skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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>Yes, his statement is over-reaching and generalized, but the message is still meaningful.

Yes, this is true, and it is tough to be subtle and nuanced on twitter.

If I remember correctly, this tweet came out the week an episode of Cosmos explored the Scientific Method. Remember, Tyson is only talking about science. He's not necessarily taking a shot at history or art or economics...

When we live in an age when parents are failing to vaccinate their kids because an actress who hasn't even been popular in a few decades tells them not to, someone really needs to push the Overton window in the other direction a bit.
I was of the opinion that iOS uses full disk encryption, throwing away the key when the device is locked. This is further substantiated by the fact that a full reset is now instantaneous whereas it took a while in the old days.

In that case I wonder how some data can both be instantaneously be wiped but not be encrypted.

Which is why I believe there to be a backdoor for the full disc encryption on the device. That's the only way how to reliably get access to the device when it's full disk encrypted and the key is not in memory any more.
This just means you are a freelancer, not an entrepreneur.

Nothing wrong with that, but its hard to conceive a scenario where you can try to be both.
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To which universe?
Seems pretty clear how they do this -- booting the device off an Apple-signed image which just extracts unencrypted data and exports it. (I suppose it's possible there's some weird signed-apple-driver way to do this on a running phone, too.) Only Apple can do it because only Apple can sign an evil bootloader like this.

There is a lot of room to improve the iOS security model against Apple/USG threats, but otherwise, it's still pretty good.

A non-Apple-friendly intelligence agency would still probably be better off attacking the actual security element; DPA, physical attacks, etc. should be able to pull the key. I'd estimate this capability would cost $10mm to develop and maybe $10k per device to attack, which would be great if you knew your adversaries used iPhones.

The biggest ongoing risk I see is that Apple could push an "evil" OS update to specific users if it wanted; if it can get the users to install it, all the hardware protections are irrelevant; you just get the user to enter the passcode, decrypt, exfiltrate. Solving that problem is really difficult without somehow having your own organization handle all OS updates.
Sample size for each factor is too small to even hypothesize a conclusion for the data.
I think the kernel of legitimate concern here is that we partisans of an enlightenment world view must be careful not to stoop to the level of the ancient worldviews we compete with.

Too many people "believe in" science the same exact way that others believe in superstition. They accept the results because of authority, without ever internalizing the process.

Schools are complicit in this problem. Learning that the earth goes around the sun without studying the evidence for how we know that is deeply misguided. Yet we quiz kids on the findings, not on whether they can explain and defend the findings.

There are plenty of people walking around who know what's on the periodic table, without having the slightest ability to explain where it came from or why we know it's true. It might as well be holy scripture.
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> I couldn't figure out how to remove a URL from a selection of text.

If you highlight the text, and click the link hyperlink icon in the toolbar, the URL will be removed. The link overlay UI doesn't support that though; we'll add a "remove" action in addition to "change".
Scientific truths are also "truer" than other truths because of their predictive value. If you understand gravity, you can assume that the sun will rise tomorrow morning. Even if you fail to make the required sacrifice to the sun god, the sun will still rise tomorrow.
The only options in my area are Comcast and satellite internet with its lag and small bandwidth limits and high prices. If people's favorite sites start annoying them, most people are likely going to blame the site and either stop visiting them or worse yet, try to switch to competing sites that offer the same/similar sites.
Here is telemetry data from beta users about size of PDFs http://telemetry.mozilla.org/#beta/29/PDF_VIEWER_DOCUMENT_SI... -- typical PDF size is about 200KB, and 11MB is less 20% of them.
I was hanging out in Oakland for 45 minutes and didn't see another person come by -- I was expecting the Bay Area would have the densest group of people trying this out.
With diigo you can highlight the bits of the page that are actually interesting, as well as tagging.
Pictures from inside the German intelligence agency BND
Pfft, what is philosophy? The natural sciences had almost completely robbed it of its intellectual validity by the mid-19th century, and this advance continues to this day. All that's really left to philosophers is vague discussion about morals and politics, and even these subjects are not safe from the scientific method.

I gave up on the subject (after a long obsession with it, and a couple years of study at university) after reading David Hume's crystal clear presentation of the problem of induction. What a devastating attack on philosophy as a whole! What can you depend on without absolute certainty? It looks a lot like Bayesian priors, and a lot like science.
Memory suggests yes (I think it's just a render param you pass in or something?) but I'll need to check old code tonight to give you a definitive answer.
>> I still want to know what happened to the other forty million uninsured.

Forty million? It was estimated at 23 million. Here is the breakdown of uninsured from Wikipedia:

Illegal immigrants, estimated at around 8 million—or roughly a third of the 23 million projection—will be ineligible for insurance subsidies and Medicaid.[121]
[126] They will also be exempt from the health insurance mandate but will remain eligible for emergency services under provisions in the 1986 Emergency Medical
Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).

Citizens not enrolled in Medicaid despite being eligible.[127]

Citizens not otherwise covered and opting to pay the annual penalty instead of purchasing insurance, mostly younger and single Americans.[127]

Citizens whose insurance coverage would cost more than 8% of household income and are exempt from paying the annual penalty.[127]

Citizens who live in states that opt out of the Medicaid expansion and who qualify for neither existing Medicaid coverage nor subsidized coverage through the states' new insurance exchanges.[125]
A lot of them are being covered by their employers due to increased requirements there, and a lot of them are being covered by Medicaid because of widened eligibility there. I have no idea how close they all add up to cover everybody, but you have to look beyond the insurance exchanges to see how well the law is doing in covering the uninsured.
Seriously, why doesn't the author release their internal IP block? This could create a valid way of protest against it. Hell, big name tech companies could get in on this.
Isn't Neocities mostly text? In that case 28.8kbps is not going to be too much lag time. If that's the case they should add some latency instead, like 5 to 10 sec. That gets annoying quickly.
I'd guess the main idea is to try and create a comfortable environment for new users migrating from Windows.

Personally, I'm glad to be done with overlapping windows and graphical file browsers. I use Xmonad, urxvt and bash.
The problem with the simulation argument is that it is pointless. What do we gain by knowing that we are actually just a completely realistic simulation? Our reality is still the same, whether it is a simulation or whether it is the full extent of existence.
MuPDF solves a bit of the same problem, in that it renders PDF while trying to ignore all the extensibility cruft that makes Adobe's PDF reader incredibly insecure.
In other news: Dozens of insurance companies got 8.1 million signups and got the tax payer to fund the marketing campaign and the website that brought the customers to their doors. These insurance companies should be grateful but instead are being dicks about it.

The U.S. government should bill the health insurance companies for the cost of the websites.
Can we open source this as a server module of some variety?
You can use the JetBrains tools which have a plugin for HTTP/Rest api testing. Should work with their free java edition. http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/rest-client-tool-windo...
Just to nitpick, netflix have somewhat more than a single self-produced show:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_dist...
If some script kiddy on Reddit or Anonymous abuse that information "for the lulz" or "sake of the internetz" with DoS etc., the author would needlessly get into trouble since he got it confidentially.
O'Reilly author's companion repo commits by exercise to follow book
Problem 1: you have a slightly old machine (512MB or 1GB of RAM) or something like a Raspberry Pi and you want a resource-efficient but modern-looking desktop.

Problem 2: you want a VM with a DE but don't want to spend too much resources in it.

Problem 3: you have a modern computer but prefer to have a lightweight DE and let the rest of the resources be used by your applications.

Both LXDE and Razor-qt consumed about 100MB of RAM, I would expect something similar from LXQt. All the other DEs are heavier, XFCE is just a bit heavier but at least for me LXQt looks a lot nicer.

And as it was pointed out, it's a merger of LXDE and Razor-qt, so it's the complete opposite of the "many Gnomes" situation. Kudos to that.
He goes through all of the pros and cons of this approach, but doesn't mention which framework they used for the html portion (unless they rolled their own in which case might as well go all native). There are so many different frameworks it seems (Phonega, Cordova, Trigger etc), does anyone out there have a rundown of all the different ones and the quality of each?
Marc Andreessen annotates amazing 1994 NPR memo on the "internet"
Just thought it was an interesting way to do it. He says it took him extra time but lets one repo represent all the states of the sample app they build in the book.
Legally, you're right.

In terms of public opinion, I'd like to think that the backlash YC/pg sometimes get doesn't bother them, but I'm sure it does to at least some degree.

I'm really not trying to argue against the author or make them feel bad, btw - I just want to point out that I think this specific interperatation of what happened is probably wrong, and to point out that we as a community need to make sure we don't rush to attack anyone, lest we deter YC from providing this service.
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The internet has flourished because of sane peering agreements. Net Neutrality just makes that the standard instead of implied.

This goes way beyond just building in costs to your subscribers, what about new start ups with bandwidth heavy ideas? What if Google or Netflix get in a huge fight with Comcast when they can't reach an agreement? Do consumers just lose out on being able to view that content?

It's going to turn the web into a fractured mess like cable television, where everyone has to pay to play and the only winners being giant telecoms.

The way the 'unregulated web' works now will never return, and we will all lose out for it. The argument you are making is purely academic, it will have no reflection of the new bifurcated web that will exist. Where content is completely controlled by gatekeepers demanding tolls at every step of the way.
Agreed, when the evidence is overwhelming we can operate as such while always remembering that our knowledge and understanding may be limited or flawed.

Having NdGT doing the work he is doing is far better than not because it gives us more opportunity to think.
This post was killed by user flags.
So you're claiming that the quote should really be "The good thing about objective reality is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it"?
I'm sure the author could have easily been creative enough to hide that he was his own source. Also are IPs really considered private information? I thought the whole point of IPs was they can be shared.

A simple (probably flawed) example:
"Oh hey, I found this pastebin with the FCC's IP block, don't know where it came from"
3 clause BSD license. Kind of an odd choice these days.
Have you ever seen a room full of 2nd graders try to log into something?
We have, and it isn’t pretty. Imagine 30 arms wriggling in the air and one crazed teacher running around the computer lab to troubleshoot. That’s what a typical day visiting our users looks like.

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Quill developer here. I'll look into the issue for Firefox for Android. It appears to be doing something different than its desktop counterpart. Feel free to submit an issue on Github for tracking though. It will be tough to officially support Firefox on Android though as we use Sauce for automation and it does not appear to be supported there.
You can also include the best buy google kiosks as physical retail.
Yes, you can build you own personalized extension for Firefox, Chrome or Opera from PDF.js source code, which will disable text layer. (see also #textLayer=off feature at https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Debugging-pdf.js#url-...)
Really? I'm supposed to go and work for free for them, just to prove your wrong? No thanks.

> Also their tests are run without caching for a reason. It's not a test of the language/framework if they just use whatever language to generate a static/cached file and serve it with nginx.

Haha lol, so the tests are explicitly meaningless. I guess I'm done here then.
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while i don't agree with priest either, your reasoning is bad.

the point is not to argue against how people define logic, or anything as arbitrary or seemingly self-defeating as that.

the point is to provide a functional logic in the face of the liar's paradox and the like. regardless of the motivations of individual philosophers, the work itself posits as motivations actual technical problems. the technical problems generally arise from self-reference, but (as you can see with varieties of incompleteness proofs as well) you don't need outright self-reference to get the truth of a statement resting on its negation.

yell all you want about rigor, the onus is on you to use conventional logic to resolve these tensions. again, i personally think that proponents of many-valued logic are misguided in their large scale view of truth functional representation (and i probably think the same of you!). however, i respect that they seek to defend it by solving problems rather than saying "hurr, 'this is a lie' just doesn't mean anything at all. and oh yeah, language is compositional, truth is correspondence, and i'll hear nothing saying otherwise!"
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Software eats the world.
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I don't think you can put all the blame on local governments. A huge part of the problem is structural. Having two ISPs isn't actually competition. Conscious parallelism and other signaling mechanisms allow them to collude implicitly without violating antitrust laws. If you have two alternatives but both of them behave identically (e.g. both charge Netflix for peering) then it isn't really much of a choice.

In order to have enough competition that the free market can behave as it does in capitalist philosophy you would need to have a dozen or more separate ISPs to choose from. But building that many competing networks is a waste of resources, and to recover their costs each ISP would then have to charge $500+/month because the cost of the network (which has significant costs that are per mile rather than per customer) would have to be amortized over far fewer customers.

The way you can get the desired level of competition without building duplicative infrastructure is local loop unbundling (with a prohibition on the entity providing the local loop competing for customers against the entities leasing it). But that isn't any less of a regulatory burden than network neutrality.
This was me for about the first 5-6 years of my career, then I was able to double my salary twice in two years (and had some more modest raises/bonuses since).

Definitely valuable to know what you're actually worth on the market, I didn't learn that until I got involved in the NYC startup scene.
play framework as well ( with no jsp dependency)
I actually read the blog post as a team that hadn't pitched a lot of investors. What you suggest here is being very forward in a setting that had been set up as a passive "interview". He was expecting them to set up the right question and probably wasn't experienced enough to just start telling them what he wanted them to know. There might be some cultural (U.S., S.V., "pitching") aspects to this dynamic as well.
Without critical mass, this becomes an asynchronous, location-based messaging tool, similar to what foursquare is kind of about. However you could use this tool/tech to geotag areas, spontaneously create chats for events like conferences, or even for emergencies like Mountain View Puma.
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> Net neutrality is a hard sell because it goes quite against the prevailing thought at the FCC.

The FCC keeps issuing regulations aiming to enforce net neutrality, keeps getting challenged by the ISPs in court, and keeps trying again after court set backs. The Google/Amazon/Facebook etc. letter is about reports (which the FCC Chair has denied) that a draft being circulated as the next iteration of that effort might weaken in a particular way, and urging the FCC to adhere to the principles it has repeatedly articulated in this area. Neutrality does not go "quite against the prevailing thought" at the FCC, it is the prevailing thought at the FCC.

> The internet companies need to lobby, sure, but they also need a "hook." And "openness" and "neutrality" which are words that resonate in Silicon Valley on their own are not ones that resonate in Washington.

They certainly seem to resonate with the FCC, whose actual efforts in this area are under the "Open Internet" banner and have generally been about enforcing the principles commonly labelled "net neutrality".
right... http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=mupdf...
Do you just use it for producing a REST API or do you use it to render HTML, handle session management etc.?
Amazon also comes very close to checking all the boxes.
If I had to put money on who'll be around in ten years, I know who I'd go with.
In the insurance market, the quality of your customers matters more than the quantity. It's not like McDonald's, where every customer is profitable. So to me, it's not clear that insurance companies should always be grateful for more customers.
We would and we probably do.

(Here's a lesson - business owners will often not even know what services they're signed up to!).
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If you're curious if you have this variant, I believe you can look at your 23andme data here:
https://www.23andme.com/you/explorer/snp/?snp_name=rs9536314

One 'G' means you have one copy, two 'G's means you have two copies. All 'T's means you don't have it.

Read on for how I figured it out. I may have it wrong?

Out of curiosity, I'm trying to figure out if my 23andme data would report this variant.

I made some progress but I'm a bit confused what to look for once I find the gene.

This talks about related SNP's?
http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/KL

I think any 23andme data would be here?
https://www.23andme.com/you/explorer/gene/?gene_name=KL
My install?! As I mentioned, in all computer systems I have access to.

I just get the spinning wheel effect, while the CPU usage scales all the way up, until the whole document is downloaded, processed and finally displayed.
Haha, Obama's "bad" pick. So Michael Taylor from Monsanto is a "good" pick for the FDA?
Honestly I just screwed it up a few days ago myself. I let myself get backed into the corner of talking about my salary history. And it's not the first time I've done it, not even the first time year since reading that essay.
While he might understand what he is talking about, based on a corpus of experience, people who learn about this "principle" as they learn to program do not typically understand it and tend to draw only the wrong conclusions from it. What makes for coupling, and how to avoid it, you simply learn with a lot of practice, and there are not many clearcut guidelines you can formulate, it all varies depending on the problem. At best you can read SICP and see how they decouple everything by doing lots of data-driving and dynamic dispatch and things of this sort.

This is too vague to be a "principle", and only causes confusion. It is about as precise, and as useful, as the "write good code" principle.
"Prior to working at the FCC, Wheeler worked as a venture capitalist and lobbyist for the cable and wireless industry, with positions including President of the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) and CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA"
We're not using a framework. The app itself is a standard Cocoa/Objective-C app, just using a mix of web views and native views for rendering the content of individual screens.
+1 to Advanced REST. I use to use that, but these days I use postman https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-clien...
I think many large tech companies have me-too platforms in a wide range of services -- just because Alibaba has a fork of Android does not make it comparable to Android. A better comparison would be yielded if the userbase/usage of these services were included.

This is not to say that Alibaba is not an incredible company, just that this is an incomplete comparison.
I haven't heard of Aliyun OS before. It appears to be a forked version of AOSP. Does it add anything significant on top of it?
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>> The problem with freedom of labour and open borders is that it's usually just one way.

It's only a problem if you're a working class American or an Indian business. It's great if you're a working class Indian or an American business.