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> In fact, this is the PRIMARY reason that people think that Apple is strict in what it will let in the App Store. EFF is misrepresenting what the agreement says here, putting spin on it.

Please cite your sources for the part quoted above. I have seen many reports of unjust rejections. The ones that led me to believe Apple was being overly strict were those where I thought Apple's rules were ridiculous. I would hold the same opinion of the rules (and Apple) regardless of the app. I don't use, and therefore do not care, about any of the rejected apps themselves.

I disagree that jailbreaking (letting users have control of their own devices) is bad or in any way unjustified due to malware.

I disagree with your statement that the no tinkering clause has anything to do with malware. How do you think that actually works? The only way I can imagine is if malware authors, unabashed at the thought of breaking federal laws like the CFAA that can lead to long sentences in federal prison, were somehow cowed into submission by Apple's mighty developer agreement and the torts that violating it might lead to. While that thought is amusing, I hope you have a better reason I haven't considered.

I do like Apple giving people encryption options and I think that governor is silly. However, you are raising a side issue that has nothing to do with the claim made in the article. The ability to 'tinker' and discover how things work is critical both for security research and being able to independently fix issues if Apple cannot or will not. You can find many researchers who had vendors ignore security defects for years (including that site recently posted to HN and their terrible API that leaked digits of people's credit card numbers), so security-minded people have a very deep mistrust of anyone who refuses to allow them to investigate issues.

I don't care why Apple can kill an app on my machine, the fact that they can do so unilaterally is inherently disagreeable. I note that you do not dispute the fact of it, only the reasoning. Contrast that with antivirus where I can, in fact, tell it to allow a virus, such as the EICAR test file, which I need to test that antivirus systems are working.

Your own characterizations are far more hyperbolic than anything the EFF said.
> If you know people who have hearing loss, you’ve noticed that they can’t tolerate loud noises that you’re fine with, but they also can’t hear some of things that you can hear perfectly well.

So what is the explanation of why they can't tolerate certain loud noises? I feel like the article was going to address that aspect of hearing loss as well but never did.
For anyone who wants to play with the actual revived smalltalk system: http://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
I did not argue that the IoT won't expand dramatically, or even that it is not the more important of the two technologies. However my point is that wearable computing can't possibly divorce itself from from the IoT. Any wearable object with the ability to collect and upload data falls into both categories. By that token, if wearable computing is not going to break away as its own thing, it will just become a small part of the internet of things.

Though I do suppose that the trend of pretending we can magically fit a smartphone into a watch or a pair of glasses is going to fizzle. However that was never really more that fantasy(I mean Google X is about taking technology they expect to have 10 years in the future and trying to build it now). In the meantime the more modest wearable computing devices we can actually build(like smart onesies and smart insulin pumps) have been continuing their steadily accelerating progress along with the rest of the IoT.
I had a twitter convo with David DeSandro about this exact thing today https://twitter.com/thomasreggi/status/552903079142883329. I've really taken to projects like https://github.com/tjmehta/101 where you are forced (there's an error if you include the index) to include the files / functions that you need directly. He raised some good points.
The Xbox consoles, at least, don't allow self-modifying code, so that particular issue wouldn't exist. I assume PlayStation is the same.
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If you need any help setting it up/compiling please let me know. I'd be happy to get you going with it.
There are a lot of things here that stand out to me, as a recent grad of just a regular state school.

Things like "Using an API Key", and "Using git" cause students to HAVE to go above and beyond the assignment Because they will undoubtedly run into a problem with some of these extra steps along the way.

I think this type of learning can be more beneficial than the assignment itself. It's real problem solving using the computers.

That's just cool to see.
Insightful meditation isn't about indulging in the mind's delusions, it's about realizing and observing the mind's usual habits of creating thought if left idle. There's an old saying, "If you're doing meditation, you're not doing meditation"
If anyone is interested in a more detailed history of profanity in the english language check out: https://books.google.com/books?id=hPfuSMp_70oC
Not if that agreement is taking away their rights. Violating such agreement (or assuming users violated it) shouldn't be viewed as unprofessional. Not any more unprofessional at least than expecting Applet to violate users' rights when Apple make such agreement.
I'm a 37 year old Instagram user. I like seeing what my friends and family are up to. Restaurants they've been to and enjoyed, things they've seen, activities with their kids, etc. I reciprocate and it gives me my own history to look back over, which I like too.

What's sad about that?
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Hopefully, your "contribution" won't be spreading one of any number of modern contagions around a population lacking any sort of resistance. You could single handedly erase modern society. See: Robinsons The Years of Rice and Salt.
This prison is in the northeast region of Brazil, arguably the most insecure place to go. Rio is in the southeast but I still wouldn't go there... If you wanna go to Brazil, you are probably better off going to the south, like Florianópolis.

But this is my opinion, and someone might speak about beautiful beaches in the northeast side for example - I think it doesn't worth.
https://lockedusb.com/

There are now adapters available for USB which will not allow a data connection. I'm sure it won't be long before these are made for Type C as well.
creating -> reacting.
What always fascinates me about the Civil War is the sheer number of deaths, and how quickly they mounted. Wikipedia estimates 215,000 deaths in a roughy 4 year period.

The Battle of Gettysburg saw over 4000 dead on each side in a 3 day period. That means, in 3 days, more US soldiers died than in 13 years of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
I've lost hearing in my left ear, and I'm pretty sure it's due to years of driving with the window down.
Except "þerl" is actually "therl", not "perl".

Also, OE "feortan" sounds nothing like modern "Fortran" ;)
I'm curious what portion of your personal time those two hours takes?

For example, I sleep 8 hours, work 8 hours, commute 1.5 hours, and take an hour for lunch.

Not counting other meals and chores, that leaves me with 5.5 discretionary hours a day.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but þ is a voiceless "th" sound (as in "thing"). Also, that's the part that means "muscle".
> but generally speaking its perfectly legal to voluntarily sacrifice previously existing rights as part of a contract.

IANAL, but that seems like a grey area. Certainly you cannot sell yourself into slavery.
Rafe Colburn from Etsy wrote about this performance oddity:
http://rc3.org/2014/08/28/surprisingly-perl-outperforms-sed-...

EDIT to manage expectations: the article doesn't explain why, it just provides benchmarks and one commenter made a suggestion about character handling. More insight still welcome :)
I'm 37 and married, also never used Facebook. I think the difference is that we probably have established social circles and can also get drawn into more via a partner who may use Facebook.

I think OP is referencing going through high school and tertiary study without Facebook and I can see their point.
The RPi is already years old, it's really no comparison at this point.
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I have worked on several successful projects with Java back ends (and even a successful Java desktop project or two). It doesn't have to be a disaster.

Nevertheless, "fantastic" wouldn't be how I'd describe my experience. More like this:

http://blog.plover.com/prog/Java.html
cool! i really like what you're doing.
Learn grep. If you're familiar with using a shell, it'll be the most immediately useful.

# search current and all child directories for files containing "bananas", case insensitive
$ grep -ir "bananas" .
Dynamic codegen in games might be less of an issue, but instead you get to deal with emulating a MMU among other things. And the point is that all of these issues specific to whole-system emulators mean that static recompilation isn't faster than dynamic, so there's no point in doing contortions to get static working. The original language barely matters when all you have is machine code.

As for where newer consoles are easier, the big thing is that there's more dynamic linking so there's more opportunity for high-level emulation of entire systems. Think being able to emulate entire OpenGL function calls rather than the raw GPU-specific register writes.
It makes me really wonder about the "hacker" community that such obvious bunk keeps showing up here. Hackers are skeptical.
Yeah the interface for XBMC struggles on a B+, though playback works fine.
You might have experienced a brief moment of depersonalization[1]. It can be a desirable state for some, but for others (like myself), it has caused the past six years to be hell.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization_disorder
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Do you know a single songwriter?
oh, shit.
Hi Kevin, it appears that we alter consciousness, but are you sure? People could be fooled into thinking they alter electricity itself by breaking a light bulb, but it is obvious they just affect the tool that is used by electricity. I think it is the same when we alter the brain.

Why do we all share the present moment?

Why does consciousness affect matter at the quantum level?

There are a lot of questions like this that don't have reasonable answers until you begin to think of consciousness as a fundamental part of nature.
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Well, for what I've read in the past hour or so, apparently free speech does not apply when the subject is of an offensive matter, but to be clear I have no idea where to draw the line.

Do you have any better insight?
I'm curious if you have ever tried your theory out on an experienced mediator? By experienced I mean 5 or more years of a regular practice. I meditate every day, and do a couple of week long meditation retreats a year if I can. I certainly don't think it's for everyone. Most of the people I meditate with (including myself) have spouses that do not meditate. I cannot imagine any of them criticizing their spouse for this. I think the idea that meditation is for everyone is a position taken by novices who experience something that is positive for them, particularly in the short term, and think that experience would extend to everyone.
G'day! (From Australia!)

That is very cool, thanks for the information and being so open about your business. With so many good stories on HN I am considering writing a short book of interviews of people who have set up businesses of the bootstrap/lifestyle genre. Would you be interesting in being a case study?
I do address this, but in the exercises at the end. Decided to cut a discussion on intuitionistic logic.
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That's an ... interesting take on things. I don't think anyone was under the impression that the Intel chips were "more powerful." They were just cheaper and offered higher performance-per-watt results.
If you read the book 20 years ago, it might have been LAAM. It struggled for a while to get approved by the FDA and only got it in 1994.
Agree, thats pretty much my argument for Brainfuck being a simple programming language. Thou I phrased it more as analogy then equivilance.

Brainfuck is a simple language in the same way a Turing Machine is a simple computer, conceptually simple leaving the complexity in the laborious task of writing any program
I wear good quality noise cancelling headphones with the music turned quite low. I feel like this is doing a lot to preserve my hearing.
The guy at Northwestern who discovered Lyrica is a multimillionaire. The incoming royalties are usually split between the researcher and school.
Also, more interestingly, during the Norman period English wasn't even remotely as standardized as we like to imagine it today. French was not only the language of the nobility, it was also wide-spread and relatively consistent. English wasn't, at all.
Yeah, it isn't as difficult to manage as it may appear - I just wake up a bit earlier for an hour first thing in the morning, and then stop doing things a little earlier in the evening for the 2nd hour.
The nice thing about these tools is you can count on them being on any unix machine w/o worry about installing them on a remote locked down box of some kind. You can also avoid any dependency complexity. They can be real awkward to remember however and the man pages can sometimes be a handful, so I try to store common idioms in gists or in my .bash_profile whenever I develop one.
A fun thing to do is write a bootloader for Raspberry Pi. It doesn't have some of the cruft of x86 while still being a real bootloader.
Thanks for the explanation and the examples. I'm currently reading about hate speech cases and laws, definitely learning a lot. Apparently, even hate speech is protected as long as it is not thought to be the cause for an 'imminent danger'. Do you think that a terrorist threat could (or should) classify as an 'imminent danger' when it escalates to situations like these?
If we knew what the risk factors were for meditation, then yes, warning people would be a good idea.
Seems like the point should be the data, not the shape of the map. How does changing the projection type alter the information provided in this case?
If you're still experiencing "thoughts" as entities beyond your full control, if the "feeling" portion of the mind still fluctuates, if you're not free to direct your ENTIRE attention in a single direction and hold it there for a long time - then that's not turiya.

You've experienced an expansion of awareness. It's pretty cool when it happens. You should "encourage" it and practice it more.

Turiya is far beyond the reach of basically everyone in their normal state. It takes very long and very difficult preparation to get anywhere near it. If it's easy to get there, you're basically an avatar.
Hearing is an range. So they have reduced range on both side.
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> Finally, if you do reply to the request in any way

I'd just let them track down your corporate agent and send mail there. I wouldn't reply to this letter.
If Wieseltier's aim was to provide an ex post facto justification of what went down at the New Republic, he's certainly nailed it. The strawmen he constructs without a whit of evidence wouldn't pass freshman comp; that he's accorded greater privilege demonstrates just how high the shit must have been piled at The New Republic's stables.

What's interesting is we're starting to see the outlines of the narrative that will define the intellectual critique of silicon valley, and it's an old chestnut.

It's the line that silicon valley is all machine and no soul -- a group of folks interested in success only without any capability for reflection, intuition, emotion. That in the quest to ask 'does it work,' we fail to ask 'should it work?' Robots and nerds, in essence.

It's a line that can be traced back to Doug Bowman's '41 shades of blue' post[0] -- itself beginning to define the narrative of Google (and Marissa in particular) as pencil-necked spreadsheet jockeys who wouldn't know good taste if it hit them over the head.

This narrative is, frankly, bullshit. Anybody who's worked on any sort of technology product knows the limits of data in decision-making -- I have yet to see any place where gut feel didn't radically dictate the shape and vision of every company. Similarly, to argue that the Internet is anything other than the most effective device for the production of the same humanistic, intellectual material that Wieseltier bemoans the loss of is to demonstrate an utter unfamiliarity with the internet and how it works.

No, what Wieseltier bemoans is one thing and one thing only: That the means of distribution are no longer so dominated that he automatically, uncritically earns a right to them. The world doesn't need that any longer and we are the better for it.

[0] http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html
Why do people still talk about Bush, when Obama is the current U.S. president, and routinely kills people with drone strikes?
Well, they give you more toxic antibiotics that may be older but that have too many side effects for routine use.
That sentence does seem out of place compared to the rest of the essay. If anything the thugs destroyed the thugs. His biggest contention is that "technologism" is a cultural infatuation with newness, and both digital music stores and record stores both used "newness" when advertising. And I guess that is what makes them "thugs" for reinforcing that view, as well as "nothing innovative about pandering for the sake of a profit".
I was about to question everything until I read this. Thanks AE. My understanding of MBC is more like a crossover (or mix of low, bandpass, and highpass filters) network followed by compression per band within each section of the frequency range.

Now, I want to go test out what it would be like to 'compress' frequencies. Something like a notch filter that shifts nearby frequencies around the target frequency away into regions above and below. It adds noise, essentially, within the compressed range, but maybe it's tolerable and is useful for someone with a narrow band hearing loss. It could potentially be interesting musically.

Maybe such a filter exists, but I am not familiar with it.
What makes you say it is bunk? There is mounting scientific evidence in favor of meditation and its benefits.
Ok, so change is inevitable, but how about you get some empathy for the people who had other plans that were derailed in the process of "creative disruption"? Count your lucky stars that things are working out for you because you might be in the position some day where your skills and knowledge quickly become obsolete.
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> It's strength training for your ability to direct your attention.

That's an initial, low level in meditation. Not meditation per se, more like getting your mind ready for it. It may take years to go beyond it, which is why a lot of people confuse it with meditation proper.

There is a point where your state of consciousness in meditation combines attributes of the waking state, the dream state, and the dreamless sleep state. When that happens, meditation indeed becomes a GC for the mind. But then sleep becomes optional, among other unusual occurrences.
I would rather use reference counting...
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Those are just two cities. Saying an incredibly safe city in a 'gun-tolerant' state (though I'm pretty sure it's not particularly gun-tolerant in attitude compared to the southern U.S.) is safer than one of the more dangerous cities of a gun-intolerant countries doesn't prove anything. Those are just two data points in a much more complicated graph. Overall Canada is much safer than the U.S. That doesn't mean every city in Canada is safer than every city in the U.S. However, guns are much harder to get in Canada, and that is believed by many to be a main contributing factor to it's lower rates of gun crime
For people with hearing loss & run Linux: if you have your audiogram and an idea how your hearing loss varies by frequency, you can try to do selective boosts by frequency through a Pulseaudio filter. I discuss it a bit in https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/32qSkcQP...
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I am a microbiologist. It is not that you want to target basic cell structures, but you want to either target multiple systems, or target systems that have a large number of modular interactions. It is relatively easy to create/discover new chemicals that kill bacteria specifically, but if these new chemicals only target one specific component then the bacteria rapidly evolve resistance. All the good antibiotics we have interact with complex systems like ribosomes that are made up of multiple interacting modules.

The reason we are having trouble finding new classes of antibiotics is that we are already have chemicals that target most of the interacting and essential cellular modules in bacteria. If you already are targeting 90% of all the possible targets you will find it very hard to discover any new classes of antibiotics.

Of course the solution is not to worry too much about finding new classes and just keep tweaking the current antibiotics to keep ahead of the bacteria. The only problem with this strategy is that the economics of antibiotic development is totally broken so the pharmaceutical companies have in the main stopped spending money on finding new antibiotics. What we need to work on is a new way of paying for new antibiotic development.
perhaps I'll do that, I find I'm pretty picky with my spirits, if offered I'll sip but in general I don't really care for scotch (peaty or not, the "sharpness" of barley turns me off), and really not a fan of the flavor of tequila at all.
To me, you're rather out of touch. California depends upon the snowpack for a significant amount of its water supply -- and it ain't looking too good: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/snowapp/sweq.action
Ah, the old "gatekeeper" argument.

Did you come up with this while reading "The Top 8 Reasons Why Silicon Valley Should Never Be Criticized" on Buzzfeed?
Deep in essentially anyone's subconscious there's a lot of garbage. Sometimes meditation kicks it up a bit. If done properly, it's a clean-up.
They do mention the Buddhist perspective in the article and quote from / link to a blog post by Shinzen Young:

> Within the Buddhist tradition, [this] is sometimes referred to as 'falling into the Pit of the Void.' It entails an authentic and irreversible insight into Emptiness and No Self. Instead of being empowering and fulfilling … it turns into the opposite. In a sense, it's Enlightenment's Evil Twin. This is serious but still manageable through intensive … guidance under a competent teacher. In some cases, it takes months or even years to fully metabolize, but in my experience the results are almost always highly positive.

He goes on to add:

> If we don't describe the possibility of Dark Night, then we leave people without a context should it occur. On the other hand, if we do discuss it, people get scared and assume it's going to happen to them, even if we point out (as I just did), that it's relatively infrequent. So the take-home message is:

> 1. Don't worry, it's probably not going to happen to you.

> 2. Even if it does, that's not necessarily a problem.

The post is worth reading in its entirety. It also mentions software that "simulates an intricate tailored meditation [for] you."

http://shinzenyoung.blogspot.com/2011_11_01_archive.html
Bytes are bytes. Why should carriers be allowed to prioritize (or deprioritize) your data differently than other data?