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Not, I think, that politicians are the richest people in modern society. But, my brain went for a similar interpretation at first as well: what if economic structures were somehow redesigned so that money gravitated towards different activities than currently, changing the world's balance of wealth and thus influence? Would've been a fun article, if it existed...
For me the biggest advantage will be the support for embedding in other programs, so we can do away with the proliferation of imperfect vim emulators.
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A good breakdown of this on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMZ2cyNxPwg

The company behind it is pushing the limits of false advertising as far as I'm concerned. They're preying on the not-so-technically-literate to convince them this is basically a "proper" hoverboard, when it's just a gimmick toy that can only be used over a conductive surface.
In what possible context is that a fair comparison? The former is a health issue. The latter is a social issue. They aren't comparable.

No, I wouldn't ask if she needed help. Women aren't helpless. But mentally ill people might be.
Make it a perk for high karma users like downvoting.
Oh, so an argument to authority?

First off, that Matasano article was written before the Web Crypto API and is out of date.

Second, Tony's article does make a good point... can you trust that the web site is going to be serving up code that won't spy on you?

Well, can you trust that ANY code on any platform won't spy on you?

People offer that Javascript doesn't have code-signing. Well, that's fucking bullshit. All that needs to happen is someone needs to just, sign all the checksums of the code served to the browser and publish it somewhere. You can then have a third-party site verify that the code is still what it says it is.

Personally, I use this pattern internally. I run my server-side APIs on a different host than my static front-end code. My server-side API then checksums the front-end code and makes sure it is legit before proceeding in certain situations.

Your arguments are weak and out of date.
Those photos are wicked cool and very beautiful in their way too (reminds me of a star field). Thanks for sharing.
I am quite sure that Paul did not miss this in his essay. Every period has congratulated itself on being enlightened in contrast to what came just before, and every period has been right on some things and wrong on others. He is intensely aware of that, and his whole point was to be careful about current intellectual fashion.

Therefore an intellectually honest person should be suspicious of any statement that can be read as, "We were always wrong about X but now we're right." Outside of hard science, it is more likely than not that the new statement is more determined by fashion than actual evidence. Which means that after another generation or two the pendulum will swing back again and we'll arrive at a more nuanced place which keeps some actual improvements we found, and throws out most of it.
I don't use the Uber app at all; I use m.uber.com via Firefox Mobile, and it works just fine.
After witnessing a half-dozen zippers fail on my partner's hoodie collection, none of which were YKK, it is gratifying to see this article.

The Chinese garment industry has gotten really good over the past decade, but fasteners is still where they fall down, in my experience. If I buy a jacket made in China I can expect the tailoring to be perfect, right down to lining up patterns at the seams, but the zippers are crap and buttons inevitably fall off. It is very frustrating.
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Can people really not be bothered to enter their CC number?

Also, you can initiate the dialer without the CALL_PHONE permission, the user just has to hit the dial button.
Has anyone actually read this book? Is it effective?
I didn't have to use any special software to set up my Linksys E4200, either when it was new or this year.

You can always use the web interface to set it up, it's just 'easier' for non-technical consumers to use the software.
Most people probably can't even name the presidents on the bills so it wouldn't make much difference who you put on there.
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Interesting question. Is there a third option? Should there be?

Are there other ways for them to "participate in reality" other than by getting a job and contributing to the economy?

Look at the insanity in how we allocate resources and which activities we incent. People literally die as a result of our priorities.

So, should we assume that he is better off by "joining us" and contributing to that reality? I don't know. But, I don't think it's a foregone conclusion and it seems at least as important to examine that reality first.
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>Not really. You don't generally benefit from proofs being correct.

We benefit from Pythagorean's Theorem (a proof) every day. We can use it calculate distances without physically laying down a tape measure to derive distances across oceans or even outer space. We can also use it to calculate distances of 2 points inside of video game scenes or a "distance" inside matrices. If two sides of a triangle is 3 and 4, we can deduce the other side is 5. We don't need to look it up in a reference book of past recorded observations. (E.g. the previous 1000 years of recorded observations show that the measurement will be 5 but we better check it again today just in case it's different. The existence of proof-theorem allows us to skip that.) Anyways, the idea of "math proofs" is still useful even though there can be disagreement on what "proof" is.[1]

> I understood you correctly.

Actually you didn't because I had originally wrote "disagreements of terminology" but I went back and edited it a few minutes later for brevity to just "disagreements" because I thought it was a cumbersome and long-winded sentence. I thought the previous context to OP made the qualifier "terminology" redundant. But...leaving it out lead to even more confusion.

Anyways, The wide-ranging and sometimes even contradictory interpretations of terminology (such as "garbage collection") is not a convincing enough reason to dismiss "garbage collection" as pointless. That's what the OP was using as his ammunition and it's wrong.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_proof#Philoso...
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard it has to do with the mass of the moving parts. Since each increase in unit velocity increases the kinetic energy exponentially (squared), the connecting rods, etc would have to be so huge to withstand the force that it's easier to optimize for low RPMs.

It's amazing to think how slow the pistons move on this engine. At 87 RPM, it would take a little less than a second for the piston to complete a cycle. Compare that to your average automobile where the piston completes 50 cycles every second (at 3000 RPM).
This is not something new. I've had LinkedIn and Facebook do this with my personal contacts.

I use disposable emails for every site (www.spamgourmet.com). After installing LinkedIn and Facebook Android apps they started recommending adding old coworkers that I have 0 mutual friends / connections with.
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the new £50 note is pretty geeky:
http://www.britishnotes.co.uk/news_and_info/news/aa01_salmon...

"I sell here, Sir, what the world desires to have: POWER"
A better headline would probably be "Netflix Sues a Former Exec For Allegedly Collecting Kickbacks". His current job is not relevant to the suit.
> The crux of my argument is relying on methodologies to write good software or to guide a design is pointless.

> Instead of trusting everything you read, you should question it an consider it in practice before you actually follow it.

But once you've questioned and evaluated it, its still a methodology. If you just mean you shouldn't take published methodologies on faith but consider how they work in your particular environment, that's widely accepted truth. Its, among other things, a central idea of the Agile software movement, as well as central to Lean methods (not just in software, either) and, more generally, to all models based around a Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle and variants thereof.

Its hardly a controversial or new observation, though there are plenty of failures to put it into effect.
It's not a "comparison", it's a thought experiment intended to get you out of your regular thinking. Not something to be interpreted in the worst way you can imagine.

Based on what you've just said, can you see how assuming a mentally ill person is helpless can be a negative to them? As you say, asking if they need help carries the implication they are helpless.

If you observe them and they seem to be getting along fine, why assume they're helpless? Why imply that by asking if they need help?
Article aside, I don't really understand how this is a cool (or even necessary) device... I watched the videos on their Kickstarter page, and correct me if I'm wrong, but it has three functions that I don't need: 1) The outside rotation for adjustments; Mouse wheel? 2) Basic swipe gesture recognition; Um, any button, and I don't have to be hands off the keyboard? 3) Touch tracking; Trackpad...?
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I'd imagine at least some of it is that you're slinging around really heavy chunks of metal. Go faster, and you put more strain on it.
There's an article here explaining what the permissions are used for: https://m.uber.com/android-permissions
I have a gut feeling that there needs to be more to consciousness than a bunch of neurons connected to other neurons. If that was the case then we could create a conscoius robot from a bunch of transistors. Roger Penrose's theory is that consciousness is somehow created by quantum superposition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind

It would be interesting to see if there are any strange quantum effects at work in the claustrum.

Of course there isn't really any evidence towards quantum consciousness, so it's just a highly speculative theory at the moment (albeit a very compelling one).
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Bonjour advertisements have an exponential back-off. They'll advertise themselves, then again 1s later, then 3s, then 9s, 27s, etc.

The same is true of bonjour probes; they'll request, then again 1s later, then 3s, then 9s, and so on.

Source: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/...
Hilarious! For those who didn't click the link, the search has switched from being answered by the breitbart article to being answered by a searchengineland article talking about the search.
I understood that at least a part of the larger programming community felt that the non-concurrent GC was limiting its future growth and shopped elsewhere for a production language.
Why just celebrate Science? In New Zealand our banknotes feature people famous for all kinds of achievements: $5 - Sir Edmund Hillary (Climber), $10 - Kate Sheppard (Woman's Suffrage), $50 - Sir Āpirana Ngata (Māori Culture), $100 - Lord Ernest Rutherford (Nuclear Physics).

http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/notes_and_coins/notes/
Rohinni has a strictly better marketing campaign and more compelling webpage, and only requires a single email to get in touch. Your website is hard to navigate and asks for too much information to get in touch.

Neither company has a "Buy product now!" button.

The tie goes to Rohinni (even if their team photo looks kind of try-hard).

I know this is discouraging to hear, but I'm certain that you aren't the first company to ponder flat lighting on paper--moreover, your product appears to have a cool light pattern that doesn't actually match the use case of "I need a flat even diffuse lighting that doesn't look like a predator blood spray".
Explain to me the trust chain of a crypto messaging app that you DO think is safe and secure. Seriously, pick one, let's talk about it. Let's compare and contrast.

Or would you prefer to parrot the same tired old arguments that pop up on the HN comments every time the concepts "web browser" and "cryptography" are used together?
One way to deal with this is to filter all outbound requests and not let the requests that you've identified as "phoning home" to complete. Then, you test the app, if it still works you can continue using it. If it doesn't, you find a different service or you consider re-adjusting your restrictions.

Outbound filtering can quickly highlight any app that tries to call home. Luckily, many apps continue working if you block those calls. YMMV.
e.g. A Google CAPTCHA?
Thanks!

This is our first step, but we have a lot more interesting things in the pipeline in terms of security features.
Side note: Wouldn't it be good if Google required all apps to explain why each permission is necessary, similar to this?
The link's very cool, but I think it highlights the important distinction between notes that celebrate science and notes that celebrate specific scientists. Both may be worthwhile doing, but they're different things.
The materials I saw were pretty forthright about working only on metal surfaces, although certainly the website itself doesn't emphasize that. What I do find questionable is that the creator is quoted all over the place as saying that he is committed to creating a version that won't require a metal surface. As far as my understanding of physics goes though, that's not possible... and presumably he realizes that. So that part certainly seems like a ploy.
I'd be a lot more interested in this if the photos of their office showed their product actually being used in the spaces.
Works on aluminum too. Interestingly it doesn't work on "magnetic" surfaces like iron, because then the surface itself is magnetized and the board just sticks to it.
> I for one think the "temple for God" thing is pure kookery - but [...] There are people who work on supposedly pointless things, which later turn out to not be so pointless.

And in fact a lot of the foundational work in science and math was done by people looking for god who discovered world altering ideas along the way. It's doubtful if there would even be a computers/Internet for us to read this without their work.
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> You are the only one who controls what can hurt you, emotionally.

While this may be true of sociopaths, it's not true of anyone else. I hope that someday you'll have a real meaningful relationship with someone else. Until then, hang in there!!

edit: snarky? yes, but if you can't sympathize with grandparent, maybe this will help.
Without your impressive history of scientific and technical advances, the history of your government would be a hell of a lot shorter.
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Hi Hadley, yes for instance

> as.chron("1970-01-01")+unclass(as.chron("2001-04-01"))
[1] 04/01/01

> as.POSIXct("1970-01-01","EST")+unclass(as.POSIXct("2014-06-01","EST"))
[1] "2014-06-01 05:00:00 EST"

If there is any conversion necessary it is difficult to get back the original intended time.
thanks runspired. I think you are referring to the Yerkes-Dodson law - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes%E2%80%93Dodson_law

interesting idea
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That's disingenuous though; the vast majority of people who want to spout "On average, blacks have lower IQs than whites" are not doing it for genuine reasons. They want to feel superior or they want to hand-wave away inequality.

This is true. However it is a statement that has to be addressed by anyone who wants to create actual change.

And hand-waving away the effects of inequality goes both ways. For a thought-provoking book, read http://www.amazon.com/Mismatch-Affirmative-Students-Intended... which demonstrates that simply giving disadvantaged people direct access to the same educational opportunities that advantaged people could have actually does them a disservice.

If you test 5 yr old children and control for income, parental involvement, etc then there are no differences.

Can you please cite me a study that found that?

I've seen many that finds the differences reduced. But none that finds the differences eliminated. I understand your expectation that there must be some such study, but actually looking for one may be informative for you.

And if you fail, perhaps you should think harder about the topic. If we try to raise two children, black and white, and give them the same environment, can we? Inevitably both are exposed to the same media. Inevitably both are exposed to strangers and teachers who will judge on appearance and treat them differently. So we can't create equivalent environments!

Given that fact, it would be shocking if you could make the environments actually equivalent.

Your method of making the same statement is most often used as an explanation; the equivalent of "that's how we've always done it". Mine is a more full and correct revelation that it is economic and social factors wasting the potential of bright young black kids and is something that can be and should be corrected.

How do you know that your revelation is correct when actual critical discussion has been rejected out of hand? It is my belief that the current approach has failed, and failed badly. It is my personal belief that success is possible. But I direct you back to the book I suggested above to make the point that thinking naively about it guarantees that we continue pushing solutions that are bound to fail at great cost to everyone.
This is not "the next big thing." It's actually symptomatic of a bug in silicon valley culture - high profile entrepreneurs aren't allowed to fail in the same way as normal folks.

When these studios work, it's not because the studio approach is inherently a better way to do things, but rather because the people running them are really awesome.

The only reason to start a studio, as far as I can tell, is to set the expectation you'll release a few crappy products at first.

This is normally what a startup does anyway. I guess the difference is that high-profile entrepreneurs aren't given the same leeway to fail, which kind of sucks.
Any Canadian will tell you that the space shuttle is just the thing they use to get the arm into space.
LCD panels don't have a paper thin backlight, they are lit from the sides of the display and the light is refracted and diffused trough a thin layer of plastic, this is why all LCD's have light bleed to some degree since the diffusion is not uniform throughout the surface of the display.
This technology seems to be completely different and the LED's are infused evenly throughout the material rather than being simply located at the edges. The diodes they use also seem to be very different than commercially available LED's both in terms of their size(several orders of magnitude smaller) and resisting/allowing deformation without functional issues.
As it's currently shown this technology is much more similar to OLED and other internally illuminating displays rather than to LCD's, or traditional LED array displays.
More "makerfag" bullshit. Next!
https://www.cyph.com/privacypolicy Your second to last bullet point is not really possible.
Being able to scan barcodes using a web app is pretty cool. I used something similar when I was tinkering with transmitting data visually for the handshake step of webrtc: http://franklinta.com/2014/10/19/serverless-webrtc-using-qr-....

I used Lazarsoft's javascript QR code scanner which worked, but it wasn't very robust since it was a manual port of an early version of zxing. It is pretty easy to compile the c++ branch of zxing v2.3 using emscripten but it is a pain to optimize: https://github.com/fta2012/zxing-emscripten (or demo link: http://fta2012.github.io/zxing-emscripten/).
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I apologize for my extreme reaction to your thought experiment. I just have a close relationship with one particular woman who recently started programming, and I was mainly thinking like "how would she feel if she read that?" But since I'm not a woman, I guess I'll leave those sorts of reactions to other people. Plus, I really don't like making people feel bad. And I appreciate that you acted in good faith.

I understand how people might be slighted by an offer of assistance. I just thought that by definition, mentally ill people need help. It's in the name.

But this whole experience has been pretty eye-opening, so I don't know what to think anymore.
> I have a gut feeling that there needs to be more to consciousness than a bunch of neurons connected to other neurons.

Well, considering the brain is just that, and consciousness exists in the brain, then at a physical level that's exactly what consciousness is. But like a computer, it requires more than the simple presence of the hardware. That hardware has to be in an active state executing instructions, the mass of neurons has to be firing in a specific pattern, which seems to me self-booting given how we start out. We know consciousness is just a bunch of neurons, the question is how do they work. Just like we know a given chip is capable of various functions, the question is how.

Knowing the building is made of steel does not make one capable of recreating a skyscraper.
I was about to say the very same. There are so many beautiful pieces of religious music, it would be a crying shame to dismiss them simply because you don't believe in the subject matter.

Afterall, most of the history of the human race has been dominated by religion in some form or another, it's a bit silly to disregard all of that.
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Flinc [0], a start-up from Germany, does exactly this but in real time, too. It can hook up with the drivers navigation software so they are only asked to pick someone up, when it does not change their own route.

I highly prefer this model over the classic Uber/Lyft service, because it actually delivers on the promises of the sharing economy. Resources are shared, from which both parties and the general public benefit. Its not just taxis with lower wages.

Of course, critical mass is a bigger problem with this model, but there is the obvious entry point of white-label ride sharing platforms for companies, which flinc does, too.

I think, it is about as cool as it gets, until I get my self-driving car, which transports passengers on-demand the whole day after it drove me to work, from time to time being recharged on inductive parking spots, powered by green energy.

[0]: https://flinc.org/
I spoke to a Lyft/Uber driver today in NCY. He said that Uber's losing drivers every day here — about 5% (I don't know where he got those numbers from). He also mentioned that Uber are flat out lying about how much drivers earn, and in some months drivers that aren't on Uber's "favourites" list end up owing Uber for renting the gear instead of earning money.

This reputation is definitely damaging, and it's common knowledge here. Drivers bitch about it. They recommend Lyft.
Could the designers indicate what would be the class of entities that this is supposed to protect my chats from ? the guy on the same wifi ? isp ? routers on the way ? govt entities ?

In a number of threads it was claimed that this is better than nothing or better than https, could you (all) elaborate on why that would be so. If I am just locking one door of my car leaving the rest open, I sure would like to know and at the moment this is what it sounds like but I am quite the ignoramus so please correct my misapprehensions.

EDIT

@buu700 Thanks for replying.