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My son was born this year in March. I'm not sure if that counts as Z or if its something beyond that... but i'm not sure technology is the thing that will "Define" his generation. To be sure, I think VR and AI will definitely impact them by a lot.... but I think more impactful is that he's going to be coming of age at exactly the moment when some of the worst effects of climate change (if we managed to slow it down very soon) are projected to happen.

I think his generation will be defined not by the new tech invented, but by the global changes they have to adapt to.
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Interesting that Vox is the platform on which this article appears. They are as much a part of the internet justice mob as Facebook or Twitter. Several articles on their front page have clickbait articles and are designed to get people riled up. Look at "It's shockingly easy to exploit legal immigrant workers" and "How Planned Parenthood became Republicans' public enemy no. 1" as examples.

I don't think the internet mob is "out of control". I think it is working as intended. The media has always fabricated stories as distractions or as character assassinations against certain people. The internet mob is the next evolution of that. Cecil the lion is the latest mass distraction.
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Scientists alarmed over GM organisms that could cause environmental disasters
Gamergate provided a mass distraction for the people.
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From that post: http://doc-ok.org/?p=824
Since Mars One isn't sending anyone anywhere, it doesn't matter if the applicants are married or not.
No, it's not okay. The media, especially gaming publications, have been doing this stuff for years now, and it's ridiculous. Some publications have wised up, but many haven't.

It's greatly amusing when someone just gives up all pretense and just scrapes a subreddit, then SEO blog spams every single post - because then the members will upvote stories about how terrible the website is. I unfortunately can't find anything specific at the moment, but 2 of the big ones I remember was /r/makeupaddiction and /r/gaming.

EDIT: For the curious, here's the mod post about the /r/makeupaddiction incident https://www.reddit.com/r/MakeupAddiction/comments/39o74y/mod... I'm unable to find the others at the moment, though there is a list under the top comment on the thread I've linked.
I fully intend to go to Mars, but someone "just staying here with their family" is just as noble a mission.
Can you give any examples of this coming from "SJWs"? Little confused by that specific part of your comment.
Yeah, old days. Now when installing Windows 10, we have to choose custom install and make many unchecking at least to be able to say "if they do what they say, they won't track me"..
If you join a fundamentalist cult, then yes. Lots of modern churches are non-denominational and quite relaxed. In fact, they are surprisingly similar to the entity being described in the article.
A commune Ayn Rand could love.
Having known all three partners myself for 5 years I am pretty confident they're just trying to be founder friendly. IMO it is intended to give a 30,000 ft view of the general terms and it clearly says it's bilaterally non-binding; so if you breached the no-shop clause and they smacked you with their legal bill you could technically tell them to take a hike. The sheet refers to their "standard legal document" being the actual deal document so you can assume things are less ambiguous there.
Ahh, not so much games for me but play as in the opposite of work. Things like play as in "play with my grandchildren" or "play with my dog" or even hacking can be seen as play "play with my arduino ....ooh BLINKENLIGHTS!"
Correct. A unit test is a defect removal mechanism. What these faults needed was a defect prevention mechanism. One of those mechanisms is Design/Code reviews.

With all the emphasis on testing and TDD, etc, I get the feeling that reviews are getting the shaft. They are both important, for different reasons.
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Switched from Microsoft products in 1999, back when Palladium started. That was offensive enough. This is downright disgusting.

I always ask co-workers how much liberty Windows users are willing to sacrifice to continue using their systems. Seems even I underestimated with Windows 10.
Sure, but the OP posted it without any kind of story or explanation. I'm glad the creator noticed it and was able to fill us in.
I agree. I was quite shocked myself and I also found the descriptions vague. I wasn't even sure what programs are accessing the data.

I really think iOS is the only OS has really done permissions right on the 3rd party level and on the OS level.
"If" is definitely a word I take to the bank.
One would have to really stretch to get the lazy implication. America is different. That's factual. America does (or did) have a culture of hard work and innovation. I'm proud of this and don't make any attempt to hide that. That says nothing about other people.

I did take a moment to read the complaints in your profile and have some kind of idea that you might be susceptible to feeling abuse from public forums and have very rigid ideas of how people should behave in them. I encourage a bit more flexibility in your thinking. Again, not trolling. That accusation is way off base (and in fact, a trolling behavior itself). You really should apologize.
There is very little anonymity in the real world in terms of computing at this point. You would have to be extremely careful to truly mask any electronic media being used as any kind of communication platform, online or offline.
This looks amazing! The amount of time I spend writing short python scripts to manipulate data in simple ways is way too big, and this looks like it might fit my needs precisely. Thank you for creating this.
Being good to people makes me feel good.
I think you're thinking of the Melissa virus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus) which did indeed get tracked back to its author like that.
Can you share that script?
Thank you, my wife and I would love that, especially as just on the edge of the map is the apartment we rented on AirBNB.

There's no PM facility on HN, but please do get in touch at dan@danellis.me for my address and let me know the best way to pay you.
A linux distro with sane defaults, robust wine scripts, and no personal information compromises, that is easy to install, could take over the world.

I vote KaOS as the base: http://kaosx.us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Atlas_Shrugged_and_Ob...

In 1951 Rand moved from Los Angeles to New York City, where she gathered a group of these admirers around her. This group (jokingly designated "The Collective") included future Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
[Off Topic] - did he have his bottom button done at https://youtu.be/xNzXze5Yza8?t=41 ? :)
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Absolutely nothing there was surprising. The worst thing is that if a library uses const, you have to use it too.
The bald-faced entitlement that has spouted from the mouths of non-techy friends and acquaintances has embarrassed me. I try to hold on to the assumption that they are outliers :(
Have you run into any articles that detail exactly what is captured and sent off of your computer? Has Microsoft release more than just a little bit of information on what they use that info for?

Not just what the setting screen and privacy policy say.
> Why? Or, is it just better to start coding and figure it all out on the fly?

Yes it is. Write code towards the solution and see what it leads you. Then you might get into a "writers block" and can't decide whether data structure A or B is best. So you think about it some, decide which one you like and write more code. Then you might find out that you thought A was best but it turns out B was better. So you refactor your code base, write some more code and so on.
Is it preferable to accept a tiny slice of a large pie, or decide pre-emptively not to put the pie in the oven?

I've been baffled by the contracts that artists sign with major labels, but you have to remember that artists are confronted with a difficult choice. If they don't accept these ridiculous deals, how do they achieve the mainstream recognition required to be able to live off their craft?

Society should provide basic resources to people so that they can work less and pursue music as a serious hobby without cutting into their food supply.
Regarding performance: An important question would be how is the target machine code being emulated. From the scarce information we have so far, I think they are using an interpreter, which would be too slow for most applications. With a JIT (or even AOT) compiler this scenario would be more realistic.

Then, there is the question of what does Unicorn Engine do at user-level with instructions like syscall on x86_64 or sc in ppc64. I see no references to any of this in the site. If your target is "high-level emulating" the underlying operating system (like WINE does), being able to specify native handlers for such instructions is a must.

If both conditions are satisfied then it should be doable for most applications: Load the binary, replace calls to dynamically linked system libraries with native implementations that match the specifications (on undocumented systems this means lots of reverse engineering) and ensure that any syscall/sc/etc. instruction results in a behaviour the application expects. From here you could take care of the rest yourself: Multiple threads could be handled by multiple host threads running each a Unicorn Engine instance with separate CPU register states, but sharing the entire virtual address space. The target application's stdin/stdout could be redirected from the host's emulator stdin/stdout. And so on... :-)

Disclaimer: I'm just guessing what could be done if they provide a decent binary translator and the API cares about high-level-emulation. But I'm not sure if that's even a goal for them by looking at their site.
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The transformative event seems to be the EU environmental regulations (where prior to the change they were cost competitive without making investments).
You should try rephrasing that because the point you're making is not at all clear.
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I'm pretty sure a belief in the major parts of the bible are necessary, are they not? I mean, I thought the resurrection of christ was the whole point of anything describable as Christianity?

Without that, well is that 'church' ?
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> Ok, but then what happens when a ship gets too old to use if not scrapped?

The old fashioned way is to scuttle a ship.

I would guess that scuttling a ship so that it descends into a deep sea trench would have minimal environmental impact. Any toxins would be contained by the immense pressure.
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The paradox assumes there are infinite stars that have existed for infinite time:

> If the universe is static, homogeneous at a large scale, and populated by an infinite number of stars

You're assuming an infinite number of stars sprang into existence a finite amount of time ago.
More about that here with the 1998 match between the Williams sisters and Braasch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sexes_(tennis)

They claimed being able to beat anybody ranked 200 or lower in Men's tennis and lost to someone ranked 203rd.

The difference dimorphism makes is enormous.
Does anyone know of any younger, modern versions of these institutions?
Actually, I believe they are highly profitable in the more mature markets. Overall they're losing money, but that's because they are expanding at an incredibly rapid rate.

I guess a potential problem will be if the smaller markets they are expanding into now don't turn out to be as profitable as the early ones once they mature.
Can you please provide some examples where this really becomes a problem, so I can better understand what you mean?
I can tell if you are on a cellphone network.
Microsoft is a business. Why would it serve their interests to make all this opt-out by default?
I'd love to see someone with land exempt from regulations (e.g. the federal government) declare:

1) Vibrant tech/startup sector is critical to US national security and economic prosperity

2) SFBA is critical to the success of US tech/startups

3) Housing costs are a major impediment to tech/startups

4) High-density housing to be constructed on federal land (and/or federal preemption used to build housing elsewhere).

Doing this as a private entity would be a bit more interesting -- I wonder what happens if you either drop serious dollars to take over one of the smaller towns in the Bay Area (campaigning and/or moving people into high density housing for a while to get residency to vote).

Straight civil disobedience (unpermitted live work) also happens, but doing it at the scale needed would be a bit more challenging. Probably crazy libertarian fantasy to build a supertall in downtown SF on your own land in direct defiance of the local government, unless you're state/federal.
It sounds to me like you are completely disregarding the possibility that this might have, in fact, been perfectly common behavior.
Not so long ago people were concerned about CPU id. http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i224/s99/GroupJ/whitepap...
Spotify, Skype before microsoft, Blizzard... It's not all that uncommon and seriously for updates this is not a bad thing.

It will share between your machines on your local network and SAVE you bandwidth.
I'm pretty interested in the discussion around React and CSS but can't bear tech over audio or video. Anyone got a good link to something readable?
What kinds of disorders and diseases will you be testing for?

Will your tests be available direct-to-consumer, or will patients have to go through health provider gatekeeping?
Bioinformatician here. When you say RNA testing, you mean RNA-seq? Gene expression? If yes, then do you think blood samples will be enough to make these type of diagnosis? I imagine you will probably need tissue specific samples to make some of these disease predictions.
Hey Dave, how does RNA sequencing work for an individual customer? Do you plan to have something like the 23andMe collection kit?

In my understanding human cells have may different types of RNA, which one are you sequencing?
That's it! Thanks for the reminder.
All I can see is that you've never needed to debug problems with DNS.
There are some pretty serious privacy issues with this extension.

There should be a way to block domains that you don't want searched, otherwise secret URLs such as youtube private links, google docs, etc are exposed. One scary thing is you are potentially exposing them to third parties, by searching reddit, HN, and google.

This is a pretty good example of why people need to be wary of chrome extensions they install. They sit in an advantageous position where violating things like SOP, CSP Rules (depending on the browser) and more is okay by using the background page.
or will patients have to go through evil health provider gatekeeping?

FTFY :)
Funny, the plugin works on every website that I've tested except for just one case - the plugins own homepage ;-)
> Any insights on why companies doing ship breaking wouldn't invest at least some of the returns into their own facilities?

> people don't figure out ways to do it better/more efficiently/safer?

From the article, it sounds like cost is really the only competitive advantage the Southeast Asian shipbreakers have.

The capital and maintenance expense of facility upgrades would probably destroy any (cost-based) competitive advantage. Labor is really, REALLY cheap in India. The corresponding economic gap is actually a big catch-22 insofar as investing in automation, but that's a discussion for another time...
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It will be impossible to know and/or verify what they're actually sending. Even if they told us exactly what the data contains, though, who will believe them?

Besides, we already know what they'll say: they'll use it for debugging and troubleshooting, to make the products better, and to enhance your user experience. In certain circumstances, they may share the data -- but only with their trusted partners, of course. In no way, however, will they use it for anything "evil".
So its the systemd developers' fault that this is not a very good list of issues?
Dunno if you've tried a gopher client recently; but it's shocking how much faster than the web it is... (though still holds nothing on a local mailbox or news spool).
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This looks really good, will give it a spin. Thanks for the heads up!
I think there comes a point beyond which planning can be used to avoid having the purity of your ideas corrupted by the inevitable messiness of their implementation. I've recognized it in myself, at least.

The only thing I can suggest is that you put your notes aside, set up a repo, branch and just write some code.
Well... what you quote sounds convincing with respects to your argument. I don't know the novels well enough to dispute, however.
You're looking at this completely wrong.

Imagine you write a song. I take that song and I turn it in to a bunch of holes punched in a big long reel of paper. Now I put that reel in to a specially designed piano that will read the sequence of holes and use it to trigger notes. Now I sell that roll of punched holes. Do I need to give you any money?

Imagine you write a song. I take that song and I record it on to thin plastic disc. I sell these plastic discs. Do I need to give you any money?

Imagine you write a song. Someone else records it and I play that recording over a radio broadcast. I sell spots in the broadcast to advertisers and make a profit. Do I need to give you any money?

Imagine you write a song. Someone else records it and puts that song on a website I run. I sell spots on the website to advertisers and make a profit. Do I need to give you any money?

Imagine you write a song. Someone else records it and uploads it to their own website. They don't have ads. However, I have a website that indexes every other website on the Internet. I sell ads around the content that is returned in these search results, including your song. Do I need to give you any money?

This has nothing to do with supply and demand. It has everything to do with people like me making money off of things that people like you made and if that is or isn't how we expect a lawful and just society to work.
No. I do not believe society's treatment of women caused them to develop ovaries.
This is a stupid comparison, If thats the intention to compare it to how and what the internet is used for today.
get off the hate train. you want to hate Microsoft, you had best hate Google, Apple and many other companies out there
URL points to a page of gibberish text. Actually, the entire site seems to be filled with gibberish text. Some kind of SEO spam?

In any case, the subject in the title of the article was already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9955435
> we'd inexplicably get a crash in printf [..] The client in debug would print out the hashes of every content package the server told it to load, and apparently one of them (on this build) had a % in the hash. We couldn't figure out a reasonable fix for it, but #ifndef PS3 worked just fine until the next data build

Friends don't let friends printf(str).
That was a major concern of mine. You can set the Research mode to "Off" by default and check URLs on a case-by-case basis and still do custom searches. Admittedly, it takes some of the serendipity out of it, but it addresses your concern.

I considered (and was planning on) adding a "block URL" feature - but the issue of how to store those sensitive URLs (to block) came up. Because localStorage and sync storage in Chrome is not sandboxed or encrypted, the blocked list would be "in the open" to other extensions. Yes, you could hash the urls you'd hope to block, but then there would be no way to read that list back to the user at a later point in time, and slight mismatches in URL schemes would lead to an imperfect system. So simply toggling Research Mode and researching pages of interest is the best option, IMO.

I don't cache any personal info in localStorage or sync storage (which at least Chrome does not encrypt :< ). The api results are stored in a local variable within the scope of the extension. And the "history" is a hashed and padded blob.

This is also why I released it for both Chrome and FF, since some people assign different use cases to different browsers. The code is also public/open-source.
> If I needed to be on-call, I would follow Dan Geer's lead and use a pager.

And if you can't find a paging service you like, trust, or can afford, you can always (assuming you have an amateur radio license and don't intend to run a business using it) set up your own:

http://www.n5dux.com/ham/files/pdf/Ham%20Radio%20Paging-Putt...

http://aprs.org/aprs-messaging.html

http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/pager/plan.html
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I don't want to nitpick, but publicly addressable =/= publicly reachable. All (probably, I'm sure there are examples of it being done wrong) home routers that support IPv^ will include at least a basic firewall as well.
I actually think BJ and Frank are very similar in that their downfall was lack of training.

In BJ's case, being generally in poor shape much of the time, but mainly not focusing on his core talents and as you say, getting by on raw natural talent until that was no longer the case. The part that makes me so sad about BJ is, he was a once in a lifetime fighter, but there really aren't that many fights of his that are worth rewatching many times, really wish he would have stayed on top of his game for longer. I feel similarly about Nick Diaz - a good Diaz fight (ie vs: Lawler, Zaromskis, Santos) and a good BJ fight are just wonderful to watch.

In Frank's case, he just always gases early, often by the end of the first round. He's very talented but if you can't use that talent for much more than 3 rounds, you can't get too far.
Hi,

Great question.

We're developing tests around a recently discovered type of RNA called circular RNA. Tissue-specific circular RNAs are present in blood, and so that's how it's possible to use a blood test instead of having to go to tissue like you would with traditional mRNA-seq.
"Now, I think the incentive structures for FOSS projects are a little different such that the FOSS environment isn't going to converge on the idea of collecting such data. But clearly, throw any sort of system that wants to make money into the mix, coupled with the fact that users just refuse to pay for software anymore, and every giganto corp from Mozilla to Canonical are going to independently come to the same conclusion of collecting this sort of data."

Making money from either advertising or additional services are definitely incentives.

The other one worth mentioning is that trying to make platforms popular with users drives integrating on-line services as well as using more information from the user to deliver advanced services. At the moment local applications are at a disadvantage compared to on-line ones because they don't have as much data to do clever things with: Gmail vs Thunderbird is a good example. General users want the convenience of services like digital assistants - and while some of it can be done with local processing, some cannot.
That day has come and gone thanks to other companies and closed ecosystems like Apple