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I disagree, I think the cloud stuff actually makes this even harder (at least today). The distinction between what's in the cloud and what is local is extremely hard to make, even for those of us that live and breathe this stuff. Oh sure, you can define it, but as a practical matter, if I hand you my phone, can you tell what's on the cloud? Is it left to the vagaries of what the OS has happened to cache locally? If you open my Dropbox app on my phone, how do you know what files are local and what files aren't? What if you see a filename like "drug_customer_list" in the directory listing? Can you go get it now that you have probable cause? It's murky and messy. We can pretend that it's simple, but it's not and we will need to work all of this out.
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It's scary because while DNA is more accurate, it's not 100%. Nobody wants to be the one that is thrown under the bus by a bad DNA result that is given more weight than it should because, "well it's DNA, it's a fact."
In Lawrence v. Texas (I actually witnessed the oral arguments for this case) - the interesting opinion is the dissenting one by Clarence Thomas: "I write separately to note that the law before the Court today "is... uncommonly silly." Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U. S. 479, 527 (1965) (Stewart, J., dissenting). If I were a member of the Texas Legislature, I would vote to repeal it. Notwithstanding this, I recognize that as a Member of this
Court I am not empowered to help petitioners and others
similarly situated."

It's an admirable expression of judicial restraint, although I disagree with his interpretation of the right to privacy - I would have rather the texas legislature repealed the law on its own than have to take it to the supreme court.
I have both Keon and Peak and the Keon works a lot better. They're fixing stuff daily to reach parity or better on the Peak AFAIU
Perhaps you could create a custom target that overrides the compile\build targets and simply does nothing?
Do you mean kind of like the inverse of recycling, or does recycling have some dark secret that I'm blissfully unaware of?
> The better meaning for that set of words - which you apparently don't subscribe to - is that 'organic' means 'natural', in other words, links that you, the site owner, have nothing to do with, and that therefore you can not be building.

Not quite nothing to do with: crafting content with the intent that people encountering it would be prone to link to it, so that site owners (and SEO firms working on their behalf) wouldn't need to engage in out-of-band link promotion to get the links, would seem to be organic link building, in that it proceeds naturally from the content rather than via separate efforts.
Exactly. Specifically because deep understanding of what works, what doesn't and connections are the drivers of strategy.

Aptitude is crucial for execution, but that's not the VC's job.
Was the startup girlfriend thread deleted?
If so, why? It raises an interesting issue of work life balance in the startup climate.
I would say get stuck in a downsizing. It is great. You are either going to get a salary increase, acceleration, or more equity so they can retain you. You can often negotiate a bit here.

Or, you are going to be let go where you get a good severance. Take some time off, understand your mistake, and move on.
Exactly. "What settings did you use for that picture, Mr. Photojournalist?" "Easy son, F8 and be there."
This is good but does not apply to the feds.
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Hello Everyone,

I'm hoping I can pull some useful gems of knowledge from hackernews. My team built a college focused markeplace for the selling and rental of any possessions our target demographic has.

The site hasnt been up long but it isnt growing in the ways we anticipated. I know theres alot of work we have to do to get it to product/market fit, but I was hoping you guys can offer your experiences in building marketplaces, suggest customer acquisition strategies, or explain how you dealt with the chicken and egg problem.

I appreciate the help!
It's really casual gaming that's suffering from this: folks are switching from playing those types of games on Facebook to playing them on their phones.
It only works with OSX 10.8? What about the others that are on Lion or older versions?
I would think the argument against this would be made differently. Namely: fingerprints, photographing tattoos and documenting physical features are all purely observational searches.

Swabbing for DNA is an active search. It involves taking material from a person. Its more akin to taking a blood sample, semen sample, stool sample or tissue sample. Someone can look but I believe those sorts of searches generally fall under the 4th amendment protections.
Pretending as though it is simple is the trick though. The reality is simple: don't search the phone without a fucking warrant. However this is a reality that is rejected by those with no incentive to realize it. What is needed is a fictional simplicity that is easier to feed people.

After we have that we can work on getting the rest done properly.
Did anyone else here get fingerprinted in elementary school, when the cops stopped by to say hi and talk about safety? We all were. This was in the mid 80's in Maine. I thought it was cool at the time, but I feel violated now. And I'm pretty sure my parents weren't asked.

More to the point: how would this generation feel about the police coming to school and taking DNA samples?
True, you could construe that as such. But I think that the real distinguishing factor should be that the links themselves are there to establish proximity between nodes in the graph of the web, not the secondary effects on page rank in a search engine.
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Well let's make it super-easy and nip this in the bud: let's just store a DNA sequence of everyone when they are born. That way, we can skip the whole hoovering up business and for sure identify people. Are you ok with that?
Remote api is pretty cool and makes my life easier, but how much functionality does docker provide over running lxc-* style commands?
I've pondered this many times. My conclusion is that it took billions of years for a planet to get to a point for sustainable life, and then billions more to get where we are and considering we've only been here for a blink of an eye. There may be other areas of life but they are so far flung across the known universe we're not going to discover each other anytime soon.

It would be like a colony of ants in San Francisco looking for others but the nearest one is in Paris.
Wow, this is great information. Yes, I'm in the Denver area. As for my position, I was hired as a Senior System Administrator and definitely have the responsibilities of one. I have about 5 years experience in Linux administration, but obviously less experience in the contracting/business/taxes side of things.

You're right on the risk compensation, though this company is known for hiring contractors for long periods of time (some contractors here have been here longer than 5 years). So though it is a very real risk, I'm not as worried about it as I would be otherwise.
It's all a matter of perspective. If you come to arrest me for a crime I know I didn't commit, then no, the arrest is not "legal" per my definition of "legal". The government might, indeed, be following it's own rules (and getting to that on a consistent basis would be a slight improvement over where we are now) but my rights have still been violated.
How do you learn new programming languages?
Right now I'm trying to learn C by doing little utilities, like a Huffman Coding tool, and I was wondering if there were any other kinds of cool projects that would showcase a lot of the features of a new language.
It's true that people think DNA evidence is more accurate than it is.[1] That said, juries think all "scientific" forensic evidence is more accurate than it is. The difference is that DNA evidence is actually pretty accurate, while things like hair analysis are wildly inaccurate. And eyewitness testimony tends to be insanely persuasive, even though its also insanely inaccurate.

[1] Generally, juries are instructed about random-match probabilities, but aren't usually allowed to be told about lab error rates, which totally dominate the random-match error rates (1-2% error in typical scenarios).
CISPA is for sharing information about cyber threats, clearly DNA samples would not fall into that category. So no that isn't an "interesting thing", because it isn't a true thing its just you spreading FUD about something that isn't related to this topic.
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The idea that DNA evidence is infallible is pernicious and wrong. Google "lab tech falsified results" to see literally hundreds of thousands of criminal cases in the U.S. alone, where the supposed infallibility of lab results was used to convict innocent people.
This is true, but almost exactly the same thing could have been said about fingerprints 60 years ago. Bad fingerprint analysis certainly has convicted innocent people. DNA is much (!) more accurate than a fingerprint, so even given that criticism it still represents progress.
I think Dileep George's thesis offers some clues as to the relation between Hawkin's Hierarchical-temporal ideas and other ML constructions:
http://www.dileepgeorge.com/tiki/tiki-download_file.php?file...

I recall George was the technical lead at Numenta and has since left.

Hawkins' model centers on having an overall model of the brain based on prediction. I remember watching a Hawkins video where he makes the reasonable point that neuroscience has failed to create overarching visions and it seems plausible that such a vision (or several competing vision) could be useful. But I also think that prediction in-and-of itself probably isn't sufficient.

FWIW, When I earlier scanned their website, Numenta was trying to sell its software for big bucks and not giving any detailed documentation for their algorithm. Now they seem to be giving everything away for free. That might be an indication that this is the end of the road. But it's hard to know, of course.
Two words: External validation. Ask your friends, ask in forums, do surveys, or even run Adsense campaigns to static landing pages just to see how the click through rates are (Tim Ferris style). Sure, this is not 100% bullet proof (what people think they want vs. what the actually want) and the results can be misinterpreted, but it's still more likely to succeed than just building whatever you think is cool.
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Achilles tendon harvested from a cadaver

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend this route, either. I read an article in The New Yorker about body parts harvested from cadavers that were used in transplants. The parts were way past their harvest-by date. This was discovered, at least partially, by someone having an ACL transplant from one of this bad parts, and the recipient of the bad part died from bad infection due to a mold on the tendon.

The lack of controls on that business forever made me wary of using cadaver parts for transplants.
but photojournalism has never been about the capabilities of the camera

Fast frame rate. Very bright lens (e.g. f1.4). Large, high-sensitivity sensor.

It is very much about the capabilities of the camera, because the truth is that lesser cameras miss most shots, especially in a moving situation where you get a momentary window of opportunity. The iPhone camera may get there eventually, but in that situation right now the failure rate to get a shot is going to be incredibly high (obviously a chance is better than none -- the camera you have in your hand is better than the one at home and all -- but we're comparing to ready to go photojournalists).

We shall see how this decision plays out, but personally I think it is a horrible choice because it removes one of the few remaining differentiators between old media and the citizen news, which is that generally in the former you could find great, unique pictures by professionals who know what they're doing.
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Problem is they usually are actually desperate...
Should brands be banned from Facebook?
> What, in itself, would be wrong with that, as long as the police were catching people who were actually guilty?

You do know that argument could be used for giving lie detector tests on every citizen every day, right? Other than tracking the movements and associations of every citizen, there isn't much more wrong with it.
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> restructure its troubled business toward mobile

How can you found a company in 2007, go public in 2011, and not be prepared for mobile in 2013? You take all that cash from public markets but fail to have a mobile strategy while hiring 3000 people? That's a colossal management failure. The board should rid the shareholders of him. Also, where the eff _was_ the board? You'd think someone would have just held up their iphone in a meeting and it would have been enough.
I tend to agree with this. While I believe that a DNA database will be abused immediately, it is not inherently unconstitutional. It is bad law.
>- Down to Earth language: "brothers and sisters" (that we just fired) is over-the-top enough to set off alarm bells in the first few sentences.

- No self-reflection or accountability for mistakes.

I was talking with a friend recently about Andrew Mason, and we agreed that he is probably a very decent person deep down, though he made his fair share of mistakes and shady decisions along the way. (In terms of shadyness though, he was for outclassed by his very sleazy cofounder, from what I can tell)

Pincus on the other hand, I have zero doubt he is a slimeball and hence the difference in their communication.
I started off using my own implementation and was thinking about switching to docker... what made you switch away from docker?
It's interesting how the progress of iPhone hacks is mirroring that of the PSP homebrew scene 5 or 6 years ago. First there were a bunch of easy to use vulnerabilities or hidden features in apps (like the hidden browser in WipeOut)that provided functions that were offered natively in future versions of the OS. Then the hacking scene moved to OS vulnerabilities. As Sony locked down the platform tighter and tighter, people moved to hardware, using modded batteries to boot the PSP in some kind of troubleshooting mode.

Eventually, both Sony and the hackers kind of lost interest, I think -- I haven't kept up with things, TBH. That said, Sony had the PS Vita to move to, but I don't see the iPhone changing significantly in the next few years (risky words, I know, but I'll be happy if proven wrong).
Performing I/O already releases the GIL.

(Not to mention that Python has many event-driven I/O options available which are generally more efficient than threading)
If those ants spent centuries or millennia building giant machines that could see Paris from San Francisco, they'll eventually succeed in making contact. Additionally, if anyone in Paris is looking, the ants in SF have made quite the attention-grabbing scene thus increasing the odds of being contacted. This also makes it seem likely that we'll never find living aliens, but will find plenty of million-year-old machines.
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Thanks. But the first thread I ran across there could hardly be more supportive of the OP's argument:

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/u6qqo/there_h...

If you can point me to counterarguments more specifically, I'll look at them.
yes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5815670
Is it wrong that when I saw the word "social", I imagined Twitter and Facebook?
We need to be clear about why that doesn't work because it's exactly what some people want.

Appeals to natural justice are correct, but won't persuade those people.

We need to work out the problems with false negatives and false positives and tying an ID to a DNA string because that might persuade a few people about how bad the idea is.
I doubt that has a significant impact on the cost of the procedure, though, right? I mean, sort of like replacing the clutch on a car -- the cost isn't (necessarily) based on the lifetime/quality of the new clutch, but rather the labor required to pull the engine, install the clutch, button everything back up.
Sure. I can easily imagine it doing more good than harm. The fact is that police and juries, in the absence of very precise evidence, don't just go "geez, guess we gotta leave this one unsolved." Not with families and communities devastated by rapes, murders, etc. If they don't have precise evidence, like DNA, they will depend on less precise evidence, like finger prints or hair samples, or god forbid eyewitness testimony.
Shouldn't we ask some people on the other side of the ocean?
What would you predict Zynga will look like in a year? In five years? Do you think these layoffs are a good or bad thing for the future of the company?
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Tariffs and trader regulations, and the difference isn't THAT huge. Look at price differences for things like monitors and other PC parts.
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Makes sense. I guess I never associated the ideomotor effect with spelling, and I still don't see how that would work, but I guess it does. Do you happen to have a background in magic/mentalism?
And Chinese sources don't fund "wars" against Tibetan people?
I use them a lot, both for work and personal stuff. For work I use them for course and lesson design (I'm a business trainer and a english language teacher) sketching out ideas and business strategies (I do a little business model consulting on the side too). They are also quite good for project management, especially if you use mind mapping software that auto numbers branches, makes it easy to create work breakdown structures. And of course, they're great for capturing brainstorming sessions, and I use them for note taking during meetings.

I like the iOS iThoughts, lots of great options for importing and exporting - I do a fair bit of presentation and document design starting with a mind map, then export it to Word or PowerPoint. Plus ithoughts has auto numbering, (the developer kind of added it at my request, a really nice guy, and actively developing the software) I also send it to xmind on my laptop where I can link ideas to actual files (excel, PDF etc.) I used to use xMind a lot, but I prefer mind-mapping on the iPad, it feels a lot more like working pen and paper.
Isn't this just circling around the real problem? It is not that the government is able to collect the data, but that it is able to store it and cross examine it indefinitely.

A much more balanced (and fair) system will be they arrest you for some reason. Get your DNA and fingerprints and check for open crimes. If no charges are pressed or you are acquitted etc the data that they got for you is purged by law from their databanks.

This way the government will have easy time by catching you once to check what other stuff you have been involved in but if in the future you get involved in a crime scene they won't have an arrow pointed straight at you.
Interesting calendar trivia. The Gregorian calendar was adopted in Sept. 1752:

Britain and the British Empire (including the eastern part of what is now the United States) adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, by which time it was necessary to correct by 11 days. Wednesday, 2 September 1752 was followed by Thursday, 14 September 1752.

So, in this case, it looks like cal is doing the right thing.
Well, the correspondence sounds interesting but if remains just on the level of the unexplained, it is hard to see it really being interesting.

If you define a function, call it a "type" and then take the Taylor series of that function, how mind blowing is that really?

My point is that without a motivation to these constructions, they are just constructions. It may be everyone in-the-know understands the motivation already, knows why this thing labeled type really has a "deep" relation to an abstract type-thing. Fair enough but I'm just saying if one omits this motivation, your whole exercise doesn't look interesting to those not in-the-know, OK?
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That's true, though even 10% of that number (more than twice the out-of-pocket cost with insurance) would've been financially crippling.
Probably because it's lolcats for HN.
I did, and the underlying issue is security. Don't let others have access to your session and you won't experience what the author experienced.
it's in C. as it was explained to me once, the compiler team asked the kernel team if they would be fine fixing C support at C89 and the kernel team said "sure". being the largest and most important consumer of the compiler (at the time, possibly still today) that was that.

the kernel team is also pretty slow to adapt new C compilers and you can see this by watching the lag in compiler versions released in the driver development kit vs those released with visual studio.
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While DNA evidence is not infallible, there are not "hundreds of thousands" of cases of faulty convictions based on DNA.
When they are actively trying to surrender, then they're probably "Ready to surrender". The US wouldn't negotiate because the bombs were on the way.

What were the conditions? Because if they were "you help us rebuild" or "and we get a grill-cheese sandwich" then really they're not much. Plenty of peace treaties have taken place with conditions.
The Google bar on Android devices works toward this a bit.

You can just type or hit the voice action [0] button and say "note pick up milk at 8 o’clock" and have the action completed with the note handling app of your choosing.

0: http://support.google.com/android/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
F/8 and be there. That still works with an iPhone.

EDIT: Okay, so an iPhone can never actually do f/8, but I think my point still stands...
Unfortunately, since it is a university research group, they probably disclosed responsibly and whatever defect allowed this form of jailbreaking will soon be fixed. That means that it's unlikely that people will have a perennial, easy jailbreak going forward from this source.
I would love to see a breakdown on this. Specifically, the ratio between developers, marketers, management, etc.
This a great overview - nicely done! It would have been nice to also mention how other implementations of Python like Jython that _don't_ have the GIL, and how they managed to do it.

As for why it hasn't been solved yet...the api for threads and processes is pretty much identical. Since you're just as well off using a process in the majority of cases, that's we we go with.
Why does then the defenders not attack the eye witness testimony on these grounds - that people and memory are unreliable, so what this guy remembers even if honestly believe so is not to be trusted? They could also throw some Bayesian math in the mix.