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Just watched full 2 seasons after recent HN recommendation. "Person of Interest" is a good series, and in some moments not-so-suprisingly-now scary.
Anyone else noticed that the article was written next week?
No problem, I have just never understood what people meant by that on HN. Some "weekend projects", like yours, would be quite humbling if they truly were built in one weekend :)
What does that mean? You mean large risks of relatively small costs? (Small risks of small costs are obviously not important.)

This is directly contrary to hannibal5's claim, correct?
Surprisingly, that's not so right now, wind is more cost effective.

The price of a new coal plant in the US has gone up dramatically due to the increases in energy and metals.
Was it this talk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VUyuFH9CbI
How To Solve "When Your Input Field Values Are Not Saving In DOM?"
> If you build something on someone else's API, you can get fucked in a million ways.

I feel you should mention whether or no you pay for the API and have a legitimate contract enforceable with law.

This is one reason why I don't use google APIs; I can't pay for them with any sort of reasonable SLA.
Sounds like a lawsuit magnet then, so I'd suggest something a bit more neutral.
I feel like I should know that. Where is it from?
I really like the concept and I'm a great use case for it. I'm the CTO of a membership-driven, professional association. Without happy members we don't exist, so measuring how we are handling interactions with members is of critical importance -- a perfect candidate for Temper.

The rub is that we are also an association of privacy professionals. This means our members care deeply about where their personal data ends up. Unfortunately you have no privacy policy on the site which prevents me from even suggesting it to our Membership group -- it would be summarily dismissed without consideration.

It's a common mistake among MVP sites to overlook this detail but often a generic privacy policy would likely be enough for most and shouldn't take more than a couple of hours to put together. I think it would be effort well spent.
engadget and theverge seem to have fairly different impressions on battery life. Hoping anandtech will clarify. "mid-range" is not a bad word, and I'm willing to support locally assembled products.
Its from http://unsplash.com/. We also have him on our landing page - gonna have to change it if he shows up everywhere :).
You're right. If the battery's dead all the time, it can also be a paper weight!
It's not meaningful in this case. When accessing hidden services on onion, you never hit an exit node.
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil (2012)
> I wonder what the average citizen can do about this?

Donate to the ACLU.
Very few things can be cleanly divided into two groups.

Group 3: Those who use it because they like the language itself and would happily target non-Apple platforms if it was a tenable solution.
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Not precisely correct this bit: This kind of evidence --- legit evidence traceable to illegit sources --- would be excluded if it involved torture, but apparently the jurisprudence hasn't caught up to its use in unlawful surveillance.

Nominally private communications that are acquired without the benefit of a warrant, are excluded all the time. The notion of 'parallel construction' is antithetical to the presumption of innocence clause. Any conviction where it can be shown that the initial basis for investigation was acquired in this way and the evidence history had been "re-constructed" in order to avoid that taint, would be thrown out by any appellate court in the country.

No doubt there are motions being filed right now for such actions.
Thank you. I need exactly this. Stupid question, but I can't quickly find the answer on your website (you may want to add this to your FAQs): Does it cost anything?
I'm not sure it would be more efficient. Starches from corn or potatoes is pretty cheap, and if this synthetic meat can use it more efficiently (I wouldn't be surprised at at least an order of magnitude or two) compared to an animal in the wild, that's relatively little feedstock per pound of meat compared to what we pay now.

And using the same kind of biotech we use to break down cellulose to make cellulosic ethanol, we might be able to create feedstock for this meat from agricultural waste or fast-growing grasses.
We have competing hypotheses about an observable future fact. We should resolve them via the scientific method.

But if you don't have an email form doing thousands of impressions and want to just bet on this one, your bet would be a very bad bet to make.
Sure, I agree with you. The problem is, if "regular" meat does not need to say what type of cow it's from, what antibiotics were used, what the cow was fed, the living conditions at the farm, the location of the farm, etc, then why make lab grown meat have this label? It will only serve to differentiate the lab grown meat. Unless there's some provable difference between meat A and meat B, they should be subject to the same labeling requirements. To label otherwise pushes the uncertainty onto the consumer.

This is similar to rBST in cows (note that I am only comparing the provable human health impact as a comparison between these two products). I'm quoting from Wikipedia here (you can follow their references to make your own opinion): "The Food and Drug Administration[33], World Health Organization, the American Dietetic Association, and National Institutes of Health have independently stated that dairy products and meat from BST-treated cows are safe for human consumption." [1]. Yet even though the major health agencies around the world agree that there's no provable difference to human health when consuming milk A vs milk B, but I've yet to see milk in my supermarket that does not have the label "from cows not treated with rBST". The impact of that label was so significant that the FDA had to push to get them to add an additional disclaimer, "FDA states: No significant difference in milk from cows treated with artificial growth hormones".

You might argue that people go with rBST-free milk because of the health implications to the cows, but I would need to see some statistics to believe that. If people were that concerned over the cow's health, they would not buy factory-farmed hamburger meat in the same supermarket. I would wager that people are concerned for human health due to the contents of the milk. Not labeling milk as rBST-free or labeling meat as lab-grown has the same effect: it makes people question how healthy it is to consume. Unless those fears are based in reality, all you're doing is causing FUD in the consumer's mind. Unless all meat of the same health impact is labeled the same, you're going to be putting lab-grown meat at a significant disadvantage when, by the time it comes to market, it could be much better for cows than factory-farmed meat.

In short, more labeling on the production of meat is a good thing. But lab-grown meat should not be the line in the sand. It should be labeled on all meat or on no meat (if lab-grown meat is proven to have no significant difference from farmed meat).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_somatotropin#Hormones
This analysis is wrong. One inherits the debts, but only up to the value of the assets inherited. See Art. 1.792

Art. 1.792. O herdeiro não responde por encargos superiores às forças da herança; incumbe-lhe, porém, a prova do excesso, salvo se houver inventário que a escuse, demostrando o valor dos bens herdados.

Free translation:

Section 1792. The heir is not liable for charges greater than the forces of inheritance: it must, however, provide evidence of excess, unless there is inventory to excuse himself, demonstrating the value of inherited assets.
As some others have mentioned, knowledge economies are not zero-sum. It's not like you can only use one course or one class (I've taken many).

As for market saturation, I think it depends on what your thoughts are about theories that some futurists (like Doug Rushkoff) have put forward saying that one day everyone will have to learn how to code. If everyone will one day learn how to code, then it's a pretty big market.
Why I Quit Microsoft To Join A 5-Person Start Up In Toronto (2012)
Researchers manipulate mouse neurons to create a false memory
This is an excellent point. We definitely plan to work with seniors. My grandmother is 82. I try to call her 1x a week just to touch base. She looks forward to the calls from me and my sister, but we get pretty busy and forget from time to time. I think it'd be awesome if a listener on 7 Cups could just chat her up a couple times a week for 15 minutes each time. It'd mean the world to her. I think we have a real opportunity to work with nursing homes and assisted care facilities on a solution for them.

Also, one interesting anecdote that I discovered when talking with experts that work with the elderly. They said that often times elderly people will complain about telemarketers, but they'll answer the phone because they are lonely. They'll then end up buying things they don't really want just because they were able to connect with another person.

I also wonder if we can find a way for elderly volunteers to sign up as listeners. They've been through a lot and could help a lot of younger people going through similar struggles. If anyone has any recommendations or contacts at senior organizations, then it'd be great if you could share them with me. Thanks!
You could at least use Face unlock, no? Still better than nothing.

On the same line of thinking, they already have a pretty good technology that recognizes your voice. So why not have that be the built-in security lock, too? So if anyone else tries to unlock it in any way (either voice or touch), they can't. It doesn't seem like the technology is perfect yet, but it's still better than nothing.
> Listeners can currently elect to charge a fee and if they do, the site takes a commission
IMO the ability to transparently call into C is ObjC's only redeeming feature and pretty much the only reason I use it. You can get the performance and dynamism elsewhere (at the least, you can go for a different language built on the same runtime, like Nu), but you can't get the C elsewhere. The fact that ObjC is built on C is simultaneously the best and worst thing about it, as nearly all of the language's problems stem from that as well.

I disagree about it being there when Apple rose to power, though. I think it was an accident, like so many other accidents of history. NeXT provided Apple with a solid base for the future, but IMO they could have done it decently well with Be instead. The most important thing they got from Next was Steve Jobs. ObjC just happened to be in the right place at the right time to be chosen as the GUI programming language by NeXT, and NeXT just happened to be in the right place at the right time to leverage their technology into a takeover of Apple under the leadership of a guy who was ready to change the world.
I generally prefer "Too many cooks; not enough dishwashers," or some variation on that theme.
It's a very valid point if you are not doing research but instead doing viewpoint validation.

Research is gathering all of the data you can in as much of an unbiased manner as you can and then asking what conclusions you can draw from that data. Viewpoint validation is starting from your conclusion and cherry picking data to support that conclusion. There is no evidence that viewpoint validation is what went on here, and in fact the article mentions later the rest of the data that was gathered and analysis of the points in the data that may contradict this conclusion.

However, the writer also spends most of his time saying, "Welp, there's all of this data, but can a brother get a programmer? Nope? INVALID CONCLUSION DOES NOT COMPUTE," which is a pretty shitty way to do journalism.
Yeah something like that. Except leveraging technology to help people learn faster :)
I'm really proud of this first episode from my new series on The Verge called Small Empires. We're focused on NY startups this season, but I'm hoping we travel... I already am known to have a fondness for buses + roadtrips... http://siliconprairiefilm.com
Some of the "listeners" might be surprised to find out that they can be located easily with google image search. I just did that for one person and found their full name because they used the same exact picture elsewhere.

I guess the question (not reading any of the sign up materials) is is there an implied expectation of privacy on the part of listeners (I see with the people needing support there is an explicit statement of confidentiality) and should they be notified of ways that people can find out who they are?

Edit: And things to do (picture and name wise) to prevent that from happening?
This is really a tough sell as a policy issue. I'm supposed to be all upset that wages are being depressed from $200,000 to $100,000 for people who happened to have fallen out of their mothers on one side of an invisible line even though it means opportunities for people to make $100,000 who would otherwise be making $25,000 but happened to be born on the other side of the world?

Sorry, far from being upset, that sounds to me like a great trade-off. Sure the companies aren't doing it out of altruism, but the net result is quite positive. All those 'underpaid' American born engineers working in silicon valley can comfort themselves knowing that they will still be among the 1% richest people in the entire world.

N.B. Look up PPP before objecting based on how much an apartment in SF costs.
Yeah, I bet there are a few people who sign up for "One Month Rails" and then ask if they can use Python instead.
Great insight! Though I'd expand on your bet and claim that at almost every major site, a majority of testing is channeled into onboarding. It's certainly the case at Twitter and Facebook that a lot of work goes into optimizing a user's first steps.
Actually, C++ and Java had full support from Apple for GUI programming for a decade after the return of Steve.
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Joseph, you are welcome. Right now we are a bit overwhelmed, so it might be hard to get through. Things should quiet down. Please let me know how it goes for you. You can send me an email at info at 7cupsoftea dot com.

We are creating a marketplace where some people will volunteer, some will have a pay what you want option, and then others will have a set rate for 30 minutes.
Part of the problem is that the salaries are just too damn low right now. If you offer a competitive or even above-average salary that's _livable_ in the Bay Area then talent will beat a path to your door. Try to lowball or meet other offers and you'll be stuck without candidates.
You're wrong in every detail. Both Google and Apple have a lot of haters and a lot of unconditional defenders. This is, of course, because they both do some shitty things and some awesome things. But good luck with your effort to cram the world into simple black/white cubbyholes!
I've not encountered any substantial number of people who fit that description.
I get at least one of these a week and that is after I took my phone number off my resume. I found out that in order for your number to get purged, you need to post an "alternate" one.

I also have the suspicion that recruiting agencies have temps call/email people to "verify" details since there are potentially so many fake resumes out there that are bought/sold. IMHO these are like spam lists or something...
I don't think Josh contradicted him, just that he might be an even heavier user than Engadget's author.

Plus, Motorola never said 24h of heavy usage. They said 24 of mixed usage. The battery life seems better than average, either way, and it probably does last 24h or longer for most people. The 7h test is obviously a stress test using the CPU, screen and Wi-Fi all the time until the battery is drained..
At this point--I don't even trust HN.
It's of course a felony to sell a gun to a known criminal. Sure, we do that a lot easier in the US because the people are actually allowed to own guns, but I don't think that was the point you were making.
Copying is totally a viable business model, hardly any ideas are actually "new". Zynga made a boatload off of copying other people's game ideas/art so no reason (aside from integrity) to think it wouln't work.

But there's also competition, and if you are going to do something, at least try to do it better than anyone else!
It helps with GPS locks, apparently, apart from being able to participate in PressureNET.
> "Were there any drugs in the car? When Henderson and Boatright said no, the officer asked if he and his partner could search the car.

The officers found the couple’s cash and a marbled-glass pipe that Boatright said was a gift for her sister-in-law, and escorted them across town to the police station."

The article doesn't say it outright, but does imply that they consented to the police search. Never, ever, under any circumstances whatsoever, should you do this. Even if you "have nothing to hide." These two thought they had nothing to hide too. But what you think doesn't matter when the officer's opinion on what is "suspicious" is all that matters. There is nothing whatsoever for you to gain from agreeing to a search of your property.

Don't give them probable cause and make them get a warrant. If you agree to a search you might as well hand your rights over at the same time. Depending on the officer(s) to exercise sound judgment and restraint when they have little to no incentive to do so is simply foolish.
I heard of them a month ago. Come on, peterc! :p

(I only noticed because I've been a bit obsessive about twitter followers as of late, and noticed that they followed me.)
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Hey Peter! We've been running under the radar since about November, iterating on the content on the online system itself. It started out as the best-selling class on Skillshare (with 2000 students) and grew from there. While the first version was only $20, it was also only about half the content of this current one (and was recorded in one day!)
Perl was designed to replace 16 different Unix commands, and in that respect it is successful. Python was created as a scripting language with exceptions, and in that respect it is also successful.

I don't think either of these statements is true.

This is not a flaw. It is a feature. Arguing about how it should have been done X way is pointless.

I disagree. This is not about subjective aesthetics. There are some fruits that are poisonous and are thus objectively bad, totally apart from the question of what fruit you think tastes best. Some of perl's language design features are objectively bad. For example, the way references are implemented makes it absurdly difficult to reason about simple things like nested sequences. If that complexity was needed to get some positive benefit like outstanding performance, then maybe it would be justified. But there are no significant benefits. They are the way they are because Larry Wall didn't understand anything about programming languages when he made perl.

As for parsing, it is impossible to parse Perl, as it is Turing-complete and nobody has solved the halting problem (yet).

With respect, every language I'm familiar with can be easily parsed except for perl. This has nothing to do with Turing Completeness or the Halting Problem. This has to do with having a sufficiently well designed syntax that tools can easily parse files written in the language without having to implement the whole damn language. That's an important property to have every language besides perl nails it because it is easy to do, but perl doesn't because Larry Wall didn't know anything about programming language design when he started.
For people who haven't been in Texas lately, particularly south Texas... this isn't unusual or an exaggeration. It really is that bad.
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Ever try to contact a human at google regarding their services/products? Or even your account? It's quite difficult to find an email form that will lead to a human let lone a phone number.
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Ask HN: Professional/Leadership Development Without Buzzwords?
I've worked my way up the ranks from programmer to an executive level at my small sized company. I'm not brand new to managing people but all of my training is on-the-job. With my promotion, I've been asked to seek leadership training or professional development to help me become a better manager and a better leader.

What professional development, leadership courses, or even executive coaches have you used that you'd highly recommend?

Thanks!
There are actually :)
Did you read the speech as well? For example, he did quite literally liken Perl to a President and other languages as babies. The other pieces seemed about right but I admit I struggled mightily to follow that speech.
Someone steals Nuclear material and releases it over a large area. Or a design failure can lead to something about 20 times the size Of Chernobil and hundreds of times as deadly. Note Chernobil keep most of the radioactive material contained.

PS: Granted those are both vary unlikely, but if you want to talk worst case it can get really bad especially when you add in say a large earthquake on an unknown fault or a meter impact etc.
A/B testing is a catch-all term for multi-variant experimentation. Multi-armed bandit is a specific approach to testing[1], and even though most frameworks provide A/B/N testing -- that is, not necessarily just two variants -- it is easier to say 'A/B' instead of 'A/B/N'.

http://analytics.blogspot.ca/2013/01/multi-armed-bandit-expe...
And this, too, is part of the problem.

American prosecutors want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to be able to threaten people with "95 years in prison!" But at the same time they want to show that they don't punish people with undue harshness.

Is a foreign country supposed to ignore the maximum penalty an extradition candidate faces, and go with the particulars of how the US justice system usually works, especially when prosecutors will happily threaten people with the theoretical maximum whenever it suits them?
The apathy is the scary part. I fear it would take a mass roundup of people before the "we need this because of X" people might start questioning it.

OTOH, it may be mental (illness?) for people to blindly follow authority.
One thing that unnerves me about A/B testing is that you can't test for evilness. How much of this glossary[1] do you think is intentionally designed? I doubt that all of these changes were intentional, it's just that those changes showed objective results.

A/B testing can't test for morality, and you may very well be implying something with your B design that you didn't mean to imply, which none the less rates higher in your test.

In a business setting, it becomes awfully hard to argue morality against objective numbers. It's hard to do that anyway. Many business operate with a profit first motive. So once a dark pattern is in, how are you going to get it out?

Don't get me wrong, A/B testing is a tool, and like all good tools it can be used for good or evil. It just worries me that A/B testing, despite good intentions, can lead to evil results. I don't see anything on this page about how to avoid evil results.

1. http://darkpatterns.org/
Without passing judgement on the advice, it doesn't sound to me like the cops in Tehana were going to be scrupulous about respecting the rights of the people they were stopping.
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this is what i find wonderful about tptacek hair splitting posts - they lead discussion away from the main issue - illegal surveillance in this case - to minutae details like whether Stasi power to fight drug crimes can be [ab]used to fight other crimes.