skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am happy to show a screenshot of the email chain between myself and our lawyers back in July.

Do your emails specifically detail the changes the Guardian discusses, and an October 13-ish timeline for publishing them? Maybe you were planning on changing the ToS since July, but that doesn't mean anything in relation to the content, nature, or timing of the change you just released.

> we use a legacy maxmind geoip database so we can put the whisper in a general location. that is so inaccurate as to be laughable... The % of all Whispers which are tagged as somewhere in the middle of Kansas because we don't really know where they are (but we know they are in the US) is very high.

> We want to know where a user is in a general sense for things like tracking timezone so when we send pushes we know not to send pushes at 3 in the morning. you'd be surprised how often device timezone may not always match with physical location.

So, "Chill everyone, we get 'USA' and just plot it randomly." then "Our location algorithm is accurate enough that we override the user's timezone selection, despite 'USA' spanning 6-9 timezones and multiple Daylight Savings permutations."
You must be able to - I don't see Verizon listed among supported carriers for the "Apple sim" (or whatever they're calling it), and my current iPhone and iPad won't connect to the Verizon cell network without a Verizon sim.
over $200 for a phone on contract is really high

When the value of the phone is $600 and the value of the contract is $2400, $200 is really high.
What stops someone from masking their own behavior by falsely attributing it to a TOR user. That is, someone runs a TOR exit relay and whenever a complaint comes in for an action actually executed by the relay host, falsely attributing it to a TOR user.
I've been using the LG 34UM95 for a month or so attached to a rMBP, and find the ultra-wide screen (3440) delightful. The 1440 height is the same as the current Apple T'bolt Cinema Display.

I really don't need Retina-level resolution, though it'd be pleasant. Maybe in a year or two.

But having a single monitor this wide is really a treat, as I never could stand a dual-monitor setup. One of them is going to be your main monitor, facing you, and one of them will be on one side or the other, somewhat ruining the effect of the combined width.
> The filters wouldn't make a difference here, since it's the toxins rather than the temperature doing the damage.

I'm confused by the answer: Cigarette filters don't filter toxins? And they do reduce temperature?
As you say super flat might not be great, but all the designs preceding the current trend where extremely harsh on the visuals.

From windows XP to 7, the windows default themes and colors where disturbingly flashy and "in your face". OSX was more bland but aqua was still kitch and unneedingly strippy. iOS6 app's ultra textured or "realistic" interfaces were the peak of that trend IMO.

In the real world, not everyone likes kids playroom colors, nor grandma's 60s style wallpaper, nor steam punky design, nor green-blue metalic robot parts. Personally I like MUJI style clean and clear design, and I feel like it took that much time to have a core of people to value cleanness and simplicity in computer UI design as well.
Backstabbr: A modern web interface for the classic board game Diplomacy
If a corporation saves money bringing a drug to market you will save money buying that drug from them.
Yes, you're right. That was obvious once I got the data. I still thought what I had was worth writing about :)

As you say, that grouping is arbitrary and, it was more likely to include packets that shouldn't have been included (multiple seconds later) than those that did. Though, that's more todo with the fact that I sent so few packets (5-10) in each burst.
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Apple is all about the "just works". "Some assembly required" is very un-Apple.
Can someone explain why R is preferred more than Python for modeling?

Is it just because of ggplot2?
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Specific alignment requirements are up to the implementation. Nevertheless, the standard can (and does) specify that violating them is UB.
Well, it's a free-trade agreement. Mutually getting rid of tariffs increases trade, which makes all the participating countries better off.

In addition, it tries to remove non-tariff barriers to trade, which involves harmonizing legislation. E.g. if you want to sell US beef in Japan and Japanese beef in the US, then the health regulations about how cows should be raised should be the same in both countries.

The copyright stuff comes under the heading of harmonizing intellectual property law, although somehow it seems to end up as pro-copyright-holder as possible...
I didn't have the guts to deal with all the possible legal problems that an exit relay could spawn, and no lawyers I could find could help me with that question.

I suggest you run a non-exit relay instead, like I did for almost a year (at home). About to put it up again, after 3 months offline, now that I got better hardware to do it. Didn't have any trouble from my ISP, which was Tim, but I think that the biggest reason for that is that they are new in the business and they are trying to make things as painless as possible. It was a heavy traffic relay, I was limiting it to 4gb per day up/down bandwidth, which is quite alot, and never heard any complaints from Tim.
Hostility or prejudice towards another racial group based on the idea that your race is superior. Usually sustained by taking various stereotypes about the targeted group and portraying them as intrinsic qualities.
It's a bit reminiscent of "They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks."[0], if the Guardian is accurate here.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...
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In that case "rationality" basically means following the laws of probability theory given an existing statistical model. However, the process of arriving at the statistical model to begin with is fraught with areas of potential disagreement. The promises of that agreement theorem are actually pretty narrow and essentially reduce down to "math is consistent with itself".
I think your response just proved his point. We have no idea what 'average' means, so the mind tries to find something it does know. Like never being in an accident and not receiving traffic infractions.

According to this: http://www.statisticbrain.com/driving-citation-statistics/ only 20% of drivers get traffic infractions, meaning the average driver has never had one.
In the US, major carriers Verizon and Sprint have operated CDMA-based networks whose devices did not use SIM cards. I think it was the iPhone 4 that Apple once shipped 3 different versions of in the US: AT&T (GSM), Verizon (one set of CDMA bands), and Sprint (another set of CDMA bands).
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My best guess it that they're talking about selective service, but that's really a very minor formality.
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You don't tax the CPU, but you want to pay an extra $200 for a build-to-order option to bump the CPU by 0.2 GHz?

How about getting the mid-tier 2.6 GHz Mac mini, with 16 GB RAM, 1 TB Fusion Drive, keyboard, and trackpad for $1,237? Then you'll be saving an additional $300, for a total of $563 in savings.

If you want to save a little more, don't buy additional memory from Apple, buy it from Crucial or another vendor instead. You'll pay less than $200 for 16 GB of RAM (which is what Apple charges to bump from 8 GB to 16 GB), plus you'll have the 8 GB of RAM that is pre-installed in the machine, which you can sell, if you want.
Stating stats is hateful? Well Uber, guess I don't need to support you financially.
That study is the complete opposite of the experience of Nordic and Northern European countries with very strong welfare programs and very high class mobility.

Methinks that given the political bias of the study and the fact that it takes a particularly period for the American economy, that there's not much to learn from it.

Also, the fact that single mothers who were on welfare are now working is not actually a good indicator for me. I want the single mothers to have to raise their children in decent environments though maternal leave and good family policies, instead of seeing them work full-time out of necessity.
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It's kind of a weird law, as if that kind of thing used to happen frequently to artists. I think there should be another law for that. Ah, more laws :-)
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I'm guessing the unpopular poster is referring to selective service, for which men (and, TBH, trans women) must register, or forfeit numerous "rights". Because war. I hesitate to articulate this, being cis and all, but the strenuous denunciations of this greenbean seem to hint of something ugly in one's opinions of the whole notion of trans.

As far as I know, I'm no relation to the Jesse Austin interviewed in TFA.
Routing all of your traffic through Tor indiscriminately is a really, really bad idea - and not solely for the reason described in the article. When you use Tor, you're accepting the risk that the exit node could be sniffing and/or manipulating your traffic as a tradeoff in order to hide your IP address from the remote server and anyone in between. For that reason, if you really need to use Tor then you need to be aware of every connection you make - everything should be over SSL with pinned or otherwise verified certificates.

I'd recommend against even enabling Tor globally for a single machine, unless that was a dedicated box that's only used for anonymous browsing. You don't want to get tripped up by that browser window you accidentally left minimized with some Javascript periodically reloading content, or perhaps some auto-update program running in the background that you didn't realize was leaking some unique identifier.

Routing all of your network's traffic through Tor is just begging for bad things to happen, nevermind the fact that it essentially negates any anonymity that Tor afforded you to begin with. If you absolutely must use Tor for something, the safest way to do so is to connect to Tor, make whatever connections you need to make (and only those connections), then immediately get off.
Oh, good to know. I'd assumed the MST screens were because they had to use it, but I guess I just jumped on the 4K train a few months before I should have...
True. The appeal for me is directly manipulating the code, and getting feedback. The browser console is laid out in a call response model, and you are unable to edit previous entries. You have to retype them in, or hit up on the keyboard to find the previously entered function. It is nicer to just manipulate my code and evaluate it right in the editor. It isn't a huge difference, but it has been helpful for me.
In what ways do the tabs need to cooperate/interact?
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Or maybe they will just have higher margins than they already have?
I doubt that will happen and think it's naive. If the corporation can still take the higher price (because of patents) it will take the price and make more profit.

Coincidently patents and intellectual property are also a big discussion point that is discussed there. Intellectual property rights will be tightened and likely generic medication will be more difficult to produce.
Yeah, it's nonsense. There are 90-120 million rods and 5-7 million cones in the human retina.
You're right. That is stupid. That's exactly what NSA wants. For us to not even bother to try to use more privacy-friendly tools because "they may be watching us". Guess what. They are already watching us. All of us. Do you really think you have to be on a "Tor list" for the to spy on you?

They have alerts on everything. If you say something they may not like online, you're probably already on a list. Tor or not.
I have been using the Yosemite beta and it has been pretty horrible. Constant visual glitches in Photoshop CS6, crashes with display glitches in Sublime Text and really long pauses anytime I try to save a simple document for the first time. e.g., save a new 100KB JPG in Photoshop? 1 min or more. Save a 100MB+ PSD that's already been saved? Instant.

Would've happily avoided the beta but the only way to screen record directly from an iOS device and the Apple-recommended way to create preview videos for the app store involved Yosemite and iOS8.
There are and have been real GPU HW bugs that this could be triggering. I just had my main logic board replaced twice due to these with a similar trigger.
Sure they would. The old 30" Cinema Displays required Dual DVI.
What happens when somebody tries to do something really bad from your IP? Like hacking government sites, offering child porn, etc?
Transportation, divergence, and the industrial revolution
Each picture is a broadcast story. You can tap on it to open it, and swipe through the pictures in it to view that story.
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Well, there are two points.

First, we live in a constitutional democracy. The constitution is supposed to be the set of meta-rules which dictate how and what the government can do. Like it or not this turns out to come down to literary interpretation. There are two major schools of thought about how one should interpret literature, and I prefer the one that suggests the context in which something was written should be taken into consideration (the other school, which happens to dominate departments of English Literature, is kind of nutty).

You may think that constitutional democracy is a Bad Idea, in which case feel free to argue that point. But within that framework, we live by rules, and what those rules mean -- or more importantly, what people think they mean -- matters.

This kind of thinking is unappealing to programmers and engineers -- it's a concept generally known as "social construction". Our government is a social construct. So is money. So is bitcoin. So are mathematical proofs (!) -- at bottom, a mathematical proof is an argument that convinces mathematicians. If you don't want the FBI to shoot you, you might want to consider that having a shared understanding of the laws they believe they are enforcing is a Good Idea.

Second, it's interesting to realize that most of the stupid stuff happening today was anticipated, and the fine points argued over, by a group of smart guys over two hundred years ago. It's sad that the level of debate today comes down to arguing over what these guys meant by something, especially when most of those doing the arguing lack basic comprehension skills.
As is discussed above, though, even if such displays appear, who will have anything to plug them into? Yes, some people will be able to go find a specific kind of video card to plug into their homebuilt rig to drive it, but who will be offering something like this that normies (95%+ of the market) will comfortably and confidently be able to just go and buy? That counts for something.
Goodbye webOS
I've not tested it on iPod touch. If you could please try, that'd help.
Looking at the actual situation in countires, though, this is kind of a false argument.

Take Africa. Given that there were only two uncolonized countries, the sample size there is too small to be meaningful, though the fact that neither Liberia nor Ethiopia fall into the lowest group of African countries in terms of either HDI, and there are a number of countries below both in Africa that did fall under colonial rule (Central African Republic, DR Congo, Malawi, Burindi below Liberia, plus Niger, Mozambique, Eritria, Guinea, Togo, Madagascar, and Guinea-Bissau below Ethiopia), would seem to indicate that colonial areas can be quite bad off.

Lets also look at your example of Hong Kong. The issue there is that you're conflating a single city, one that was used as primarily a trading and financial hub for the British Empire, with an entire country. Cities across the world tend to be more prosperous in general than the rest of the country. Plenty of Latin American capital cities are quite modern, and many other coastal Chinese cities are as well, but that belies the widespread poverty that might exist in rural area.
You say it is stable; would you say it is...rock solid?
I've been eagerly watching/reading all of these lectures.

Top quality content. Many thanks to YC for doing this - I look forward to the beneficial impact that spreading this knowledge will have.

My only complaint is that many of these things are easy to hear, and agree with - i.e. talk to users first, of course! Yet, it can be hard to bridge the gap between what we agree with, and the actions we take. Much easier to bridge the gap when this advice is given during YC session, where people can take it and immediately apply it.

To remedy this for myself I'm making checklists for each of the classes, almost like a CS183B sanity check tool.

As an example, here's my checklist for class #5 (on growth).

https://chris.typeform.com/to/DxLnqP

(by the way, typeform is awesome and way better than google forms)

Anyhow, awesome series and I look forward to watching this lecture. I'll reply and post my checklist for this class too!
This will be great for people who have different mobile phone #'s in different countries if it evolves that far...
1 U.S. pint of water weighs 1 pound.

"A pint is a pound, all the world round."

That's the saying, at least, but in the UK a pint, what Yanks call an Imperial pint, is 20 oz and weighs 1.25 lbs: "A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter".
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Relevant section:

But Ms Poitras has one surprise left to spring, and it may turn out to be a big one. Mr Snowden presently lives in Moscow, where he claimed asylum after the American government cancelled his passport while he was travelling to South America. The film finishes with a visit from Mr Greenwald, with he and Mr Snowden discussing the existence of a second leaker inside the NSA—something that has been rumoured for months in the press and on computer-security blogs. When Mr Greenwald shows Mr Snowden what his new source is offering, his eyebrows almost climb off the top of his head. Like an action film setting up a plot hook for a sequel, viewers are told in no uncertain terms to expect more leaks—and soon.
You know the weird thing about me and people in general? Even after reading this and totally believing what it says; I still don't care enough to take drastic action.
Ah well spotted :) Icelands waterfalls seem very popular. "Dettifoss" is another featured in the opening scenes of Prometheus.
Reminds me of Buffett (1985 Letter to Shareholders)

>“A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse - not
a remarkable mathematician.” Likewise, a textile company that
allocates capital brilliantly within its industry is a remarkable
textile company - but not a remarkable business.

And similarly I guess for Kodak and SGI reallocating capital to related projects.
Tor Browser is an abomination. I don't know of any other software with lower ratio of real security to expected security (by the average user). See the Freedom Hosting story [0] for an example why. This time it was about pedophiles, but this danger holds for everyone, from users of silkroad clones to opposition in totalitarian countries.

Tor Browser is making tor more accessible to average computer user in the same way selling minefields cheaply makes real estate more accessible to average human.

The only reasonable way of using tor for even remotely illegal purposes is by using whonix, or roughly equivalent schemes (eg. a tor-only router + tails).

[0] http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/08/05/freedom-hosting-a...
I was asked some riddle that was so ridiculous I can't even remember it now. It was like I was suddenly in a game show and had 5 minutes to complete a riddle. This was at the end of 4.5 hours of interviewing. The questions had been really good all day until then.

Major search company.
It's very impressive Apple made the effort to do this now instead of waiting for 'off the shelf' parts but the technology behind this is probably nothing to write home about. The biggest limitation of display bandwidth is currently external HDMI/DP standards which are slowly ratified and adopted. For all-in-ones and laptops additional channels can be added and/or clocked higher for additional bandwidth. Apple's TCON is probably a fairly standard part souped up a bit for higher performance to handle the additional channels / clock speeds. I'd be surprised if they are doing anything fancier than this because the jump from 4K to 5K isn't big enough to require it. Close enough that the 'old/current technology' can be stretched. On the video card side as long as the 7870 has enough VRAM to store frames desktop 2D / light 3D compositing isn't that demanding. The trade off here is heavy 3D (modern gaming) at native 5K or even down to 4K is mostly not happening on this machine. Probably a good choice since 2560x1440 at 120Hz+ is a better choice for gaming than higher resolutions at 60Hz.
An interesting solution I've heard[1] to reform both copyright (and possibly patent) law is to require compounding annual fees to maintain them. For example if someone writes a new song or book, we could have a short "free" copyright period. After that, creator (or more accurately, the rights holder) would need to pay an annual fee to maintain their copyright. The fee would increase by some percentage each year.

If the value of the work is greater than the fee, then it'd be in the interests of the rights holder to pay the fee and maintain the copyright, for example to be able to license it out to others. If it's not, then the copyright would expire and the work would enter the public domain.

A high enough interest rate for the compounding would ensure that everything is eventually in the public domain. For works that are repeatedly extended, say Mickey Mouse, the public will receive the fees collected for each of the extensions until it enters the public domain.

This also has the interesting effect of incentivizing the creation of new works as there wouldn't be any fees associated with them for the initial term.

There's obviously a lot more details to handle such as having a central registry, inflation adjustments, differentiating between new works and derived works, and how to handle works created prior to the introduction of a system like this. Still I think it's an interesting proposal.

[1]: I don't remember where exactly but probably here on HN.
I agree, the specs are fairly weak, makes me wonder if the base model can really handle 4k video editing.

That being said - the overall price considering it includes a 5k screen is pretty damn good.
Well with a 4K display your able to sit closer to larger ones because you will not detect the pixels as easier. I know many people think you want more distance with a larger set, but with 4Ks they are just fine, as long as don't move your eyes to much to see the entire screen.
These things are coming too fast, I can't hardly keep up!
Disclosure of H/W prefetcher control on some Intel processors
The KKK are not being discriminatory without realising it. How do we stop discrimination? By being discriminatory.
Is wealth and GDP per capita in South Africa increasing or decreasing after apartheid?
Negative way to put it: "written for the stereotypical Apple hipster"

Positive way to put it: "written with the indie Mac dev community in mind"

These guys have been in the game for a long time and have an emotional attachment to the development of the Mac platform.
You want Karabiner https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/