skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is if the The View host regrets her decision, or if she stands by it while opposing abortion currently.

I don't know which is the case, though I do know somebody who goes with the later. I can't say I respect them very much.
I can't vouch for the accuracy of this report (was a quick google search; PATRIOT was passed at a point in time where not everything was quite so webbified), but I recall the lawmakers who crafted PATRIOT used RICO as a starting point ("precedence") for the most controversial provisions. There are surely more authoritative resources out there.

http://www.johnisaza.com/patriot_act_compliance.html

"Some of the more controversial provisions of The Patriot Act were largely inspired by the RICO act, which restricted some elements of due process for individuals involved in organized crime, racketeering, and drug trafficking. The Patriot Act essentially extended the restrictions to those involved in terrorism."
What was behind China's economic success then? (not snark, genuinely interested in hearing your thoughts)

As far as I know Deng did advocate a more open and free policy when it came to the markets, not in very concrete terms but certainly in veiled terms like "pragmatism" and "we must do whatever works" [1]. I'm not saying Deng made China a Randian libertarian's wet-dream but it seems he did push for free markets a little bit.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/heavenonearth/leaders_thinkers_zedong_xia...
I had that childhood in Appalachia in the 1980s, while still having a TV / VCR / Nintendo. During the day my mother would kick us all outside however, so I spent most of my time in the woods playing, or shooting hoops in the driveway, or playing wiffle ball and so on. Usually weekend nights were dedicated to video games, and daytime was for being outside.

Interestingly however, in the last 15 years apparently the area where I grew up has seen a substantial decline in participation by children in sports and other activities. What caused that? I can only think of three possibilities: 1) decline in parenting 2) obesity and or diet 3) cheap, plentiful digital gadgets (or a combination). Parents seem to be almost universally allowing their children to obsessively play with smart phones, tablets, etc. And many parents I know buy their kids big screen TV's for their rooms and video game consoles.
I think maybe only two or so years ago BlackBerry had over 17,000 employees so in total we're talking about more than half of the company being cut in the space of a few years.

Huge when you think about it like that.
it's nowhere close to 10x in practice. With no bureaucracy and complete control over your own work, perhaps the best are 3-5x better than the typical. In the bureaucratic bullshit that is modern corporate environments, it's maybe 2x
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A short rant about contra dance etiquette
Nobody has explained to me why Korea was even divided up into the North and South in the first place. It should have been left to its own devices after the Japanese empire collapsed at the end of WW2. That is, the US/UN shouldn't have been occupying the South and the USSR/China shouldn't have been occupying the North. Seems to me that the fault should be assigned to all of those countries/organizations.
Convincing someone of something that later, under investigation, turns out not to be true, is not brainwashing.
I was just putting forth an idea. There was no need to reach right for the sarcasm and add copious amounts of it.

> It's not like you can fill your entire week with dancing lessons and survive for long.

Maybe you haven't seen people that have been doing X (for various values of X) since they were 5 or 6 (e.g. Tiger Woods, gymnasts, hardcore ballerinas, etc).
We recently launched a product with a couple short codes with you guys. We intended "going direct" as volume and time permitted (we are not telecom nerds...)

My co-founder, hell bent on getting MMS as soon as possible lead the charge. We would meetings where I would repeatedly say "bullshit", and he'd say "no, really... it is the most fubar'd thing you've ever seen"

So a stoked response is an understatement, anyone that has looked into doing this knows you guys hit a homer and I'm looking forward to the wild ride of mobile comm and seeing how push, texting and all that play out. I think MMS available to developers en masse gives it a big push in the right direction and I'm beyond excited that our short codes are hosted with twilio!
BlackBerry really sucks at marketing this, but BlackBerry 10 is a brand new product. Whatever you may remember about old legacy BlackBerry, throw it out. This is a new OS built upon QNX, new hardware, and a new company.

That said, this sucks for those involved, but it's all a part of the company's reinvention.
It provides a partial solution. As a developer, you can issue a new update which has the new features introduced, and offer an in-app purchase to unlock those. However it it means you have to continue to maintain the "old" version of the app (i.e. the app without the new features enabled). For one version this isn't too much of a problem, but by the time you've released three or four major version upgrades over a period of 6 years, you've got quite a few code paths to test.

It also only really works if the things the new version introduces are features that can be easily isolated from the rest of the app. If a developer were to do a major rewrite of a core part of the app (e.g. a rewrite of core functionality which improves performance/usability) then IAP isn't a viable option. So it's a significant inconvenience.

The other option of course is a subscription model, which is the direction a lot of large developers (Adobe, Microsoft) are heading in. If the developer has an ongoing source of revenue from subscriptions, then that could cover the costs of developing new versions. However not all users want to be forced into a subscription, particularly for a high-end productivity tool that they are buying to use over a period of many years.
This is an amazing chronicle of working arrangements. Thank you.
Wow, I've experienced a lot of that and have been trying to describe it to those around me. They're are all supportive, but I don't know whether they really understand what I am saying.

I don't dance, because I am afraid of being judged the way I analyze others. I don't show emotion or affection (much, I am a lot older and a little better now) in public, for the same reason. I remember every single time I've attempted a social interaction and it went poorly -- they stick with me more than anything else. When I see someone naturally at ease, I am immediately envious and trying to glean any hints of how I should act. I also feel like a construct of all those people around me -- I can look back over the last 20 years and see the phases of my life. It's like I became different people in different places, different jobs. Whatever it took to be normal, to fit in.

I don't know about others, but you're not alone. It made me feel better reading your comment and knowing I am not alone. Thank you.
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I see no one has mentioned so far in this thread that the term "brainwashing" originated in Chinese ( 洗腦 in the original language), and originated as an internal practice in China after seizure of power in China by the Communist Party of China.

I'll paste in here part of the history of the term from Chinese Wikipedia, which has some interesting differences from the parallel article in English Wikipedia:

中华人民共和国[编辑]
中華人民共和國執政黨中國共產黨成立以來，早期通過文藝、宣傳提出的「沒有共產黨就沒有新中國」、「穩定壓倒一切」等口號，被一些人認為是“洗腦”行為。中國共產黨操控媒體、民間沒有輿論自由，又透過教育，局部呈現現代歷史等方式進行“正面意識形態宣傳”也被認為屬於洗腦行為。有評論指，中华人民共和国文革時期大規模和連續的共產主義宣傳教育運動，明顯是洗腦行為；當時中共將視為反對者的人民劃定為「階級敵人」、將這些人強行施以「勞動改造」（勞改）、「思想改造」，強權和暴力使整個社會幾乎所有人都失去了獨立思考的自由意志。 [12]

中华人民共和国官方電視媒體中國中央電視台，被指責所播放的部分內容存在「洗腦」，有中國年輕學者指央視透過辮子戲灌輸皇權專制，打造奴才人格，是毒化了中國走向自由民主的氛圍，存在洗腦意義，而央視的《新聞聯播》選擇性「報喜不報憂」，像是「宣傳聯播」。 [13][14]但中國共產黨及其支持者並不認同這些批評。

英文「brainwash」意指「洗腦」，由中文「洗腦」一詞翻譯而來；沿於上世紀1950年代的韓戰，美國士兵被中国人民解放军俘虜之後，日夜接受中国共产党的思想改造，獲救之後回到美國，竟然幫中国共產黨講好話，於是美國記者Edward Hunter就用brainwash一詞來描述此事。[15][16]
It could still move the person's mental state toward improved rationality.
Would be interested in discussing feedback on this post; I'm about to enter a Startup Weekend, and would love to do something that could address this problem.
Probably not. The Nexus S does not officially get 4.2, and it came out after the iPhone 4 which does get iOS 7.
This is great, I believe the only other feature I've been praying for is Premium SMS/MMS.
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This is just FUD. It's clear why sandboxing is required for the MAS - so that users can expect iOS like safety from the apps. It's also clear why MAS is required for iCloud - because otherwise anonymous developers would be able to arbitrarily abuse the storage service.

There is no slippery slope here.
The problem at the time was the Allied Powers (the Western non-Axis powers and the Soviet Union) were not united about how to resolve the issue of the sovereignty of Korea after the end of World War II. Germany was divided, over in Europe, for much the same reason, but there wasn't an invasion across the line of control between the Soviet occupied zone and the Western occupied zone in Germany, as there was an invasion from North Korea to South Korea in 1950. Perhaps if Stalin's plan had succeeded in Korea, an invasion of western Europe would have followed.
We are close to immortality, but we are also close to self-extinction.

Isn't that fascinating ?
BB is beyond fiscal discipline IMO.

It's pretty clear they'll be gutted and sold for parts at this point. They're trying to lose weight before the fashion show.
Obscenely obvious CRM predictions
And maybe take a potassium supplement or have a banana for breakfast so you don't get a cramp.
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Well, it sounds like you're mostly just an antisocial kind of person. I mean, if you decide to put an arbitrary wall between you and your co-workers where you are simply not allowed to make friends with anyone, that's a pretty sad existence. I mean, this job takes up ~50% of your waking life, and during that time you can't treat anyone around you as a friend?

If all your co-workers are such uninteresting people, maybe you're at the wrong company.
Security problems up the wazoo.
If you have a mistaken belief, then the inverse of that belief is not necessarily correct. I find it hard to believe those soldiers were in a position - in a prison camp - to reliably determine whether America had used germ warfare, or to assess whether Communism had 'done a fine job in China.'
Funny, the course I am in right now covers this book. It is well worth the read.

Cialdini, R. B. (2009). Influence: science and practice (5th ed.). Boston: Pearson Education.
This still seems to ignore the fact that even if the Chinese used these techniques differently and didn't explicitly threaten violence, they were still the captors and the prisoners were still the captives and held in confinement and the power relationship there had to contribute to the success of these techniques.
> Also did the communists do a bad job in china? That is at most controversial... not "brain washed".

Controversial? Good lord, Mao's Great Leap Forward killed between 23 and 42 million people in just a few years.
At Microsoft a private office for engineers is a rule.
Deploying Node apps to AWS using Grunt
While I agree with the main sentiment of this article, I have a nitpick on the main caption image. For me there is a significant loss of information, when an app summarizes something as non-linear and hard-to-predict as weather into boolean statements. So I am not sure if the umbrella app is solving weather reporting problem correctly.
iOS 7 Will Shorten Time-to-Market for Developers
>it HAS been used as a way to 'down vote' a thread.

Sage as a method of downvoting a thread is insane and encourages even more shitposting. 4chan actually does have a "karma" that manifests in the way of replies to your posts/threads. So when you reply to a thread using sage as a downvote, you encourage the poster by giving him replies. Using sage is just a flag to the other guy that his post is irritating enough for you to sage it.

This used to be a huge problem when it was popular to post troll pony threads on macho boards like /v/, /sp/, or /fit/. What would happen is there would be 10 replies in the first minute, all sages, calling the OP a retard and reminding everyone to sage and report the thread. These replies would just feed him, to which he would reply to the sages and egg people on even more - to which he would receive even more replies.

The only acceptable analogue to "downvoting" on 4chan is to not reply to the thread. Nothing can dissuade a shitposter more than having put some effort into writing a good baity OP post, and not getting a single reply before the janitors delete it.
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Even without sage, there are other popular ways to kill threads including "this thread is now about X" posts that race to the max image limit. (Where X is usually spiderman for some reason...)
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F%!#, what a ripoff. IEEE want $31.00 for that paper.. and sadly, it's the same price whether you're an IEEE member or not. So much for the idea that one of the advantage of being an IEEE member is that you get better pricing on papers from journals you don't already subscribe to.

Even sadder, IBM used to publish their journal archives online, available to anyone, for free. IBM Systems Journal wasn't always behind some shitty IEEE paywall.

Yet sadder still, the price to subscribe to IBM Systems Journal through IEEE? $1,400 USD for a one year sub.

Frack... I now remember why I'm sometimes ashamed to admit to being a member of IEEE. Guess it's time to get move involved in the elections and leadership stuff... sigh
What was behind China's economic success then? (not snark, genuinely interested in hearing your thoughts)

Imitating the free-enterprise model of Hong Kong and Taiwan, decades after those territories had far outpaced China in prosperity. And one of the great advantages China has enjoyed in economic development, as compared to several other territories, is the large number of people who can communicate in local languages (various forms of Chinese) but who grew up without communist influences on their primary and secondary education. "Compatriots" from Taiwan and Hong Kong, and also "overseas Chinese" from many places in southeast Asia played a crucial role in boosting China's economic growth through direct investment after the beginnings of system reform in 1978. (Basis of knowledge: I began studying Chinese during the Cultural Revolution, and have met quite a few people from outside China who have invested over there, after investment began to be permitted.)
You make a very good point. The Boomers (myself included) had freedom to play, explore, and get into trouble. But as a generation we have royally screwed up our own kids.

I've lived in East Asia for the last 25 years and was appalled to see what educational systems in Japan and Hong Kong did to children, and the kind of employees they make later in life.

Later I moved to SE Asia and in the countryside you still see children leading healthy childhoods, while the middle class, especially in the cities seem hellbent on screwing up their children's lives. When I first moved to Thailand things were okay, now they are terrible. Now that I live in Cambodia I am seeing the same processes happen. It's very sad.

The exception, and it's a very small exception, is in some of the International schools you see scattered around Asia. There are a few very good schools out here, where children are brought up in a mixed culture and linguistic environment, are given a great deal more freedom to explore and time to play, and choose for themselves. International schools are set primarily to educate children of expat families living abroad. But it's becoming common to see more and more local children being enrolled in the better of these schools. I know a school in Hong Kong who has had to limit the number of local children that they enroll because otherwise there wouldn't be any expat children in the school at all.

Because I so rarely visit the States, I didn't realize until the last five or six years how bad things had become. Most American children now are subject to the worst of the old American industrial education system and the worst of the eastern, the student is an open vessel for the teacher to pour his wisdom into, all in one package.

I would never raise a child in the States, because IMHO it would be tantamount to child abuse.
If it's a cultural issue, Austin sidesteps that problem nicely.
> it isn't at all a real proposal, but rather a sleight of hand to reduce buy-in to the CA HSR plan, which Musk opposes.

Absolutely. People familiar with the tech industry should recognize this pattern: Announce a vaporware [1] product as part of a FUD [2] campaign against the enemy.

When considered in this way, Musk's actions with Hyperloop make a lot of sense. This is a classic FUD move against CA HSR.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
RIM used to make it all - the best expensive mobile hardware, low-price decent mobile hardware, the fastest messaging server, a free but slower alternative, the most secure encryption, good mobile OS, the best mobile-to-mobile messaging service, and a solid network.

What happened?

Apple came in with better expensive hardware and a better OS

Google came in with a better (free) OS

Many other companies came out with better low-price hardware

The fastest messaging server (BES) became free for some reason... (couldn't compete with free* Activesync?)

Social networks and other messaging platforms overtook the free email alternative (BIS) and mobile-to-mobile messaging (BBM)

The most secure encryption fell by the wayside -- it was so secure that it was a liability, as some governments refused to let BES operate in their country because they couldn't spy through it.

The network was another liability, as people had a $10/mo higher phone bill to use a Blackberry than any other smartphone.

---

Blackberry still have the fast network, secure encryption, and a number of other assets, but as yet have failed combine those assets into any sort of compelling product.
I thought that brainwashing was a label applied to the technique used to convince someone. You can brainwash someone that holds strong convictions which are wrong to believe in the truth.
Interestingly enough, it comes from the Chinese word 洗脑 (xǐnǎo), literally meaning to "wash brains", which was used to describe the 1984-like attempts Mao used to re-educate dissident intellectuals.
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Air conditioning's been around for 100+ years. Start using it.
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I'm sorry but the article cited in the wall street journal has absolutely no journalistic integrity whatsoever:

'--preparing for deep staff cuts—up to 40% of its employees—by the end of the year, people familiar with the matter said.'

People "familiar with the matter"? REALLY?!?

I hate to say this, but this is fear mongering at its finest. Someone is trying to profit off this misinformation, and by the looks of it everybody's gallantly going along with it.

Plus, look at the timing! Blackberry just announced the Z30 BB10 today. Yet all the wall street journal manages to toss together is some fictitious story about their public image?

I'm really never going to read anything they write anymore.
Taiwan is still well ahead of the P.R.C. both in economic development and personal liberty.
First, he doesn't say "strong" correlation.

Second, your analysis doesn't work without including zeroes. Pretend all the failures raised a lot of money. Your line would point down.

Your analysis was marginal and you're not taking the feedback very well.
Low power and multicore are cute and all, but imagine the type of machine learning we could do on 384GHz cores.
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Great point, I've also experienced that as a new hire.

The best new hire layout I've had was purposely being assigned to share an office with my mentor. Since we were in a physical office, I wasn't afraid to ask any questions, even the dumb-sounding ones that otherwise would be overheard by everyone within ten feet in an open plan.
Time frame is an essential factor for assessing if it's a success. In 5 years? 10 year? 20 years? 50 years? What if the previous level was actually very high, say 50%, and the job was to increase from the low level 10% to 15%? With different time frames for evaluation, even someone do not have in-depth knowledge of a topic, she/he could still have some facts to raise valuable questions which can lead to an answer closer to the truth, if there is any we can find eventually. Sorry to not answer your question directly, but I think a different angle might be a better start point.
Amen. Worked in an open floor plan (30ft long rows with 8 people at each) and now work in an office of cubes (6'x7'), so actual desk space is the same. I found the developer collaboration and communication far better in the open plan than the closed plan. People were always communicating the the former and almost never pop their heads up for air in the later.

Today a coworker was IM'ing me and I then I realized that he was sitting literally 18" from me behind a partition so I just starting talking out loud to him. Seemed to unsettle him. Collaborate damn it!
Paging Amy Hoy, Amy Hoy to the white courtesy phone, please...

http://unicornfree.com/2010/a-simple-rule-for-pricing-newbs-...

Also, as the mom of a non-neurotypical kid, that guy must be the only person I've ever heard of who doesn't charge ridiculous prices for autism-related therapies.
If your opinion were applied in practice universally, modern medicine would have never happened to begin with, for it was first accessible and affordable by the so called elites.

That is how all products first become available. The rich fund the R&D and scaling.

We'd all still be living in primitive civilizations if your approach ruled the day.
>it HAS been used as a way to 'down vote' a thread.

If you're determined enough to sage bomb the thread to image limit, especially now that there's a captcha, sorta, but not really.

Also cheers to moot. I've noticed the improvement in moderation first hand recently, even getting banned myself, whereas previously that board felt like it had zero mods.
I can still hear my coworker clipping his toe nails each week two cubes down. Cubes don't help much.
I don't think there's any such thing as what the term "brainwashing" implies, but it is effectively a systematic form of mind control. If you can implant a thought and have it take hold, have the person own it and believe it and ultimately defend that position, that's pretty powerful. If you can do that in a systematic way, you can potentially get a large number of people to take actions that are in your own self-interest and not necessarily in theirs. Pretty heady stuff, there you have the foundations for a religion, a revolution. I think this type of thing is about as close to brainwashing as it gets.
I agree it leaks far too much, especially for niche operating systems like Linux. For Firefox, I use the "Modify Headers" add-on to remove the extra info, so UserAgent=Mozilla/Firefox and AcceptLanguage=en.

http://www.garethhunt.com/modifyheaders
The religious education that my parents gave me through childhood counts as brainwashing.
This is one awesome Grandma
A new web-series based around a grandma that fights zombies!
I have my primary number through google voice and I just get a sms saying "MMS Received" and then I get an email with a picture attachment. Not sure about group texts though.
What's the story? 4chan.org is blocked for me.
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