skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is about as end-user hostile as the Lenovo Superfish thing. By the sounds of things, Samsung has managed to ship some of their laptops with devices that fail with the standard windows devices drivers, but don’t have their own pci-id which would allow Samsung to ship a custom driver. Samsung’s solution to this is not to issue a hardware recall & replace the laptops, but to expose their customers’ private personal information to every future malware author on the planet.

In some ways, this is worse than Superfish. Superfish was at least not deliberate; it seems pretty clear that Lenovo really didn’t understand the full implications of what they were doing by installing it on their laptops. There’s no way that Samsung doesn’t understand that by disabling Windows Update they are trading off their customers’ security against the cost of a hardware recall.

(It wouldn’t surprise me to discover that Microsoft actually has ways of blacklisting driver updates under Windows Update & will liaise with OEMs to help them sort out problems like this - it wouldn’t be that hard to maintain a list of 'if the hardware looks like this then install that driver instead of the standard one'. In which case Samsung is simply trading off a bit of management time against their customers’ security which is even more unacceptable.)
> Have the workers own the robots

How do you prevent them from getting bought out?
Whilst I agree with your sentiment as a legal permanent resident of Australia, I think it is dangerous (if very seductive) to blame Mr Abbott. He's been the party attack dog for so long that people focus their energy on making it personal with him (much as the Democrats focus on Bush and the Republicans have a thing for Obama).

First, from the little I've been tracking this issue, it appears it was the "relatively moderate", friendly, centrist, old guard Turnbull that was behind these moves. Chances are it's done as a favour to someone in Washington who needed something from someone connected to the Hollywood lobbies. Not the strongest of motives and the kind of thing that popular opinion can reverse.

Second, legislation doesn't magically happen in a vaccuum when the PM says so. Australians, you MUST get in touch with your local politician, both to let them know (politely) how you feel about certain issues, and to give them arguments to use in Canberra if you want any chance of legislation being passed the way you like it. It's not about Labour vs Liberals. Whoever has been locally elected, is now responsible for listening to you. They also don't do much thinking so it helps to do it for them: "This proposed legislation infringes individual rights like this, this and this; moreover, as per the Constitution, that" goes much further than "I am pissed at you for letting the PM get away with it".

This is of course not a personal response to your comment, but a general note that I thought about and that was triggered by your Tony note. I've found Australians relatively politically disengaged, with the general opinion - at least in Sydney - basically being "they're all scumbags anyway, things will work out in the end", followed by some expletives about Gillard, Rudd or Abbott depending on where the Australian leans...
That's weird thing that I have heard about Samsung Windows Updates.
I know this is heading OT, but there have been plenty of white slaves throughout history, even in the U.S. For that matter, look at how Chinese, Japanese and Irish immigrants were treated.

I also am not sure that having a class of people in this country that can't afford to raise a family on a single income while working 40+ hours a week is so much different than slavery.

In this case, I don't fault google for trying, I just think their approach is probably wrong, and you really don't see enough googlers (paid employees) respond to any of the threads you happen across.
The question is, why didn't this happen before.

My 2 cents, the 80s is where automation truly started to take off, in the 90s, IT took over.

More work, less costs.
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Turing-completeness isn't a problem per se (lots of people get this wrong) because no attacker is trying to compute something: they want to run some shellcode, or redirect an HTTP request, or display something on screen, or something like that, none of which a Turing machine can do.

The worst a Turing machine can do is run forever, which is easily prevented by limiting the number of steps it can ran.
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One thing that bothers me is the author remark that the Greeks never had any organised state like structure except for the Macedonian kingdoms ..yes they did for like 1000 years. It was called the Byzantine empire. Before the modern Greek state appeared the Greek diaspora used to identify itself not as Greek but as romai ... Citizen of the eastern roman empire.
Credentialing of some kind needs to exist for software engineering. Clearly traditional means like college degree aren't cutting it, and more and more people are going outside the system to learn to code, so I expect degrees are going to become even more noisy over the next few years.

Whatever this credentialing looks like, I hope it's based on ability rather than proxies.
Do unions count as public entities or private ones? Because they have a lot of motivation, and a lot of money, and a lot of success of converting the former into political clout. But somehow I don't see their motives questioned as often as "motivation to maximize profits".

There are a lot of companies that extract profits from what can be regarded as other's misfortune - from hospitals to computer security specialists. However that does not necessarily means that hospitals promote disease and computer security professionals routinely spread malware and deliberately compromise their clients' security, to boost their business. Something better than "they have motive to do so" would be required for that claim.
There are two problems: how on earth samsung may have the idea to produce this kind of software and who is signing software without giving a look at what he is signing. A problem of software development mentality (on windows) and a problem of responsability.
Well, one way to think about it is that they know with 100% certainty that an iPad version of Instagram would do well. However by putting out an iPad app, they wouldn't really increase people's total usage of Instagram that much. There's only so much Instagram that people can fit into their lives realistically.

One thing that the good folks at Instagram HQ have is time, and resources. They are owned by a big, money making entity in Facebook. So what makes sense is for them to optimize for learning. Hyperlapse is an experiment that tries to teach people a new behavior. If this behavior sticks, then Facebook would effectively own that behavior (head start through network effects, branding, etc).

In the long term view of the company, it's advantageous to be able to leverage NEW behaviors. That's how Facebook (a.k.a Instagram) will be able to insert itself into more parts of your life than simply trying to maximize the lone part of your life it occupies. Once a new part of your life is found to be occupied, they can then transition into maximizing the time spent in that new part.

Like this, Facebook trades depth for breadth, but not really because Instagram as it exists is deep enough already. They know that an iPad App is of marginal value, but a separate app experimenting with an entirely new behavior has huge upside potential if it takes off, one that they can continue to add depth to afterwards. So that's what they went with.
The Woodward Governor Company once did that. They limited their CEO to 10x the lowest paid employee of the company. That ended around 1980.
A couple million in a couple of years sounds like a unicorn, actually.
I watches a few videos by Robert Lustig at UCSF. My take away is healthwise a can of Coke == one shot of booze. Partly because the fructose in HFCS and or table sugar shares the same metabolic pathway in the liver as ethanol. People that eat a lot of sugar tend to develop non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

24 grams HFCS is 14 grams fructose. A shot of 40 proof booze is 14 of grams ethanol.

Also the slug of glucose in a can of Coke spikes your blood sugar, which spikes your insulin levels. This is also not good. Take away from that eat complex carbs. Difficulty a lot of 'health food' contains processed carbs.

My gut unsupported feeling is, people living sedentary lifestyles, which is most people, don't require much in the way of carbohydrates.
OK, it might not be a 'ban' in strict grammatical terms, but the implication is clear. Because of these guidelines many people have treated any dietary fat as taboo. I certainly counted myself among them. Decades of advice and ad campaigns from the government will do that.

I believe these guidelines and associated ad campaigns (and many like them in other countries such as the UK) have actually led to people 'learning' to find fat completely distasteful, so I think it will be some time before there is a significant change in eating habits.
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Wrong wrong wrong.

Reality check: (1) Immigrants are actually NET CONTRIBUTORS to the welfare system. (2) Immigrants (at least the poor ones you're apparently worried about) are hard-working and yearn for financial stability; leisure is an utterly alien concept to them. (3) As societies become more heterogenous, welfare systems decline, because of inherent racism/xenophobia. The various elements of the population don't want to contribute to welfare cause they don't feel in communion with those "others". (4) If the welfare system becomes overburdened, I say Great! It just forces us to fix our broken system sooner than we otherwise would have. (Although again mainly because of my points 1 and 2 this would never happen.) (5) We can charge immigrants an entry fee, or a tax premium, or we can exclude them from benefits altogether. Any of those options would be vastly more humane than the status quo where we keep these foreigners trapped in their unproductive backwaters making ~$1 a day, starving.

Please see my other comment on this thread here for more info:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
I wish recruiters would use this to revise their InMail messages... if they saw their whole email highlighted in red "very negative, corporate jargon" perhaps there would be fewer spammers out there.
As from the article quoted: "dietary intake at total and saturated fat"

I wanted to see a study comparing the average fat intake of Paleo practitioners with the target of that study.

Oh by the way, trans fats are poly-insaturated (good for you! - and sold as such). Until it wasn't.
One thought I have of where it might come from is some other job sites list how many people applied for a particular job. If they scraped that information plus the job posting they could gather this type of data pretty quick.
I'd really like an attribution of the "based on science" claim... because this appears to be based on 30-year-old science, to consider this as "high-intensity".

Now, the stated movements can all be useful, certainly, but "high-intensity exercise" has a very specific meaning in exercise science: anaerobic exercise that boosts metabolism, VO2MAX, and anaerobic capacity.

There is very interesting new research in this area, including the discovery of genetics-based degrees of response to both HIT/HIIT and conventional aerobic exercise.

A good primer for laymen:
http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Truth-About-Exercise-With-M...

The Bath study:
http://opus.bath.ac.uk/27674/3/Metcalfe_et_al_2011.pdf
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Yes, certsinly that also. DI meant in the context of the more recent past as the source of pollution was moved out of the city centre people probably lost interest in pollution as it affected them less directly. Prior to that people were either too sparsely populated to be affected or there was no alternative.

Or something. I guess I speculating given there's other factors I'm not taking into account like automobile emissions and the advent of emissions standards due to air quality concerns.
Or the BBC isn't a good source for technical news, because the reporters aren't specialists in the field?
I'd love to see that too, but instead every department of a company would become an "independent contractor" and the highest-level management would end up a tiny, 100 person company with salaries starting at 300k.
I'm not going to sell my car until I have a permanent place to live.
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It took me quite a bit of scrolling to figure out that Famous is some sort of JS UI system.
Url changed from http://kottke.org/15/06/the-population-bomb-defused, which points to this. HN prefers original sources.
Yes, but can it tell you when the next eclipse will be?
While there seems to be a rich seam of culture that can be mined from the ancient Greeks, does the source of the ideas really matter? If we're looking to teach about the ideas behind human culture in schools, could we not incorporate the ideas from the Greeks, Romans, etc... in some form of Sociology course (like Sociology but with an expanded remit)? Can also use the ideas from the ancient world to enhance Critical Thinking courses and History courses and Literature courses.

I guess what I'm saying is I'd prefer to see the fruits of the ancient world to be used to enhance a broad range of subjects, to help us contrast them with ideas throughout our history, rather than treating it as a single subject.
This looks really interesting. I'll give it a go :)
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Asking 10 people to explain what MVC is, and you'll get 11 answers ;) ! Having recently done a dive into this area, I would really recommend interested folks to patiently read this great article by Martin Fowler:
http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/uiArchs.html

The web community has been done a great disservice by people popularising the phrase "MV*".
It's complicated :)

I've been reading a lot of papers on this subject recently, and it seems there is a complex interplay between intake of carbohydrate, saturated fat, polyunsaturated fat and monounsaturated fat.
> Also, that's a pretty Europe centric view. Have you looked at eg China?

Culturally damaging events can be restricted to (relatively) small areas of the world. Conversely, Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” was also a culturally very damaging event in human history, despite being restricted to one (other) area.

The idea that nothing that happened in Europe is relevant because there are other parts of the world, too and that considering an event in Europe to be potentially world-changing is “pretty Europe centric” is one of the reasons that few people outside humanities consider the field any more relevant to reality than, say, string theory.

So, yes, stuff happened in China, too. Doesn’t mean that stuff didn’t also happen in Europe and that both stuff happening in China and stuff happening in Europe can affect the course of history.
Well then why don't you enlighten us on the result of such a reading? For the impatient, I'll spill the beans - because the guidelines are quite similar across the board! They're all based on the same research and scientific majority opinion at the time! Who would've thought?
Maybe I glanced over it but who did the candidates interview for? Were those just simulated interviews or are they working with companies that actually hire people?
Or are they hiring for themselves?
I'm very confused by what "success" means. The last paragraph indicates that it wasn't actually used for a hiring process? I see a commenter on their site has the exact same reaction.

Either way I applaud every afford to improve the hiring process. However I'm a tad bit skeptical. They should release the dataset (unless I missed it) because it's pretty convenient that the results seem to indicate that hiring can be improved by a quiz which they could build and sell.

I'd be interested in the following screening filter:
Have a programmer at the company read through the projects the candidates supplied (as a replacement to "read CV") and then come to a conclusion of yes/no.
No projects = no job offer by default. You can always think of a different approach for people with no projects if you feel like you should hire from that group.
Possibly have multiple programmers read the code and discuss it.
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There is also the possiblity nobody considered this to be a problem ... ever ...
Apparently the ISPs are just going to use DNS poisoning, which anyone will be able to circumvent by using an overseas public DNS server, like Google's 8.8.8.8
> Have the workers own the robots
I am pretty sure that workers are free to buy publically traded stock.

I also would probably not invest if I were in their position.
Well, i'm glad you see open borders as an ultimate goal, kudos there, but why do you think its important for "bilateral treaties". Workers are engines of production. They're valuable. We want more of them. Even if they're poor, they can still produce value. Production is the root of all prosperity. So there's no harm in letting people come here at whatever rate is best for them - if it's a sensible move for them, that implies that their productivity (reflected by their income) is increasing. More productivity = more stuff = more stuff for everyone in the economy to enjoy. Again, there's no harm in letting people come. Only increased production. So we should definitely let in anyone who wants to come. And so should every other country. But if the other countries remain economically stupid / bigoted and want to keep valuable workers at bay, fine, doesn't mean we should make the same mistake. It's still hugely beneficial to us (and everyone) to let them come here unilaterally.

Please see my other comment in this thread for more info:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769632
Aw. Apple Watch looks a lot like the Watch icon (shown when the system was busy) in the original MacOS.

Now if someone can figure out how to do pointing on a tiny screen, it might work. Maybe you wave you arm around in space and the accelerometers drive the cursor.
honestly better to have apartment available to sustain the growth that a speculative market that makes having a roof a privilege like in the western countries, where most houses are actually owned by banks.
Thanks for doing that. I like how the parent comment made some assumptions about motives, which I'm sure we're all guilty of -I know I am, a lot- and then someone provides the balance.

It's interesting how any group of motivated people can and will have their motives questioned and recontextualised to suit whatever agenda some other group are pushing. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that process, just interesting to observe the different camps adding their own spin and observing my changing option as I gain greater understanding - well, so the theory goes.

(Edit: speeling and gramah)
trying to cripple linux on the desktop

according to what I hear year after year again ('still not the year of desktop linux') they even succeeded. lol.
Turnbull is certainly not centrist nor friendly.
And suddenly every company would stop having full time workers, just a lot more contractors
I'm a week away from the reddit 8 year club, and I couldn't disagree more (about reddit—I haven't watched The Simpsons). I think reddit has navigated their massive popularity better than any other similar services. Subreddits are brilliant. Of course, individual subreddits go through the same transition when they get too big, but you just can't be sentimental. Unsubscribe from a subreddit if it annoys or disappoints you a few days in a row, and never look back. Once I did that (and, of course, unsubscribe from the vast majority of the default subs), reddit has been an amazing hub for all my widely varying hobbies and interests.
I spoke with one of the devs at a holiday party (Trevor?) and he mentioned there were a bunch of other things that weren't fleshed out yet that might justify the price here later. But yeah, seems expensive.
>Does that sound like a lifestyle business?

No, it doesn't. It sounds like a 3 SD event.
That's the WHO guideline for what they consider 'very good'. However the actual, realistic guidelines are 2-3 times as much across the world; and most people don't even manage to stay below that.
Then just base the hourly CEO wage a multiple of the lowest hourly wage a sub sub sub contractor makes when working for the company. Including developping countries workers.
It was formerly just the Mathematica language - they did then add API's for their web-services, Wolfram-Alpha and renamed it Wolfram language at some point in the recent past.

It's a pretty proper language on it's own, particularly for scientific/numerical work. It learnt it at University for a Physics module, and I liked it, I agree it's not the best first language though.
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It's not that you can eat as much sugar as you want as long as it's not refined. For example, after your fruit consumption, you should have brushed your teeth (according to 'the guidelines'). The thing is that 50 grams of sugar is just really, really low...
But, if that's the case, then that's measuring the wrong thing. In many ways, a lot of applicants are an anti-signal. It means you're spending time sifting through a huge haystack searching for that 1 needle. Ideally, they have data on like, the 5 year performance review for the candidate hired or something like that which is why I said I have no idea how they would get such data.
Irrelevant.

If population drecreases, and you still lose people to starvation, you are living above carrying capacity. Even if that only happens in certain regions.

The world is losing lots of people to starvation. We are not able to reign on our instintcs.
Do we really need to use package managers?
A very good point, and well written. My only observation is this: politics doesn't happen in a vacuum, but the current government has set about ignoring polls and comments from the public on a range of other issues making me less inclined to believe they will shift for this one. That being said Labor isn't innocent of this either.

My local member has on several occasions refused to even answer calls or meet me to discuss this, based only on the fact that as a young adult my opinion must not be valid.
It's also not fair because you lose some of your investment's value to inflation.

So that 15% long term rate ends up closer to 30% if you include the fact that your dollar is worth less today than when you bought the stock.

I did some rough math on putting money into the stock market vs. inflation:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/38b2u9/once_you_ar...
I'm amazed that you're allowed to do this and still ship with the Windows logo!