skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ding!

That's the key. There is no news here because every phone running every OS is back-doored[1]. Completely, totally back-doored. This includes every single phone "replicant" has ever been installed on.

There is a computer in your phone, that you cannot access, running a closed source, proprietary OS that your carrier controls, that has (in many cases) DMA access to your "actual" phone.

Your carrier has total control over that computer in your pocket.

Game Over.

[1] With the very tiny exceptions of calypso-based motorola phones running osmocom and possibly the neo freerunner phones ... but I could be wrong about those...
As others here have noted, this doesn't seem to be measuring corruption. Instead, and after reading their meager "methodology" (we compile these results from "international elite"), it appears that what this is measuring instead is a country's business friendliness.

And that's a fine thing to measure, but don't call it "corruption". It does a disservice to us in fundamentally corrupt yet business-friendly countries.
re: fastsrping

"You have the option to pay either 8.9% flat or 5.9% plus $.95 per transaction. "

Wowza, thats steep!

edit: Sorry but experience has been different here in west, in another lifetime I worked on an "innovation partnership" with EI, it was nothing more than a way to funnel state money to politically connected "friends", the business idea was crippled from day 1 but that didnt matter the objective was transfer money, which as as a taxpayer was sickening.

Sorry for being cynical but I have many years of experience in business here, and seen it all in my interactions with state bodies. Maybe in Dublin they manage to put on a better show or things changed in last few years.
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Wow, Mexico sharing ranks along Nigeria, Kosovo and Ethiopia. Not surprised.
"On the other hand, all the leagues have significantly lower average hotness in the first half compared to the second half, so maybe it’s not just the NBA that has a boring first half problem."

This seems to be a misconception. It stands to reason that the chart will grow jumpier as you near the end of the game. In options lingo, the implied volatility will be more stable the further you are from expiry (the end of the game). Theta decay and all that. The market is basically giving you an integrated forecast from each point in time until the final buzzer, and as that window shrinks you expect the odds to be jumping around more.
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I don't follow your logic. Why would earmarks be more likely if laws had expiration dates?
It's not good. Change your user-agent to googlebot (User Agent Switcher is a good addon for Firefox.)

I accidentally still had it on from trying to read an article that some site was showing exclusively to the googlebot but paywalling for everyone else. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have noticed.

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For those who want to know about that particular chair, it's a Zero-gravity Chair from Human Touch. I've got a much older version of that chair, and it's kinda busted, but when I have the floor space set up for it, it's an awesome recliner.

Big problem though: it rotates its full height to the horizontal so you have to have it practically in the middle of an area so it can lean back and not hit the wall.
Researchers ... successfully identified a cannabis cultivator, multiple sclerosis sufferer and a visitor to an abortion clinic using nothing more than the timing and destination of their phone calls.

Unfortunately, the political actors who are the biggest cheerleaders/defenders of total surveillance are also the ones most likely to be in favor of unconstitutionally severe pursuit and punishment of drug growers, in favor of ejecting sick people from the health care system (preferring that they instead die quickly and cheaply), and in favor of publicly shaming abortion patients.

In other words, a result like this is particularly likely to re-enforce existing biases more than anything else. Plenty of Americans will respond to such news by suggesting such data should be used more, not collected less.
The bureaucracy expands to meet the expanding needs of the bureaucracy.
Spending 10 million on warehouses doesn't reduce their profit by 10 million for that quarter. The point is they do not make money, and people who somehow overlook this by suggesting they are focused on longer term infrastructure investments needs to brush up on accounting (profit vs cash flow). Capital expenditures are not treated as expenses.
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All I know is I have business degree from California State university, I also worked at Health Net (an HMO provider in California, and Tricare provider at the time in the East coast) and did medical analytics systems that helped improve patient outcomes, both for facility care and chronic care. I now work for Bank of America and I work in the department that is untangling the mess of the toxic assets (I technically work for Countrywide, if that helps). Oh, and I develop software for a living.

I have not the foggiest idea how health care works in America anymore. It has become so complicated, so byzantine, that there's no possible way it could be fair, as some get lucky, and some don't, and there's little anyone can do about it anymore. All I see it doing is feeding a massive bureaucracy, at inordinately high costs.

And this is supposed to be the solution?
> Also, empirically, there are a whole lot more frivolous lawsuits in the US.

"Frivolous" is not an objective descriptor and, therefore, this is not a statement which can be made empirically. At any rate, a higher rate of meritless lawsuits is an intentionally-accepted cost of minimizing the disincentive to pursue potentially meritorious lawsuits.

This is a value difference between the USA and countries that use loser pays.

> If I do a lawsuit against Google and they spend $10 billion on it then I don't need to pay then $10 billion.

Unless the lawyers Google spends billions on can convince the judge that those expenses were reasonably necessary to effectively prosecute the case -- and, incidentally, lawyers that are more proficient at convincing judges that their fees are reasonable will, have higher fees.

> There is a reason why virtually all modern democracies except the US use loser pays.

Yes, becaue most modern democracies value avoidance of private legal action more and effective venue of redress of legitimate disputes less than the US. Loser pays is a method of disincentivizing filing suits in general (it increases the expected costs for the plaintiff, particularly) as well as tilting the balance toward deeper-pockets litigants generally.
While (ironically) that is exactly the La-Z-Boy from which I watch television and sometimes sleep, it would be an ergonomic disaster for me to work from it.

1. I have a (really) long body and (freakishly IMO) short legs (as in my wife is 6" shorter than me but still has longer legs). If my arms were extended down to the arm rests for typing, fuggedaboutit, I'd be crippled in a week.

2. Due to uncorrectable vision issues, I have a 30" monitor roughly 1' from my face. I would barely be able to read text on the monitor setup you have.

3. Can't use a mouse, can't use a kinesis keyboard sadly.

4. Haven't been able to use laptops effectively for 15+ years. Ironically, tablets are no problem. Go figure that one out.

That said, we seem to share a passion for hoarding gadgets.
I think you're a bit ignorant on this matter.

I don't know why you need to turn this into a personal attack, but you are dead wrong in everything you assert about my beliefs and experience.

By paperwork, I meant the work burden... and we spent a lot of time getting approvals for small scale data collection efforts.

Maybe you have gone through the process. But I have, and it was a headache.
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"The better your headphones, the better the sound, but the Ponoplayer sounds good with all headphones."

"Use it in your home stereo, car...and the difference in the sound will be amazing."

Which is it? I have to believe the quality of your speakers will be a big difference. will it be just "good" or truly "amazing".

I'm honestly surprised at the amount of pledges. They're basically selling a device on the hopes of hearing something amazing. I've heard flac audio and it is better. You don't need a $300-400 paperweight to pump out great sound.
Really depends on the time of year and the actual year. I lived right on the path of the camino and talked to tons of people who were completing it. "Holy years" will see about 1.5x to 2x more pilgrims. It peaks at el dia de santiago (July 25). That's when the trail, particularly the last leg, will be quite crowded. On July 25th it will be a steady stream flowing into the main square. In late summer, fall or spring, from what I gather it's quite easy to not see a soul on most days. There are also a lot of side routes off the main path.

Also, although the route has a lot of religious meaning, loads of people who are hiking aren't religious at all. So don't let that discourage you.
The worst thing you can do (and that we've done!) is tying healthcare to material wealth.
Let me get this right.

Major diseases are the most important reason for health insurance to exist.

But in the US, if you get a major disease, you lose your job, then within 18 months your coverage, and then the insurance is gone.

Is this correct?
> I love the separation of concerns that is possible with JS apps - you can have one team working on the API and one on the interface and the only place they really need to communicate is in the API documentation.

Yeah, me too. Apart from the actual, observable benefits you mentioned, I just find something really satisfying about the separation. Fewer hacks, easier to modify things.

I think the rise in the popularity of doing things this way is largely thanks to the increase in popularity of test-driven development. Creating a client app without an API is so easy given all the tools available for mocking or faking APIs, and creating a standalone API is easy given that most of the time, you're just testing the JSON or XML output of a bunch of functions.
You are clueless on how the modem works on Android phones. On all nexus, which I'm familiar, modem firmware runs with more ring priority/privileges than the OS.

Have https keys in memory? Now so does the modem firmware if it wishes.
This is not a surprise, though. While I'm not Italian myself, I can attest that Italy (more specifically: The south of Italy) has a Europe-wide reputation for corruption.

It seems that things have been getting better lately, or maybe the perception of corruption in Italy was overblown.

Who knows?

Anyway, with this in mind, I'd take the color of Italy as a positive sign, namely that it is not too dark, on its way to yellow bliss.
If that is the case, then Agile just does not work for large, integrated engineering projects. You must make attempts at locking both feature sets and due dates because the progress of teams is interdependent and the flexibility each team has is highly variable. At some level of granularity there must be an established schedule that other teams can plan to. Its a basic part of systems engineering.

This is not to say these structures should be inflexible. There needs to be some flexibility in requirements and dates, and it is the responsibility of the program manager and systems engineer to make sure the project can bend without breaking. There must be limits on it, though, or the project will tear itself apart.
In an industry with a fetish for stand-up desks, you are a true rebel.
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Amazon increased the price of Prime a long time ago.

* Once upon a time, 2-day shipping was free and next-day shipping was $3.99. Then they raised the price if the next day happened to be Saturday. Now, next-day shipping varies depending on the item and is often unavailable. It's never less than $3.99, though. 2-day shipping is rarely shipped via a 2-day shipping service; often they drop it in the mail and hope for the best. (Also, why even bother charging me $4? Just make next-day shipping free and charge $4 more for the thing.)

* Various unreliable courier services end up doing a good chunk of the deliveries. UPS, Fedex, and the USPS are great. I don't know how they do it, but they manage to break into my apartment building every day of the week and drop off packages without me ever knowing the details. Lasership and A1? Yeah right. I love it when they try to deliver packages to my office at 10PM. Are any office mail rooms open at 10PM ever? Ever? Nice try. (Does Amazon even use A1 anymore? I remember finding a bug in A1's website that disclosed the name and address of all their customers. Emailed security@amazon and security@a1. Heard back from Amazon that they fixed it. Never saw another package from A1. Maybe A1 just rebranded as Lasership. I really have no idea.)

* Add-on items. Need I say more?

* Every time you order something from Amazon, you get a stupid interstitial about how you can opt-in to receive email about streaming a bunch of B movies and flopped TV shows at 160i resolution via your Flash player. No thanks, Amazon. You're a physical media store, not Netflix! It's cute that you're trying, though.

Finally, while I'm ranting... it's weird that amazon.co.jp and amazon.com don't share my credit card information and address. Would also appreciate Prime for amazon.co.jp, but I know that's never going to happen.
Not only that, but these same young people (as we saw in the "kids in the valley" Times article the other day) are also supposed to cure cancer for these folks!

Joy!

(wait, what's that, you also need to pay rent? and student loans? and healthcare costs? but but but why aren't you ~-= innovating =-~???)
You were living off savings, right? Couldn't you just lie and claim you had some small amount of income? It wouldn't even really have to be a lie -- just a projection of future business income.
Over time, due to both per-item shipping fees rising and higher volumes, Amazon's losses on shipping have been rising at an unsustainable rate. The gap last year between its shipping costs and shipping charges was about $3.5 billion, up from just $600 million 5 years ago. http://www.statista.com/statistics/236503/amazons-annual-shi...
I wonder how much ~sensory depravation~ we're getting for free with the average sedentary/city lifestyle.
Just a heads up -- the naked version of your domain (ie squirt.io) does not resolve. Adding the www subdomain does work. Might want to tweak your configuration. I had to double check that I had the right domain...
That's an interesting idea, but my first instinct is that the cynical developer response to "Agile(tm)" would be even more harsh than to just "Agile".
our lab is a photon vacuum.

i've iterated through an array of desk lamps, but realized the biggest problem is the lack of reflections from walls/ceilings.

so the shield is a big light reflector --- just foam posterboard taped together and hung from a 5-iron and some rope.

the $5 ikea lamps provide nice warm light, and the angular shield makes it feel like you're on a photo shoot with ambient light and minimal self-occluding shadows.
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> If facebook recognizes me on a picture someplace else, I actually rather want to know about it. I'm not super famous, so unexpected pictures of myself can be more of a bad thing...

If all they did was notify you, that would be OK, I guess, although I'm not totally cool with it. I'm more worried about them seeing my picture and tagging it as me without my permission.

I think the crux of it is that facebook is pretty much the least trustworthy, most give-an-inch-they-take-a-mile company out there as far as privacy is concerned...
Firstly the idea of using external css/javascript/images I feel is a security vulnerability, you would be better using something like composer or some other package manager and caching it locally.

Secondly this is an old method of doing stuff, there are tools like sass etc which combine all the javascript and css into one file and having remote files kinda breaks this model.
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This is merely a helper, but not necessarily to circumvent "sandboxing". Probably the honest firmware update routines use this route to make code smaller.
>we all think we are entitled to a piece of the earth for eternity //

I live next to a graveyard - the stones often are so decayed after 100 years as to be unreadable. Graves get reused eventually or the graveyard gets reused as a whole (at least that's how things have happened in my country thusfar).

Funny half the people ITT seem to be saying we've got loads of resources.

Also FWIW a graveyard isn't wasted space - it's basically a park with memorial stones. People use it to walk, jog; it's a good space for wildlife, trees prosper.
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... and that picture was on a good day
Ok just tried the add-in in Excel 2007, some comments:

1) Everything's really slow. Installation's very, very slow and not responsive and the add-in seems to add considerably to Excel start up time.

2) No ribbon, just three buttons on Add-Ins tab, it looks a bit unprofessional.

3) It doesn't really work - when I click on "Show sheet" it sends the browser to some local file slate.html in temp directory, which seems to have just:

Need Help?

+

-

Double click to show full tree again.

There are no formulae on this sheet to display

Contact support@slateforexcel.com for support queries or feedback.

Loading...

Where's the stuff I saw in the video? Was that Mac-only?

4) I'd look into using Excel-DNA/NetOffice instead of VSTO, which requires a runtime. That makes it easier for business units to subscribe directly without going through the IT and the whole procurement process, etc.
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Eh, the same could be said about cars (easy to lose control and kill a bunch of people) but their benefit is so useful that we applied controls rather than outlawing them. Over a century or so we've applied various braking technologies, crumple zones, seat belts air bags, etc... Gambling could be treated the same way and with the advent of big data the benefits may outweigh the harms.
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I refuse to believe they spent, much less required that much money to make green USB ports. It's a piece of plastic. The tooling is already there, the only thing different required is the color of the plastic.
That looks really comfortable, but it'd probably be annoying to get in and out of it, not only for the steepness of the chair, but also because of all the cords.
Not sure if you'll ever see this, but it's good that you want to improve, and for this your are entirely forgiven. The only tips I can really give you are to be consistent, and try and be grammatically correct.

I don't care if you use e-mail or email, as long as you stick with the same term. I do care if you use lowercase "i"s when you should be using capital "I"s though.

That being said, everyone can improve, so just keep learning and writing. I have just bought the above book too. Everyone has space to learn. Good job on taking my criticism positively as well, even if I did sound a bit irked.
More opportunity to add them to laws, due to more opportunity to edit the laws.
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I think a better solution is to not have one designated body position for work.

I have an office with only a standing desk but I'll come in and sit by the table, or on the recliner, or even lie on the floor.

The hardest part was getting myself trained to be just as productive on one monitor.

My anecdotal evidence is I feel this has been better than doing X day-after-day year-after-year.
It exists: Apache Jackrabbit + Apache Sling

I work with Adobe Experience Manager (former Day CQ) and the way the content is managed is the best, I have experience with. Of course, it does not mean, the product is perfect. But the concept feels right.
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I feel like half of what I see here is advertisements thinly disguised as blog posts. Now this company needs to promote itself a second time by calling attention to the first time it promoted itself?
So, erm, what are these large "old-guard" companies that somehow would make better use of my talents?

And further, where did they come from?
The reason light rail makes sense, at least in Portland, Oregon is that its cheaper per ride to operate. Personally, I would rather ride MAX than a bus.
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"Right-O, no waste in small businesses. The smaller the business, the more efficient."

I didn't say that; no need for the sarcasm.

The answer is somewhat complicated. Small businesses have an advantage because the information flow between directly involved parties and decision makers is very short; possibly the same person. They can notice an inefficiency and correct it immediately, rather than needing some kind of permission or authorization (which is inherently a slow way for information to travel because it involves other people). They can also seize opportunities quickly for the same reason (which may involve changing prices or making a non-traditional deal).

Large businesses can get economies of scale, although I think these are dramatically over-emphasized. Producing one marginal unit may be cheaper up to a point, but eventually the next marginal unit becomes more costly than the last (because there becomes so much demand for the inputs that it increases the price). That's the nature of the supply curve. Often, businesses that deal in huge volumes and have great economies of scale are medium-sized or even small. Of course, there are some industries where economies of scale are crucial and only large businesses or governments can really operate efficiently.

Large businesses have greater political influence and more ability to work in a regulated/political/government environment. This is perhaps their greatest advantage.

I'd be interested to see the numbers you have about the share of the economy powered by small/medium businesses. Is it a long, consistent decline, or more of a local minimum?
I see what you're saying but it's not really just a by-product, it's an integral part of the research. Both the "why" and the "how" are needed, especially when looking at rational drug design to have specific targets to screen for.