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If Pebble have any sense they'll have negotiated some kind of better deal with Kickstarter, in return for the guaranteed revenue and publicity.
We can change that! :)
If more companies will move from SF / NY to Atlanta / Alpharetta - there will be more things todo. I agree that seeing the Aquarium, Fernbank, High museum once is pretty much enough for a lifetime, but what about top golf? the new avalon? things are getting more and more interesting... ;)
The fight for privacy has to start at universities. At Georgia Tech, the faculty are routinely involved in unwarranted surveillance and testing out their fundamentally flawed ideas to sell off to the national security apparatus. Such tests I would classify as being human experimentation with a critical need for more transparency with the public. Without a broad education that contains humanities, arts, and ethics we won't get the technical solutions we need that address core societal issues. Instead we have an cancerous culture in engineering that threatens our position among other first world countries. Not all engineers have the same commitment to ethics and unfortunately the most unethical don't have the proper economic incentives for respecting human rights, liberty, and dignity. It's time to take a stand for privacy, against the exploitation of technology, and against unethical human experimentation. Georgia Tech's campus is a good place to start...
You could get a fulltime dev from Europe at 2k/mo if the workload is too much.
I lived with a guy from France a few years ago and he absolutely hated peanut butter and couldnt figure out why we all ate it so much. Had no problem adjusting to pepperoni cheese steaks though!
In this case, size = market cap. Just thought it would be helpful to clarify which metric is being discussed.
Why wouldn't companies who rely on the blockchain step in and incentivize the miners to ensure the health of the network?
I'd be interested to hear some of the common issues you've had with tup and the solutions if you're ever looking for a blog post topic :)
I wouldn't move back to Atlanta unless I had a job ITP....I worked in Alpharetta for 2 years right out of school and hated the location...all of the action is near midtown/ponce/buckhead
Countless companies do it at the enterprise level, or even much smaller. A dedicated Indian engineering team can be managed more like an in-house team than rented contractors.
USCIS just added 70 mil USD to their budget. Seems like the Executive Action can be self-funded.

70 mil = ~180000 applicants * USD 380 application fee
I don't think it's hostile to productive discussion, but I do think it's hostile to common styles of forum posting. HN is heavily slanted towards punishing those who step outside the accepted community standards (which are heavily influenced by the site's suggestions). In a way, it's sort of like a stand-in for a small community enforcing good behavior. Unacceptable behavior has more consequences than a place where it can be forgotten quickly or be unknown to new people. The negative consequences are carried through in a different manner, to combat the behavior that the inherent anonymity promotes.

There is also what appears to be a purposeful set of hurdles put in place for newer users so features that are useful and common on other sites are absent, but not impossible to achieve. I suspect there's some interesting conversations behind the scenes about this. I doubt it's as simple as being elitist or not wanting to put the work in. Possibly it's engender feelings of achievement or customization from those that find solutions to the problems, which the actual purpose of promoting specific user behavior. Possibly it's to slow discussion in some cases, so as to promote reasoned discussion.

Whatever the reasoning, I find that I personally take more time with HN replies. I choose my words carefully. I temper my opinions when there's few or no references to back them up; I find the quickest way to cause misunderstandings and antagonistic replies is to be absolutist in statements that do not deserve to be, even if it's an artifact of communication and not the intent. I find the more care I put into my comments, the more useful the replies I get. Not that I won't be corrected if wrong, but that the corrections are more productive, contain more real information, and are more willing to engage in a useful discussion.

In the end, my pet theory is that HN forces a different type of discussion, and when people come in with expectations that it will be like some other discussion site, or similar to discussions sites in general on the internet, it appears close enough, but the inconsistencies eventually grate. I think there's a certain beauty in the subtlety of that, and my inability to know for sure whether it's all in my head or there really is that much care put into the system doesn't reduce it in the slightest.
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Other useful things that were posted in that thread:

https://www.google.com/settings/takeout

https://www.google.com/settings/dashboard
But StackOverflow sites allows deletion, at least in part, as the author points out. So it is fair to say they aren't really enforcing that notion either.

I don't think I'm necessarily hinting at a copyright issue, though I think some control over attribution is pretty fundamental to it, but the point I'm trying to make is that the right of attribution is a stronger one than SO's right to maintain high-quality content. There are a number of ways that right can be accommodated, and it is the job of the publisher to figure out how.
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My biggest problem with the Apple watch is that I don't want to have an expensive, high-demand Apple device on my wrist...it's going to be a bigger thief-magnet than a new iPhone. For that reason alone it will be a while before I consider getting one.
Thanks for the nice reply. I will definitely check out some meetups.
This question is obviously asking about Firefox, but for Chrome users, here's how (starting in version 41, a few weeks from stable): http://ma.ttias.be/view-httpspdyhttp2-protocol-google-chrome
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Uhm, yes, duh. Isn't this common knowledge? How do people think speech recognition systems are trained? What's more upsetting is that this person is so uninformed about speech systems that they think this is weird, AND they have access. The only people who should have access are the people who are actually doing science.

Ahhh. Reading clarified it: this is someone who got hired to do transcription.

"I'm given an audio file (sound bite) and the corresponding text based translation (how the phone translated the speech). My job is to listen to the file, compare it to the text and provide feed back on how correctly the sound bite was interpreted by the phone. If the text and speech are a perfect match, I just move on. However, if the phone either translated something incorrectly due to a heavy accent or loud background noise, I note that in my evaluation. "
What's the preference name?
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"something needs to be done"

Yep, and forcing people to charge less than a resource is worth really doesn't work. The only real way to get the cost down is to increase the availability of the resource. Everything else is just causing stress on the system and stress leads to no further investments, fraud, and/or spending money on routing around the law.
I'll save you other curious people the search: The quote is from 'The Win Without Pitching Manifesto' by Blair Enns.

https://www.winwithoutpitching.com/read-it-online/the-passio...
I would point out that you're not making a fair comparison to the cost of administering a fiat system. In the US, it includes the cost of the entire Federal Reserve apparatus dedicated to managing the supply of FRNs. Treasury's printing of them is only one small part. The Fed has buildings to maintain, support employees to pay, behind-the-scenes political processes that play out and who knows what changes hands there in exchange for appointments and other policy stances.

You're right that Bitcoin by nature includes a huge energy cost, but when you take the narrow view that it's simply being thrown away, it's both short-sighted that it ignores the theoretical possibility that its heat "waste" could be channeled into something economically desirable (e.g. steam to drive turbines), as well as not an even-handed to comparison to the true costs of its alternatives.
Yeah it's tricky because online consumer tracking is just the evolution of a methodology which has been in place for a long time (like supermarket club cards you mentioned). Working in marketing gives you a sense of just how pervasive it is, what tricks are at one's disposal, and I think an individual company should be allowed to know how consumers use and value a their products, but being able to sell that information to a third-party is where the line needs to be drawn.

I don't know if Congress is the solution (http://thehill.com/policy/technology/215457-big-data-lobbyis...), I don't believe any branch of the US government has enough of an understanding with tech issues to pass effective regulation. I hope to be proven wrong though.

The most realistic way, in my opinion, to achieve some degree of reform is by encouraging businesses at a grassroots level to just simply not engage in these kinds of practices. That's an even tougher sell to many businesses than getting Congress to pass a law, but I'm heartened by companies like DuckDuckGo who build a product around the idea of "user privacy above all else". I think if that idea becomes popular enough and new businesses become noble enough to stick to their principals on issues of privacy (vs selling out to make $$) we might have an effective solution.
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This isn't Reddit, and substance-free paranoia isn't welcome here. In particular, some of the properties you listed are hosted on cookie-less domains and have privacy policies that severely limit data collection.
OT: every time a popular Google doc is shared I see this banner at the top saying that "Wow, this file is really popular! Some tools might be unavailable until the crowd clears." with the option to try again or dismiss the message.

I'm wondering what tools I am missing given that this is basically a read-only view?
In terms of logistics, I would love to know how to go about this like setting up office in India being a US company etc. Any online resource to tap ? I doubt my local accountant will have any clue.
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They do a cheaper version called Activite Pop which ships with a silicone band.
I'm willing to believe that perhaps robots will eventually be able to supply all our human needs at some point in the future. At that point the whole calculus will change (and not just for the old but for huge swaths of society).

I'm speaking about the world we currently live in though.
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I have tried to use Coq and Frama-C to prove commercial OCaml and C programs, without, it has to be said, any success. I'm waiting for someone to write the brilliant tutorial.
> where products for distributed networking and communications are developed, companies are so hell-bent on co-location.

IME, not everyone has equal experience using those tools. It's WAY easier to do a cubicle fly-by than to train your non-technical workforce how Skype works (if that sounds crazy, trust me - it's not).

I work mostly remotely, but I care deeply about communication. I've invested in a great headset so calls aren't plagued by WFH artifacts. I have a cough button. I have a dedicated office in my house. I get up, showered, and dressed every day so I'm online and ready for an ad-hoc video call at all business hours. My internet is fast and stable, and I have two backups in the very rare case it goes down (iPhone tether, Verizon hotspot).

In sum, I don't want my convenience (wfh) to inconvenience anyone else, so I do everything I can to make that the case. It's worked out really well so far. But I can tell you, most developers don't go through the hassle.
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The conclusion is classic Telegraph- where conservative values trump research or real life. A lot of their content is written to keep their readers happy- "I know my kids".
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"Our governments … should never be weighing the equities in an intelligence gathering operation such that a temporary benefit to surveillance regarding a few key targets is seen as more desireable than protecting the communications of a global system…"

I think it's a stretch to claim the NSA did this for a "few key targets". Good or bad, it seems casting a wide net, and then filtering the catch seems to be the preferred strategy. Does Snowden offer any proof that this was done to target only a few?
We assume that we are entitled to some sort of protection because we've paid for a service, but that didn't stop these companies from unlawfully participating or turning a blind eye to unwarranted and unrestrained violations of privacy. If you believe some court centered process will protect you from abuse you are sadly mistaken. Of course it is no issue until the fascists come after you....
Here are our current issues to date: https://github.com/flynn/flynn/issues?q=label%3Aupstream%2Ft...

It would be a good blog post topic, I'll make a note of that.
The screen interface is more accessible than the buttons. With buttons I've to feel my way around since there are three on the right side. Also I've to support the watch from the side opposite to the one where the button is being pressed. Also with gloves, jackets etc I've to wiggle my way to be able to press buttons also sensing which button I'm pressing is not easy.
Sometimes I think privacy is bound to die because of nuclear bombs. What stops a country sneaking bombs into another? We need total knowledge of what's in the city. But maybe I'm wrong, I haven't thought it through.
I have personally found that a hosts file can reduce the need for a bunch of those addons - it can block not only ads, but also many forms of tracking. I've found it very refreshing when surfing the web.

For reference, I use: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
How about the fact that the page stalls and freezes and is completely unusable on an iPhone 5?
This doesn't say anything about the actual e-books themselves, which are frequently terrible. Not only that, they're often priced at parity with the physical books, which takes some real gall.

I really do mean they're terrible, publishers would never release the print equivalent of the crap they put in e-books. Terrible typesetting, breaking important parts of books, no ability to handle things like accented characters, it's embarrassing stuff. Or, it should be, but publishers are so focused on not being subsumed by the onslaught of technology that it seems to be a low priority.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013 although the algorithm might have changed since then. Roughly, a recent post with few points can rank higher than an old one with many points.
Too positive?
The risks section is great because you can tell very quickly if they've put some thought into logistics or not. No need to enforce that it's properly filled out.
Although the homonym "nappy" is unfortunate, I can see my family using this. Here's to hoping it delivers on its promise.
That kind of problem used to happen with DOS TSRs (the equivalent of multitasking extensions or daemon processes). It's funny to think that the reason for browser extension incompatibilities is kind of analogous to the reason for TSR incompatibilities: both of them will hook function calls in the system whose functionality they're extending, and make assumptions about how they can alter, act on, or cancel the function call without breaking things, and whether or how it needs to be passed along afterwards. If only one extension is loaded, these assumptions aren't stressed very much, but when several are loaded the assumptions can conflict.

(That analogy isn't perfect because the TSRs also had an issue about patching the interrupt descriptor table, which is where the system looks up the location of an interrupt handler; one common problem was that if TSRs weren't unloaded in the same order in which they were loaded, the table could be "restored" with values that were not actually current, which I don't think is a problem that has an equivalent for browser extensions!)
If only there was a way they could be productive while riding the train into town...
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Mattermark is hiring a full stack engineer to build the Google for B2B
Or marketing, or law, or biochem, or architecture, or technology, or recruitment, or property.

Yes apart from those.
Yea, I'd probably consider size by employees and they aren't even in the top 100 there.
I upvoted you, but I also enjoy seeing these kinds of mistakes which either get me to imagine new metaphors, and/or (like in this case) get me to learn about real-world things.
Turns out that pour-over is a coffee brewing method:
http://coffee.wikia.com/wiki/Pour-Over_Filtration_Brewing
Why is that the author's problem rather than a problem of StackOverflow's? I'm not going to suggest I know a better way, but it is up to them to figure out. If you build a site around user-generated content, these are problems that can't be dismissed.

Anyway, I would say a user has a stronger right to delete content than other users' have to keep their connected content up.
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Is your work at all based on Rydeheard and Burstall's "Computational Category Theory"? They also do category theory in ML.
You say you don't mean to be inflammatory.

This is bizarre, because you have written a confused set of paragraphs taken out of the playbook of Holocaust deniers. You have quoted a small piece of an article from Le Monde (out of context). The context was the need to debunk claims by Robert Faurisson, who was and is a notorious Holocaust denier.

You have also made truly outrageous claims about gas chambers, with justification, amazingly, from a television interview (unsourced) and a noted historian (unsourced). I am unconvinced.

The only way I can make sense of what you have written is as an ironic gesture -- an unhinged collage of junk from one of the oldest conspiracy theories, the one that believes in a Jewish cabal.
By contrast, I did not live in the dorms when I went to college and I feel like I missed out on a lot. There's no one from my college years that I keep in touch with.
Who is it you don't want to have that information?

The government already knows (it's part of your SSN information), and any private company that cares will just make you give that info to them as part of the cost of service. You'll do it too, because you don't want to be unable to drive or have a mortgage.
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Because at home I don't carry it around. Outside, I would have to get it out of my pockets to be able to access it. Also in inclement weather a cheap/water proof watch is less of a risk.
A related question: If someone with expertise or data could compare the effectiveness of tracker-blocking solutions, such as Ghostery and Disconnect, it would be helpful.
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I agree with you 100% silverstrom and have another post to that effect brewing.
Depends upon the operation of the rest of the program. 64 bytes is the size of a cache line, the actual L1 cache (on recent Intel processors) is 1024 of those cache lines. If the extra memory just means that you pull an extra line into cache for a bookkeeping array, the effect is negligible. If it means that you thrash the cache and have to evict some of your sorted data, the effect could be orders of magnitude.

I'd really hope that the JDK maintainers benchmarked against real-world programs before deciding which fix to use. My intuition is that the set of programs where increasing the memory usage matters is tiny, but the effect is large for them - it's the set of programs where the working set is greater than the L1 cache size. Equality comparisons aren't free either, they can often cause branch mispredicts. But the point is that performance tuning on real-world programs is very counterintuitive, and so the best way to do it is to run some actual numbers on actual programs.
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Lots of hostility toward Authy on here, I'm shocked. I'm an Authy user and I've always liked the service in that I've barely noticed it existed. Super glad to use 1 app for most services I have 2FA on.
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> is a 30% stock jump from becoming the first trillion-dollar company

This is incorrect. The reason is share buybacks, which Apple has been aggressive with. Remember, when the price was $100 last (split adjusted), its market capitalization was $700 billion. Today, it's price is $130, but the market capitalization is not $900 billion, but only $765 billion. This is because the number of shares outstanding has gone down significantly.

In this scenario, the price and market capitalization will not increase by the same percentage. In fact, it is possible for Apple to have a very good price return with no increase in market capitalization at all (consider it generates a lot of free cash flow to buy back stock).
I am not particularly looking for a debate today; but this seems to be a disagreement of terms when using the word "provable". Just because a polynomial time algorithm can not be constructed to distinguish a single record does not mean private information can not be derived.

I still would prefer a choice in the matter - a required small check box that says "record my data" or "do not record my data" XOR "erase my data". The term 'reasonably' has a very different meaning to me (assuming many unknowns in the future) over the long term.

It is either that, or people should literally stop making such a hard line distinguishing person A from person B. If the data is going to be used to make an inference from the collective to the individual, and it doesn't matter whether my data is included or not, well, shrug and thumbs up. It really depends on the context of the application. Does it determine whether my imaginary future children get to go to college or not?

The problem with data and private organizations is that we do not know what the data analysis is being used for, and as private citizens we do not have any control over how that data is mathematically reasoned about and qualitatively assessed aside from forging the data itself it (garbage in, garbage out).
My wife's Highlander Hybrid has a remote start, and I would love to be able to say "Ok Google, start the car" [+].

[+] The vehicle has a GSM adapter to allow us to start the car both through an iOS app, and a python script I wrote against their private API.
Every time I'm in California, people tell me I should move my startup out there, rather than Minneapolis. But I'm (probably) staying here. I have a network here, too... maybe not as grand as Silicon Valley, but it's something.

Just like startups need to find a niche against entrenched companies, non-Bay area startup communities need to find their niche to compete with Silicon Valley. In the Twin Cities, we have a lot of medical startups, and a lot of interest at least in enterprise-oriented startups, thanks to our massive Fortune 500 headquarters concentration. Best Buy is very supportive of the startup community, and Target is very supportive of DevOps. In March, we're having our first enterprise startup conference (http://enterpriserising.co). Over the next few years, I think we're grow into our niche. I hope so!
Also worth pointing out that the £10k is a deposit, not a payment. If you get 5% of first preferences you get it back.