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Why always assume everybody is evil ?

From reading the article, I noted a few things:

The forest employees did reject demands for expansion multiple times. They care about their forest (of course).

These people love and protect the environment. If Nestlé was destroying it, they wouldn't let it happen.

If it was easy to re-evaluate a license in a proper way, they would do it (they did for smaller installations). They seem to lack the resources to do a proper licensence evaluation at that scale.

Maybe Nestlé is hiring people with life-long experience protecting the nature because they are good at it ?
Things like "... can you guys give me a hand." apparently.

I think it's a combination of things... on the one hand there is outright descrimination and bias... on the other, society is leaning towards overtly sensitive to anything that could be considered insensitive or biased.
I know the Pidgin project used to build their windows version on Linux using GCC and setting the make target.

You get a constantly up to date compiler (because of the system package management) and you don't need a MS license for your buildbot. It's a win win.
That would be lovely, however that probably won't happen. Seeing google might get sued for that.
> If the work environment is not to women' liking and has no bearing on outcome, where are all the successful companies formed by women who want a more friendly environment?

One explaination is given in the article:

"Investors preferred entrepreneurial ventures pitched by a man than an identical pitch from a woman by a rate of 68% to 32% in a study "
So what won? Did they use conv nets?
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Simple Text Message to hack any android phone remotely
I'm guessing it was more related to the 'feature' of having replaceable backplates.
Thats a very cool hack! I personally use 'tcc -run' to call into .so's from the shell, but it's quite limited as far as interfacing back to a shell..
I just switched from CM12 to OxygenOS. I don't see many advantages that CyanogenMod might have over this slightly modified stock Android. As with CM, it has a few extra settings and it can be rooted. Yes it comes with Google's Apps, but most of them are quite useful.
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> Fun fact: Bitcoin scrypt doesn't support loops, so it's limited in scope in what it can do with a given transaction. Not so with Ethereum.

AFAIK, it was done on purpose: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/25427/the-bitcoin...
It is ridiculous that even a $700 phone can just start lagging on you

IMHO the blame for that lies with the software, not the hardware. Android is basically the realisation of the original Java OS, but on hardware fast enough that its performance has become "acceptable" - most of the time.

As for the other features; Bluetooth, WiFi, accelerometer (and compass/magnetometer), SD, dual-SIM, and removable battery are pretty much standard on every generic Chinese phone now since they're based on reference designs that have all those components (they cost almost nothing - it would probably take more work to remove them and customise the HW/SW - and it's yet another feature point they can list.)

I'd consider such a "full-featured" phone "flagship", but what the term appears to mean today is just a fast CPU, big screen, and pretty looks, with the other features appearing and disappearing seemingly randomly.
I don't have high hopes. Just had to vent out.

What also irks me is that all that consumer-defined hardware is pushing human ability to weather stress and annoyances. I sometimes really wonder if the proliferation of underpowered, laggy phones isn't turning into public health problem. I sometimes get to fix my mother's laptop (also used by my sister). It came with Windows 8, but it runs it so slow that personally, I'd kill myself if I had to do any work on such equipment. And yes, my mother is incredibly annoyed as well, but she doesn't really expect any better, she gave up on it some time ago.

Yes, I am dreaming about good technology. I know we have the means, there just isn't will. The only place when you can see technology working without problems is sci-fi movies. Just try and imagine that scene from Star Trek - an away team tries to scan derelict starship with a tricorder, only to have it hang up, reboot and then complain that it won't work because it can't connect to the cloud. Ridiculous, isn't it?

But hey, not all is lost yet. People are attempting to make their own phones outside of big phone vendors. They do that mostly to push against erosion of privacy and user's ability to control their own device. I'm hoping someone will try to make a smartphone equivalent of a tricorder. I think there are enough geeks like me to fund a decent Kickstarter.
Not quite 4 years, but well... it still works fine. I wouldn't even expect a current android version, just patches for nasty security bugs like this one. What's so hard about that?
The maximum screen size I'm looking for is 4.5 inches, maybe 4.7 if the bezel is very thin. Maximum weight: around 120 grams.

The Nexus 5 is bigger and heavier than that, but I'm keeping it near the edge of my radar in case I have no other choice.

<rant> LG recently began to market the Gram, a series of high-end ultrabooks that weigh less than 1000 grams. Why on Earth is nobody trying to market medium-to-high-end phones that weigh less than 100 grams? </rant>
Is it because in the US there is a fee for Bank Transfers? Here in AU bank transfers are free.
To be fair, this should be a prime example of a case where free market types AND those that believe in strong public protection of resources can agree that it stinks. There can be no libertarian defense of this behavior. It is a corrupted government process keeping a company from paying the true market price for the resources it is using. All actors in this case are warping the process for the enrichment of the company and lining the pockets of a few key players.

Also, pulling water out of a desert watershed, trucking it up to Canada, to ship it back down to the US to sell in little plastic bottles is the height of corporate capitalist insanity.
> I admit it, I'm biased on a lot of levels,

> not really against gender,

> but I will admit I prefer to work with men.

You don't see the contradictions here?
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Relevant video: https://vimeo.com/134128443
Ask HN: Does your productivity suffer because of too many phone notifications?
I didn't know this "enable -f" feature of bash, it's certainly handy. What are some other interesting binary bash plugins?

I really like this one, most certainly one would use it to build specialized bash libraries that wraps all the ugly stuff. Like a speedy sqlite3 bash library that keeps a database connection open and you can build up transactions by multiple bash commands, it would be a nice alternative to calling sqlite3 multiple times or building a huge sql statement and then calling it once.
You really should check out Figwheel.
all companies pay employees based on skills. it is just that skill is not the only variable and sometimes not the most important. but definitely skills play a major part.
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> with the other features appearing and disappearing seemingly randomly

This is what bothers me. I suspect it's not random, it's market segmentation. So ok, a vendor may think that some consumers value feature X, Y, and Z, while others value featues X, Q and V. But one thing that is missing from all offerings is a phone that has them all. This is the phone that I would like to buy, even if it was significantly more expensive than the rest. But I can't, because it's not there.

(Or I haven't found it yet. If anyone knows of such device, I'd be grateful for a pointer.)
Alternatively use a different SMS/MMS client such as TextSecure.

To quote moxie:
"We don't do any pre-processing that involves stagefright. There are no technical details at all available about this vulnerability (for maximum hype), but you'd have to physically tap on the media and then click through a warning about playing media insecurely before stagefright got involved."

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9959070
> What does it mean to "leave the field"?

You can read it in the linked article: http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-culture/

* "716 women who left tech"

* "I have collected stories from 716 other women who have left the tech industry"

* "Of the 716 women surveyed, 465 are not working today."

* "Two-hundred-fifty-one are employed in non-tech jobs, and 45 of those are running their own companies. A whopping 625 women say they have no plans to return to tech

Which strongly implies "left the industry", not "moving to product management" or "managing". 2/3s of them aren't working at all, not "promoted to management"
Probably because the people behind it really likes communism. That is another reason not to buy it.
"Don’t rely on self-nominations or self-evaluations"

I think this is the big thing that should be rallied around. This is prevalent, obvious, and hurts companies in more ways than just discrimination (not to marginalize that aspect).

Focusing on self-nominations means the most successful people aren't going to be your people best able to do the job, but people best able to 'play the game'. This is in fact not independent, but negatively correlated with skill. (Citation needed)
> but it would have been nice to see some real metric instead of some napkin graphs

That's roughly why software engineering isn't really engineering. We're too cool for quantification. We feel that we don't need to give solid metrics to justify investment on what we think is cool. But, boy, if management asks us something that we don't like, then they'll have to handle solid and quantifiable evidence on the utility of it.
That's why I align myself with neither side strongly. There are balances of power and checks required. On the market, on business and monied interests, on government (and various branches, agencies, etc.).

Almost like an engineering problem where you want to ensure no one process overwhelms all others.
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Since long copyright term exists solely to protect media companies' IP brand families, there could be an exponential tax on copyright extension.

The first nine years of copyright are free. After that, you pay $100 to renew for the tenth year. At year 20, the price is $1000 / year. At year 30, the price is $10,000 / year, which is still perfectly reasonable for profit-generating IP.

The 70th year of copyright will cost a billion each year. At that price, it becomes a major board room decision whether to keep milking the same IP or rather come up with something new.

The profits from this tax could go to culture and education, similar to what is done with gambling profits in many European countries that have a state-owned gambling monopoly.
Even if that only takes six months the phones isn't going to be interesting by the time you can actively purchase it.
I just found this article as well http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/27/zombification-from-notific...

Is there any app that can fix this?
There is some reasonable scientific middle ground between being an unreflected Deep Learning fanatic at one end of the spectrum and being an AGI denier at the other end. In typical internet fashion, we're mostly exposed to extreme and exaggerated viewpoints that are not above distorting a few things in order to get their message across - and this article is no exception.

Just to grab one strategy used in these articles (again, on both ends of the opinion spectrum): comparing apples to oranges. In this case, it's the neuronal firing rate. The biological brain uses firing rate to encode values, but that's rarely used in silico outside biochemical research because we have a better way of encoding values in computers.

One side (in my opinion, reasonably) asserts that this is an implementation detail where it makes sense to model a functional equivalent instead of strictly emulating nature. This view has gained credence from the fact that ANNs do work in practice, and even more importantly, several different ANN algorithms seem to be fit for the job. A lot of people believe this bodes well for the "functional equivalence" paradigm, not only as it pertains to AI, but also as it relates to the likelihood of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

The other side asserts that implementation details such as the neuronal firing rate are absolutely crucial and cannot be deviated from without invalidating the whole endeavor. They believe (and I'm trying to represent this view as fairly as I can here) that these are essential architectural details which must be preserved in order to preserve overall function. And since it's not feasible to go this route in large-scale AI, the conclusion must be that AGI is impossible. A lot of influential people believe this, including Daniel Dennett if I recall correctly.

The article is very close to the latter opinion, but it goes one step further in riding the firing rate example by not even acknowledging the underlying assumption and jumping straight to attacking the feasibility of replicating the mechanism.
Where is Saudi Arabia in this story? When I was there in the 90s I saw maps of time zones that listed Saudi Arabia as still using solar time. That was long after the official switch in the 60s. I understood the official "solar time" line as a nod to religion. Nobody was setting watches every sunset but the calls to prayer certainly moved with the sun.
I don't know about other departments coming in to ask for an engineer, but when it's an engineer looking for another engineer on a different team, it usually takes the form of asking openly in that teams hipchat/slack/irc room (as gender neutral as it gets) or specifically addressing one particular engineer (usually because that engineer is known for being great at providing advice or technical details on the issue at hand)

I've never once witnessed that second one and would be shocked if I did witness that. I've been around long enough that if that were still a problem, I would expect to have witnessed it firsthand.

I know the third happens (my sister is in sales and has been subjected to it).
Can Predictive Analytics Decrease Gender X Race Discrimination in Organisations?
I worked in the web advertisement on a big fashion account in a 80% female team. the PM was promoting women just because they are women and she even wanted to hire some support engineer interviewed her and seeing that she had a good feeling because she was in a similar feminist assocation than her she hired her as a regional project manager with double pay and they hired a support engineer in india.

trust me. the environment we are making women and feminism grow in is insane for men as for women and against work ethics.
That's being done with KVM, so it's not really booting and running Win7 natively on the phone (the hardware is probably not close enough to a PC to be able to do this) but inside a VM.

You can find people running various other versions of Windows (and even MS-DOS) on an Android phone, again as a VM.
seems government give up save the stock market.
Facebook Integration from Scratch
Role models/mentors are important.
Or boost the rankings of originals over remakes.
That is a great recommendation. I found the local WA chapter, https://www.firstwa.org/, and will contact them.

Do you have another other ideas as well?
This. All the concerns first parent raised (SPOF, etc) are valid ones, but that doesn't mean the service is inherently bad, and I'd hate Sam to take all this as a completely negative response. It just suits a different use. I get that it's aimed at people who want to hand draw the symbols, and that's pretty cool.
I appreciate the sentiment, that if you look at just gross impact, then a quant/hedge fund/think tank career might actually be more helpful than something more traditionally 'impactful'. But I can't help but feel that in it's quest to say something novel about social impact, it misses the soul of what it means to change the world for the better.
A very interesting video, thanks! So the question is, how can I get my hands on something from Shenzhen that works? I've seen people importing Chinese smartphones that are equivalent to high-end products on Western market but for half a price. But could anyone share some tips on finding and getting a device that may be more functional than what you can buy in Europe/US?
Sure, but you have to admit that history is littered with things like this where they still died anyway. Can you not see how people could have concerns over this?

(I've commented elsewhere on this page BTW; I don't think the fact these are valid concerns makes it inherently bad ...)
You will do permanent damage to your brain if you choose the stress/burn down way!

Besides all the research pointing to that fact, I myself has burned myself into smitherines from stress and a toxic working enviroment. It took me two (2) years after my burnout to be able to work more than 2-3 hours a day and 4-5 years before I could work 8 hours a day for a week!

The brain is plastic, this means that it changes from stress and once you have overloaded it, it becomes more sensitive!

It's like breaking a bone - even though it grows back together, it will always be weaker.
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I think there is a huge market of people who wouldn't think twice of paying $1000 for, even among those who aren't really wealthy. Include me in that market. My smartphone is my most important possession, and I use it more than anything else that I own, including my laptop. With reasonably good care, a smart phone will last for 2 years, and, at that time, have 50% of its original value.

So - if a really solid smartphone was available for $1500, that is $750 over 24 months, or $31/month. There are a lot of things that I pay $31/month for, that don't give me the same value as my smartphone, that I would happily give up to get a world-class best-of-breed experience.

And realize, we are comparing with a "good enough" $400 phone - which would probably only have 25% of it's value ($100) after 2 years - so, $300/24 month or $12.50/month, so what we are really asking ourselves, is do we want to spend $12.50 for a good enough phone, or $31/month for a best-in-class phone. I'm certainly willing to pay the extra $19/month.
A simple proxy to circumvent the SOP
If it's anything like the Oneplus One it's a buggy ill supported piece of crap.
Why Cybersecurity Is So Difficult to Get Right
Why? They are a private company, they can do whatever they want on their site (also known as the iOS censorship apologist argument)
"Don't do [a bunch of things that admins won't listen to proof of even if they were happening] or we'll ban you. Oh, and here have an ad-free badge of honour for being terrible subs, we'll subsidise you! Hey Jessica, please start handing out the badges."
Yes, I set all of my infrastructure to UTC and then keep the clock on whatever UI I'm using set to display distance from UTC in my current timezone (and current Unix timestamp in UTC). I feel like timezones are an important tool for humans, and it's so easy to customize your development machine's clock to take care of these calculations for you. It's also millions of times easier to think in terms of events that happen across a system with wide distribution if everything is set to UTC, where a lot of companies and people will have to then start counting and scribbling arithmetic to keep track of what happened when, in two or more timezones.
Are people still spouting "dotcom crash v2.0" nonsense?

I agree that valuations are abnormally high (although not higher than those during the dotcom bubble) and that a correction is due soon however, this time really is different in the sense that the damage will be largely contained to those with enough money to throw down on startups (VC/PE funds, institutional investors). For better or worse, tech startups are staying private longer, holding private IPOs and generally staying away from the scrutiny of the public market while at the same time insulating the general public from a crash.

What will largely suck will be the uptick in unemployment not just from failed and failing startups having to lay off employees cause of lack of funding, but the associated kill-off of the entire services-for-startups industry. Did I mention the lack of funding? That'll also suck for newcomers who came at the wrong time.
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So the ubertooth isn't legal anymore?

Doesn't locking down wifi radios basically outlaw software-defined radio (SDR)? How can SDR exist without infinite control over "modulation types"?

I'm not sure that it is possible to truly lock down a radio to a particular modulation type. Transmitters aren't magic. They cannot be DRMed. They don't even run software. Send them the voltage and they send the signal.
Is anyone else in the "My perfect phone would be my current one but with a battery that easily lasts 3+ days" boat? I've currently got an iPhone 5S, and I can achieve this with those portable USB chargers. I've no need for any of the other features which new generations of smartphones are adding (multi-core\multi-ghz processors, huge amounts of RAM etc), though there's perhaps a killer app round the corner which will advantage of this. Otherwise I cannot see myself replacing my 5S in the next couple of years (except for Apple dropping support, or me dropping it in my beer)
It helps some, though to alleviate poverty, "micro-donations" would be a better choice.

Not many businesses succeed and if people who have nothing have to give back the money, they're pretty much fucked.

It's kinda like the credit situation in the west - most people are in debt to some bank.
Not evil, but focused.
Nestlé as a company is focused on profits,
whereas forest employees are (or should be) focused on the forest environment.
These different focuses may conflict with oneanother.

On a different topic, if the water licensing does not provide enough resources for a proper re-evaluate, then there is something fundamentally wrong
Love this article. It's always great to think outside the box, and the author of this article definitely did that.
More data doesn’t mean you know everything
They make up a big enough proportion of the search market that whether or not they'd ultimately prevail, a move like that would tie them up in anti-trust battles for the next decade.
> Do not work 15 hour days to try to grok the code better.

... because that's less likely to succeed than using 8 hours a day.

Even if you neglect the long-term eventuality of burnout working more hours in a creative/intellectual job does not result in more work being done: it will nearly always result in less.

If you can't get the work done in your normal working hours it means that the deadline is actually impossible. Some problems cannot be solved by throwing numbers at them; your manager has to throw planning at them.
Not disagreeing with the general point, but aren't bones stronger after a break? I thought that was the whole point of martial artist's punching hard stuff.

That said, I also have burned out before and it is not fun. While I didn't have the long-lasting negative effects you describe, I have grown a strong reluctance towards working "long hours" on other people's ideas.
How to not get phished
Ban Killer Robots Before They Take Over, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk Say
Are people Ignorant, Stupid, or sheep?
I got a think tank researcher answer. How do I get this job, I'm actually really serious.
Ideas like this is what we need.
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Nice, how interrupts are handled? core dumped on int 3