skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with the sentiment here, the actual mechanics just don't hold true for plenty of people. Certainly the 80/20 rule probably applies: your suggestions will fix a great many issues for many people, and it's definitely worth reminding most people to make several of the changes you suggest -- particularly exercise and sleep.

But if the recipe was really that simple for all people, more of us would experience more success.

Humans are complex. Not mechanistically complex, stochastically. We're chaotic. One set of inputs may produce different outputs, and reverse-engineering the reasons for those differences may be "hard" or impossible. Apps and tracking devices can help reveal small areas where a fractional improvement in control or quality can have very large beneficial effects.

Lifestyles and other highly personal factors mean that the application of a simple single formula will be met with varying success. And anyway, you have to measure the outcomes to understand how successful the intervention has been.

I'd also point out that just because you feel well, it doesn't mean that your lifestyle or body (or mind) are healthy. Some attempt at objective data is useful to determine if you're really as healthy as you think you are. Sure, you may feel great if you get regular sleep every night. But did you know your sleep apnea puts you at increased risk of cardiovascular disease?

Edit: probably a better example... You may feel perfectly fine sitting down for several hours per day. But you're at increased risk of a whole range of diseases. A timer set to beep evey 20 minutes to remind you to get up and move may actually add years to your life.

This isn't a defence of lifestyle or health/fitness apps and so on, just a recognition that they work for some people, and for some circumstances. Or so it appears. This is the start of a vast, poorly coordinated longitudinal experiment. We'll be poring over the data for years yet.
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I get a 404.. Google's cache appears to work:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:l28Oinc...
I'm glad someone took the time to read the document and understand that inclusion into the watchlist requires due diligence on the analyst's understanding of the derog (derogatory information), the fact checking about the person of interest's history to verify identity, and the okay of multiple people checking information along the path that the nomination takes. Mistakes on a nomination are immediately forwarded and corrected, and a nomination is constantly reevaluated for its validity to exist within the database. You or I are not showing up in that database without a very blatant nexus to terrorism.

The other posters within random comments are also conflating the watchlist with the no-fly list. I don't need to go into details about the differences, because their names say it all.

(Source: I built one of those data interchange legs, and worked a lot with the TSC)
Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion wasn't mentioned in the article, but it's also pretty interesting -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetized_Liner_Inertial_Fusio.... It's a hybrid approach using both inertial and magnetic confinement.
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The patents are public record, and very informative. I may do a blog on it at some point.
Since I used the Bitcoin-Core to send/spend bitcoins, the export instructions from https://balances.io/import_instructions will not work.

The balance displayed is much less than what the wallet contains, because of the internal addresses from the key pool.

See http://blog.barthe.ph/2014/04/03/bitcoin-balance-differs/
Mobile MAUs were 1.07 billion as of June 30, 2014,
an increase of 31% year-over-year.

That's crazy. 1/7th of the world's population logs in to Facebook from a mobile device at least once a month.
The Ebola virus's spread is completely unnatural (it jumps entire regions where there are no major travel patterns). And people are supposed to believe a disease spread that naturally impossible.

You would think there would be an investigation. The last case of a disease sprouting at random with no previous occurrence was Cholera in Haiti, a disease that was introduced by Nepalese UN Aid workers.
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I feel like I'm missing something important, but if laser photons naturally scatter over distances then wouldn't that issue apply to the laser being used to create the compressed air channel?
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That's what EverQuest Next is supposedly doing with the Storybricks algorithm.

http://www.storybricks.com/games.html
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you dont blame her? i do and obviously so does that family. the woman was rude, he tweet anout it, and the airline then decided to refuse service to his family due to their complaint. whether it is tweeted, on a public forum, or within a reviews site - it shouldnt matter and to have a company threaten refusal of service due to a complaint is completely innapropriate
Thanks! On your feedback:

- I apologize for our overly American design :-). We're based out of California, so we tend to build from that point of view first. Dates, Timezones, Language and Currencies are all things we'll have to deal with. Your CSV recommendation is easy enough to make in the meantime. Thanks for pointing it out!

- The timer will soon open while its running. It's a more complicated situation on mobile where taking notes after actually makes sense.

- There will be a "billed" status shortly to ensure that doesn't happen (we track that but haven't made it apparent in the user interface).

- Those bubbles are just begging to be filled! Another "coming shortly" feature. Having the person's face is actually an important factor in creating invoices that are more likely to be paid quickly.
Use your imagination. Apple could be compelled to dump a device you're sending in for repairs, for example.

A great deal of these (backdoors/vulnerabilities/developer tools) have no reason to exist in a non-developer-mode consumer device.
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I agree with you, the insight is that the most common thing people do on laptops or desktops is 'search for something' if the most common thing people do on mobile is 'check my facebook' then that puts Facebook on mobile in the seat where Google sits on computers. I'm bummed I sold my FB stock when it hit 40.
Sierra Leone chief Ebola doctor infected
Not just the doctors, the nurses and all those who help.
Ask HN: What is the most accurate 3D indoor positioning method in small spaces?
I am working on an idea which requires three dimensional location data from somehow "tagged" smallish objects (around the size of a brick) moving within defined spaces of 5-20 cubic meters. What are some standard solutions for this kind of projects? Where to start? Can it be done affordably?

The needed frequency of updated positions is around 100hz and accuracy of 1cm or better would be ideal. If you have done something similar to this, I'd be more than happy to hear! Computer vision and use of cameras is something that I'd rather avoid.
I don't want to give the imrpession that I've read it in full detail or that I endorse everything in it. I only spent about half an hour with it, getting familiar with the content and reading a few sections in detail. I could point out many things that are flawed or problematic in it, but I do feel that arguments about its content need to be grounded in fact as regards what it actually says.
Thanks for the link. While it does indeed looks nice, it's not what I had in mind. This is basically isometric 2D. You're looking at a plane. Things that rise up, like pillars, are not shown. You could not see that dam the way it really looks like in my linked picture.
Does xbacklight work?
So, if influencing government policy is terrorism... what does that make the government, and corporations, who by far and above "influence policy" more than any other group?
Sorry for confusion. The TL;DR was the short version of what I wrote. They're both saying the same thing. I removed the "--" formatting in case that was confusing.
> And educated people are supposed to believe a disease spread that naturally impossible.

Are you a virologist? Can you take a minute and think about something you say before you jump into conspiracy theories? This is a tragedy, not an opportunity to spin your silly ideas.
Doubtful. People go to search engines to buy things. People go to Facebook to hang out. FB ads are unlikely to supplant Google for that reason.

It doesn't matter whether an advertiser wants to advertise on a certain platform. If nobody clicks on the ad, then that advertising is useless. Maybe they just want to put their brand into the viewer's head rather than have the viewer click on the ad. That's a valid strategy, but not really what most advertisers pay for.
Seems like iOS 8 should offer a settings screen to allow you to revoke sync keys and/or see a list of computers you've trusted in the past. Perhaps it should default to deleting the keys if you haven't sync'd with a specific computer in some timeout period (30 days?).

A few of the services should be locked down a bit further regardless of anything else.

I also don't see this as a valid bypass of encrypted files - you need the device to be on and have its passcode entered. That's a far cry from taking a cold device, booting it, then connecting with a stolen sync key. Besides the fact that we've known you were unsafe if the device was unlocked for some time - some police even carry Faraday bags and portable chargers to keep them accessible probably for this very reason.
For me it was just the experience with both.
Coming from Java background it was exactly the opposite when I was first dynamic languages, but it got easier eventually (quickly).

I guess you just have to try out different approaches (and mixed ones, Dart and ActionScript come to mind) and gradually understand benefits of each way.
Classic modded PSPs definitely work well. They're also pretty good for Gameboys of all generations. DS wouldn't work though, at least as far as I know.
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This problem is solved pretty easily:

1> Buy a shit Nokia, use the 2 pin charger. TBH if it goes flat it won't charge off USB anyway. Then use a microSD for transferring music/photos.

2> Buy an Android handset with USB OTG. Transfer files on and off via a USB stick that you control. Charge it with a USB cable with the data pins shorted (you can buy these off Amazon).

Both of these ignore the main attack vector that I'd be concerned about which is over-the-air (via GSM/packet data) and a fuck load more scary than plugging your USB thing into a dirty USB hole and getting some USB STD.
Looks interesting, but which devices and drivers does it apply to? I have no expectation that this would work over every common wifi interface in current laptops (to say nothing of the typical home gateway with their embedded linux distribution and custom proprietary drivers).
> Almost every one of those items seems like it has to hurt productivity

Sure they do. Nobody is disputing that. We even enjoy Dilbert cartoons that mock many of the items in the article.

But the author is talking about inefficiencies in absolute terms. I'm saying for his argument to work, he has to instead consider inefficiency in relative terms. Relative to what? Relative to hypothetical alternatives such as:

100 freelancers with an explosion of external transaction costs & inefficiencies.

Or 100-employee firm managed by Federal bureaucrats instead of the shareholders. The bureaucrats also come with their own baggage and inefficiencies.

Every alternative organizational scheme will also have a list of 20+ "inefficiencies" because nothing is perfect. What really matters is whether the productivity gained outweighs the unavoidable inefficiencies.

The author made no concrete attempt at quantifying the alternatives and compare relative net efficiency.
And 3 nurses died from the same treatment center a few days ago.
I may have missed something - are you saying that ycombinator requires all it's startups to use say Dropbox and not pay Box? I had not heard this.

If this is just informal is it measurable?

I don't doubt it is effective however - it suggests alumni networks or diaspora like family networks (strongly suggested in China and India for example)
You could very well charge a large, hefty premium to have a private courier service pick up drives to be destroyed. I'm sure that there would be a small, select client base that would pay for it. Or, subsidize part of the cost for this premium service from users of the lower-end services.
Of course, but it would at least work.
I feel the same way on Windows, but I've never attempted to dig deeper.
Tell HN: I symlink'd my Google Drive to my Dropbox folder
Maybe others know this, but I symlink'd my Google Drive folder inside my Dropbox folder and well, now all of my Google Drive content is sync'd with Dropbox. Maybe simple, but this makes me happy. I dont always trust Google to fight for my content if I get locked out or something.

cd ~/Dropbox

ln -s ~/Google\ Drive/ Google\ Drive/
Hey guys - Founder here. I started Clipped 2 years ago in my Freshman year of high school. It's been a great journey and I'd love to get your comments/feedback: tanay[at]clipped.me
Indeed. NIST was right down the road from my university, and we were constantly reminded that "universal constants" are really just statistically measured values.

There was nothing quite "Here's the value of gravity for today:" set to 15 digits, officially from NIST. Remember people, Gravity is a measured value, a _statistic_.

The modern transistor in electronic circuits are also measured values. Depending on the fabrication process and other junk, every transistor on a CPU is in fact different. A huge amount of work goes towards making every transistor on a CPU work similarly to each other (as well as statistics to measure the variance).

A world without statistics is a world without modern silicon computers. And I bet you that Vacuum Tubes were similarly measured and specified thanks to statistics.
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The iBeacon transmitter may be passive, but the signal is typically passed to an app running on a phone, which can do anything, including post all it's position and time info to a server online.

The good news is that it appears to be opt-in. In most, if not all, instances a user needs to install an app and enable location services before the iBeacon will trigger anything. No app listening for a particular beacon or set of beacons, no problem.

Of course, there could also be malicious code running on the phone, installed by the government or spies, that could silently record everything. That could work now with gps, voice and video recording, wifi network positioning, etc. iBeacon is just one more set of data to collect.
Enhanced interrogation techniques, you mean. Everybody knows the us gov would never torture anybody. Just enhance them. With interrogation.
FTFA: "Moreover, by definition it implies that open source projects have many more mistakes, bad code and failed efforts on their way to succeeding, compared with conventional projects."

Wait, what? How, exactly, does OSS "by definition" have more mistakes?
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are there any epidemiologists here that can comment on the likelihood of this spreading out of n.w. africa?
So iso20022 could well save the world ! Glad to hear it :-)

(Sorry sarcasm, spent too long working with ebXML a decade ago and occasionally watch history repeat itself - idea is to achieve "straight through processing" where invoices, tw and CS and so on are international standarss and digitised.

It's a nice pipe dream - but the goal is to make a cloud of 100 freelancers as efficient as a firm

I can't see it though
Similarly, I did some research before I bought my Dell Latitude E4310, and it works flawlessly with Ubuntu, and always has.* Graphics (both on screen and on external monitors), WiFi, sound, even Bluetooth.

It's not a guarantee, of course, but my general impression is that going with "pure Intel" (CPU, GPU, sound, WiFi) laptop helps ensure compatibility.

*It's possible that the battery life is worse than Windows; I wouldn't know, because I've never used Windows on it.
This would be pretty cool, you could probably include both magnets and those Faraday shakers tied to a coil around the drive--but I have doubts as to how strong a field you could make before the overhead of shipping a portable, "hand powered" degausser would outweigh its usefulness.
Can you run a software business on the honor system, where you trust that folks will pay for your open source product? Is anyone pulling that off?
Personally, I'm a believer in the concept of a read-only IDE. Sometimes code visualization becomes easier with a GUI. I'll grant that. Likewise, IDEs can make debugging easier. Writing of code with an IDE has the problems you discussed.
There's nothing stopping most commercial products from releasing their source. It wouldn't impact sales. It wouldn't be a competitive disadvantage. The Code Combat team open sourced everything, and as far as I know they didn't suffer for it.

Management is just skittish. Nobody wants to open source because nobody else wants to open source.
They use the same (or an extremely similar) installer last I checked.
Anyone suspected of being suspected to having known someone suspected of being suspected of reading the rulebook, you mean. Don't be so restrictive. Once we're all designated terrorists, nobody's a terrorist.

Once you take everything from a man, that man is no longer in your power...
"The 5 GHz signal is just as strong" Interesting. My dormitory at MIT has both 2.4GHz and 5GHz signals. The 5GHz is extremely weak but my Android devices love to pick a weak 5GHz signal over the 2.4GHz and subsequently have terrible speeds.

On another note, I wish that browsers and applications would keep firing spawning and firing requests at a rate beyond human perception, until one succeeds. The state of browsing the web over Wi-Fi while moving from access point to access point is equally sad. I get an IP address, but applications almost universally refuse to retry their connections until the first zombie socket times out. Seriously, I shouldn't have to wait 10 seconds after each access point change. Should be more like <0.1 second after getting an IP.

OSes/Applications should be thinking "This is Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi is supposed to be fast. Since no bytes came in for a full 0.5 seconds, something is wrong. I'm going to keep opening/closing sockets like hell, change networks, change frequencies, whatever it takes to get data to come in the next 0.3 seconds and make the user happy."

Building devices with dual Wi-Fi cards may also offer ways to help alleviate the handover problem.
It's hard to even comprehend his sacrifices. What are the circumstances that causes one person to be selfless in the face of tragedy and others to try and profit from it? Wonder if he knows he inspires people the world over to try and become better.
I was also wondering this. Facebook has embedded widgets on perhaps more third party sites than any other platform. Does that mean that, while logged in, loading up Facebook comments on a blog post counts you as an active user? Loading an embedded Like button?
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>There's an exhaustively detailed exploration of the standards for inclusion from page 33-49 which seems to me to be a set of lists (of activities, memberships in proscribed organizations, relationships with publicly sanctioned individuals etc. etc.) that trigger inclusion of the sort you are asking for.

Not really. pp. 47-49 contain examples, and prior to that, there is no specific behavior for "Reasonable Suspicion", which is probably the catchall for putting regular people on the watch list. The "Known Terrorist" and "Suspected Terrorist" sections contains specifics, but you don't have to be either of those to be put on the TSDB. You do have to have "Particularized Derogatory Information" which is specific information relating you to known terrorists or suspected terrorists. However this requirement is not expanded upon (that I can see).

The section that talks about how people should be removed from the list is short (less than a page), and basically says "we should look into it if someone complains". There is no mention of court procedures, there is a single point of contact (the DHS TRIP), and there are procedures that seem to basically amount to "look again". There is no requirement for disclosure of what put you on the list, and thus no means to effectively fight it.

I realize why you are complaining about people not doing a "cursory reading", but the fact is, a cursory reading can support as many false statements as just reading the article. It also gives a false sense of security in your beliefs. I can't be 100% sure of my statements above because I haven't read it fully, but I'm more sure of them than of your statements.
Is there any sort of certification scheme for CUPS? Given that's the standard for Mac and Linux, I'm surprised companies don't make 'CUPS compliant' printers.

I see a lot of recommendations for Brother printers, but they seem to require quite an involved process to set up.
Insurance companies and the financial system existed a long time before statistics.
I think the apotheosis of Elon Musk is getting out of hand a wee bit. Scientific advances have kind of been happening for centuries without him.
Yes there are no real hackers here...or are there?
Linus Torvalds knew that "the GPL would turn as many people away as it would attract" and exactly of that (it attracted a lot) he considers his decision for the GPL "to be the best decision he ever made" (though he disagrees with the too strong ideological believes of RMS "I want to (be able to) reprogram my printer's software"... sorry what?!). Linus used the big wave (pro & cons discussion on the GPL) for getting his Linux off the ground (which he succeeded with). And he is so incredibly smart and doing things right (showed it again with git... slamming CVS&SVN basically to death in a talk he gave).

Google, Facebook and others are open sourcing a good amount admitting, that this attracts skilled people (probably to be hired) and benefits their code (in the open)... "companies that use your code are never competitors". Though they remain the major force behind these projects, e.g. being accused to be show offs (hiphop vm) "look how great we are, but you'll never get it to work".

The default license on git hub is MIT. Sorry GPL, but forcing everyone to open source on modifications they make. NO way for me: Take it (http://www.use-the-tree.com) and make it proprietary (and better and make a business), you are so welcome. When you succeed with that, then congrats to you.

Enterprises want to pay and they go for FUD "no accountant was ever fired for buying IBM/Microsoft/HP". It's hard to break into that and they are even right with it, because when buying from a large vendor they are also buying into the huge support/manpower.

How does Ubuntu want to generate income? Selling shirts and Coffee-cups with "Ubuntu" printed on (okay advertising for Amazon in Unity) and diverging from "Linux for people/the desktop" to Ubuntu-Server/Cloud? But the fact that they sell T-Shirts and coffee cups (and others sell likewise silly things, like boxes with CDs and printed manuals), wow... that's a confession of failure (for this type of doing open source).

So "open source (almost) everything" (2011) [1], what a late(!) and great contribution to this discussion (free from ideological believes and focused on business).

Does RMS still live for free on the Harvard/MIT campus? And sorry I was in the group that was turned away back in the times.

[1] http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everyth...