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null | null | The girls' scores dropped <i>half as much</i> as the boys' rose.<p>Similar 'good' numbers for both, much worse 'bad' numbers for boys. | null | Dylan16807 | null | 1,462,694,899 | 2016-05-08 08:08:19 UTC | comment | 11,653,165 | 11,650,018 | null | null | null |
null | null | 1. They have no say in the API so NV would just steer the API in ways to make sure it would be suboptimal on AMD hardware.<p>2. It's not just the API. It's the entire SDK that has NV specific hooks that AMD can't tap into | null | robbies | null | 1,462,638,343 | 2016-05-07 16:25:43 UTC | comment | 11,650,176 | 11,650,019 | null | null | null |
null | null | Alternatively they could make their own API, independent from OpenCL. I have written a small amount in each languages (a rainbow table generator), and found the CUDA version much more pleasant to use. CUDA made it really easy to get a good idea of the underlying hardware, and make architectural changes in order to make the code faster.<p>OpenCL (using an ATI card) was much harder to program, since the abstraction level was much higher. Writing two separate kernels and have them each be faster than a generic version that ends up compromising for compatibility.<p>The OpenCL one ended up being faster, but I suspect that's due to ATI hardware being superior at the time. | null | saturncoleus | null | 1,462,641,551 | 2016-05-07 17:19:11 UTC | comment | 11,650,407 | 11,650,019 | null | null | null |
null | null | They do. They have a retargeting compiler. It's performance sucks. | null | maaku | null | 1,462,641,652 | 2016-05-07 17:20:52 UTC | comment | 11,650,418 | 11,650,019 | null | null | null |
null | null | They are working on something like that - <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/218092-amds-boltzmann-initiative-targets-the-high-performance-computing-market" rel="nofollow">http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/218092-amds-boltzmann-ini...</a><p>The current versions only work with a couple of latest AMD chips though. And CUDA is just one part of it, they have nothing equivalent to CuDNN | null | dharma1 | null | 1,462,649,290 | 2016-05-07 19:28:10 UTC | comment | 11,650,988 | 11,650,019 | null | null | null |
null | null | <p><pre><code> This seems both unjust and irrational. </code></pre> Why? As a rule of thumb, humans start thinking about something when it doesn't work for them. And for gays in particular, the traditional structuring of gender roles has been deeply problematic, indeed even today there are many countries where gay sex is illegal. So it's no surprise that homosexuals have though more deeply about gender and its relationship with sexuality than those for whom it works.<p>Foucault is intersting. In contrast, Butler's work is weak. She really doesn't have a meaningful handle on the relationship between sex and gender. | null | mafribe | null | 1,462,637,519 | 2016-05-07 16:11:59 UTC | comment | 11,650,112 | 11,650,020 | null | null | null |
null | null | > Your second paragraph seems to be suggesting that Foucault and Butler's idea is wrong because of their sexual orientation.<p>That's not how I read it. I read it as, Foucault and Butler's idea is unproven because it's based off of their anecdotal experience rather than based off of any scientific evidence. | null | devishard | null | 1,462,637,799 | 2016-05-07 16:16:39 UTC | comment | 11,650,146 | 11,650,020 | null | null | null |
null | null | I don't see where GP claims that the idea is wrong: they're simply pointing out that it's a relatively recent distinction, which implies (reasonably, IMHO) that we likely don't understand it very well yet, or that it may ultimately not be a meaningful distinction to draw once we better understand the underlying mechanisms.<p>Perhaps near-future advances in genetics and neurology will expand our definition of biological sex to explain gender identity. In that case, our current sex vs. gender distinction would simply be another way of saying "we don't understand how this works yet". There's a lot of this "transitional stuff" in science history, where we have credible anecdotal evidence that our previous understanding is wrong but don't yet know how to coherently explain it. (See: Greek attempts to explain the nature of matter; the infamous cholera map by John Snow; etc.)<p>That doesn't make the "transitional stuff" wrong: an idea doesn't have to have solid theoretical underpinnings to have merit. It does, however, mean we should continue searching for an explanation. | null | candu | null | 1,462,659,307 | 2016-05-07 22:15:07 UTC | comment | 11,651,582 | 11,650,020 | null | null | null |
null | null | the same reason that SWATing is so effective. The cost of in-action is perceived too great to ignore even the vaguest threat. | null | kevinastone | null | 1,462,644,624 | 2016-05-07 18:10:24 UTC | comment | 11,650,654 | 11,650,023 | null | null | null |
null | null | I think the attempted underwear bomber was after Reid. Here's the thing though: if you're trying to set something on fire or storm the cockpit or some other actually undesired behavior, it's not going to be some routine in an airline manual that stops you. It's going to be all your seat neighbors who are going to physically stop you because you're obviously a threat.<p>The real problem is these wildly unqualified citizen-Paul(ine)-Blarts who saw on an episode of Criminal Minds that looking up and left while writing non-ASCII characters is an indicator of terrorist intent. She essentially pulled the fire alarm on a bunch of people because she's an idiot. What she did is functionally no different than calling in a false report about some random passenger on a plane that's about to take off. She should have to pay a fine for all the time and resources she wasted with her little ruse (I'm sure she felt very clever when she conceived it).<p>Imagine a Richard Reid scenario where some guy beats the piss out of his seat neighbor because he thinks he's trying to bomb the flight. If he's right, he's a hero (and he <i>should</i> be applauded for stopping a bombing). If he's wrong and the guy was just tying his shoes, he gets charged with assault. This is a good thing, because we don't want people seeing physical violence as a cost free option.<p>Being too dumb to tell the difference between an episode of 24 and your boring ass day is not a tolerated excuse to physically assault people. It shouldn't be tolerated as a reason to call in false alarms either. I'm sick of stupid people being able to inflict massive amounts of inconvenience and even degrees of suffering with no consequences for being wrong.<p>* I realize that stupid is perhaps an imprecise and mean choice of words, but I can't come up with a better explanation for adults who cannot appropriately assess the threat posed by a nerdy Italian guy writing in a notebook who doesn't want to talk to them. I get that calling people stupid isn't a way to make them smarter, and that it can have a negative developmental impact for younger kids to view things in a smart/stupid fixed-talent paradigm, but we need to somehow bring back some of the cultural rejection for acting like a goddamn idiot. I don't really care if she gets smarter (though that would be nice), I have lower aims. I want her to be afraid to be wrong because actions should have consequences. If there's no cost incurred to this person (actually, she'll probably be praised for her "vigilance" by people she respects) where do we draw the line? | null | BWStearns | null | 1,462,663,472 | 2016-05-07 23:24:32 UTC | comment | 11,651,838 | 11,650,023 | null | null | null |
null | null | It seems unlikely-- in order to be true, computer science majors would need to actually have <i>higher</i> income with degrees from less competitive schools. | null | lliiffee | null | 1,462,669,201 | 2016-05-08 01:00:01 UTC | comment | 11,652,110 | 11,650,026 | null | null | null |
null | null | It's not just an American thing, it's the concept of a "demonym" -- and there are official and unofficial demonyms. For example, the official demonym of Massachusetts is "Bay Stater," but everyone uses the far more popular "masshole." | null | lyyons | null | 1,462,746,050 | 2016-05-08 22:20:50 UTC | comment | 11,656,264 | 11,650,031 | null | null | null |
null | null | The site seems to be overloaded, use the cached version: <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fdpkingma.com%2F%3Fpage_id%3D483&oq=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fdpkingma.com%2F%3Fpage_id%3D483" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...</a> | null | SimonSelg | null | 1,462,639,119 | 2016-05-07 16:38:39 UTC | comment | 11,650,229 | 11,650,033 | null | null | null |
null | null | Is there a YouTube mirror? | null | visarga | null | 1,462,647,020 | 2016-05-07 18:50:20 UTC | comment | 11,650,821 | 11,650,033 | null | null | null |
null | null | The videos have very poor quality. The talks don't contain recording of the slides.<p>IMHO the only one worth watching and actually is interesting is the discussion panel. | null | ya3r | null | 1,462,649,332 | 2016-05-07 19:28:52 UTC | comment | 11,650,993 | 11,650,033 | null | null | null |
null | null | Facial recognition is really scary. This was recently demonstrated for Russia's Facebook, VKontakte, when a service appeared that let you look up people on that site by photo. So people started looking up the profiles of random subway passengers, outing sex workers to their families and friends, etc. | null | TazeTSchnitzel | null | 1,462,638,313 | 2016-05-07 16:25:13 UTC | comment | 11,650,174 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | "Facebook hoped to get the case thrown out on the grounds that its user agreement states any disputes should be governed solely by California law".<p>What about those people whose biometric data is being stored but don't have accounts of Facebook? | null | Esau | null | 1,462,641,906 | 2016-05-07 17:25:06 UTC | comment | 11,650,432 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | If you don't want your face to be recognized, you can sometimes prevent it from being detected in the first place.<p>Our research group recently looked into how to hide from Facebook's face detector. If you're uploading photos, adding white bars around the eyes of the subjects in the photo is the best way to prevent Facebook from finding the face. However, if you're out and about in the real world, even scarves and masks aren't enough--facebook sometimes finds these occluded faces too. There aren't very many easy answers. <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04504" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04504</a> | null | gcr | null | 1,462,642,088 | 2016-05-07 17:28:08 UTC | comment | 11,650,444 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | To be clear: the article claims that Facebook can recognize anyone just by seeing them. They haven't demonstrated this ability.<p>It's far easier to judge who's in your picture among your 20 closest friends than it is to find that face among all two billion Facebook users.<p>State of the art recognition systems still have a few orders of magnitude of accuracy improvements to go before they can solve that problem.<p>See the Iarpa Janus project for some recent government+academic-sponsored work on this front: <a href="http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/facechallenges.cfm" rel="nofollow">http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/facechallenges.cfm</a> The task is to recognize terrorists in airport surveillance pictures and such. | null | gcr | null | 1,462,642,476 | 2016-05-07 17:34:36 UTC | comment | 11,650,479 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | I attended a talk by Stallman last year and he implored anyone who took a picture of him not to post it on Facebook. Now I can see why. | null | KhalilK | null | 1,462,643,361 | 2016-05-07 17:49:21 UTC | comment | 11,650,554 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | To be honest, most of these are surface level traits of an individual. There are deeper traits which go much more personal, and have even been touched on in popular culture in recent times, like in the new James Bond movie (think gait recognition). But even gait, although highly individual, is still touching the surface. I was thinking of 'trimming the bloom filter' to such a degree that we can recognize not only a person on sight, but by cue words, and individual dictionaries alone.<p>It is no secret that our world is divided by language alone, so then as analysts we can attach certain words to certain behaviors, and this has been proven countless times to expose a person. If I speak English I probably respond in the same way to 'pizza'. Pizza means food, and therefore pizza emotes a pleasure response. But 'bomb' and other words must decide a different response then?<p>Marketers have copped this early on and frequently use talismanic phrases to elicit positive responses to products, so why not Facebook, and any other tech harvester of data such as Google, et al? Last time I checked it is not a crime to elicit responses using personal, and individualized key-phrases. | null | crisisactor | null | 1,462,645,476 | 2016-05-07 18:24:36 UTC | comment | 11,650,710 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | Can you obfuscate your "faceprint" by tagging a few other people as you? | null | Jill_the_Pill | null | 1,462,646,237 | 2016-05-07 18:37:17 UTC | comment | 11,650,759 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | I think technologists need to help the public understand how if they are going to continue to fully integrate technology in assisting with their lives, they will be moving closer to a "privacy free" future.<p>The trade-off between having tailored services and "smart" systems is privacy from machine systems.<p>The technology community pines for futuristic technology like amazing machine personal assistants, forgetting that human personal assistants (see: professional executive secretaries) know basically everything about the person they are assisting. | null | AndrewKemendo | null | 1,462,648,510 | 2016-05-07 19:15:10 UTC | comment | 11,650,929 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | One of the exact reasons I never used the data mining center known as facebook, creepy. The things You can do with such data is legion. | null | Mendenhall | null | 1,462,648,642 | 2016-05-07 19:17:22 UTC | comment | 11,650,931 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | I had the strangest interaction with the Messenger app a few months ago.<p>I was spending time with friends, and I took a few pictures of all of us (didn't send them through either FB or Messenger). A few hours later, messenger popped up a notification telling me something along the lines of "Hey, I see you took pictures today of <friend>. Want to send them to her?"<p>Made me feel incredibly creeped out that FB would take my photos and (presumably upload and) analyze them even when I hadn't given them to FB. | null | mosquito242 | null | 1,462,649,285 | 2016-05-07 19:28:05 UTC | comment | 11,650,986 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | Stop fighting it, just stop using it. | null | fiatjaf | null | 1,462,649,305 | 2016-05-07 19:28:25 UTC | comment | 11,650,990 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | null | null | null | null | 1,462,649,469 | 2016-05-07 19:31:09 UTC | comment | 11,651,003 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | Maybe photos should carry a "robots.txt"-like permissions tag explicitly banning social networks from using it, and a cryptographic watermark embedded in the picture that is hard to remove, so they are not tempted to delete the tag.Cameras (and apps) should auto-tag files if the user so wishes. | null | visarga | null | 1,462,650,203 | 2016-05-07 19:43:23 UTC | comment | 11,651,066 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | Humans have evolved for millions of years on the expectation that other people will recognize our faces. I'm sure we'll come up with a better solution than "file lawsuits to hopefully make computers recognizing our faces illegal". | null | powera | null | 1,462,650,299 | 2016-05-07 19:44:59 UTC | comment | 11,651,082 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | Facebook was great when it was a way to connect with close friends and people in your immediate community (ex. university) and see what to happening around you. Now thats it trying to evolve into this platform that targets you so that it can make an insane amount of ad revenue, it has become less and less worth it. Especially in respect to our privacy. | null | FreedomToCreate | null | 1,462,650,808 | 2016-05-07 19:53:28 UTC | comment | 11,651,118 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | Not merely will it store biometric data, if you happen to use their Messenger to share photos, those photos will remain stored on their servers even after you've deleted the associated conversation. Facebook's disregard for privacy and content control for its users is the biggest problem with its platform by far. And with its latest profit reports, it's bound to get worse. | null | superobserver | null | 1,462,655,529 | 2016-05-07 21:12:09 UTC | comment | 11,651,371 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | Assuming that the concentration and mining of huge personal datasets is inevitable, can we design systems (other than law) that prevent these data to be misused? | null | huevosabio | null | 1,462,660,519 | 2016-05-07 22:35:19 UTC | comment | 11,651,657 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | Photos permission access is too granular on iOS -- they should add a third access state for photos that grants an app permission to "write new photos to photo album, but prevents an app from scraping the photos library" ... Or maybe that should be the behavior of the current permission grant ... | null | breatheoften | null | 1,462,679,877 | 2016-05-08 03:57:57 UTC | comment | 11,652,541 | 11,650,035 | null | null | null |
null | null | Hm, I can't edit my comment anymore, but French wiktionary claims that French "livre" (meaning pound) comes from the Latin word for the measure that weighed about as much as a book. ("livre" also means "book" in French).<p>I guess "lb." and French "livre" (meaning pound) aren't necessarily related. More likely: wiktionary could be full of shit, meaning I was wrong. | null | umanwizard | null | 1,462,644,286 | 2016-05-07 18:04:46 UTC | comment | 11,650,625 | 11,650,037 | null | null | null |
null | null | What are =you= talking about? Tesla's manufacturing capabilities are far more modern and informed by Silicon Valley. Electronic cars (outside the Model X) have far fewer parts and are substantially less complex than combustion engine. Tesla has =far= better software development capabilities which is becoming much more important. Tesla has a much simpler distribution network and much closer contact with users. etc, etc, etc. It's hard to make much of a comparison. | null | pbreit | null | 1,462,642,419 | 2016-05-07 17:33:39 UTC | comment | 11,650,473 | 11,650,038 | null | null | null |
null | null | This. How are these devices not running on some sort of hardened OS seen in airplanes and automotive? Medical applications <i>are</i> mission critical (or some variant) and should have same (or better!) certification procedures set up for correctness and security. | null | Dwolb | null | 1,462,640,264 | 2016-05-07 16:57:44 UTC | comment | 11,650,313 | 11,650,039 | null | null | null |
null | null | First of all: software development 101. Is WSL even remotely feature-complete? So let's not call it a beta.<p>I'm not sure why you guys have such a hard-on for Redis, but... whatever. It is clean code that compiles on old toolsets. Much other code does not. Keep rocking those Redis demos, setting and getting values is <i>fascinating</i>. :)<p>Debating distros is pointless but I have noticed that Ruby (and oddly, Microsoft folk) tend to land on Ubuntu. Fine, no big deal. But Trusty was a weird release for them -- and the Canonical packages sort of suck. It's mid-2016. How much C++14 support would you expect to get from installing build-essentials? Shouldn't it compile code I'm writing in Visual Studio 2013? Would you expect to have Python 3.5 available? Would you expect to be able to type "apt-get install ffmpeg"? For various reasons these basic things do not work on Trusty. And then you made it worse by shipping bits that didn't even handle apt-get properly.<p>I'm not anti-Ubuntu other than to point out every bag o' bits reaches a point in its lifecycle where it's a total pain in the ass to set up a modern development environment. Trusty is past that point. It's an unfortunate thing to launch with. Not being able to move forward is also unfortunate. Don't punt on that, trust me. If WSL actually worked, people would be screaming about that instead of all these noise bugs. You'll see.<p>If you want to triage this, get Canonical to offer some more modern packages. Again, I'm not sure why Microsoft hopped into bed with Canonical (especially on the Azure/container side)... but ok. Now get them to ease some pain. I shouldn't have to install a half-dozen shady PPAs to try the stuff that hits the HN homepage every day.<p>And I truly despise this "let's see what the community wants" fake project management technique. You know damn well what features you need to implement. You knew damn well what C99 stuff was needed 10 years ago. "Send us a note if it doesn't work" is lazy, shortsighted and damaging to all parties. It's community management, not engineering. Project Management via squeaky wheel is just stupid in 2016. It didn't work prioritizing C99 features and it's a particularly stupid way to implement a shim library for Linux userspace. This is Open development done wrong. | null | tacos | null | 1,462,649,566 | 2016-05-07 19:32:46 UTC | comment | 11,651,013 | 11,650,040 | null | null | null |
null | null | Is there any way to restore Bash on Windows to its factory settings as it were?<p>I've enjoyed playing around with it, although I will echo what others are saying in that it certainly does still seem rather broken.<p>It would be nice to have a reset switch of some sort for when it breaks. | null | jmkni | null | 1,462,709,911 | 2016-05-08 12:18:31 UTC | comment | 11,653,718 | 11,650,040 | null | null | null |
null | null | Hm Im an American (and a Nerd) and that doesn't sound at all right to me. The N word is used to denigrate anyone who does well academically. Its used to shore up self-image for those that don't do well I imagine - "Sure Joe is great at this subject but that's Nerdy so Ha! I'm superior to him" There was never any need to brag, to be called a Nerd. Just score well, and the bullies would whisper (and yell in the hall) Nerd! | null | JoeAltmaier | null | 1,462,637,335 | 2016-05-07 16:08:55 UTC | comment | 11,650,099 | 11,650,041 | null | null | null |
null | null | Data wrangling -- Trifacta, Tamr, etc. productized this so you don't need a consulting army. | null | lmeyerov | null | 1,462,639,721 | 2016-05-07 16:48:41 UTC | comment | 11,650,271 | 11,650,048 | null | null | null |
null | null | Meh. I think I feel what you do too. I do think everyone needs thicker skin and that we'd all be better if we did. However, just because we can lash out, and others can take a lashing, I think it's more effective to kindly point out someone's absurdity. They may have yelled first, if you yell back, no one can hear amongst all the noise. Bullying, regardless of what side one is on, is always a bad way to try and shut someone down. I don't believe the end justify the means. | null | jrs235 | null | 1,462,646,093 | 2016-05-07 18:34:53 UTC | comment | 11,650,749 | 11,650,050 | null | null | null |
null | null | Your post amounts to "I'm glad these idiots found a voice, now that they finally affect us all, we can do something about it". But your assumption that they affect us all equally is not supported by this story, otherwise all passengers on that plane would have been taken off and screened by police.<p>I think you fail to realize that these idiots affect mainly minorities, as that is how uneducated minds work: they can't see past their own identity (and by the power of numbers, most idiots are white). So what you're effectively saying is "I'm okay with idiots harrassing minorities".<p>(edit to add an unwarranted disclaimer: by "idiot", I'm not referring to the lady in the original story, but to the OP's description of the "tragically ignorant, in need of raising their bar") | null | tremon | null | 1,462,646,956 | 2016-05-07 18:49:16 UTC | comment | 11,650,815 | 11,650,051 | null | null | null |
null | null | Agree, but what <i>is</i> true self-hosted these days anyway? You'd need an Internet connection? Power? Did you build your own computer? I can go on... :)<p>Compared to using an A/B testing service like VWO or Optimizely, I think this fits in the self-hosted category.<p>EDIT: the blog post actually mentions a few viable alternatives to AWS Lambda. It is developed primarily with AWS Lambda in mind, but porting it to another platform is actually trivial. | null | gingerlime | null | 1,462,637,799 | 2016-05-07 16:16:39 UTC | comment | 11,650,145 | 11,650,052 | null | null | null |
null | null | That happens approximately every 8 years. | null | matt_wulfeck | null | 1,462,647,561 | 2016-05-07 18:59:21 UTC | comment | 11,650,869 | 11,650,055 | null | null | null |
null | null | Prostitution doesn't stop being prostitution just because you accept a lower rate. If it's prostitution to take the highest paying job, it's prostitution to take any pay at all.<p>There are certainly other factors to consider than just salary, but to dismiss that consideration as "prostitution" is absurd. Money may not buy happiness, but it buys everything else. I'm a big fan of food, clothing, and shelter, all of which money can buy in abundance.<p>But I was lucky to pick a field with high pay and lots of good employers, so I have the luxury of choosing both. | null | dpark | null | 1,462,642,120 | 2016-05-07 17:28:40 UTC | comment | 11,650,446 | 11,650,058 | null | null | null |
null | null | I don't even know how you think that's related to this topic. | null | jacalata | null | 1,462,655,295 | 2016-05-07 21:08:15 UTC | comment | 11,651,359 | 11,650,059 | null | null | null |
null | null | Of course. But you may also correctly presume that I'll question why this would cost US$100/m for a "dev" offering. Considering what I can get for that from the other incumbents. | null | ageofwant | null | 1,462,637,346 | 2016-05-07 16:09:06 UTC | comment | 11,650,100 | 11,650,061 | null | null | null |
null | null | I dunno, free failover is pretty enticing. But obviously one can just buy some GKE. | null | ownagefool | null | 1,462,644,239 | 2016-05-07 18:03:59 UTC | comment | 11,650,617 | 11,650,061 | null | null | null |
null | null | Sadly, he's right.<p>Most people have never experienced a desire to do a bunch of math. They don't get it. They don't understand the need to concentrate or why one might voluntarily subject oneself to math. It's strange behavior. For some people it is also intellectually threatening; people don't react well to things that could make them feel stupid.<p>She may also be used to having men nearly always willing to chat with her. The fact that he is unwilling is strange and possibly insulting.<p>She is likely an extrovert, and expects it of others. Social interaction is expected. She expects others to enjoy what she herself enjoys; why would you not? Of course people want to chat! | null | burfog | null | 1,462,647,372 | 2016-05-07 18:56:12 UTC | comment | 11,650,851 | 11,650,062 | null | null | null |
null | null | Rather than confront the people who are describing the (negative) consequences of your way of thinking, you instead disregard their shared commentary as being off-topic. A class act. You hope your logic will live on, yet you choose to ignore its contradictions. | null | ignoramceisblis | null | 1,462,650,682 | 2016-05-07 19:51:22 UTC | comment | 11,651,109 | 11,650,065 | null | null | null |
null | null | If you are prescribed 60x80mg monthly, you could sell them for $2,400 per month quite easily. Not a bad ROI on a $20 co-pay. | null | 55555 | null | 1,462,656,983 | 2016-05-07 21:36:23 UTC | comment | 11,651,443 | 11,650,067 | null | null | null |
null | null | Hah. I'm sure they'll do it just after they finally open up iMessage. | null | untog | null | 1,462,637,908 | 2016-05-07 16:18:28 UTC | comment | 11,650,153 | 11,650,069 | null | null | null |
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null | null | "If you're going to say something radical, make sure you wear a suit" | null | RobertKerans | null | 1,462,643,885 | 2016-05-07 17:58:05 UTC | comment | 11,650,595 | 11,650,073 | null | null | null |
null | null | You can't really escape it. For the last 8 years it was economic stagnation for the vast majority. For a small minority - they were intermediaries in giving corporate money to landlords - talked with a london based friend today - no matter how much you make the rent increases absorb any rise in income and you always have 500 GBP at the end of the month as disposable. And we have a select few that won big.<p>Right now every demographic is afraid and insecure for variety of reasons and they wrongly see the November election as crucial. So partisanship is all they have left to express their frustration and anger. So it becomes omnipresent. | null | venomsnake | null | 1,462,638,654 | 2016-05-07 16:30:54 UTC | comment | 11,650,204 | 11,650,075 | null | null | null |
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null | null | As mentioned elsewhere it was just parts. Installation of grid tie systems isn't hard but does have a number of building code things you have to follow (at least in California). At the time we did the install my wife took a solar installer's course which went over the current code.<p>I can recommend that as a plan of action, find a local group offering job training as a solar installer and take it. Then using that knowledge you can design an installation that meets your local code. | null | ChuckMcM | null | 1,462,639,795 | 2016-05-07 16:49:55 UTC | comment | 11,650,278 | 11,650,079 | null | null | null |
null | null | I'd be down. I'm at Pinterest (Brannan St in San Francisco). | null | ffumarola | null | 1,462,901,210 | 2016-05-10 17:26:50 UTC | comment | 11,668,904 | 11,650,081 | null | null | null |
null | null | Looks like you'll be in Silicon Valley on May 19: come hang out at the startup fair, you'll meet a lot of founders. The fair itself is free (you only need to buy a ticket for the conference that is inside, but everyone you'll meet will come out at some point :-) --> <a href="http://thestartupconference.com/tips-for-first-time-attendees/" rel="nofollow">http://thestartupconference.com/tips-for-first-time-attendee...</a><p>Redwood City is easy to reach, there's a caltrain stop right next to where the fair is taking place. | null | alain94040 | null | 1,462,651,750 | 2016-05-07 20:09:10 UTC | comment | 11,651,174 | 11,650,081 | null | null | null |
null | null | > How come we could find that evidence for all sorts of people, up to and including CEOs, after the S&L crisis?<p>The perspective of Bill Black, senior regulator and litigator during the S&L crisis:<p>"So at the peak of the savings and loans crisis — again, one-seventieth the size of this crisis — of those 2,300 total FBI agents, 1,000 of them were working on just one industry, the savings and loan industry, to produce that incredible wave of success that we had. As recently as fiscal year 2007, there were only 120 FBI agents assigned to mortgage fraud, and that’s despite the fact that the FBI itself, in September 2004, warned that there was an epidemic of mortgage fraud — ‘epidemic’ was their word — and predicted that it would cause a financial crisis — ‘crisis’ was their word — unless it was stopped."<p>"And what people don’t understand about the criminal justice system is there are roughly a million people employed in it — and of course, millions incarcerated in it. But of the million employees, 2,300 do elite white-collar investigations. And of those 2,300, you have to contrast that to the number of industries in the United States, which is over 1,300."<p><a href="http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/17/hundreds-of-wall-street-execs-went-to-prison-during-the-last-fraud-fueled-bank-crisis/" rel="nofollow">http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/17/hundreds-of-wall-street-exe...</a> | null | chishaku | null | 1,462,643,764 | 2016-05-07 17:56:04 UTC | comment | 11,650,586 | 11,650,082 | null | null | null |
null | null | In lieu of GPA I ask what kind of classes they took and what were their favorites. That list is a much better indicator, I think. It also lets you gauge what kinds of questions you can reasonably ask and the types of solutions that you can expect. If someone didn't have to study graph theory, they likely won't see a graph theoretic answer and you shouldn't as a question that leads heavily to that type of solution, and if someone studied a lot of combinatorics, you might see them bijecting your problem to other problems they've seen. | null | _asummers | null | 1,462,637,499 | 2016-05-07 16:11:39 UTC | comment | 11,650,110 | 11,650,086 | null | null | null |
null | null | Any idea when it'll be released? | null | tasnent | null | 1,462,655,499 | 2016-05-07 21:11:39 UTC | comment | 11,651,370 | 11,650,088 | null | null | null |
null | null | I'm pretty sure that big Pharma is scared to death that it's efficacy will prove to be very high. | null | gregd | null | 1,462,637,417 | 2016-05-07 16:10:17 UTC | comment | 11,650,104 | 11,650,091 | null | null | null |
null | null | So in France you have a similar system:<p>There are base prices for operations, doctor visits and the like. But doctors can choose to charge above this price (and mostly do so in places like Paris, where rent is too high to charge just base price).<p>Doctors have to declare whether or not they do this. So if you're a price-sensitive person you can lookup doctors "inside" or outside the system.<p>In my experience, there are longer waits for things like optomotrists, but that's more due to government-mandated limits on how many can graduate in a year than the price controls (that you can opt out of anyways).<p>General practitioners are fine though. Like "call for an appointment, show up the next day" sort of fine. And even in big cities I would always end up at a doctor charging "base" price. The visits would end up only costing something like 7 euros. | null | rtpg | null | 1,462,674,220 | 2016-05-08 02:23:40 UTC | comment | 11,652,323 | 11,650,092 | null | null | null |
null | null | I'd approve putting CEOs and hierarchies of managers in jail, I mean as long as jail is applied to the lowly anyway. I wonder what's the point where it starts hurting the economy. After all, having 6% of the black population, 2% of Hispanic and 1% of the white population [1] must have significant effect on the industry; but if managers faced a chance of an exit through jail, would it hurt the economy? After all, they don't "work", in the sense of transforming matter. They make decisions - if 1% were in jail, would we lack people who take decisions? People like the CEO of VW make unlawful decisions, killing millions. Would it give room to renew the elites, especially with people who have a sense of responsibility?<p>[1] <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p14.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p14.pdf</a> | null | tajen | null | 1,462,638,439 | 2016-05-07 16:27:19 UTC | comment | 11,650,185 | 11,650,093 | null | null | null |
null | null | You can't bring a case if you don't think you can get a jury conviction. It's unethical. Prosecutors brought two Bear Stearns executives to trial near the beginning of the financial crisis and they were acquitted. | null | rayiner | null | 1,462,642,036 | 2016-05-07 17:27:16 UTC | comment | 11,650,441 | 11,650,093 | null | null | null |
null | null | The top exec is going to have better legal representation and a lot more media attention than your average accused murderer, never mind your average person on a drugs or assault charge. | null | notahacker | null | 1,462,645,727 | 2016-05-07 18:28:47 UTC | comment | 11,650,724 | 11,650,093 | null | null | null |
null | null | <p><pre><code> intersex is considered a very normal </code></pre> To a quantitative biologist, maybe. But that's the wrong point of reference, as they don't make mainstream culture.<p>Sexual reproduction so as to perpetuate humanity is the single most important function a society executes. All human culture directly or indirectly relates to this task. One of the key tasks in this context is the choice of partner(s) whom to reproduce with. Alas, not any two humans can reproduce together. Indeed, an exact determination who can successfully reproduce with whom is still not possible in 2016, although we are much better at this task than say 1000 years ago.<p>Given that we can't predict mate compatibility perfectly, humanity needs <i>heuristics</i> to make this decision efficiently. The following heuristics are being used in practise:<p>- Divide humans into two, male and female, based on the shape of their genitalia.<p>- Have sex with members of the opposite group.<p>Humans use additional heuristics for deciding with whom to mate, e.g. social status, age, but the male/female binary is by a large margin the most important.<p>As you correctly point out, not all humans neatly fall into the genital-shape based classification between. But it doesn't matter, because the heuristic works so well that humans can reproduce successfully by ignoring those outliers. That means outliers must be infrequent enough (say > 99% fit the binary).<p>I can't overemphasise this: the heuristic has been <i>extremely successful</i>.<p>The very concept <i>intersex</i> makes sense only in contradistinction from binary normalcy. To see this, consider the fact that most humans have 10 fingers, but not all. Yet, there is no socially relevant concept of 'interhanded' people, no pressure groups, nobody claims to have been born with the wrong number of fingers, no finger reassignment surgery etc. That's because the number of fingers is not all that important.<p>In the future we might have a refined classification, as our understanding of human reproduction has improved immeasurably in the last century. But note that a finer classification still relates to biological facts about human bodies. It would probably be something along the lines of<p>- Can give birth to children, i.e. falls in the category woman, despite non-standard genitalia.<p>- Can father children, i.e. falls in the category man, despite non-standard genitalia.<p>- Can neither father children, nor give birth to children.<p>In other words, it would be a refinement of the male/female binary. | null | mafribe | null | 1,462,639,885 | 2016-05-07 16:51:25 UTC | comment | 11,650,286 | 11,650,098 | null | null | null |
null | null | How did the bullies know Joe did well if he didn't brag? | null | meddlepal | null | 1,462,637,588 | 2016-05-07 16:13:08 UTC | comment | 11,650,122 | 11,650,099 | null | null | null |
null | null | Actually this is the "dork" vs. "nerd" distinction. People now self-identify as "nerd" as self-aggrandizing (annoying actual nerds[1]). Being called a Dork has always been an insult and pejorative. In my understanding, a Dork is a Nerd, but a Nerd is not necessarily a Dork -- unless so proclaimed by one or more so-called bullies.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJyMT4ZVQEc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJyMT4ZVQEc</a> | null | eplanit | null | 1,462,642,287 | 2016-05-07 17:31:27 UTC | comment | 11,650,458 | 11,650,099 | null | null | null |
null | null | That might have been true 10,20 years ago. Don't know about now | null | sehr | null | 1,462,655,455 | 2016-05-07 21:10:55 UTC | comment | 11,651,368 | 11,650,099 | null | null | null |
null | null | When did HN become a place for trite generalizations? Do people really believe that every case of nerd shaming is the same? We can go on all day about school-teasing name-calling. | null | paavokoya | null | 1,462,728,174 | 2016-05-08 17:22:54 UTC | comment | 11,654,791 | 11,650,099 | null | null | null |
null | null | You're referring to the pricing on Gondor (<a href="https://gondor.io/" rel="nofollow">https://gondor.io/</a>) which is not the same as Kel linked in the OP.<p>It appears that Gondor is a <i>managed</i> PaaS, which can justify the additional cost for businesses with capital. It is likely not intended for hobbyists. | null | minimaxir | null | 1,462,637,661 | 2016-05-07 16:14:21 UTC | comment | 11,650,130 | 11,650,100 | null | null | null |
null | null | We are long past a point where there needs to be some regulatory intervention regarding the authority of pilots to deplane people at the whims of bigoted passengers. | null | tptacek | null | 1,462,640,714 | 2016-05-07 17:05:14 UTC | comment | 11,650,347 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | He even looks italian. | null | return0 | null | 1,462,640,847 | 2016-05-07 17:07:27 UTC | comment | 11,650,360 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | "He laughed because those scribbles weren’t Arabic, or another foreign language, or even some special secret terrorist code. They were math." | null | ErikAugust | null | 1,462,641,278 | 2016-05-07 17:14:38 UTC | comment | 11,650,388 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | It's clear from the story that neither the stewardess, the pilot, nor the law enforcement agent thought he was an actual threat.<p>I'm guessing that there is a rule that if a passenger reports a suspicious person, then the plane must be held and law enforcement must be notified. Fortunately, at that point common sense was allowed to take over, rather than spiraling into multiple agencies mindlessly following bad procedures. | null | danielvf | null | 1,462,642,102 | 2016-05-07 17:28:22 UTC | comment | 11,650,445 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | "She decided to try out some small talk.<p>Is Syracuse home? She asked.<p>No, he replied curtly."<p>Hoax | null | cavisne | null | 1,462,642,141 | 2016-05-07 17:29:01 UTC | comment | 11,650,447 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | "Perhaps she couldn’t differentiate between differential equations and Arabic."<p>A math class could've avoided all this, though obviously wouldn't fix the root cause. | null | BlackJack | null | 1,462,642,404 | 2016-05-07 17:33:24 UTC | comment | 11,650,471 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | Kind of a disppointing story. The tl;dr:<p>The woman had indeed initially told the crew she was sick, but when she deplaned she disclosed that the reason she was feeling ill was her concern about the behavior of her seatmate. At that time, she requested to be rebooked on another flight. The crew then called for security personnel, who interviewed Menzio and determined him not to be a “credible threat.” | null | c3534l | null | 1,462,642,774 | 2016-05-07 17:39:34 UTC | comment | 11,650,497 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | ...if it was Arabic script, and not math, would have it been a legitimate complaint? Scary. | null | kome | null | 1,462,642,787 | 2016-05-07 17:39:47 UTC | comment | 11,650,500 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | Solving a differential equation on his notepad? I expect Stephen Wolfram to spin this into a sales pitch: "Use Mathematica, avoid being profiled as a terrorist!". | null | JorgeGT | null | 1,462,642,954 | 2016-05-07 17:42:34 UTC | comment | 11,650,510 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | "in America today, the only thing more terrifying than foreigners is…math." | null | mceoin | null | 1,462,643,270 | 2016-05-07 17:47:50 UTC | comment | 11,650,544 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | Not surprised by this at all. I'm American, but my family background is southern Italian and I get crap like this ALL the time in the past few years and it's been getting worse. Of course I've never had a flight stopped, or anything close to that severe, it's just a general questioning of what my background is or being "randomly" selected for getting swabbed/questioned/whatever nearly every flight. | null | jcomis | null | 1,462,643,465 | 2016-05-07 17:51:05 UTC | comment | 11,650,562 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | Also covered here <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11648758" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11648758</a> | null | huac | null | 1,462,643,947 | 2016-05-07 17:59:07 UTC | comment | 11,650,598 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | Why is Penn always referred to as generically 'Ivy League' in articles like this? You don't really see that with Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia... | null | santaclaus | null | 1,462,643,968 | 2016-05-07 17:59:28 UTC | comment | 11,650,599 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
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null | null | Consider:<p>1) Both Arabs and Italians are considered "white" on the US census. Therefore, there is no distinction between "ethnic" or "racial" profiling in this case. Since "racial profiling" is what the paper would use for Arabs, the same term should be used in this case.<p>2) One of the following is true:<p>A) Profiling was involved in this case, and Italians are no longer considered "white". Should be pretty useful for any Italians applying for positions in the US.<p>B) Profiling was not involved in this case. In fact, it would have nipped the issue in the bud: check the passenger's info, see he's not an Arab, move on. This took two hours because the authorities did <i>not</i> use profiling, but instead had to interrogate the guy. | null | Camillo | null | 1,462,644,957 | 2016-05-07 18:15:57 UTC | comment | 11,650,676 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | On a somewhat related note, a few years ago I was flying to a mobile phone conference in Barcelona. I thought it would be fun to bring my Port-O-Rotary cell phone along (available from Sparkfun Electronics).<p>I enjoyed hours of fun and merriment going through security with it. Frankfurt in particular was a real bitch, as they called in the bomb squad to dismantle and inspect the phone. After they finally cleared me, one of the guards asked me "What is the purpose of this?" I responded "Because it's fun".<p>At least security in Newark had a sense of humor about it. They took photos of it for a book of all the weird shit that's gone through security there (I really hope they publish that someday). | null | brianmcconnell | null | 1,462,656,185 | 2016-05-07 21:23:05 UTC | comment | 11,651,405 | 11,650,102 | null | null | null |
null | null | The public just basically needs to push grassroots research projects to combat big pharma's countermeasures. That will also be the only way we get any real value from other drugs like MDMA, LSD, etc. | null | nefitty | null | 1,462,642,065 | 2016-05-07 17:27:45 UTC | comment | 11,650,443 | 11,650,104 | null | null | null |
null | null | Why? They'd do the same as they do with all, effective but off-patent drugs: produce patented variants (e.g. Modified release, like in this example, or combinations with other drugs) and market the hell out of them. | null | ascorbic | null | 1,462,687,187 | 2016-05-08 05:59:47 UTC | comment | 11,652,832 | 11,650,104 | null | null | null |
null | null | It might, but most likely it won't: splitting position data from the rest of vertex had been around since, at least, PS3 (for the similar reasons of culling prims) and yet how many games have done the Edge's tri-culling in that generation? And even if you go ahead and split off position the rest of the vertex is still better be interleaved. | null | pandaman | null | 1,462,642,945 | 2016-05-07 17:42:25 UTC | comment | 11,650,509 | 11,650,106 | null | null | null |
null | null | > Third is scheduling it as a prescription drug. The incentives of the drug company are now to influence doctors, in ways that may be more or less overt. Docs get a cut of the outsize profits, de facto.<p>Hi! I'm a non-trad physician, with a history in health policy and managed care before moving onto the provider side. Please, tell me more about this, in a way that is more nuanced than the urban myth of "free golf trips and speaker fees for everybody!" | null | arkades | null | 1,462,639,023 | 2016-05-07 16:37:03 UTC | comment | 11,650,225 | 11,650,108 | null | null | null |
null | null | Can you explain more how competition, availability, and legality will stop the more addiction-prone (low-income, chronic pain among other health problem) parts of society in America from doing drugs and becoming addicted? If I read your argument correctly, it's that the pharma firms will not market it as much and not profit as much. In my mind that's not enough reasoning that people who simply have a bad situation won't reach out (to their doctor, guy next door with a prescription) and find the drug<p>I see the experimental results in other countries that have taken steps forward on legalizing various drugs, but they also have a much better social welfare, schooling, and support system.<p>I just don't see the connection between making a drug more available, making more versions of it, deregulating it and having <i>less</i> people taking it. Without your further explanation, that is. | null | capote | null | 1,462,639,566 | 2016-05-07 16:46:06 UTC | comment | 11,650,261 | 11,650,108 | null | null | null |
null | null | > FDA approval ... patent protection ... scheduling it as a prescription drug ... opiates being illegal<p>These things provide not only prohibition and costs, but also many essential services, a matter of life and death in some cases. The free market is a useful tool, but not the solution to every situation; not every issue is a nail for the free market hammer. I don't want to see how many of my neighbors die from a drug before I decide whether or not to take it. | null | hackuser | null | 1,462,645,440 | 2016-05-07 18:24:00 UTC | comment | 11,650,708 | 11,650,108 | null | null | null |
null | null | > One can make an argument for protecting people from harming themselves.<p>I don't have an opinion on legalization, but I don't think that's quite the argument against (even if some people express it in this way). Not all people are free to make choices in the same way, and drugs -- similarly to fast food -- hurt some communities more than others. Drugs have a social dynamics, they're not like choosing which toothpaste to use. Of course, prohibition may make matters worse instead of better, but as you say, that requires empirical study (I don't know the findings, which is why I don't have an opinion, except that the enforcement situation now is far from good). | null | pron | null | 1,462,647,600 | 2016-05-07 19:00:00 UTC | comment | 11,650,872 | 11,650,108 | null | null | null |
null | null | Not the person you're responding to, but yes and yes.<p>600 charging stations <i>worldwide</i>? That's worse than I thought. I'm traveling across country as we speak (I live in an RV). I've seen one electric car charging option in the past few weeks...I've filled up over a dozen times in that period. Realistically speaking, you cannot take an electric car on vacation.<p>That doesn't mean I don't love electric cars (I even held TSLA for a while before needing to sell some stocks for a major purchase...I kept my GOOG and sold my TSLA).<p>One can love electric cars while still acknowledging what they cannot yet do. There was a time when horses were a better cross country means of transit than automobiles because there wasn't infrastructure for cars yet. We're at that stage for electric cars. It'll pass. | null | SwellJoe | null | 1,462,642,316 | 2016-05-07 17:31:56 UTC | comment | 11,650,460 | 11,650,109 | null | null | null |
null | null | Spoken like a true believer. 600 charging stations worldwide, eh? There are probably 600 gasoline stations in my metro area.<p>Therefore, emphatically Yes, it's "largely true" that there is no charging infrastructure.<p>All of the things people have cited as challenges for EVs are still true:<p>- limited charging infrastructure - limited range - limited data on longevity (look at Leaf's battery life)<p>The range issue may be moot for commuters, who drive 40-50 miles. They can also plugin at home, and recharge at night.<p>EVs will grow in usage. Slowly.<p>The question of whether Tesla can scale up its manufacturing operation is a different one. Unrelated to EVs. | null | PantaloonFlames | null | 1,462,644,919 | 2016-05-07 18:15:19 UTC | comment | 11,650,673 | 11,650,109 | null | null | null |
null | null | EVs have a range problem. 250 miles is fine for day to day driving, but most Americans routinely need to travel farther than that. Travel to nearby major cities, visiting relatives, vacations, etc. The supercharger network is a long way from being about to support travel for most people, and even once it is the charge time (30 minutes for 170 miles range) is a significant inconvenience on any trip long enough to require recharging.<p>The bottom line is that even if an EV meets your daily needs, it isn't going to be good enough to be your <i>only</i> car. That really isn't going to be the case until EVs regularly have a 350-400 mile range, the supercharger network is reasonably dense, and a supercharger can top off your car in 10-15 minutes, tops. | null | Merad | null | 1,462,665,084 | 2016-05-07 23:51:24 UTC | comment | 11,651,931 | 11,650,109 | null | null | null |