papers?
> How does it help anything by making unfounded accusations?

You can only conservatively assume the worst since they operate in complete secrecy with pretty much a blank check from the Federal Government, and prevent anyone from disclosing what they actually do. And take in account that even the Snowden revelations were not the full picture, there are documents that were still not released from what he passed on to journalists.

And it's in their agency's interest to go above and beyond what the Law, and to lie about it like they did before the Congress hearing. They will do every malicious thing given the opportunity because that's their core mission. Unless you assume they are grossly incompetent at it.
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I'd like to know about this, too.
Tony is a changed man! He even voluntarily subjected himself to regulation. We need a new target.
I don't know if it's true but it was always said that the government could listen in on your Skype calls if you downloaded Skype in China.
I'm holding on to this single strand of hope that Tom Hanks is above these recent allegations.

If it comes out that he was also a sleaze bag along with Charlie Rose, Al Franken, Jeffrey Tambor, (along with an incredible family movie director in the rumor circles) I don't know what to think of Hollywood and my childhood heroes anymore.

Tom Hanks, if you have to say anything, do so now rather than later!
Here is why:

“You need mobility on the battlefield,” Wood said. “If
you fully equip the Marine Corps with MRAPs, then you
have a deployment problem. The vehicles are so big and
heavy and ponderous that you can’t embark them aboard
amphibs; you can’t easily get them into theater via
cargo aircraft like the C-130.”

Another drawback for MRAPs is that bridges need to be
strong enough to support them or troops need to find
places where rivers are shallow enough for them to
cross, he said. Vehicles must be light enough so they
can be used on the battlefield.
This happened last year.
The new CEO found out about this, publicly disclosed it then fired the people responsible. Seems like progress to me.
I thought best part of the article was the explanation that Phillips head screws were in fact designed to be difficult to fully tighten:

The Phillips system was invented for use in assembling aluminum aircraft, with the object of preventing assemblers from tightening screws so tightly that the aluminum threads strip. The driver will cam out before that happens. ... Phillips is designed so that when excess torque is applied it will camout rather than ream the recess and destroy the bit.

It's not a bug that the screwdriver keeps slipping out when you are struggling to make that last quarter turn at an awkward angle, it's a feature!
So was it bad to have paid the ransom?
Guide: Contacting Congress about Net Neutrality Using ResistBot
This is a free service. Basically makes it easier to contact congress with personalized faxes (which I'm told are more effective than emails, though perhaps less than phone calls).

Step 1:
Text Resist to 50409

Step 2:

You'll need to set it up with your address so it knows who to fax.

Once that's done, reply 'congress'

Step 3:

Write out a note. I suggest being kind, but firm, with positive expectations. (e.g. don't write it as if you expect them to do the wrong thing, because then this reduces the downside of doing the wrong thing!)

Congress isn't directly involved - but they can stop the FCC. And so you can ask them to stop the FCC.

Unique messages are better, that's why I'm not including a script to write. You can make it short, just a few sentences if you want.

Step 4:

Text 'done'

Step 5:

That's it.

Alternatively, call: https://www.battleforthenet.com/

Also "Call the FCC at 888-225-5322. It'll take you through a few options, but you can talk to real person to make a formal complaint against Ajit Pai's plan."
You're leaving out the part of the story where all of the accusers were slammed as liars for years until they were suddenly believed by the general public in the face of overwhelming mass testimony.

Only two of the scandals involve recently disclosed assaults.

So, maybe it will happen as you say. I predict it won't be widespread. There will likely be another Duke, but it'll be isolated.
"At the age of 90, she’s still fascinated by all the crazy things the Sun does and is still determined to find explanations".

I love how some scientists never retire. I hope I love my work as much as they do and am able to take a similar path.
If you're not willing to restructure your entire life to the point of renouncing citizenship of the country you were born into then you shouldn't ever make any choices based on moral principles whatsoever? uh.. what??

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/black-or-white
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Well, he's not wrong. He could certainly use a good PR agent.
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If you don't follow US laws, you'd better not be taking any US currency, because you will get your shit shut down, and any US funds sent there most likely frozen at some point.
and any other app will do same ... they get banned from store.. is that fair google ? Google is evil and liar, just what they whole work force is all about..
I have never had the urge to launch myself in a homemade rocket and would strongly recommend others not succumb to it if they get one, but I'm afraid it's too late for this fellow.

I do wonder if he'll tell his fellow flat earthers he saw the curve in the surface though.

And also how much he'll be charging for tickets to watch him launch.
Now, Vim. But I would definitely like to give Emacs another try, just for kicks.
Do you think emacs with evil is the path with least resistance for a long term Vi/Vim user?
Do you have any good sources you recommend on the BTC-e "owner" and his story so far? I would like to read more about it.
An equally important question to ask is, if you are accused of such harassment, what do you do? In the U.S. we have the concept of "innocent until proven guilty", but due to the sensitive nature of the alleged crime, the accused may be treated by their peers and the media as guilty, even before proceedings begin. Everyone's claims should be taken entirely seriously, but with the ability to inflict ever-lasting damage on the accused' reputation, I have questioned if people will start (or have been) abusing this power... and with our attention-driven media, the media will not hesitate one moment to post the headline.

I've contemplated the idea that with this crime, accusers and the accused should enter a private court, so the media wouldn't know the situation until the verdict is delivered. If either party leaks that they are in this process, the case will be forfeited. Of course, there are serious problems here that if there is no publicity, society cannot check-and-balance the process if abuse occurs. At a high level though, what this idea should accomplish is to allow the process to do its thing, and to prevent knee-jerk reactions to the charge from people who have no stake in the matter.
They've had some technical issues, including some games that started ~60 minutes late.
F.C.C. Plans Net Neutrality Repeal in a Victory for Telecoms
Thanks. Do you know of any examples/articles of this, specifically taking from online? I'm in Australia and Amazon is launching this week. I'm interested in how it will affect other online retailers.
Sure, that makes the formal legal aspect of it simpler (though still not simple—which is my only point here), but consider this: do you think these people in positions of power have ever run into situations where their inferiors desire the same thing? Obviously that's not the case for those making allegations—but don't you suppose there were also situations where these folks were involved in fully consensual situations which crossed the power line? The rules are there to protect the inferiors, but what if in some situations they do not want that protection at all? To say otherwise is to say that no one ever desires their boss, which is obviously wrong. 'Simple' is just not the right word for it.
Usually, long term who is president doesn't matter much. Like others have pointed out, this looks like the recovery from the housing crash of 2008.

http://www.macrotrends.net/1358/dow-jones-industrial-average...

However, just to show that with the right zoom level, you can make data show you anything, look at 3 year graph, and it shows that up until Nov 2016, the graph was flat-lining, even with some large dips, but then it started going up and has been doing so since. I am sure Trump supporters will say "see, there's your cause!".

And maybe they are right somewhat. This is the stock market, so perceptions, and perceptions of perceptions of future income get folded into the price. So maybe a hope of a more business friendly environment was started to be factored in.

One thing I have little doubt of is that had the market done the opposite and gone down the same amount, every media outlet and Reddit's politics subs would immediately become macroeconomic experts and blame everything on Trump. The reason I say it is because there was a dip the night of the election, and I clearly remember how MSNBC hosts printed out after-hours and Japan stock market results on paper and happily were telling people how their 401k will burn, and jobs will be lost and how they, how had just had a major failure predicting the outcome of the election, had finally validated themselves regarding the stock market crash. But then the very next day the stock market shot up and has been going up since. That's why you don't really find them talking much about the economy. This was one of the surprising articles, and even that from a British company.
Seems like the same question as that religious one about what would keep a person honest in lieu the wrath of a higher power/promise of eternal life/whatever external motivator.
The markup feature on iOS is essentially the same toolset.
Hmmm....

Perhaps those closest to him agreed to not tell him that was an option.
Helm-ag is great too. I tend to bounce between "helm-projectile-find-file" and "helm-projectile-ag" depending on if I'm grepping or looking for a file name. Fuzzy search makes those terrific. Then within a single file, "helm-swoop" is great. And then "helm-resume" to bring up my previous search.
Overestimate the amount of resources? Wikipedia:

> In 2012, the NSA said more than 30,000 employees worked at Fort Meade and other facilities.[2] In 2012, John C. Inglis, the deputy director, said that the total number of NSA employees is "somewhere between 37,000 and one billion" as a joke,[4] and stated that the agency is "probably the biggest employer of introverts."[4] In 2013 Der Spiegel stated that the NSA had 40,000 employees.[5] More widely, it has been described as the world's largest single employer of mathematicians.

Let's assume they have 30 000 employees and the large majority of them are highly educated, that would make it into one of the largest organization on Earth in terms of intellect capital.

In terms of actual budget it's obviously classified but estimations are probably around 10 billions USD per year.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/budget/index.h...

That's not a small budget by any feat, and we know they operate huge data centers for surveillance, so they are certainly not a "passive" intelligence agency.
Your points have all been soundly refuted elsewhere in the thread as they should, but

>You don't see anybody trying to legalize murder, do you?

Actually, you do. Many Republican state congresses are trying to make it legal to murder protesters by e.g. ramming them with your car. Net Neutrality is pretty much as cut and dried as this: there are people who oppose it, but that position is indefensible. "People defend it therefore there must be good arguments in favor of it" just isn't always true.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/the-charlottesvi...
Aristotle has been involved with Christian philosophy since the early church fathers such as John of Damascus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_Aristotle

This was all official dogma and part of the religious canon throughout the Byzantine empire. To say Islamic philosophy lead to the influence of Aristotle in Christianity simply isn't true. You've already admitted as much by saying that Nestorian Christianity was heavily Aristotelian. However that is not to say that later Islamic commentaries were not considered very useful. It's the unfortunate influence of Aquinas that lead to the later Aristotle fetish in the west.

Read all about it here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-influence/

Also http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2005/07/hyping_islam...
Anti-money laundering laws don't pretend there is a victim, they attempt to discourage behavior by regulating an intermediary.

They also fail at it while ensnaring otherwise law abiding citizens in the dragnet.

So there is no logic to extrapolate to murders, where there is a victim from the activity of murdering.

AML via the Bank Secrecy Act, Patriot Act and other regulations was a swing and a miss, just looking at the evidence alone. Cash transactions over $10,000 were supposed to be reported, to stop terrorists, and the 1 BILLION of organized drug money that HSBC cleared is the equivalent of a dozen terrorists being financed per day, since 9/11.

Excepts its just people with a little extra cash that get jailed from these reporting laws.
Fair enough, the employee will notify their state office that handles ADA complaints.

There's no guarantee for anything in life. There is even a strong likelihood that justice won't be served. But that is a far cry from throwing up our hands and claiming a rigged system. There is a reason why so many malls, stores, and restaurants have disabled-accessible entrances, and it's not wishful thinking. It's enforcement at the state and local level.
Tether has a blockchain so you can see for yourself how much was stolen. Also, they blacklisted the hacker's address^.

The @bitfinexed narrative is so flaky, especially the chart "proving" that Tether issuance pumps BTC. I could post a similar chart showing that my trips to Costco pump BTC.

There are legitimate concerns around Bitfinex and Tether^^ but the FUD has gotten out of hand.

Things to keep in mind if you disagree:

1) There is increased demand for Tether mostly from exchanges other than Bitfinex. They aren't even the largest holder of Tether by a long shot. This explains increased issuance as much as any conspiracy.

2) There are no widespread complaints about being able to withdraw from Bitfinex

3) There is no premium on BTC price on Bitfinex as there would be if there were problems withdrawing in things other than BTC, a la Mt. Gox.

All this being said -- all this would go away if they would prove they had the funds backing Tether.

^https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/932862730415017984

^^Mostly, IMO, around 1) making themselves a target for FinCEN, 2) the market not pricing a proper risk premium into Tether
Francesca Polletta's book "It Was Like a Fever" brings forward some really interesting points of discussion about storytelling as a political device.

Some relevant quotes from the text:

"If the fact that everyone can tell his own story makes it easier for people to challenge the assurances of the powerful that certain policies are to everyone’s advantage, the fact that narrative is seen as less authoritative than other discursive forms may weaken that challenge."

"We are ambivalent about storytelling, not dismissive of it. There is a strong vein of skepticism toward professional expertise in American culture. Against that skepticism, the authenticity of personal storytelling makes the form trustworthy—sometimes more trustworthy than the complex facts and figures offered by certified experts."

"...those wanting to effect social change must debunk beliefs that have the status of common sense, familiar stories are more obstacle than resource."

"when feminists brought sex discrimination suits against employers, they struggled to prove that women were underrepresented in higher-status, traditionally male jobs because they were discriminated against and not because they had no interest in those jobs. Arguing that women wanted the jobs put them at odds with a familiar story in which girls grow up to want women’s work, and men grow up to want men’s work. To judges, feminists seemed to be saying that women were just like men, something that flew in the face of good sense."
Sheesh, when did that start having alt-right connotations?

It's a question anyone remotely into contemporary anime/manga would ponder.
Thanks so much for sharing this! What a remarkable refresher about a remarkable person among an endless cycle of depressing news. Definitely cheered me up!
Are you saying the end justify the means? The problem is that over and over and over we see companies breaking the rules, reaping massive rewards as a result of unethical practices, saying "sorry" and then carrying on with no real consequences. It sets a horrible precedent and unless people start being punished instead of rewarded(!!!) for their actions nothing will change.
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