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I’d like to add that a lot of people do diaphragmatic breathing incorrectly.

The ultimate goal for utilizing the diaphragm is slow and steady breathing in a controlled manner. I see too many people taking in big gulps of air and exhaling out with no sign of control. Even when think they got it, it’s still too fast. You must keep the rib cage expanded on the exhale in order to expel the air. There is no pushing, just allowing the air to escape slowly.

This may vary from activity to activity, but there needs to be a reasonable amount of control during exhalation.
How does power9's single threaded performance stack up against modern x86?
No, this is not how OAuth works - OAuth itself is just a protocol to receive authorization from another server [1]. In this case, a third party relies on Facebook to say "This user has logged into Facebook and their ID is foo". OAuth _does not need_ social information or anything else.

Of course, you can allow the authorization server to publish these details, but this is not an inherent part of OAuth. Also, there's OpenID Connect [2] which builds on OAuth and adds just this information in another token: "The ID token resembles the concept of an identity card, in a standard JWT format." (from [2]). However, you can happily use OAuth without ever publishing the user's details.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749
[2] https://openid.net/connect/
Someone else pointed that this exists and, surprise, it's run by Google: https://news.google.com/newspapers

There are other newspaper archive services though.
Yes. I will add you to the list. Thank you!
If you are more paranoid of intra-browser security risks than inter-browser risks?
The billionaires who control what news the public sees aren't limited to the right end of the political spectrum though. Let's see if the data "leveraging" the Obama campaign was so proud about makes the mainstream news shall we? Maybe then I'll start to question my stance.
It sounds like this is a for-profit business. I'm very leery of the trend towards private prisons. Was a non-profit considered here?

Are participants required to have a smartphone to install the app to be a part of the release program?
Modern radios are software-defined, or at least controlled by a microprocessor, so frequency hopping or even spread spectrum shouldn't be much of a problem.
You can't say that "radio is a solved problem" without knowing the military's requirements for these radios.

For example, we were working on radios that could self-organize into networks on frequencies they picked dynamically and keep on the same frequencies while facing a changing RF environment because they were in a convoy driving through the desert with a high powered jammer randomly stomping on everything.

And these aren't fanciful requirements. You're in a country whose government you just toppled--you can't count on the civilian frequency allocations. The military really doesn't want to keep track of every squad's frequency assignment manually. The radios are always on the move, in often challenging terrain (mountains, etc.). The enemy has jammers and countermeasures. Even if not every radio needs every one of these capabilities, the military needs an overall communications architecture that accommodates all of these functions.
A year ago I had $100 balance and my $50 payment to some cafe turned it into $150. They added money instead of deducting it. That was fixed soon but that's how I still feel about N26.
>anything that we didn't all know was possible this whole time

I believe the reason this story is blowing up so big in the media is because most people never imagined their data being used in this way. When I login to patreon and subscribe to someone, I know exactly what I am paying. When I login to facebook and make a post, I (the average user) have no idea what it is that I am paying and/or how it can be used. I give away some factoid about myself without realizing that my angry post about Trump actually tweaks some political vector that is being calculated on me.

Consent is not enough, informed consent is the bar we have to set and it's basically impossible to say that the average facebook user is properly informed of what data they're giving, how it's being used and how much it is worth in dollar terms. Can you imagine if I could log into Facebook and see the models they've generated based on my content, and the dollar amount they've collected for that information so far. That's informed consent and somehow I doubt Facebook would be quite as profitable if people knew the actual cost they're paying.
What have I said that's solidly right? I've only stated that other organizations show bias. The irony is that you're applying your own biases to someone whom you've never met while denying bias.

I don't agree with most of what comes out of right-wingers' mouths. I'm a center-leftist that's tired of having half of the viewpoints "filtered". When Politifact labels something Trump said as "Pants on Fire", then buries the fact that he was 95% correct at the bottom of the article, I call that bias.
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> In response to you need to trace the thread through the entire system, probably using string search, if you're working in a statically typed language, you don't need to rely on string search; you can just search for usages of the type of each message. For 90% of the event types you'll find two usages: the place where an event is fired and the place where it's detected and responded to. Most of the rest will be fired or read in multiple places but still a very small number.

I think this gets to the crux of the nature of the solution. You are trading one very strongly statically typed message-sending apparatus (function calls; object member calls) for one more weakly statically typed message-sending apparatus ("events"/"messages" as standalone objects).

While, yes, you can get static typing hints back, for instance, by using statically typed Symbols/Enums for "message types" as opposed to using more stringly typed options, you are still trading very strict static typing (I'm calling this specific function, I'm acting on this specific object) for weaker static typing.

There's nothing wrong with using weaker static typing, of course, and it's nice having a spectrum of options. (It's also why I think it's silly to think its an either/or between OOP and MOP; they are a paradigm spectrum that isn't entirely mutually exclusive and often you want some of both worlds.) It's a trade off, and should be a clear trade off, and knowing that is half the battle.
I doubt it has a close connection to "brown". "Behr-" in Slavic languages, when stands for any color at all, is, usually, for "white".
What happens when Promise loses an individual? Who pays the cost for them to be tracked down and returned. I'm assuming existing systems will be used such as bounty hunters to do this job.
Nothing is going to change, there are to many stars in to many programers eyes, when they here games-industry. They literally can afford to burn the best talent, knowing it grows on tree for cheap for them.

Its the same thing why model agents can harass or molest young woman, while they literally allmost starve to death to be in a industry they can only work in for 15 years and will never earn more then the basics to live.

These actors are irrational, and there is a cornucopia providing new ones.

Best idea to dry this swamp is for other industries who lack talent- to provide a dual path- meaning- if you come to work for us, we will teach you also the tools of the game-design trade- and provide you with a chance to parallel realize the game of your dream in a sabatical.
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Nuanced != arbitrary
I believe a major programming environment that you are missing here is the SAP environment and the ABAP language, which (from my minimal experience) is entirely database-centric and probably powers most of the large enterprise HR and commerce systems in the world.
... that they can't easily remove.
"anything that we didn't all know was possible this whole time"

Actually, there are lots of people who have no clue that such things are possible. Maybe in 20 or 30 years, everyone would become savvy enough to understand the implications of giving away their personal info freely, but we are not yet there. The people who know (younger, tech savvy etc) are in the minority. Today a big chunk of the population simply believes everything they read on FB, that is why trolling works so wonderfully
Have you considered this:

1. Cars kill a lot more people than guns. Every year. And while cars can be useful a lot of the driving is more ir less meaningless.

2. While guns might be used for evil they are also used for good: there is no doubt in my mind that our big neighbour to the east (I'm Norwegian) would have invaded a number of European countries during the 50-ies, 60-ies and 70-ies if those countries hadn't been prepared to defend themselves.
Imagine a clinic has a policy that allows patient data to be released to non-patients but a court decides that the use violates HIPPA. There would be no technical breach of security, but rather a breach of responsibility.
I'll have you know the SA80 is now pretty decent, granted, it's been redesigned for us by the Germans though ...

A lot of the issue, especially with things like the Snatch, is that they were designed to get around quickly, hence minimal armour, but in modern theatre of war against insurgents planting IED's it breaks down totally.

Same issue with the Eurofighter Typhoon - great A2A, but awful for what's needed now, with is A2G.
I find how HN completely hides comments with a "[flagged]" replacement a bit insulting as a reader. We're all adults and I'm sure we can handle reading whatever he wrote. Instead we have to guess what you are responding to.
> We use an assessment tool to measure risk based on everything from employment to past conviction.

Could you speak more to this? There are serious concerns with software being used to evaluate the risk of criminal behavior. Are these being considered?

https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
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There were a few directions we went hereafter. One was thinking of the world in terms of simulations, another was statemachine oriented. There are a few things that were never quite right with the set of semantics here: things that really were an ordered set of steps (far fewer things than you think, but still some) were pretty hard to express and the distinction between commit and bind caused some weird things to happen at the edges. The former could be fixed by directly integrating statemachines into the language. The latter remains a bit of an open problem. Some things you want to manually manage the lifetime of, others you want to be tied to their supports. The problem is that you often want to mix and match those freely, which is just a tough thing to reason about.

Taking a stronger stance that Eve was still a bit too much like programming, and not as directly modeling as we meant for it to be, can take you to some interesting places too.
> I thought this would get better with docker, but it seems to always be a multi-day process to get up and running.

I never thought of it till you said this but it has almost always been this way (roughly) -

Every gain in performance has been met with a gain in bloat.

From web page size, to databases, to our dev environments we just keep piling more crap in. Some gives us marginal gains in productivity and performance to accommodate another set of likely marginal features. Someone once described a coworker as a "technological magpie" who would latch on to the newest shiny object, and I think that lots of us have this affliction and are unaware of it or don't know how to fight it.
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Why didn't the human hit the brake? I don't understand how this is even news to be honest. There was a human in the driving seat and he failed to stop just like the computer.
1. It's cool.

2. "We suggest that a self-replication mechanism for artificial intelligence is useful because it introduces the possibility of continual improvement through natural selection."
> I'm going to guess this dodge is here because you support, or at least wish to avoid antagonising, people who believe that killing other people is a legitimate criminal punishment and so somehow it's not "murder" if the state chooses to do it. Although it's also possible you condone extra-judicial killing, with the same dodge, it's OK to torture somebody to death so long as you know, they're bad guys...

I don't believe killing an embryo is murder, but this comment is a red herring. You're claiming it's possible that ¬innocent ∧ murder. But this is entirely consistent with mjh2539's claim that innocent → murder. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent.
I just posted a comment in response to ibdknox (Chris Granger, awesome that he's involved in the discussion, btw) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16631233

To summarize, for me most of the real work of programming happens in my head, and in my experience that's a much more powerful place to work when you train yourself to do it. In light of that, all the "features" of the IDE become bloat and distraction. What I need is a fast, responsive editor that doesn't get in my way.

> I do note that you're comparing vim (a - feature rich - text editor) to massive, bloated, IDEs... I'm curious if you've tried other, often programming related, leaner text editors to compare? (ie, Sublime Text, VSCode, Notepad++, etc)

Yes, exactly, and many of those are other good alternatives to Vim. Above is why I strongly prefer text editors to IDEs. I know Vim-style modal editing with basically a language of commands in and of itself is not a good match for everyone's mental model, but personally I'm at the point where I don't have to think when I'm manipulating text: it's all automatic, and extremely powerful. Moreso from a text-manipulation than any other editor I've used. That's why I'm with Vim specifically and why it's so productive for me. Vim+unix has become (over the years) the fastest way to author and manipulate large amounts of text: it's the quickest way for me to encode the model in my head in textual, language-oriented form.
Most of the job losses in that slide deck are from automating production and are never coming back -- SpaceX's manufacturing is as automated as you'd expect for their production volume.

Also, it's worth noting that SpaceX's Starlink folks are in the Seattle area.
There are tradeoffs. The syntax was explicitly designed to be eminently readable, because our target audience were groups who were not traditionally programmers, but who might still be highly technical. For this group of people, they may not take readily to C++, but are instead more comfortable with languages like Python and SQL. Perhaps skimming code suffers from this design, but we thought we could mitigate that by adding other avenues for navigating code, such as a table of contents. We also made some progress in automatically annotating blocks of code based on what they do, to make filtering, sorting, and searching code richer.
Compared to other cryptos, Stellar is fast. Compared to credit card networks, Stellar is very slow.

If one of their goals is to replace credit cards and other money movement mechanisms (as I believe is the case), they need to speed transactions up significantly.
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The action-response mechanism reminds me of the Easel programming language:

http://www.eslsyndetic.com/Documentation/overview_of_respons...

It was a cool model, if a bit ahead of its time. Good to see the idea living on.
> The legal perspective is that Parliament decides the law of the UK. If Zuckerberg doesn't turn up, then he is snubbing the very people who decide the future of Facebook UK.

it also sets a precedent for other (european) countries to try the same.

If he doesn't show up their, they might take this "up the bloc" so to speak, and make this an european issue.

Does facebook want that on it's hands?
It logically follows that any faith that believes God to be a unitary creator is going to attribute math to Him.

Your absolutely correct observation about gaps notwithstanding, the driving question for me here is this: why does math work so well? I personally exclude any explanation that doesn't involve the Logos in some form as incoherent, but I don't have a specific answer and probably never will.
Who pays for this service? The suspects, or the governments?

Will you only be working with suspects pre-conviction, or will you also work with the convicted as part of a sentence that would otherwise involve time in prison or county jail?
Calling them a stupid idea that "would just kill the economy" is a rather unsophisticated way of looking at it. But I don't know, maybe you have a well researched opinion and are knowledgeable on this topic. We shall see !
This is sort of true, but only in extremely limited cases.

It is a constitutional convention that the monarch will follow the advice of ministers other than when exercising reserve powers, and ministers have extremely limited constitutional flexibility in terms of advicing the monarch to give assent. The monarchs power to refuse royal assent for bills is not part of the reserve powers other than in very limited circumstances (she can delay assent in the case of "near revolutionary" conditions; she can in theory refuse assent on advice of ministers, last exercised by Queen Anne in 1708; she can refuse assent on bills that directly relate to her reserve powers themselves, or her property).

So while on paper she "signs acts into law according to her whim", if she fails to sign laws outside that very narrow scope, she'll have violated a constitutional convention that has been a settled part of UK constitutional law for something like two centuries.

This would not just be outrageous, but would be subject to legal challenge, as notably, it has been established since 1611, and not challenged by a monarch since 1688, that the judiciary has the power to restrict the royal prerogative, and the judiciary in the UK has centuries of history of taking a very dim view on monarchs trying to reclaim powers that have been de facto transferred to parliament. Odds are she'd find herself having the power legally stripped from her at best, at worst it'd be the end of the monarchy.

In other words, in practice it is legal fiction that this power rests with the monarch - outside of the reserve powers it rests with the monarch only as long as she only exercises them in a ceremonial capacity in line with the wishes of parliament.

Even the reserve powers are retained mostly because they are exercised so incredibly rarely (e.g. some of them have not been attempted used for centuries) and/or have very limited effect (e.g. on the rare circumstances where the monarch has exercised her powers to choose whom to appoint as PM in modern history it was accepted because the decisions were in line with parliamentary reality, and because parliament could instantly overthrow said government if it did not agree with the choice), but the reserve powers are at least nominally actual powers that the monarch can with some caution actually exercise and get away with it. The rest of the royal prerogatives are not.
does this also apply to non UK citizens though?
I don't see a difference if I didn't sign up for either of those things and I'm targeted anyway, which is what happened.

Rephrased: Both campaigns spammed non-signees, and it looks like the CA people spammed signees as well.
> How does UK know who Zuckerberg is?

The UK civil service is generally literate, and has been following corporate heirarchies longer than the US has existed. Finding the CEO of a publicly held multinational corporation is not difficult.

> Shouldn't they be dealing with Facebook UK ceo?

Facebook UK doesn't seem to be the source of the issue they are concerned with.

> Zuckerberg is a private US citizen as far as UK is concerned, no?

And...so, what? While the UK Parliament may not have legal authority to issue compulsory summons in this case [0], that's not what they’ve done. They’ve asked him to testify, not issued notional compulsory demand. (The US Congress has occasionally done the same thing in the past to foreign CEOs.)

Of course, there is the implicit threat that if their concerns aren't allayed, there may be legislative actions directed at curbing the capacity of Facebook to undertake actions which raise similar concerns in the future.

> Facebook UK is the only entity UK law should know of

This is simply wrong. UK law needs to be cognizant of not only the officers but also the owners of Facebook UK, Ltd., and Facebook, Inc., is the dominant owner of Facebook, UK Ltd.

And, Facebook, Inc. not being a natural person, UK law and government needs to be cognizant of the officers, etc., of that firm, as well. It simply is not the case that foreign persons and entities are non-existent from the perspective of the law of the UK (or any other nation, generally.)

Heck, the US not only criminally indicts foreign citizens for violations of US domestic law outside of the US, it has used that as the basis for armed invasions (see, notably, the case of Manuel Noriega.) The UK merely inviting a foreign CEO to a parliamentary inquiry is comparatively routine.

[0] well, okay, they actually do, because parliamentary sovereignty, but they may lack practical enforcement powers.
Sounds like a very dynamic and interesting start-up mission.

My experience is that smaller jurisdictions try to wrangle monetary fees and levies using the threat of jail-time and the disruption it causes to a person's life so you may be facing some perverse incentives from some of the audience of 'customers' you're trying to reach in smaller jurisdictions.

But what you're doing is great and I applaud yCombinator taking a chance on such a vital and excellent venture!
Agreed. That sounds awful.
I avoid IDE's for three reasons:

1.) They abstract important (to me) details. For example, build system integration. I prefer to see the actual Makefile to ensure that things are being linked correctly. This is especially important on large HPC clusters where there are a plethora of compiler options.

2.) They are too graphical. Essentially all of my programming is done through the terminal, which is fast and lightweight as compared to, say, Visual Studio or XCode (or w/e the standard OS-X IDE is).

3.) They do too much to 'help' the user, which ultimately just gets in the way. This is obviously a highly personal and biased opinion on my part. However, it is important (to me) to physically type the source, rather than starting from some template with boilerplate and adapting it to my needs. This is perhaps a reflection of the poor design of many languages (e.g. Java, C++) which necessitate such quality of life 'improvements' for some. But, for me, I just want to code what I want to code without an IDE getting in the way ala the maligned Microsoft Paperclip.

While I personally prefer emacs to vim, I have no doubt that these points may be common to developers who prefer either to an IDE. To your point, I do not know (but would not be surprised) to learn that some fantastic modern IDE could do all of the above. But, why do all that when emacs works so darn well for me?
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How does that improve privacy in this case? The sort of queries that can be made against a word vector model, and only a word vector model, are pretty trivial.
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