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I had an iPhone 4 until a few weeks ago, much in the same mindset as yourself. Though it can do 99% of what the 5 does, the speed difference really makes it feel like a completely different experience. Also the new screen has a much better aspect ratio for watching videos. It sounds silly, but that was my experience. If you're due for an upgrade I would highly recommend it. I promise I don't work for Apple :)
People also break into cars to finance their crack addiction everyday without trouble. The incompetence of the police does not excuse their overreach.
Because if it only happens once every 10 years or so and it doesn't provide any real value beyond what the flight and data recorders provide then it hardly seems worth it. Technology changes quickly. It sounds like it was human error. I'd rather have something to help prevent it rather than seeing the footage of the crash. Let's get the crashes down to one every 20 years.
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This is a great step towards the internet of things. The main roadblock for attaching sensors to everything right now is power. Even with month or even year-long battery life the maintenance burden and cost makes it much less attractive.

If you could just stick a rice-sized sensor wherever you want and not worry about battery life we'd all have 'smart houses' by now.
Nonsense. Even after this seemingly decapitation of the concept of privacy, there is still minutiae and trivialities about privacy. For example, should all personal information be stored in a common encryption format mandated by the state?
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I have a hard time reading Yudkowsky. I'm not as in love with his writing as he is. I think he makes good points. But if you're starting from the position of evidence-based beliefs and Bayesian reasoning, the knowledge gained by suffering through a longwinded essay seems too little. I have tried a few times, because others seem to love Less Wrong, but each time I found I came away with little or no new information.
Why doesn't this article discuss the repercussions of such a plan?

These ideas of "helping everyone and feeling good" fail to understand human behavior. Basic income would reek havoc on the real estate market as people (of the trashy uncivilized variety) would try to move into nice neighborhoods with their new funds that they didn't work for and earn and "fuck up the neighborhood" basically.(This already occurs with section 8 housing) Another consequence is that rent and housing would rise substantially.

The price of a home isn't just determined by the value of the home itself but by the highest price the local market can afford to pay. People who are not in real estate don't understand this.

The flawed assumption to this plan is that all or most poor people are poor because they just haven't been given enough chances or nice things. This emotional ideology usually belongs to young collage students who have never worked with the public and seen the real asshole-ery and primitive baboon-ism of humanity and believe everyone is a nice person. Or adults who grew up in their parent's nice neighborhood miles away from reality. I know you're going to think I'm the biggest most evil asshole in the world but after working with the public (everyone in my family does) NOT a cool startup in a collage town I have to tell you the truth: Quite a few poor people (not all of course) are poor for a reason. Sitting down and talking with them will usually give away these reasons immediately. They don't bring value, they can't hold jobs because they have poor impulse control, they're short term decision makers, they don't want to educate or better themselves, they're hyper-sexual, were born with a lower IQ, they can't commit to jobs they do have, they smoke pot like crazy. Basically they don't have nice things for a reason. And every time you try to give them nice things they ruin them and don't appreciate them.

I used to be one of those "help everyone and make the world happy and good feelings and gosh I just wish we could all hold hands". I have completely left that ideology as it's a fantasy. A lie. These smart intellectual folks with ideas on how to help the poor completely forget to include the above mentioned human problems. All they see is numbers and an equation and they want to balance it all out on the table. But it never works like that in real life.

I know during this recession a lot of people who deserve nice things have had them taken away, but any attempts to correct this through government, welfare, and basic income is just going to go in the wrong hands.

There are devastating repercussions for paying people to do nothing or giving people something they haven't earned. Let's stop chasing pipe-dreams because they "sound nice".

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Dear Sophie is ostensibly a product ad for Chrome (in that the logo and name appear at the end), but it doesn't actually talk about Chrome. The ad would work just as well in Internet Explorer - it's about how Google The Company is making your life better (through email, Youtube, picture storage and sharing, etc). It's a very brand-flavored product ad.
Sure you can. Our democratic process involves people choosing a credible representative, who then hires a staff and meets with other representatives in order to make decisions. An activist working within the system can, as I feel like you've pointed out before, ignore public opinion and lobby representatives directly; "lobby" is a curse word around here, but obviously it's not always a bad thing.
My current focus is on machine learning for industrial application. 15 years ago my main focus was the paperless office. And before that common office automation.

Its true, that not every coder is freeing people from work.

But in average we destroy stupid jobs, and replace them with smart machines. Those jobs will never come back. The only kind of work that will be left are social work, that is currently badly payed.

The result is that there will less demand for work, the wages will sink to the botton, nobody would be able to buy things, and capitalism will destroy itself.

The only way to avoid a communist slave state is an universal income.
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not really. A black high school drop out is probably looking for a job in a city (and a large city at that). a white high school dropout is much more likely to be looking for a job in a rural area or a smaller city, where there are much more opportunities for people with less education.
... I won't hold my breath.
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I worked for a company in the 90s where the source repository was wiped because the idiot admin tried to run a backup in the wrong place at the wrong time and nuked the repo. Or something like that -- I never really understood his excuse for what had happened.

We lost all the history, but (after they escorted the guy from the building) we were able to restart with source trees pulled off dev workstations.

No surprise that I got an email from one of the VPs of the nearly-defunct company a few years later asking if I might know the master password to the source control database. So yeah, they had a backup, but it was useless because of course it had been encrypted to prevent theft but nobody thought of recording the password somewhere secure.
Even if you work in an environment which borders on unprofessional, dressing this way has many benefits. People will regularly comment on how good you look. They'll take you more seriously. You'll gain a little more confidence and pride in properly accomplishing a given style. And you can use it for the rest of your life, until the point at which your centuries-old duds go out of style (which probably won't be in our lifetime). Other people in your workplace may notice this and make an effort to clean themselves up a bit, too, which may affect their interpersonal skills and work ethic. No guarantees, but it can't hurt.

Oh, and ladies go crazy over well-fitting clothes, especially suits.
I've had graph search for a few months now, but have only played with it recently, and it's terrifying.

The other night, after getting pizza delivered, I did a search for "Women who live in Oakland and who work at Domino's Pizza". Boom, here was the girl who delivered my pizza. Not only did I get pictures of her, her first name, and her last name, but also status updates just in case I felt like tracking her life.

Further searches allowed me to find personal information on government employees (eg DMV) in my city, the waitress who served me last night, and so on. More extreme use cases (for example, finding gay men in notoriously homophobic countries) have been pointed out in the past. Similarly, a good friend of mine managed to track down the Apple genius who had taken care of his computer just by knowing basic information ("he lives in Seattle and works at the Apple Store").

Yes, the data is there, people should be careful about what they post online, yada yada. The truth is that a person with nefarious intentions can use Facebook's graph search in an extremely effective way to carry out their intentions. It's fucking ridiculous.
Great idea. It has the potential to spread virally if those who don't have the extension installed are shown a message telling them the benefits of installing it.
If I ever write JavaScript, then I definitely use JSHint. It doesn't help with some things such as immutable local bindings, type checking, not having to worry about hoisting, or any of the nice syntax features you get with GorillaScript, which is why I see the benefit.
>>Indeed, in contrast to your laundry list, Stanovich doesn't present a single concrete example of an irrational decision by the former president and the cognitive bias that led to it.

This must be some kind of alternate reality where GWB did not declare war on Iraq based on a complete knee-jerk (read: irrational) reaction to 9/11.

And I'm being very generous here. There are many smart people who have provided evidence that GWB's decision to invade Iraq was based on malice.
I make the same observations, but I actually think that it's a brilliant move by Snowden et. al. The way they are releasing the information so far has been from less to more troublesome. It's hard to say yet, but I would imagine that the first leak is on the lower spectrum of importance. But it was a great starter because it appealed to a larger audience given that it had powerpoint with big name companies on it, rather than the technical details that would be required to demonstrate the two points you mention.

As the leaks have moved on, the information has become progressively more concerning. Anyone who has followed this issue should have at least a vague idea of the caliber of information that could be coming (your post as an example). So, rather than releasing the big ticket items first, and having the rest of the issues make no impact in comparison, they're allowing as much information as possible to have it's greatest individual impact before moving on (not to mention the now well-discussed benefit of authorities lying themselves into corners trying to cover up the smaller issues).

In this way, they're priming the public so that we've spent months digesting the impact, and understanding the issue so that when we get (say) screenshots proving everything going over telecommunications is recorded, the public is prepared to understand and digest that fact quickly, and can move to action quicker--or even at all.

The more I think about it, the more I earnestly believe that this technique is the most effective methodology available to them and may be our one and only shot to stop it (keep in mind that once a subgroup of society reaches enough power and intelligence over the rest, there is literally nothing the rest of humanity could do to overthrow them; we can't dump tea in the ocean and fire guns at them anymore if they have drones and know everything about everyone).

He doesn't have to convince HN readers that this is worth stopping our daily lives for to stand against, he has to convince the general public.

With that in mind, the best thing we can do right now, is help them to prime the pump. Bring it up to everyone that will listen. Make the electorate informed. Because when the news comes--the one that we will need to act on--the public needs to be ready to hear it and move on it.
Your username of 'one time only', is that a reflection on the proper use of an OTP? Is there a story there about a mistake? Just curious. =)
Are you just saying that, or are you just saying that?
We exist for only a moment compared to how long the universe has existed, and how long it will exist.

I don't intend to spend this short time worrying if someone else would approve of my choices.

I am more than capable of making my own decisions without harming myself and others, to hell with anyone who believes I don't deserve to do so.
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What's your alternative? Put them in prison and pay more than the basic income cost or leave them free with no support or way to earn a living except by being a menace to society? Something else entirely?
Okay, it's obvious I don't know much about how pharma companies work but that's not the point. Let me put it another way: Lets do something that greatly benefits me, marginally benefits you, and wrap it up in good will and fuzzy feelings so you'll buy it.
Aye, that is a great way to do it. Probably easier to implement it that way from a political point of view.
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> Have you evaluated Code Synthesis's ODB?

I did not test ODB yet, but I'm planning to. Not fan of their license tough...
Well the model to not run code directly on the phone but in vm has laginess built-in and you can only mask it. I never understood the point of Dalvik.
This has a lot more to do with money than it does with age, especially in cities where there are neighborhoods in the center or near the center.

As for a yard, some of the richest billionaires in Manhattan don't have one. It's a matter of preference in which age isn't really a factor. Do you want a yard, or do you want floor-to-ceilng windows with a cityscape view? That's the choice in a select few cities like Manhattan, but in the majority of cities you definitely can get a yard very close to the center if that's what you value; it's just a matter of how wealthy you are.

Here in Houston, personally I don't know a single person who would prefer to live in Sugar Land (a suburb about 30 minutes out) over River Oaks (a very affluent neighborhood of gated mansions in the geographic center). But only the top executives, neurosurgeons, sports stars, etc., live in River Oaks because everyone else is priced out.

Some people value a yard and brick house so much that they commute in order to get it. Others buy high-rise condos and enjoy the panoramic views and central proximity. I haven't really observed much true correlation with age, though, with the high-rise condos. Apartments, yes, but expensive condos, no.
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Those people you describe have no place in the job market. Their only value is to consume. Give them free money, so that they consume WoW, THC, beer and the like. Someone has to consume our overproduction.

But, I'm living in an area the US would call a project. Most of my neighbors are unemployed. Not because they are lazy bums, but because there are no jobs for those who are over 50, or are uneducated, or are single moms, or ... And there are no jobs that would pay a living wage. So its easier/better for them to stay unemployed, and earn unemployment money.

The people you describe are only a small fraction of the unemployed masses.
I live in a medium sized city in Texas (~200k metro area), and I've never experienced this either.
In Canada most people have contracts as well.
I don't see it getting used by a majority- but 10, 20% maybe? Sure. There's a lot of shame that comes with being jobless, and as much as you think we're more entitled as a culture, people who go years without work, while living in poverty or just above it, don't feel entitled for much.

However, many of them are incredibly close to their family or friends- after all, what's the point of life if you don't have anything you love in yours? I was a bit fortunate that my family had effectively written me off as a failure, which left me little guilt to feel when I left.

Then, my entire life turned around. In the span of 14 months, I go from unemployed, to auto parts delivery, to paid-for-shit web developer, to absolutely amazing webdev/product development job. All without college, and thusly, with no debt.

I got stupendously lucky, once the bad luck ran out. But I don't imagine as many had the pure hopelessness that I had before, where you have no moral support from friends/family, and no hope for work, which gives you no reason to not leave.
There is also the theory he is a CIA plant being used to undermine the NSAs encroachment on their business...
> They couldn't find bin Laden for 10 years.

I realize this puts me in tinfoil-hat territory, but I'm not sure this wasn't intentional. He was of greater strategic value while still "alive", both to the U.S. and to the jihadists. Moreover, he had serious health problems for the last decade, and quite possibly has been dead for years of natural causes. The rapid and secret funeral at sea also seemed odd, as well as the timing, just before the election.

I have no evidence, so I can't square that circle. But given the record of shady behavior (competent and otherwise) by the three-letter agencies, neither would it surprise me.
My personal opinion is that any objective evidence does matter, although mostly in the context of the investigation like you mentioned. I hadn't thought of that particular choice.

In any case, it's reasonable to predict that CNN has better footage already that they've chosen not to release yet.
Using iOS7 beta with painfully slow animations on my brand new iPhone 5, I have a feeling that iPhone 6 will make iOS7 fly, giving me a good reason to upgrade.
Too bad Nikolai Tesla's not around to help us figure out how to harness that energy.
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Well not at all ... half the world cannot afford device with BOM of 100$. And when you ship 600 million devices per year you get the low hanging fruit of 3.5 billion very fast.
1. The list of top performing funds is not static.

2. The number of individuals and institutions invested in these funds who actually understand the instruments these funds invest in (particularly in the hedge fund world) is infinitesimally smaller. In other words, they couldn't give you an educated explanation as to why they invested, they simply got lucky.

3. Access doesn't guarantee returns. Sending your money to John Paulson in 2008 was very rewarding; if you invested in his PFR Gold Funds, you're down more than 50% in 2013 alone. It is almost impossible to predict top performers, particularly given point 2 above, and even if you do invest in a top performing fund, at best your investment is likely to constitute a modest portion of the total funds you have invested.

4. Success is a double-edged sword for fund managers: it's possible to raise a lot more capital (management fees, yay!) and launch new funds with ease, but finding investment opportunities that can deliver meaningful results becomes increasingly difficult as the size of the positions you need to establish grows. In other words, by the time you're investing in a fund manager because of past performance, there's a good chance you've already missed the big gains.

5. If you go back decades, particularly before 2008, hedge funds on the whole provided significantly better returns than buying a major index. But in the past several years, the S&P 500 has outperformed a number of indexes that track hedge fund performance. When you consider fees, most hedge fund investors have overpaid for underperformance the past several years.

6. A number of investment banks are exploring the launch of retail investor-friendly hedge funds with modest minimums (four-figures low in some cases), and Goldman has already launched its own. This is seen as a growth market for the investment banks so you can expect a lot of action in this space in the coming years.

Compelling market opportunities, private and public, do exist and the number of financial products promising average Americans access to them has grown considerably over the past decade. If I want a leveraged investment in publicly-traded mortgage REITs, for instance, UBS has an exchange traded note I can buy tomorrow. If I want to invest in investment-grade bonds denominated in renminbi, there's an ETF for that. And so on and so forth.

The number of sophisticated (and sometimes incomprehensible) financial products available to everyone will continue to grow but that doesn't really matter: the number of individuals who will be invested in the right products at the right time, and keep their gains over the long haul, will always be small. Put simply, access has very little to do with actually being able to exploit compelling market opportunities.
Certainly could. But God, talk about risky investment. I don't see how you'd reliably make your money back. Not to mention, what business is going to say, "Yeah I want the dregs of somewhere really far away." without extra monetary incentive?
You still need power wired and planning. Go Pros will still be the cheapest part of the equation.
I shudder to think of what sort of horrible, wrongheaded response we'll get out of this from Antonin Scalia.
"are uneducated, or are single moms"

When another human being drops out of FREE high school and sleeps around and gets pregnant you want me to reward them for that? When you subsidize people's bad decisions you will get more bad decisions. When you give a safety net for purposely being stupid you will get more of it.

You want me to pay for someone else to do nothing with their life. Think about that for a moment.
I'll switch for a good phone like the Nexus 4, about 2/3 of the size and the battery life of the iPhone 5. Otherwise I fall in the 'good enough' camp that unless some incredible new app or technology comes out that needs a new phone, I'm sticking with my N4 for a good while to come.
"All of the current 11 judges, who serve seven-year terms, were appointed to the special court by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ..."

So they're asking the Supreme Court to stop the spying program facilitated by the secret court, which is staffed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
FPX does seem to have a good record compared to S&P 500.
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It looks interesting and well written. However I would prefer to read it when it is complete or at least more complete.
Years ago, when I interned at Microsoft, they did a company survey to figure out what to name what would become Vista. The top two names were Windows Hooker and Windows Heroin. True story.
I wonder if the trend has something to do with the fact nowadays you just don't "need" the phone in smartphone.

I have been reducing the total minutes talked per month for years now and more and more of my voice communication is on skype/viber etc. And that is not uncommon trend.
One C file with no dependencies? Should be a trivial build and interface wrap using the NDK.
18 is probably too old. We want the child support handout to be separated from the parent as early as possible. Giving 12 year olds their own income is probably better than either welfare queens or fertility police.
The answer is there is no good answer, at least technically. The best solutions lie in UX, where a user is alerted to the conflict and decides which copy to keep.