skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The intent is so that men can't use the tickets. Sure, they could have used a different colour, but they needed to differentiate those tickets.
I'd always hoped they would be known as the naughties.
The quote is incomplete. Right after all that, he says:

>But rest assured, as of this time I can say that there is at least 1 complete & superior product in testing, testing that so far is going remarkably well. So one day there will be a product on the market that will save life's while also having countless other uses. The inspiration behind this project.... Mr Maurice Ward

I'm not sure when this comment was written, but perhaps he was talking about Graphene.
This happens to be my area of expertise and is exactly true. Basic DFT would prevent this from happening without a customer knowing. Also, anything below 65nm and the chip is almost certain to have stuck@ scan testing at the minimum. The chip would be marked bad during production and tossed out. The only way in todays market this could get through is if the design was intentionally done this way, otherwise the test vectors would not match the silicon. EDIT: After reading more about their decision to use LBIST for this logic I could see a possible back door, but it does up the complexity of this hack. In my opinion this is a very low probability attack vector. It would be much easier to just pay off a disgruntled designer.
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Excellent points. Having badges for the accomplishment can be really awesome for parents. As a parent myself, I understand what you are saying here. Personally I don't like to brag about my child's accomplishments but I know a lot of parents who do and we can capitalize on that in a good way.

I was also thinking of adding instagram like filters in the mobile app to make memories more beautiful (well at least in some cases).

Thank you for your suggestions and ideas. This helps a lot.
Nothing new in the philosophy departments: thousands of words and nothing to say at all that would be connected to reality. I heard he cites some experimental works sometimes, but his own work seems still to be in this good old tradition of medieval scholasticism of thinking very hard what "ought to be", he even personifies neurons and throws in some "emergence". Missing is only some chaos theory and Goedels theorem, but Plato is there, so maybe this makes up for it. Worst is that he will inspire hundreds of cranks to do similar attempts at "explaining how brain works" and people doing real research will receive still more letters with "revolutionary" ideas of no use.

On the topic of the brain, I will take a paragraph from a biologist over a treatise by a philosopher.
I love this line of thinking.

"As a random person with no stake at all in this yet a strong opinion on it, I can tell you that if your opinion is the opposite of mine then it doesn't matter even if this issue directly affects you".

That's the kind of lazy, passive-agressive, statement that has no place in proper discussion.
If it does, I hope Tynan becomes Jack.
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Maybe it was a woman who initiated this? What then?
Pretty not psyched about the gender normativity.

"If you don't look like our idea of a girl, we'll throw you out of our conference for identifying as one."
Well I see what you are saying. More making 100 people to refer to 150, the product has to be awesome and should solve some real problems. I guess that's where the different lies between both the cases.
I've always had the same problem. I don't need a purpose - I am alive. Here I am! Why does life need a meaning beyond just being life?

It's to the point that I wonder whether I'm normal, really. Everybody else seems so caught up in their own meaning.
There's also http://patents.stackexchange.com, which allows users to request and submit examples of prior art.
Yup. OTOH, the errors didn't change discretely as the text moved.
Sadly the US is a bit different. If a guest injures themself, they can sue you and win. If a tresspasser injures themself while you're not there, they can sue you and win.

Heck, we even have reports of theives injuring themself and then turning around, suing the owner in court, and winning.
Lengthy but worth a listen.

Testimony from Jaques Follorou (Le Monde), Jacob Appelbaum, Alan Rusbridger (The Guardian), Carlos Coelho MEP, Gerhard Schmid ex-MEP & Duncan Campbell.

There's a key speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu6accTBjfs&t=2h23m1s
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Hmmm yup. We have a long way to go...
So this is unrelated to https://www.startupcompass.co/ and http://blog.startupcompass.co/ and https://angel.co/startup-genome ?
"everyone and their dog has a roku/apple tv/xbox/smart tv tho." - why do you assume that everyone lives in the US? You do know that most people in the world do NOT have access to those services,right? In my country there is not a single streaming provider, so I buy all of my films on BluRay. Who cares about a market chart? Nowadays I would not even consider buying a DVD film,and streaming is not an option. And all 40 million of other people in my country are in the same situation - no one cares about roku/apple tv/xbox tv/netflix/lovefilm because they simply don't work here. And pretty much in any country to the East and South of German boarders. And don't tell me that's insignificant.
Well it will take a while before I can fully understand your suggestions but I am on it :)
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Yes you are right. We are already active on Facebook and should be active on Pinterest and other platforms very soon.
Actually, I've used Stack Overflow to learn things by trying answering questions I don't know much about. Most of the time I don't succeed in answering them, but I always find out a lot while trying to research/figure it out.

Your mileage may vary
Sounds like a situation that the patent system was supposedly designed to prevent. But, from the article linked by yapcguy:

> He refused to patent the recipe as that would mean making it public and risking its theft

Wouldn't patenting the formula prevent it from being "stolen"? Or is our patent system truly good for nothing at all?
The existence of such a room is not the only way in which the situation could possibly be better than in the US. In fact, such a room would itself be a gross violation of privacy.

I think I explained in which ways I think it is better as far as the data retention directive is concerned. Whether or not it is really better in practice considering what police in any particular country might do, that I don't know. Maybe we need our own Snowden to tell us that.
This always blows my mind. Our last house was 85 square metres and our current is 95. With a small child we need a little more, but any more than 120 is just too big. Too much crap accumulates, too much cleaning, too much maintenance (I could prep and paint the whole interior of our house in 2-3 coats in a week after work in pretty sure). Property taxes cost more with bigger houses and things get complex fast. For example, all water in and water out happens over about 7m of one side of the house. Leaks, supply etc are so much easier to deal with. I can get above and below any problem fairly easily as it's single level. When the child goes feral at night, it sure would be nice to have 10 doors between us, but no house could stop that noise. Medium/small house believer.
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Wow, I find this pretty bad.

I've just come back from co-running my conference last week. We were way up on female attendance and speakers compared to last year, which I'm really glad with. Women don't need discounted tickets to decide whether or not to come to a con. They definitely don't need their own colour lanyards and if they had one it doesn't need to be pink.

Most importantly, what women need are reasons to come, not discounts. We're limited in what we can do at 44CON[1] to change the sausagefest nature of the industry by the number of women, but we're happy to help where we can. We should focus on improving the conference experience for women (and everyone) so they'll tell their colleagues and friends in industry to come along. Women buy tickets too, is it so hard to listen to customers instead of singling them out?
I'm surprised you compare Khan Academy with Wikipedia and SO. What's so good about it and what do you use it for?
Starlite, meet FOGBANK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbank
I'm glad I hit refresh and saw that the sensationalist title was edited, but even without that I think this article is a bit over the top. What they're doing is simple-

* Building more direct connections between themselves and other countries, to reduce the amount of traffic going through the US.

* Encouraging companies to host data directly in Brazil, so their privacy laws can be enforced for their citizens.

* Developing an encrypted email service to reduce US spying.

It's not surprising, and it's certainly not going to balkanize the internet. What it could do is cost US companies a ton of money in lost revenue as services move out of the country.
> The penalties are brutal

And, regretfully, it's likely the reason why RICO won't be applied against patent trolls.
Apparently not too flawed to take over the server market and the mobile space.
"...and I suspect that a more free-wheeling, anarchic organization is the secret of our greater capacities of creativity, imagination, thinking outside the box and all that, and the price we pay for it is our susceptibility to obsessions, mental illnesses, delusions and smaller problems."

Great observation! Isn't it true that the geniuses of this world have very often been afflicted with mental abnormalities? Take the most brilliant mathematicians, engineers, scientists; so many of them faced such problems. There indeed seems to be some connection between the mind's capacity to innovate and create and its capacity to suffer delusions and obsessions. Take examples of Gödel, Turing, Tesla, Hemingway, etc.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/mad-geniu...
Now consider this:

If you rent, to a human landlord (let's avoid a corporate landlord), the the money you give each month is used by a human person, probably for good things, like buying products you or your brother are making.

on the other hand, if you borrow money from a bank to buy, you're giving money (at least the interests, but they may make up an significant part of the price for long term borrowing), to a BANK, which will use this money to further enslave you and other human being, provoking ecnonomic crisis, and gaining political and ecnonomic control everywhere.

This is a prisoner dilema; renting is harder, but it is better for the humans as a whole.
Those were the lot sizes, houses in the US/Canada are typically a little larger than those in Europe. Property taxes in the US/Canada are a small fraction of those in Europe.
In 1996, the US government decided that large numbers of its nuclear weapons would require replacement, refurbishing, or decommissioning. Accordingly, the Department of Energy set up a refurbishment program aimed at extending the service lives of older nuclear weapons. In 2000, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) specified a life-extension program for W76 warheads that would enable them to remain in service until at least 2040.[2]

It was soon realized that the FOGBANK material was a potential source of problems for the program, as few records of its manufacturing process had been retained when it was originally manufactured in the 1980s, and nearly all staff members who had expertise in its production had either retired or left the agency. The NNSA briefly investigated sourcing a substitute for FOGBANK, but eventually decided that since FOGBANK had been produced previously, they would be able to repeat it.[2] Additionally, "Los Alamos computer simulations at that time were not sophisticated enough to determine conclusively that an alternate material would function as effectively as Fogbank," according to a Los Alamos publication.[3]
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The paper is charting how sex and gender have been used throughout academic literature in the past few decades. In the last few decades we have learned swathes more about the complexity of gender identity and diversity, not just in western culture but it many others. Biological sex on the other hand it pretty well understood, and is certainly correlated with gender identity, but is distinct. It makes a lot of sense that papers about gender have increased while paper talking about sex have decreased, it aligns with new knowledge.

And the paper makes the point that new writers to the field often use gender in place of sex because they don't understand the full complexity of the word.

Or you know....delete your comment:

"I would love for you to explain what it is that I failed to understand about the paper, since I do enjoy learning new things. I'm not holding my breath though."
SpaceX does not patent any of their stuff for the same reason; it can be stolen by people outside of the country and the patent is essentially directions on how to do so.
Depends who's doing the stealing. If you patent something, someone else can read the patent. Then they learn what you are doing. From there, they can either find a way around what you patented, seek licensing from you, or blatantly copy you. If they copy you or go around what you are doing, you can sue them (provided they are in the country you filed the patent in).
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It probably doesn't work. It's like lots of Windows batch file questions get answered with "install cygwin and then use this arcane invocation". Given that I'm one of the few who who can competently answer such questions without installing anything else (with a slightly more arcane invocation) I often find that a little sad. I almost thought about going around answering Unix shell scripting questions with PowerShell answers, but Pash isn't that far yet.
Definitely. I was doing all my assignments and exam preparations at university only at nights. It looks like my productivity triples then - no noise, no phone calls/IM's and you can always take a break and just gaze at the stars for a moments to relax. Sadly I have a day job now and can't stay with that life style anymore.
While it's great that countries around the world are belatedly waking up to the fact that the US wields a disproportionate amount of influence on the Internet, which it also uses to shore up its strategic military or commercial objectives, as users we ought to distrust any other country just as much as the US.

IMHO Catch-all Internet surveillance is a drug that no country's intelligence or law-enforcement apparatus can stay away from.

I'm based in India and am under no illusion that my government - given the chance or the technical capability - will attempt to secretly monitor its own citizens in a manner far worse than possibly the US.

So while I distrust the US, I also distrust India when it comes to any kind of "control" over the Internet. And so I hope, will Brazilians.

As users we ought to take our own independent and personal choices on how best to safeguard our online lives.
And gear. Setting up a supply of basic medical stuff isn't that expensive if you do it right and it could be very handy. A few key drugs, a few laminated sets of instructions on how to give them and you'll potentially be much better off. Allergic reactions etc can be ugly.
I was slightly confused the format of seemingly disconnected subsections, but I can't really complain because each section was quite interesting on its own.

While we are on the topic, if anyone has any great recommendations for entry level philosophy/ethics books, I would love to hear them.
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I forget the quote exactly, but there was an interview with Elon and the lady was asking him about not patenting things at SpaceX. He said something along the lines of "Patents aren't going to do you much good when your competitors are other country's governments".
It's funny that the pool made it on the list of interesting things about tynan, but not the penguin.
Yes, this is what I though too. He just bought property rights. It's still part of whatever country it's located within and they can apply all of their legal code on you. I imaging digging deeper than a few feet would be illegal on that without proper authorization first. Having a really sovereign country is kind of difficult.
I've been browsing through the code a bit. It has a few problems.

First, the brace and indentation style is extremely unusual and hard to follow. I have never seen this style used in another curly-brace-language project anywhere.

I realize that brace and indentation is a very personal preference, but I've had no trouble following a variety of styles - until this one. Here's an example:

if(c.op.inTextMode()){
c.op.focusCursor();
c.editor.restoreSelection();
}else{
c.pasteBinFocus();
}

The if block and matching else block have different indentation levels? What? That does seem to be the pattern followed in a number of places.

How would you follow this style if there is a chain of else-if's? I don't see any examples in the code, but it seems it would have to look like this to be consistent:

if(a){
b();
}else if(c){
d();
}else if(e){
f();
}else{
g();
}

OTOH, this function follows two different indentation styles for its two if/else blocks:

this.callbacks = function(callbacks) {
if(callbacks) {
this.root.data("callbacks", callbacks);
return callbacks;
} else {
if(this.root.data("callbacks")) {
return this.root.data("callbacks");
} else {
return {};
}
}
};

Try this quiz: Without loading the code into a brace-matching editor, just eyeball that function and see if you can tell which open brace matches with which close brace.

The function could be much simpler too:

this.callbacks = function( callbacks ) {
return callbacks ?
this.root.data( "callbacks", callbacks ) :
this.root.data( "callbacks" ) || {};
};

Also in a half-dozen places or so, the code uses a for..in loop to iterate over an array. This type of loop should never be used with an array for two reasons: If any other code in the page extends Array.prototype the code will break, and the order of iteration is not guaranteed. These loops need to be converted to numeric for loops or $.each() or any similar alternative.

One last point that is just a matter of taste, but I think the code would benefit quite a bit if it followed the popular jQuery convention of using a $ prefix on variables that contain jQuery objects.

I love outliners, and I'd really like to contribute to this project, but the code is so strangely formatted that I'd have a really hard time with it. I wonder if the authors would consider adopting a more conventional coding style, or if they just like it the way it is?
My last two job offers came from people who had checked out my SO answers among other things.
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It doesn't prevent theft, it just easens getting compensation for theft.

Numerous patent authors have put deliberate errors in the patent to prevent copying.
Is this supposed to be some sort of meta comment where you are describing your own reply?
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Because using a photo and name would have been too simple and trivial?

No need to talk about the max three people with epicene names and faces who maybe could have abused this, they don't matter.
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I've learned something new. So, dice is the plural of die exactly like mice is of... err... Anyway, I really didn't know about "die" and dice as singular and plural, thanks! I've had to check the Oxford's dictionary.
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Yes, I get this point. I am just saying that there are other ways to look at this and that there still are plenty of costs in making music that generate plenty of profits.

Finally, we should be happy when marginal costs are 0, it means free for all, more for all. It is only who wants to go back to the State economy that can find flawed arguments against it.
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Does India "render" people"?

The difference is the USA acts across the planet, insisting its laws apply to all the world, applying its mockery of a justice system to the majority who never voted for it.

What goes on in India is for Indians. As a Brit I have no fear of Indian justice. US "justice" and attitudes scare the crap out of me.
Noone can reverse engineer WD40 with plenty of samples.
My country never fails to embarrass me.

Brazil is the world leader in saying that it's going to do something awesome and completely forgetting about doing something in order to make that happen.

Nothing is going to happen.

Example:

In order to have a seat in one of the trips to the international space station, Brazil should develop and build some of the windows of it.

We didn't and not because we don't know how, it was because of politics.
In order to make it appear that we didn't fail to the population, the president bought a X million dollars flight ticket to a random guy that today earns money by giving speeches about how dreams come true with hard work and that you can become an astronaut just like him.

The biggest part of the population thinks we earned it by doing something useful for the mission.

I can go on and on about this events if you need more.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/world/americas/08rio.html?...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Space_Agency#Internat...

p.s: look the schedules for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics and you have a second example.
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I think the programmer was just getting comfortable with coding in an outliner when he wrote that code. I would consider that indentation a bug, when and if I work in those areas, I'll fix the indentation there. Thanks for pointing it out.
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> Because using a photo and name would have been too simple and trivial?

Using a generic ticket for every woman is more simple than assigning a name to each ticket... so no.
Here's a site I've built for an artist who did "Episodes of Starlite" http://stopthebus.org/starlite.
One thing to maybe keep an eye on is https://github.com/emoon/ProDBG, by an actual AAA game developer.
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If you rent from a human landlord, there is a pretty good chance that rent is going directly into the interest of a loan. I.E. a bank. And not the good stuff you or your brother are making.
It's not only coaching - though it's important too. But also both challenge and support. It's one thing trying to do some workout alone and completely other thing doing it with people around you - you could both challenge yourself (this guy can lift this 25 times - why wouldn't I be able at least 10 times? Maybe I should try harder!) and be supported (it's east to tell yourself "ok, I can't do it" when you are alone, but when people around telling you "yes, you can do it!" you have better motivation - and frequently it turns out you indeed can). I discovered that I can't push myself nearly as efficiently in solitary setting as I can in group setting, and that gives results too. I think it is well worth it.