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by Niten 11y ago
Regardless of what is actually uploaded, a phone app and website implementing this would need to get microphone permissions from the user, and it would be difficult for the user to verify that raw audio isn't being captured as well. (T
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by Niten 11y ago
You're incorrect, 20 μN was measured in the Dresden test at 700W.
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by Niten 11y ago
To be clear, the Chinese test used 2500 watts, and this latest test used 700 watts. That is a decrease, but it's within a factor of 4. On the other hand, the decrease in effect size is closer to a factor of 40,000.
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by Niten 11y ago
The new test was at slightly lower power but within an order of magnitude of the original test: 700 W versus 2.5 kW. The measured effect, on the other hand, has decreased by more than four orders of magnitude. I haven't studied the th
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by Niten 11y ago
It's good to see that someone finally got around to testing this in a vacuum. Here's the paper mentioned in this story: http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2015-4083 High levels of skepticism are
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by Niten 11y ago
Neat. It would be interesting to see a comparison between this and FreeBuilder (as well as AutoValue, though I think the differences there are more obvious). I'm all for tools that make immutability easier; the lack of immutable object
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by Niten 11y ago
Much of this controversy is driven by the community's loss of trust in the site's administration. Do you think the tactic you suggest would be constructive toward rebuilding that trust?
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by Niten 11y ago
To clarify, I meant the "overhead" of defining and instantiating a container class for RAII purposes. I hadn't considered the type of overhead you're talking about, which is admittedly more important for the kind of soft
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by Niten 11y ago
> The addition of some orderly construct for this in C would eliminate that case, leaving no real role for goto there either. I like the way this is handled in Go with the defer keyword: https://blog.golang.org/defer-pani
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by Niten 11y ago
I think the biggest issue is that any general discussion site which simply clones reddit's conversation model (e.g., voat) might do better at transparency and free speech and community relations and so on, but is still probably doomed
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by Niten 11y ago
Right, anyone who disagrees with Reddit's management decisions is deserving of hyperbolic abuse.
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by Niten 11y ago
That's irrelevant, however. If systemd is going to ship with a default nameserver then it should be using the correct and public NTP pool, rather than servers from a random company who hasn't made any commitment to providing relia
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by Niten 11y ago
No, it's a huge difference. I'm willing to trust this one, specific company with my data because I know their privacy policy and their practices. Handing that data off to arbitrary other companies for a buck is another matter ent
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by Niten 11y ago
Google doesn't sell your data: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/#nosharing Rather, its business model is using this data on behalf of advertisers. That is a highly significant distinction, in my pers
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by Niten 11y ago
Here's an overview: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
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by Niten 11y ago
Do you mean that negative comments tend to receive downvotes, or are deleted by HN admins?
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by Niten 11y ago
There was a great multiplayer Dreamcast game called Chu Chu Rocket which I'd put in this genre.
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by Niten 11y ago
> When the news first broke a few years ago, given Toyota's reputation for quality and process, I thought this was an American industry lead witch-hunt of a Japanese competitor. But if this testimony is correct, what Toyota engineer
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by Niten 11y ago
Divide the hourly cost of a human railroad engineer by the total value of the goods they transport by train. Then divide the hourly cost of a truck driver by the total value of goods that can fit into a single truck. The latter ratio is o
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by Niten 12y ago
Agreed, of course. But I still think it's a good idea to eliminate one opportunity for bias if we can.
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by Niten 12y ago
Well it wouldn't be that outlandish to do truly blind programming interviews. Just use a collaborative editor and possibly wacom stylus (can't be any more cumbersome than the traditional whiteboard), plus a text chat interface to
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by Niten 12y ago
For what it's worth: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Optional...
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by Niten 12y ago
> The data is certainly persisting somewhere outside of Firefox proper, as the search app is siphoning data that can only be cleared from within. That does not follow. They are the same application. For example, attempt to reproduce thi
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by Niten 12y ago
This may also be a bug in the Firefox app: I've just observed that when I change my default search engine in Firefox, that setting isn't necessarily reflected in the search intent handler until after I force stop Firefox. Either w
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by Niten 12y ago
It uses whatever search engine you have configured in Firefox. When I tried it a minute ago on my Nexus, this defaulted to Yahoo. This is unequivocally Mozilla code you're observing. Here's what adb logcat shows when that activi
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by Niten 12y ago
No it does not, in fact it doesn't even work the way the author claimed. He or she mistook an activity bundled with the Firefox app for the Google Search app. In reality that search history was never persisted outside the Firefox app.
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by Niten 12y ago
Same here, and sorry if that seemed hyperbolic. It's just extremely frustrating to me as someone who sees (most of) the ACLU's work as extremely important, and who has donated to them in the past.
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by Niten 12y ago
I used to work for a school system that experimented with gendered classrooms. While it would be a mistake to extrapolate too much from our experience, those became the most successful classrooms at the elementary school in question. The bo
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by Niten 12y ago
> Are these kids hacking on the Linux kernel or something? Of course not. Not most of them and not to begin with, but "educating themselves" means having a platform where their curiosity can run amok, and some kids with RPis ab
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by Niten 12y ago
The Linux community uses it heavily.

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