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Why do I need a password on my phone?
1. If it gets stolen or lost I can be assured my data is safe
2. From law enforcement (if I get pulled over for speeding or arrested for "disorderly conduct" there is no reason they need access to my work emails, photos, etc)
3. From snooping/mischevious kids, wives, friends, girlfriends etc.

The fingerprint scanner only protects from #1, and is worse for 2 & 3 (the police just put my finger on the phone, and my girlfriend just waits until I'm asleep to put my phone on my finger... My overall security has gone down considerably for a modest gain in convenience
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Are they looking to sell their own hardware? How good are graphics card driver support in linux?
Thank you for your concern. As is typical, off the cuff advice about something you know almost nothing about isn't going to be useful to me. Your remarks smack of jumping to conclusions, probably very erroneous conclusions. Arguing about the particulars is not likely to do either of us any good but I am also not comfortable letting your characterization of me stand. Suffice it to say, your opinion has been noted and I plan to continue to be emotionally open as well as open about my life. My financial mess is getting cleaned up. I am clear I am on the right track.

I hope you have a great day. The world would be a better place if more communication came from a place of concern for another person's welfare. I hope you do not stop caring about other people. Although the road to hell is often paved with good intentions, I believe it is usually due to good intentions combined with poor execution. I think execution is easier to fix than a cold heart.

Take care.
I would have found this article easier to understand if it presented its points as an infographic.
"Only the scientific method can give us reliable knowledge"

Wrong. Math also gives reliable knowledge and has nothing to do with the scientific method.

Also remember that science had proved light was a wave and not a particle. Until it was disproved. (Amongst other examples). And several "scientists" forget that what's 'true' today for science is the best answer from what's know today, but that may change in the future.

But more commonly, science is a concept. What we have contact with is the result of the application of that principle by researchers, which usually is close to the ideal thing, but sometimes is not.

"There is proof that X is correlated with Y (cites study).

Correlation does not prove causation"

This is important, and I would bet on a lot of studies implying the causation where there's none.
What about 10.1947x programmers. Or 5.345x programmers?

And, do you average out the productivity, or is that the minimum or maximum? I mean, if you go on vacation, you are a 0x programmer for that time you are gone.

Basically, I think it's a silly thing that's been taken to far. Everyone is a 1x programmer compared to themselves, and a 10x programmer when compared to the right person in the right context.
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Links:

- Color. Make it dark. Light blue on a white background is very hard to read.

- Font size: Too big. Look at HN.

Layout:

- Reduce the padding in between entries. HN is easy to scan because everything is neatly packed. You only need to scroll a little to see the rest.

- The header is too big. Kept it simple with a little logo. The focus here is the content, not branding. The tweet button should go in the bottom of the page.

- The footer is nice, but a bit too big.

- The subscription form is in the way of the "More News" link. Also, a lot of people in your target market refrain from giving their name along with their email.
Hey! I get your point but complex data visualizations that convey large amounts of information suffer a bias: they are overly complex by condensating too much information, and very often they do so to look obtuse and expert (and thus cool).

Our point is that this pieces information could easily have been conveyed in separate simple charts, conveying each of the *data_points you quote one chart at a time.

You can understand this type of chart because you can take the time and the effort to work on the comprehension of it. And you're interested. We think it's a segregating way to convey information, leaving on the side of the road people who could have benefitted of the message were it explained in a simpler purer format.
I once had the most crazy and surreal feeling of deja-vu when I visited a weird tourist area behind my hotel in San Fran the first time I had ever been to the US. The place was called "Fisherman's Wharf" (or something like that) and I had avoided it during my stay because of the crowds.

Finally I wandered down there to see what the fuss was about and had this crazy feeling of having been there before. I knew EVERYTHING about the place: where steps and shops were - where Alcatraz was... and as I walked to the edge I said out loud "...Sea lions?". And walked around the corner and there they were. Scores of them!

I was starting to freak out, when I turned around and noticed a red hand-rail that lead up to the second floor and realised... Tony Hawk Pro Skater IV.
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NYC adds 200 more data sets to Open Data.
This makes as much sense as life in prison without the possibility of parole for littering.
Ah - I mentioned RSS a few threads back before seeing this one. Yes, good idea.
Can you really blame them? It's our fault for using the word "Linux" all the time when sometimes it's too specific (we really mean all un*x) and sometimes too broad (we talk about a specific component such as the DE, Xorg or a specific distro).

You can't expect the average teenage gamer to understand what's the difference between a kernel and an operating system.

In the end, maybe rms was always right, we should use "GNU/Linux". Ten years ago it was humorous because the GNU userland was pretty much the only one available but now with Android, SteamOS and friends it's becoming really misleading.
I think what this person means is that he's worked for both government, their lawyers and private corporations where there is evidence of large amounts of illegal software in use.

Also they are saying "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." i.e. they make sure their own house is in order before passing judgment on anyone else. Get rid of all their own illegal software and only then are they in a position to charge others with the same crime after all, nobody is above the law.

... except those with enough money or information to bribe, blackmail or topple governments and assassinate other world figures with impunity.
I am quite sure that is not correct in this case.

You have some limited access to features while Siri is on, only if the allow with passcode option is enabled. You do not have full run of the entire phone, nor are you able to bypass the lock screen.
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I didn't mention this case I was speaking more generally. And I'd personally be more worried with what the US government knows about me than the Chinese. I have many more interactions with American people and businesses and I like to visit there. I don't have much if any interaction with China so it doesn't bother me as much.
Skimming the article I see no mention of COINTELPRO, of which these programs are no doubt a continuation of at least spiritually. This would make sense given that this is the NY Times, and bringing up COINTELPRO would perhaps force them to admit racial/xenophobic dimensions and roots to these recent revelations (e.g. the USG's history of targeting civil rights and anti-war activism), instead of white guys fighting for other white guys' iPad Privacy..

>Swartz argued that it was sometimes necessary to break the rules that required obedience to the system in order to avoid systemic evil.

That paragraph would have been a perfect place in which to touch on the Church Committee and its origins. Does the author even know about it?

Honestly, most people with social power and influence don't seem to care about the revelations because they don't. They have nothing on the line -- their rights will never be threatened, nor will government programs like the endless War on Terror ever affect them (in ways that they will understand; "blowback" is evidently too intricate of a concept for most). Could that be because they're white men? Perish the thought
Then your expectation will not be met by most devices.
Here's the news report I heard this morning: http://www.wnyc.org/story/nyc-releases-more-data-sets-update...

Figured linking to the actual Open Data website was more useful...couldn't find a press release from them, though.
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Oh agreed. Perhaps though because Liberty City wasn't a true fantasy land but a large scale imagining of, essentially, a city made to look like New York, it got me thinking about playing a game in a location I already knew in real life.

I could talk about how I love the land of Hyrule, but I'd also like to play a game based in the city streets and countryside of my own country too.
I wrote a response to your comment but it became rather long so I decided to make it into a blog post instead.

http://mortdeus.blogspot.com/2013/09/linux-core-component-po...
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The problem is that certain topics cater to a certain demographic. Hacking and start ups are not primary concerns of the teenage crowd on the web. Video games now...

What this means is that if you plan to have a somewhat "grown up" community you'll have to find a way to raise the bar somehow.
A "Hacker News" needs a RSS feed.
Science in its purest form is simply using our fundamental capacity for logic to, as objectively as possible, perceive the world through our senses and instruments. We make observations at low resolution to make correlations and at high resolution to deduce causation.

Do a lot people make wrong conclusions based on theirobservations? Yeah. But that doesn't make the scientific method wrong. It just mean it's very hard for scientists to completely remove themselves (to be objective) from their results sometimes.
> WAIT. Newell's Windows port (commonly referred to as DOOM95 http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom95) was never popular and very few DOOM players knew it even existed. It certainly didn't prove to the masses that Windows was a viable gaming platform.

Not sure where the original article ever makes those claims.
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Absolutely agree - that Gravatar now requires a Wordpress account is a really shame. avatar.io should be capitalising on this, focusing on why a user would want use their service, not just developers.
HFT (high-frequency trading) is a buzz-word that's being thrown around, but what I think you're really asking is whether automated trading is possible for individual investors.

The infrastructre and costs of HFT (hardware, co-location, etc.) are enormously high and as far as I know only institutions can compete on this level. However, if you have an algorithm that has an edge that does not depend on millisecond level execution, you're just talking about automated trading and this is very achievable by an individual.

Many brokers offer APIs to service this market. For example, Interactive Brokers has a commonly used API that has a sizable community of people working with it.

About 6 years ago, I developed an automated trading system with a friend who was a self-employed day trader at the time. It was a very interesting project and quite successful for a while. However, as time passed, markets changed and so did the profitability of our algo. At our peak we were doing 10k profit/month after commissions, but it was short-lived.

There are several communities, such as at IB, or Elite Trader, to discuss the topic of automated trading, but don't expect the helpful atmosphere you get here. It's an extremely competitive environment (even though you're almost never directly competing with the small-time investors who post on those forums) and there is much more misinformation and trolling than there is useful reading.
But you do expect that you could slide some mail through a mail door if one existed.
Given the context of the discussion here, your remark sounds like you are defending the choice this guy made to shoot himself in the foot financially. That was what I was reacting to. I don't think it is ever a good thing to shoot yourself in the foot. You can invest in your children without undermining your own welfare. It does not sound like that is what this man did. He gave a lot of money to his kids and apparently now is (or feels) impoverished.

Context matters. By itself, I would agree with your sentiment. But in the context here, it sounds like you are saying "You should cut your own throat to 'invest' in your kids!" There are a lot of people who really believe things like that. I think it is very unhealthy for them as individuals and for the larger fabric of society.
I keep them away because of the noise, nothing else (except for the magnetic compass).
Went to Maker Faire NYC this weekend. Feel the same about the term.

It should have been called 3D Printer Faire. If not that, then Kit-maker Faire. There was less "making" on display than at a typical arts and crafts festival, and much more commercialization of RTA kits than I'd expected.

Also, I feel like Rasberry Pi should only come after Arduino which should only come after one of these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Radio-Shack-CK1000-Basic-Electronic-.... (Not the 150 in one project kits, actual components.) Start with hacking things from sensors and transistors before programming chips.

As an example, on the linked "maker news" site, the home page currently has a headline about flickering a household bulb like a candle with Arduino, http://flowcon.us/td/hwmach/. This doesn't need a chip. You could do it a variety of ways with the components above.
"famous" != "great". For every famous programmer who cares about recognition and does open-source stuff to get her name out there, there's a great programmer who cares more about getting paid to do awesome things, and isn't particularly concerned with public recognition. There are thousands of astoundingly good programmers who you have never heard of, and many of them are working on closed-source projects.
Gitorious is though, so I always recommend it, even though it doesn't have a lot of the baked in features of github.
This feature is only badly designed in that it's not communicated during the setup process that Siri will still work. This is a feature, it can be turned off, and is 100% intentional.

The security your propose doesn't provide enough security to be worth the effort. (Hello tape recorder!)
Key difference is you don't get the mostly similar 3 iPhones - you get 4 vastly different phones with meaningfully different feature sets - and they are even made by different companies. Way more variety and choice.

I bet all of the Google Play sold devices would see at least 2 major updates. (My Gnex got 4.1/4.2/4.3 - and unlike my iPad 3 ios 7 update, it actually got better at every update.) That's good enough for me considering that Android updates are really not the same as iOS updates - most apps including the Keyboard get updated independent of the OS.
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that would exceed google, which seems unlikely to me. https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/U...
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I'll just leave this little nugget here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton

Before, they were called PDAs and they've existed since the late 80s. Apple wasn't late, they were simply waiting for the technology arrive to do it right.
I find it silly to try and disprove idiots who think some bogus alternative medicine works. Let the evolution take its course and weed out the morons.
OK, I've spoken to my girlfriend about this - she used to work with the Red Cross's International Tracing and Messaging (ITMS) department.

Her strong recommendation is that anyone in the situation you describe should talk to the US Red Cross as soon as possible. Their ITMS department will either be able to help or point him to someone who can.

They've got considerable expertise in this area.
I don't think that Chinese officials necessarily want to block FB just because of privacy issues. I believe what they want is three-fold:

1. By blocking big internet companies in the USA it gives homegrown companies an opportunity to rise to spur economic growth and create jobs.

2. Having homegrown solutions that compete directly with US companies is good for the Chinese morale and public image of the government. Showing that they too are capable of creating and running large internet companies that will drive economic growth in the next century.

3. In case of emergency China entities are a lot easier to control the outflow of information. Whereas I feel getting FB or Google to block something might be more of a nuisance. However, while this is the most popular reason why the government has blocked FB and Google (it's fun to vilify governments in general), I believe that in case of emergency they would just shut these sites down, so I believe explanations 1 and 2 are ultimately the bigger impact in this decision.
No, actually. Hangouts on Android currently doesn't integrate SMS with their messaging system.
I think that's more to do with closed source software usually being published under the name of a company, rather than the individuals behind it; so there's less opportunity for a closed-source developer to become famous.
Because ultimately the only things that sends people to the streets are things that truly threaten their freedom or existence. Does anyone really care about movies or music enough to cause riots? My opinion is that if it really comes down to brass tacks, people would more likely stop listening to music and stop watching movies before they riot.

However, I realize this is not the point, this is the start of a slippery slope. If they can curtail freedom of expression in this instance, what other instances will they think they can curtail it also? What does that lead to? Eventually all freedom of expression could be removed based on a single precedent - is this that precedent?

Further to this, if all freedom of expression is removed, what then? When people can't express themselves freely, is that cause for a riot? That depends largely on the culture of the country - so is Spain a country that's likely to riot if their freedom of expression is removed? Only those that grew up there and live there every day can answer that question.
Similarly the Santa Monica Pier from Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines — although it's not a perfect recreation.
> "Only the scientific method can give us reliable knowledge"

Did you read the topic sentence of the paragraph you excerpted that from? You're failing to address it in the context of "knowing whether a treatment is effective".

> And several "scientists" forget that what's 'true' today for science is the best answer from what's know today, but that may change in the future.

Which was addressed in #18
Wow. So much hostility.

Why? (Serious question. Not snark at all.)
And then there's this, about that paper: http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2010/05/8-red-flag...

Edit: And this http://junkcharts.typepad.com/numbersruleyourworld/2010/05/m...
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Choose your audience. If you're aiming for quick impact your point stands, but if you want to convey maximum information in a usable form that infographic is excellent.

The really simple infographic of the MS/Nokia purchase actually makes no point at all; of course the WinPho marketshare figure is a reasonable proxy for the Nokia marketshare figure, so if one is small the other will be too.

The sad thing is that I absolutely agree with your basic message, but your examples are off.
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I like to have romanticized views about the potential for a critical intellectuals review of our social strata and peaceful transition into whatever we deem more effective, but then I step outside my home and talk to anyone in my age group (I'm 22, so 18 - 26) and I am not conversing with enlightened anti-establishment intellectuals, I am conversing with zombies glued to smartphones chugging Starbucks.

We criticize the baby boomers for being distracted by TV, but I think gen Y is going to prove themselves even more easily distracted, especially considering how shitty their outlook is if they have a whole-scope outlook on the world they live in. It sucks, it has very limited avenues for improvement, and all angles point towards further problems. Why worry when you can distract yourself with trite banality?
Sorry, I think @balabaster did get it and did explain it more clearly than me. This is a very emotional topic for me and maybe I was not clear enough with the message I did want to transmit.
OP is raging at bad infographics.
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Or implement their own "biome" generation. All that a biome is, is that it defines which type of landscape is generated and with which types of blocks.

Except for swamp biomes of course, which generate slimes. And desert biomes, which have no rain, or ice biomes, where it snows. But those are almost flags, in the end.
It would be good for valve to project Rustlang as their programming language of choice :)
At first glance I thought it had a key switch on the front. If it did, then I would trust it...
Or is it the science based population that will be thinned out? Taking into account iatrogenesis (look it up) basically anything that takes you away from a doctor will be beneficial to you.
However, this does not apply when dealing with servere diseases. In that case you no longer need to worry about side effects and this is where science-based medicine really shines.
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So Nvidia is now doing what AMD is doing with their engagement on freedesktop and kernel recently? Good step but it's not the "breakthrough" like all the news sites are trying to make this up.
Are there any third party ppapi plugins out there?
I remember seeing the web for the first time in a command-line browser. I didn't realize at the time what was about to happen.
16 year olds aren't exactly disenfranchised

In the UK and US they are very exactly disenfranchised.

they're not more disenfranchised than higher rate tax payers who pay a disproportionate amount of the taxes

They are disenfranchised, and higher rate tax payers are not. Anyway, enough niggling over what words mean.

There is a actual problem here which is that old people are disproportionately overrepresented, and this is why for example none of the "we're all in it together" cuts are going to affect pensioners. How do we solve that specific problem? One way is to get more 18+ young people to vote. Another way would be to allow 16+ to vote and ensure that they are taken from school to the voting booth. It has been shown[1] that you're more likely to vote in elections if you vote the first time.

[1] http://www.ippr.org/press-releases/111/11175/young-voters-sh...
The RPi will have trouble with the amount of data.
There is a similar vibe in the bits of blue-chip eCommerce i worked in (online operations for big bricks-and-mortar retailers). If you'd proposed a site where the database was MySQL, you would have got a funny look and the door held open for you.
We definitely need such a place to gather news about 3d printing, not just publishing projects. Thanks to the team.
Here's a few I just took: London, Snowdonia, etc.

http://jamiegrove.tumblr.com/post/62149228450/screenshots-fr...
It's nice how the ancient Romans had an appreciation of the problem of infinite recursion. Suppose there was an independent institution overseeing the US FISC. Who would watch that? And so on. Is there a solution to Quis custodiet ...? Perhaps a multi-pronged separation-of-powers approach, but that hasn't worked out in practice, either.