skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although it is made clear in the letter itself, this is not simply a case of the NYPD not disclosing the document, rather the (laywers of the) NYPD are saying that they are legally prohibited from disclosing these documents due to attorney client privilege. Because they are legally prohibited from disclosing these documents, they are exempt from being required to disclose them under the FOIA.

They could wave their right to attorney client privledge, but that would likely require the consent of every intended recipient of the document, which is a lot of work, and still exposes the NYPD to a large amount of legal risk relative to the risk of not disclosing the document.

This seems like much more of a case of lawyers being lawyers, and wanting to avoid unnecessary legal risk and costs, then any attempt at not being transparent.

EDIT: I am not a laywer, feel free to fact check and correct any statement I made.
In order for IPv6 to ever become reality, a massive upgrade of infrastructure is required. So far ISPs have been reluctant to make the move. Whether or not ipv6 will ever see the light of day is arguable. We think not.
yes, because if there's one thing that computers are known for... it's being slow.
I have worked with numerous programmers who try to avoid front end design because they just can't wrap their head around it. They can write great code that is easy to read and works great, but when they have to make an elegant or pretty design, they struggle.

Both designs and programmers work should be valued when it's good.
> You would rather be manipulated better?

There is another way to look at it. "Manipulation" is sometimes necessitated by poor targeting.
The linked article says the student was not vaccinated.
What you say seems reasonable. I think their still is the question of the legal risks of disclosing it, even if they are legally in the right. For example, it does open them up to a (likely easily winnable) lawsuit, and having the high level policy of 'no attorney work gets disclosed' seems like a generally safe thing to do.
Tobacco aside:

Nicotine has several metabolites. NNN, NNK and cotinine. The first two are carcinogenic, but the risk is negligible (but not absent) for smoking cessation therapy. The effects of cotinine appear to be slightly negative on brain health, but of course there are dietary and lifestyle factors which play into the cash value of all this.

Nicotine also appears to be slightly deleterious for kidney and heart health, so it's not entirely benign. It also has to be avoided with female oral contraceptives (greater risk with age) otherwise the risk of stroke increases fairly dramatically.

Do I use nicotine knowing these risks? Yes as a cognitive enhancer, but under the assumption that I'll cease before the age of 40 or upon financial success, while in good health and maintaining a fruit and vegetable rich diet.
They forget about wear and tear. The bandwidth is limited, as you should measure it in low-power high-bits/cubic-meter[1]. The higher the drone, the greater the distance therefore the lower the bandwith per cubic meter. A fast mesh network needs optical or should have ultra low power butterfly like drones with many gigabits, say one butterfly per human or per cubic meter.

[1] http://thor.cs.ucsb.edu/~ravenben/papers/coreos/wei93.pdf
I care about accuracy even when it's not important to the point I'm making.
Here is a classic line: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2LpJAD5AqQ
Speaking of lawn, in the early 90s this was an impressive 3D sequence in a movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33u7P-XokE#t=49 I wasn't sure if I could ever get to enjoy that level of graphics in real time on a home computer.

To think that now I could probably purchase an Oculus and code that myself. Makes me excited to see where we are going from here.
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> Not to be "that guy"

Now why don't I believe that? ;-)

> * General relativity did not come from "grasping the mathematics" of special relativity.

I wrote that he had to "grasp enough of the mathematics to finally formulate the General Theory of Relativity". Human language is neat in the way it allows for ambiguities, but if you understood "the mathematics" in that sentence to be a reference to SR, then that is because it is what you read into it. I was referring to the time it took for Einstein to fully understand/appreciate the work of Minkowski.

> * Local hidden variables are not "likely wrong", they are provably impossible

...but they are also not the only formulation of a hidden variables-type solution, as I pointed out follow-on comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7249468

> * Entanglement does not break the principle of causality. "Spooky action at a distance" is not an "effect" in a well-defined physical sense. It cannot be used to send information or cause things to happen.

Funny, I thought I wrote: "While this is not, strictly speaking, a violation of General Relativity as no information is exchanged." Oh wait, I did.

> * All of this could be--and was--understood without the EPR paper. Relativity was the most important thing since Newton. EPR was minor in comparison.

Yes, and Einstein also wasn't the only physicist to come across the field equations in GR. He just happened to be the only one to appreciate their full impact. No scientific discovery stands in isolation, so it's really not worth debating this point much. I have noticed, however, that many in the QM community seem to look down on EPR and much of Einstein's other work in QM, probably (not entirely without justification) because of the rather dim view Einstein held on much of their work.

> * I have no idea what connection you're trying to draw between sentient life and QM.

Not me. You should go talk to John Archibald Wheeler about the Participatory Anthropic Principle.
I spent a number of years working on a similar product, a B2B base platform that was heavily customized for the larger customers. The packages would typically sell for high six / low seven figures.

One customer wanted a module that wasn't just custom but wholly new, and the whole deal depended on it, so a dev was put on it for about 4 weeks and given a bonus to get it done fast. I never got the exact number, but he told me it was going to be enough to "add that garage on to the house".
I'd agree for people who are seriously saying that its origins as a Magic exchange implies that it must be bad now, but most of what I've seen (including my own) has been doing it jokingly.
That first sentence got a bigger response from me then I was expecting. I can't even tell you how many times I've been told a project I worked on looked great, but I struggle to believe the person because of the numerous improvements I know can be made.
I wish they'd included amphetamines (both ADHD medications like adderall/amphetamine and more serious things like desoxyn/methamphetamine), for comparison.
Neither are airbags.
So I believe he expressed his sentiments (that I brought up in the parent comment) in the Pando Daily fireside chat[1]. Its over an hour long so I am not going to re-watch it to confirm this. But keep in mind that when this interview was conducted TSLA was trading at $30 a share and was finally starting to look promising after a few years of near bankruptcy and failure, but wasn't quite the Wall Street darling that it is today. More recent comments indicate that he will be with the company for at least another 5 years[2]. The talks with apple appear to have happened somewhere in between these two interviews. It's entirely possible that Apple and Elon were simply discussing partnership opportunities. But it's not too far fetched to think that after 8 years of near failure, Musk was considering cashing out. Tesla's recent momentum might have given him a second wind, but in the end, SpaceX is his real baby.

As an aside, after hearing the Pando Daily interview, it never occurred to me that Elon would sell out his stake in Tesla. He feels more like the type to either sell the company entirely, or keep his stake but pass the reins off to someone else.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uegOUmgKB4E
[2] http://www.treehugger.com/cars/elon-musk-how-long-hell-stay-...
No it is still friggin impossible...

I have an actual sleep disorder and I am currently going through hell trying to get my insurance to pay for modafinil, and I've been through the whole battery of tests. :( I don't want to be "smarter" I want to be awake.

It is generic but still stupid expensive.
Wait, if you broke up with someone a few days ago and are now seeing dating ads, how could your privacy have been kept intact? This implies that an ad network has knowledge about your love life.
The disruption of the pH gradient is the central part of amphetamine's mechanism of action. Dopamine is stored inside vesicles inside presynaptic neurons. By disrupting the proton gradient between the lipid bilayer of these vesicles, dopamine is allowed to leak out and released into the synaptic cleft.

Which is part of the reason why amphetamine increases extracellular dopamine. Unfortunately, instead of being nicely packaged in vesicles, now some of these dopamine are floating around in the cytosol, making them susceptible to autooxidation to quinones, nasty stuff.

Unfortunately, most of these research are behind paywall but that is the little lf what I remembered from all the reading years ago.
That just pushes it off a degree. How do you have any sense of that volume?

(volume being critical to deciding whether the trades are interesting)
Thanks for the translation; some of us are not as fluent in Marketroid. It's obvious that soulless automata like Darren are up to no good, but it's hard to translate what they emit:

> As VP of Content Services, Darren Herman is responsible for diversifying revenue and sustaining Mozilla’s mission through innovation in content and personalization products and services.
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Depends on what you mean by mainstream; women and children in the family room may be more likely to pick up Portal than COD
> (My own hypothesis would support McCaleb never responding to gwern's query.)

He has, incidentally. (Unfortunately I think he misunderstood the question and I'm still waiting on a reply to my clarification, so I haven't edited the page again.)
If you tried the best available devices for consumers and the 90s and then the Oculus dev kit, you can see that the latter is way better, even if it isn't in final consumer shape yet
I think the sociological term you are looking for is "weak ties" [1] - Facebook (minus Messenger) appears to be a platform for weak ties more than strong. There are social, strategic, financial, and political benefits to maintaining a network of weak ties [2].

[1] https://www.stanford.edu/dept/soc/people/mgranovetter/docume...

[2] http://personal.stevens.edu/~ysakamot/BIA658/man/week4/burt....
You are missing a very big point of advertising, which is not just to convince you the product is better than the competition, but that the product exists. In your example, it's like a congressional representative thanking a lobbyist for alerting them to a problem (which presumably they would then educate themselves on). I see no problem with that.

I admit, I would rather the information come in a less obnoxious form in many instances, but let's not kid ourselves that ads have no informational content. Given that they produce some level of useful information, increasing the the level of usefulness without reducing privacy seems a laudable goal.
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have categories?
Seems like it would be nice to have a couple categories. programming, start ups, makers, etc etc.
agreed - asoftmurmur rocks - listened to it all evening.
What is the best crowd funding site for a non-profit?
I currently volunteer at non-profit, and it is in need of some serious upgrades. One major thing, is there is no heater/air-conditioning. I heard of the idea of crowd funding, and was wanting to get opinions.
We don't actually know the 2 Wired writers were relying on Wikipedia or the version floating around the Internet. They might've gotten it straight from Karpels or McCaleb or a Mtgox staffer or someone, and just not given the source for it in their article. If going to McCaleb didn't work, my next step would be contacting them to learn their source: if they said they got it from Wikipedia or didn't know, then it'd discredit the article as a source for that particular assertion and the claim could at least be deleted & doubt cast on any other RSes asserting the claim without clear rationale.
I took this entirely as a conversation between developer and "stakeholder," be that client, employer, whomever, but not the end-user.

I've built many such forms, and all of them have included traditional forms of address. I may build another with traditional forms of address, but I certainly have no problem discussing the subject without laughing the idea off.
All generalizations are wrong, this one is no exception. Let's say that it is more correct for "individualism" centered Western cultures and makes less sense for "community" centerd cultures, such as Tibetan's and most of Asian's. I difenitely could survive without a bunch of selfish assholes, maintaining a minimal enough interaction with society, while in Tibet, where they live in clans of relatives and tribes, so you have to be part of your small, isolated community. But in a broad sense the idea to isolate oneself from pop-culture and media and construed by it shared social reality, to see things as they are (to very limited extent, of course) is good one, and all the good writers, like Pamuk or Marques told us how good it is.
Although I agree that in this case, the NYPD is wrong, I think that governments can keep certain things secret for the good of their people.
Lots of achievements you gain as I really salute you.
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I agree with you bro
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Paul Graham wrote an essay called "Things You Can't Say." He should update it so I'll know what things I can't say on Hacker News, like "Let's discuss this idea like reasonable people without, heaping shame on people who have ideas we disagree with."
A good news for the tech lovers
My best tools for getting beta users when I was kicking around Draft as an idea:

1) Build your own audience through teaching. Stop looking for the one time hit. The odds your startup/project is going to last the long term are probably low, and if you move onto the next thing, you'll be in the same spot. Start trying to build an audience around you of people and students who share your world views, and build stuff for them. Blog, write articles, do webcasts, talk at one of the many co-working spaces that look for speakers now.

Many people reading this are saying "But I don't know anything to teach." That's ridiculous. You just learned something last week that someone still doesn't know. I was teaching an entire Freshman Chemistry class as a Senior. There were juniors doing it. Sure, I took the class myself, but I didn't think I knew it well enough to even teach them. But I did the work to prepare, and teaching made me learn it backwards and forwards. Teaching isn't just good for the student; it's good for you.

"What is obvious to you is obvious to you" -John Medina (author of BabyBrainRules).

There is so much you know that someone else would love to acquire.

2) User testing. Get some beta testers simply by paying some people to use your app. (Read: Don't Make Me Think) I got some early folks on Usertesting.com. They were invaluable in finding problems and providing feedback in way you just don't get from some comments on a forum or thread about your product.

3) Go do some volunteer/non-profit work for 2 hours a week. Join something that has a big group of people you can help out and commit to for awhile. You'll quickly find when you start working for groups have a cause much bigger than you, you make a lot of new friends. And when you help them out, they love helping you out. You'll have these new groups to reach out to kick around new ideas. And they are the first ones spreading your stuff. Even better if you can find some groups to help with stuff you are building, but definitely not required to get some great benefits.
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Check out Adblock Edge. They're a branch the last version of Adblock Plus before ABP whitelisted everything Google.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
You've just explained European vs American style capitalism.
Fair point.

In the US, the bulk of population is along the Easter Seaboard, and much of the rest east of the Mississippi.

Europe is pretty uniformly populated.

Even China is mostly populated along the southeast coastline, with the interior largely empty space.

India's population density is rather more uniform, with a surprisingly large (to my mind) portion of the population against the Himalaya.

For the US, two ways of providing an equal-population distribution:

Re-allocated states by population. Note that this IMO inverts perception, as we view "bigger" with "more", when in fact the largest states have the lowest population densities. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/map-u-s-redrawn-as-50-...

US population represented by height: http://geographer-at-large.blogspot.com/2011/12/map-of-week-...

And a cartogram by state: http://www.datavis.ca/gallery/bright-ideas.php

Here's global population density by color intensity: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7052

A global cartogram (equal-area by population). Color coded by surface temperature anomoly: http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Te...

Ah, what I've been looking for (should have started at Wikipedia): a US cartogram by county, color shaded by 2004 presidential election results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cartlinearlarge.png

A number of interesting world maps, including more cartograms: http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/

http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Th...
I wonder how prominent the bars have to be for this effect to still work. Can they be translucent or a color other than white?
Because I need cookies for all my logins and subscriptions. Ads I don't need and take up a lot of screen space.
Merkel, Hollande to discuss European communication network avoiding U.S.
> how WP got so many consultants in the first place?

There are 75 million (!) WordPress sites in the world. It would be amazing if any software platform with 75 million users didn't have a large number of consultants available to help people with it.

http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
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>I think keeping it to one page shows respect for a reader's time

A well-laid out resume does this for the reader. Basically, the reader should be able to get a high-level idea of the applicant by quickly reading the top of each section/subsection, and then dig deeper into whatever they feel is relevant by moving deeper into the "tree".

Anecdotally, when I interview senior level people (data scientists, but this would apply to software engineers too), more than half the resumes are two pages. It's not abnormal and by no means a deal-killer. The last guy I interviewed had seven jobs and three degrees crammed into a single page - I had to waste 25% of the interview just asking him what he did at each job because his resume didn't tell me (except a title and a really terse summary). This only hurt him because I had less time to build a case to hire him.
They should really program "Darren" to produce something more like text written by a human being. Training a Markov chain on the output of your PR department, then having it write your "blog", isn't exactly effective.
The nytimes article listed in the parent, which is what sparked the 7-min workout craze, discusses and links to the study. I am not going to get into too much detail, but the general idea is that working a bunch of different muscle groups at high intensity for short periods gets you most of the benefits of longer endurance based workouts.
I actually like your idea - I think tech work has a low top end, and sales a much higher end (but for other reasons).

Developers are paid for the block of time. Sales people are paid a very low salary, and then can control how much they make by hustling. Developers wouldn't really be in control of how much business they bring in, so I could see it mainly working as a "bonus basis".
I would say it's probably close to impossible to directly correlate a developer's input to an amount of money his effort is worth in the form of a commission.

Also software planning, architecting, developing is such a nuanced process that it would likely be easy for someone who didn't want to pay someone substantially for their efforts to "sabotage" them.

Also I think in the big picture business folks likely wouldn't want to see the reality, which is that developers, in a technology-driven business are likely worth 90% of revenue while everyone else is likely worth something like 10%.
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What exactly kind of graph is this? I see three plots: a blue line, a thick purple segment and black speckles. None of them are labelled.

Is one of them a mean, for example? What is the variance in these data? My gf and I only post on each other's pages once per month, max, for example, yet we ust be part of this "study." The variance is especially important because the six-month span from top to bottom (1.66 - 1.54 = 0.12) is large compared to mean of the whole graph (~1.60).

What kind of selection criteria were used to create this graph? How many couples? What ages? What countries? (I don't accept "worldwide" b/c I don't accept that people of all countries post at the same rate).

This "information" has all the marks of Facebook trumpeting their macho data muscles to impress advertisers and the Atlantic flexing their paranoia muscle to stoke reader's outrage. I suspect those black dots are simply graphical saccharine to give the aesthetic appearance of "data."
How land is utilized has a huge impact. You'd think Brazil's rainforests would be on incredibly fertile land, but the soil actually stinks for agriculture. Brazilian farmers use Swidden (a.k.a. Slash-and-Burn) agriculture. They clear the land and generally only get a few useful growing seasons before the soil is infertile. Then they move on.

Land has more uses than agriculture of course. Forestry is huge. The amazon, were it sustainably logged instead of hastily burned, could supply a tremendous amount of lumber. Canada and Russia do have a lot of perma-frost in the far North, but an even larger portion of their uninhabited land is boreal forest. This land is far from useless even if much of it is not suitable for agriculture.
https://archive.org/details/Sounds_of_Nature_Collection
But then you cannot call such a government a democracy.

People making and enforcing laws do not get to arbitrarily decide to make something secret because they say so since they are the ones who made the laws in the first place. That's not democracy.
"Did not expect this to go anywhere" -- right, you just accidentally submitted it to HN
cold called - I hired interns and commission based workers to call people they thought would buy our product. I didn't have to worry about selling it to the customers, I just had to figure out how to sell it to our sales reps. Cold calling worked great, just got tired of the bS that came along with it.
Ghostery is fantastic after you've set everything to get blocked automatically, but it's noisy out of the box (you have to really go through every setting to get it just right), and many websites simply break if you block some external scripts from loading.
Here comes the next story where the writer makes no difference between adbloc Plus (https://adblockplus.org) and Adblock (https://getadblock.com)
Thanks for the reply. Is there a repository available with the design/source files for the mentioned open hardware, free software and papers?