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> Except if Fastmail can decrypt user's data, then they can be compelled to backdoor their system, and also compelled to keep it quiet. Australia is part of the "5 eyes", after all, and from an outsider perspective their government seems particularly hostile/authoritarian.

If you don't expect the government to follow any rules, then most of these discussions are moot. But what we've been seeing with the Snowden leaks is that the governments are at least attempting to walk the tightrope of legality. Here in the U.S., that means having at least plausible procedures to filter out non-foreigner communications, and going through legal processes like subpoenas instead of simply breaking into computer systems.

These facts have practical concerns. Unless you hypothesize that the U.S. and Australia are putting citizens in prison using secret courts, the government still has to present evidence in a court proceeding, and that has to comport with the 4th amendment in the U.S., and whatever the equivalent is in Australia.

The law in this area is rapidly evolving, but in my opinion as someone with both a legal and technical background, encryption like what Fastmail has gives 4th amendment arguments a lot more teeth. When your data is in an e-mail service that's readily accessible to the service provider, or even data-mined for advertising purposes, it's susceptible to the charge that it's not private information, because after all you're allowing someone else to rummage through it. But if there are protections in place, even if they can be circumvented if needed, that's different. Now you're talking about something that's more like a safe deposit box at a bank or a rented storage unit, which do have 4th amendment protection. They're locked, and only the owner accesses what's inside as a matter of course. The lock can be broken, in an emergency, but that doesn't change the fact that the owner of the facility does not access the contents as a matter of course.
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Oh cool, didn't realize you were in LA. It depends on what you're trying to do, many of the meetups are highly specialized.

JSLA (www.js.la) is one of my favorites. NodeDTLA (meetup.com/NodeDTLA/) is great, and those guys recently spun off a new one: called techDTLA (meetup.com/techDTLA).

Joe Devon (@joedevon on twitter) is a good guy to know. He organizes CTO events in the area, and a PHP meetup (meetup.com/laphpdev).

There are also hackernews meetups, PM meetups, DBA meetups, undirected coding sessions, and lots of others.

Feel free to email me (my username @gmail) if you need anything.
“Yes, it’s a very expensive way to deliver healthy babies to healthy women,” Dr. Baker said about hospital births. “Saving money is not a crime.”

This is not a knock against the UK or US healthcare systems at all.

What worries me about this type of thinking is that you're looking at the cost/benefit in the aggregate. Of course, when you're running a national health system you have to. However, this is also happening in the US (the biggest US insurance companies cover 30M+ lives).

You can describe the cost/benefits overall, but it's (mostly) impossible to at the individual level. Sure the average overall survival for an expensive cancer drug might only be 6 months, but if you look at the data you'd likely see that the range if 15 days to 3 years.

Health authorities might make the call that 6 months of additional life isn't work $XX,XXX dollars, but for some of the patients whose life is extended 2-3 years, it certainly is worth it. But in the end, the call is made to not fund the drug.

I have no idea how to solve this issue. I think linking outcome with genetic information is super helpful (it's already being used), but dam, there are a lot of folks out there that could have been helped, but won't be.
The searzall has become an absolute necessity in combination with my sous vide in the kitchen. I definitely do a post-sear, although I never really do a pre-sear. I can see reasons people might want to, I should experiment now that it's easier to do that.
You're right, I don't know why I thought the way I did back there
Happy to see that this paper is freely available for all to download and read!
> It does but only if the device is locked and not associated to a wifi network.

So that's why so many malls have 'free' wireless :-)
Keep reading HN. You'll see articles and comments that state (or imply) that normal humans can't handle memory management, and therefore GC is the way to avoid bugs and memory leaks.

Sorry, I can't give you references off the top of my head, but I've seen that stated, here, in the last couple of months at least.
I am entirely in favor of this article's exhortation to resilience. But this post seems to confuse feeling inadequate (or feeling like an impostor) with impostor syndrome [1], an inability to properly recognize one's accomplishments.

The author describes feeling like an impostor when they were, by objective measure, behind their peers. People experiencing impostor syndrome, on the other hand, are by objective standards doing just fine, but still have strong feelings that they are a fraud.

It's an important distinction to me because the way you help people who are behind is different than the way you help people with impostor syndrome. Encouraging grit in those who are behind can be very helpful. But I don't think telling people with impostor syndrome to be tougher is a good idea; it just gives them another way to perceive themselves as not good enough.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
The flavor of my steaks shot up once I learned to put more salt on. In general, once I learned the reality of salt (eg there is no reason to limit consumption), my cooking got much better.
>just trying everyday to understand something, and trying different approaches and stuff.

How is this different from thinking endlessly about a problem until we arrive at a solution?
I have the previous gen Anova, and it is great!
Can you talk more about how you guarantee exactly-once semantics? The documentation is pretty vague on the architectural details.
One thing I have noticed with FB Messages is that if you have a lot of messages (about 410k messages over the span of 3-4 years) its really hard / impossible to actually get all the messages back to the beginning. When I try to download my FB data it actually just leaves the conversation blank with 0 messages. (In the past it would dump everything it could get leaving it incomplete). I have also tried getting the messages via the Graph API but have hit the same limits that after x time it would just timeout and not get any messages. Which really sucks because I wanted to do some analysis and archiving of the messages.
Airline tickets are cheaper than they have ever been. And there's pretty decent variety in what gets included in the ticket price versus what's an extra fee, so if you feel that baggage fees are a ripoff, pick an airline that includes a checked bag with your ticket.
I think this is something we need to work on at the cultural level, not just the individual level. I gave up a national merit scholarship and quit college to walk away from the really toxic shit that bright kids are drowning in. I am tempted to start a blog post about that, in response to this.
That's what Brits call "being polite" :)
That PMD-85 looks interesting.
Trying to wrangle all the other variables is interesting. I don't think we can blame the airlines for much of that, but it doesn't ultimately matter whose fault it is, we have to figure it out anyway.

I imagine you've seen it, but Hipmunk at least takes a stab at balancing some of those issues into a single "agony" score you can sort by.
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> Unless you hypothesize that the U.S. and Australia are putting citizens in prison using secret courts, the government still has to present evidence in a court proceeding, and that has to comport with the 4th amendment in the U.S., and whatever the equivalent is in Australia.

rayiner, how about the reports of "parallel construction" by the NSA? While it's true that the government still has to present evidence in a court, according to recent reports [1] the NSA "tips off" organizations like the DEA.

1 - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05...
It would probably work but I'm guessing the overhead of the extra actuators is much smaller at full size, so this may not be as helpful as at small sizes.
This made me think, if Google were to acquire PushBullet and integrate their "channels" feature into Chrome, this could expand pretty quickly. I've seen a number of sites introduce PushBullet channel functionality.
Does anyone have any recommendations for which of the papers referenced is worth reading?
The state of Oregon did a study of the relative risk, and the results aren't pretty: http://www.skepticalob.com/2013/03/oregon-releases-official-....
> while “Your child has been fitting” was translated [with the least amount of accuracy, at] 7.7%

For what its worth, Even as a native english speaker, I had to look up what that meant in english.
I have a hunch that impostor syndrome is also a symptom of poor / unempathetic* management - while the implication that there might be something 'wrong' with the individual may or may not be true, I would not be surprised if impostor syndrome could be partially accounted for by a difference in how people process and express prosocial cues.

*unempathetic in the scientific sense; of not being able to fully comprehend how and why a person is thinking and feeling the way they do.

Also, it is probably more important to tell people that personality is malleable and can change - this seems to be one of the root causes of resiliency (C. Dweck et al., 2014).
Perhaps I am misunderstanding the terminology, but isn't graphene always the same thickness, i.e. one atomic layer?
[Chris from OpenCorporates] This mission is specifically about bank and financial licences, as opposed to physical bank branch locations, which is slightly different (though related). We think this dataset is an essential foundation for such datasets, and others. It also links the banks to company records, and from that to potentially other data, from political contributions/lobbying to corporate networks (see https://opencorporates.com/viz/financial/index.html -- some of this data came from the National Information Center, which is a joint project of the US banking regulators).

However, if you think there's a company-related government dataset that should be scraped, please do go ahead and use turbot.opencorporates.com for that -- it's already been used for everything from civil aircraft registrations to mining licences to NHS Providers.
One thing that's always put me off from studying GPUs in detail is the proprietariness of everything; with few exceptions (Intel being one of them recently, and surprisingly enough Broadcom for the RPi), there's no detailed datasheet or low-level programming information publicly available for modern GPUs, and what is available is still not all that complete. Contrast this with CPUs where a lot of them have full, highly-detailed information on everything from pinouts to how to get them to boot. People have made their own simple computer systems by wiring up a CPU on a circuit board with some support chips, but I don't think I've seen anything like this done for any reasonably recent or even ancient GPU.

(I know there are VGA reimplementations available, and the VGA is quite well-documented, but that's more of a timing controller/dumb frame-buffer than a real GPU.)
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My guess is it's using Apple's version of RNDIS ... iPad becomes a network peer of the Mac and streams video over that network.

But I don't believe that API is public, so I can't know for sure...
I'm not VLM, but yes, peer-pressure in another guise. Just think about your attitudes and beliefs on (a) handgun ownership, (b) creationism and (c) Israel. It's very likely that if you're in a social group with strong homogeneous view on one of these items, that there will be a matching "party line" on the others - even though they're completely unrelated. Chances are low that you'll argue the point, you'll probably just stay quiet - but many people will enthusiastically take that party line as their own.
Wow thank you so much Malcolm! I will definitely reach out via email. I'm pretty new to the city, good to meet and network with new people, and I'll check out the ones you listed. Appreciate all your help.
I was hoping for a bit more depth. Here's what it has to say about camera shutters:

"The shutter functions like a curtain that opens and closes. It must operate exactly to expose the film for the correct length of time and to coordinate with other operations such as the flash. The shutter is made of different materials depending on the type of camera and manufacturer."

That's it. No diagram. Nothing at all about manufacturing processes. Nothing about cloth vs. metal, focal-plane vs. lens-mounted, etc. Wikipedia, on the other hand, has 2700 words on camera shutters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_%28photography%29

What were other people seeing on this site that was actually good?
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Interesting. And your theory seems to hold water: V=IR, so with constant voltage, current is inversely proportional to resistance, and the resistance of 100 bulbs in series is far far greater than 100 bulbs in parallel.
When I started university I had a laptop with a 80 MHz, 8MB memory discrete GPU ;) I believe it was an ATI Rage LT Pro.
This is SO good (though it's a short story, not an article).

Ted Chiang is always worth reading. I think he captures the nuances of the impact of technology better than any other writer I've read.
Of course it does, but then it wouldn't be a comparison of C++ to Rust as much as a list of things Rust doesn't do well yet.
Agreed! I think any kind of canvassers would find this useful, whether you're a "street-team" trying to blanket a city in concert posters, or a restaurant trying to hang a menu on every doorknob.

The search-and-rescue idea I think is really powerful, and could potentially do a lot of good in the world.
The title doesn't seem remotely accurate given the content of the article. Graphene is already being used in several applications, with many thousands more being researched, a number of which were highlighted in the article. As it also discusses, it takes quite a long time for any new material to really become fully utilized; that certainly doesn't equate to "Impossible to Use".
From the perspective of an individual it's hard to say which is the case though. For instance, if one looks purely at the first anecdote in the article I'd argue that either could be true. If someone is truly afflicted with impostor syndrome they could describe things exactly that way even if they were the best in the room (I realize the rest of the article takes a different path, just an example).

If you were to ask me to describe my lot in life in my workplace it'd probably sound like your first bit - I'd describe myself as being the one holding things up, slow to understand, having the least amount of domain knowledge, etc. Yet, I know this isn't true, based on objective measures of the feedback I receive (even beyond verbal accolades) I know I'm doing better than "just fine". I have to work pretty hard to not picture myself as the worst person in the room at work, even though I know that's not the case.
> Counterpoint: seems to me that protonmail is doing exactly that.

ProtonMail is security theater. It is simply not possible for a webmail service to maintain a zero-knowledge policy. They can capture your password every time you log in, and use that to decrypt your email if they want to. Or they could send you a backdoored version of their own JS-based encryption library the next time you visit protonmail.ch. (Hushmail got under fire for doing this a few years ago at the behest of the Canadian government.)

At the end of the day, the only thing that is actually protecting your email at ProtonMail is the fact that Switzerland is not yet known to be collaborating with the NSA. If they claim otherwise, they're either lying, incompetent, or seriously lacking in imagination.
Having witnessed the process, something tells me that a significant portion of the pain is not caused by laying down. So, citation please.
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Scratch is a great project. For those of you looking for a gentle intro to programming for your kids, I highly recommend checking out http://tickleapp.com, a recently Kickstarter-backed Scratch implementation for the iPad.
I agree. The real benefit here will be a more coherent and digestible understanding these entities and their relationships, such that other actions can build off it. Using this data itself to litigate is a non-starter.
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Perhaps sometimes, but not always.

I've always had impostor syndrome in my professional life regardless of management. Even in situations where there's a pretty constant stream of affirmation it's hard to completely get rid of that feeling.

I'll agree that in workplaces where the management mood is more dour that it didn't help at all, but it was never the root cause of it.
I don't mean the surge pricing itself, but how they do it and keep presenting it like everybody should be overjoyed about it is really weird. Stuff like advertising surge pricing during a hostage crisis is what I meant to refer to by "something like autism". So I think you're right, it's not so much about "is a good idea" as thinking everyone else must necessarily agree, at least once they have the facts in hand.
This is a great question, actually. And this is perhaps a completely anecdotal answer, apologies for that. But I've personally found that if I can't solve a problem in an hour, I'm just so frustrated that I stop, get up and do something else for a while. When doing the other activities, I'm still thinking of the problem, although obliquely. Often, new avenues of approach will present themselves via internal dialogue. This way, I'm thinking of the problem, even though I'm doing other "useful" stuff, and my value system is more comfortable with it, because I'm not "wasting" more time on the problem.

Like I said, this is completely anecdotal. But I read that Richard Hamming had the same thing to say about it, kind of,

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html:

Now again, emotional commitment is not enough. It is a necessary condition apparently. And I think I can tell you the reason why. Everybody who has studied creativity is driven finally to saying, ``creativity comes out of your subconscious.'' Somehow, suddenly, there it is. It just appears. Well, we know very little about the subconscious; but one thing you are pretty well aware of is that your dreams also come out of your subconscious. And you're aware your dreams are, to a fair extent, a reworking of the experiences of the day. If you are deeply immersed and committed to a topic, day after day after day, your subconscious has nothing to do but work on your problem. And so you wake up one morning, or on some afternoon, and there's the answer. For those who don't get committed to their current problem, the subconscious goofs off on other things and doesn't produce the big result. So the way to manage yourself is that when you have a real important problem you don't let anything else get the center of your attention - you keep your thoughts on the problem. Keep your subconscious starved so it has to work on your problem, so you can sleep peacefully and get the answer in the morning, free.
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But LEDs have much lower failure rates than incandescent bulbs, and when they do fail, they're likely to fail closed rather than open. So this kind of trick shouldn't be necessary.
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It's not the driving out that's problematic, it's the driving in to pick people up.

The danger seems to have been way overblown, but that applies to both sides of this particular interaction.
It seems odd that the source for the completed bots is not available. I would think many of the solutions would be substantially similar. Is there any plan to open source these?
Yes. Thanks for sharing this video. The minister refused to answer the guys question, just said "We collect what we need to do to our job, and stop asking this question."
So, is no one going to say that this person's comment is laughably wrong?
Hilarious if you see how Amazon still doesn't care about hyphenation on their Kindle platforms. It's an easy job, e.g. the algorithm used by LaTeX is free to use and with Amazon's size they might even build a good database to handle all exceptions. If you consider that this all could be precompiled, it doesn't even matter that a first-gen Kindle has a lousy CPU.
Anybody know how to rss his feed? i try with http://paulgraham.com/rss.html but seems not a full article.
I wrote a similar script (via aircrack) at a recent hackathon to gather wifi nodes, and group them up by their access point (or if they weren't connected to one). The data dump was then transformed into json and fed into a neat little d3 chart.

The hardware was very minimal too, just an Arduino Yun with a cheap high-gain antenna.

It was a fun project to hack on, but it definitely raised some eyebrows and made me rethink about some of the privacy concerns around this.
You can get more technical details from the QCon SF 2014 talk:

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/TerenceYim1/tigon-qcon-sf20141103
Video: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/acid-stream-processing
> and yet, how regressive it all feels despite this

I could interpret that a few different ways. Which one do you have in mind?
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I've found the XMPP gateway doesn't display edited messages, so I stopped using it. Now I just keep a Chromium window open.
There's a tendency among programmers to reject any solution that requires O(n) human work. Either automate it or don't do it at all.

This seems to drive Google's approach (or non-approach) to customer service, as an example, and also leads to a lot of "why didn't I think of that?" moments when some company figures out they can make a lot of money without automation. (For a good example of the latter, look at all the attempts at electronic bill pay that tried and failed because of network effects before somebody finally realized that they could bridge the gap by mailing checks to anyone who wasn't yet in the system.)

Here, there's an inherent resistance to anything that would require Uber to deploy humans in a way that scales linearly with their business. Surge pricing can be automated, so it's OK. Modifying surge pricing based on the nature of current events requires a number of people that increases linearly with the number of locales that Uber serves, so it gets rejected.
Underneath it uses Tephra (https://github.com/caskdata/tephra) as the distributed transaction manager for HBase together with a queue implementation on HBase to provide exactly-once processing.