skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's weak. You can go down a definitional hole and say someone might consider anything good. Fact remains that things like, I dunno, torturing children and slaughtering villages are things that we'd be perfectly fine eliminating. We'd be A-OK without having people that have, as the near entirety of their existence, hunger and pain.

Even in nature, there isn't a real balance. Any perceived balance is simply the result of ongoing fighting and current stalemates. When things go "out of balance", groups or species go extinct and things move on. Absolutely nothing in nature is stopping a species from taking over the entire planet, consuming all resources, then going extinct.

And personally, I don't define good in terms of evil. Like a silly saying of defining light in terms of darkness (uh, no, I'll define it as certain energy bands or something, thanks).

Unless you meant this on a conceptual level, like, if we had never heard of the concept of insanity, it might be hard to say we value sanity since it'd just be an unquestioned state of affairs. I don't find that a very useful definition as far as a course for action goes; we'd be quite fine eliminating "evil".
Is this a Sergey Brin easter egg? His old resume contained 'hidden' cheeky comments (as HTML comments, check the source):

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html

HN submission about Brin's resume with numerous comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9055516
Research Paper – Google Dataflow: Massive-Scale, Unbounded Data Processing [pdf]
Should it really tell the user that it's a dangerous file? Although if it didn't, malicious files could use that to their advantage.
> And Sun customers should blame the planet model for one of the worst decisions in the history of a company that had plenty of contenders for the distinction: unbundling the compilers from the operating system and separately monetizing them.

Hear, hear.

The only thing Sun did that is the running for being even dumber is blowing Solaris x86. They released a pretty (for the time) awesome Solaris x86 product back in 1993, but never really got behind it. I had a Solaris 2.5.1 x86 workstation at work in 1997, and even then, my then-boss Scott Swanson was saying how Sun had blown it in terms of taking over the x86 server market.

I mean, even into the year 2006, Red Hat was telling me if their kernel crashed on a RHEL box, I had to set things up so the core file would go out over the network, instead of somewhere on a local disk. Sun had solved problems like that long, long before.
Wish I could claim to have been either deliberate or ironic...but I actually got careless. Thanks for pointing it out!
Privacy is a double-edged sword. If you want perfect privacy, you also throw away a lot of potential optimizations.

For example, you may leak information about sites recently visited, updates applied, etc. if you have a local proxy cache and subsequently look at response timings.
That would be a juicy target for NSA, with a rep like that.
Windows 10 updates disable pirated games and unauthorized hardware
Exactly. Many people seem to fall into trap of regarding established theories of theoretical physics as some ultimate truths about the world, instead of as currently used useful models which are necessarily imperfect simplifications of things. It is depressing to see science, which has contributed to exposition of fallacy of church teachings during the past centuries and help enlighten people, to be on its best way to becoming a church full of dogma and blind followers itself.
The credit card data derived real time sales estimates were criminally insider information when individual people at firms were doing it (see Capital One case). It is okay for entire firms to be based around this same type of data stream?

Especially as an invitation only "not public" offering.
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No, they give you the option to disable it.
How does one "preserve the balance"? Could you provide an example action you might take that is preserving this balance? I'm having trouble turning this into anything useful, other than a generic, general sort of "don't be hateful and rash; think things through; sides aren't perfect" kinda thing.
You have only a year to decide if you want the free upgrade. What I did, however, was record the product key for Windows 10 should I ever decide to go back. In any case, I'm glad to be back on Windows 7. Windows 10 was a horrific experience that signals that you are now the product instead of the consumer.
I thought it was about food. I'm going to In-N-Out anyway.
I just changed both Search rules to block and it appears to have worked.
Let me give you some contrast.

I'm a 24 years old software developer without a degree, earning about 1/4 of what you currently earn. Should I go back to school (3-4 years) to get a degree so that I can become a product manager?

Assuming that OP can cover the cost of obtaining its degree in 6 months of work (most likely less), it would take me 6 to 8 years.
Four months ago, Larry asked his assistant to order him a new X1 Carbon 3rd Edition. 1237 web form fields filled later, 27 phone calls, 122 submit buttons, 17 excuses, 4 customs delays and 1 CPU fan that would never kick into low gear later, he still had no laptop and he'd had enough.

"No... No.... NO!!@ NO MORE. NO MORE PAPERWORK. NO MORE WEBFORMS. NO MORE MOMA. NO MORE REPORTS. NO MORE STANFORD BRATS. NO MORE METRICS. NO MORE DATA. NO MORE MOTHERFUCKING EIGENBULLSHIT. NO MORE OF THIS FUCKING NULLSPACE. I DON'T WANT A NEW LAPTOP, I WANT A NEW FUCKING COMPANY.... A SIMPLE ONE... ABC. ABC.XYZ."
Many of those instances are selling what one is unable to hold. There was, for instance, ~zero chance that France would end up actually retaining the Louisiana Purchase lands in perpetuity, so the only question was whether they'd get something in return (and they quite needed the money at the time), or lose them in an expensive war later.
I've always been confused why so much of algorithmic trading centers on technical indicators. What about fundamentals? Wouldn't it be easier to cobble together a system that checks for healthy companies that are low in their PEG ratio historical range, and then buy-and-hold? There are super-boring companies with reliable earnings history out there, with stock prices that go up and down throughout the year. So you'd be trading a few times a month, not many times a day (or minute).

Then there are the simple algorithms like 'Just buy index funds', although I haven't found a good resource on how to sector-balance various index funds. Simplest I guess would be 'Just buy VFINX' but that can be volatile and scary sometimes.
There are major differences between the book and the movie.
There's a difference between selling your information to marketers and trading on material non public information. I don't really see how consumer credit card data isn't material non public information, and if indeed it weren't, we should have expected to see Visa set up a hedge fund arm years ago.
But what is evil ? What you decide it to be ? What if I happen to disagree with your notion of evil, am I now evil as well ? You seem to make fundamental mistake in assuming that evil is something concrete and fixed in some sort of absolute moral framework. Realise that both the framework and the "place of evil" are, within very relaxed bounds almost arbitrary, is the point that's being made.
This is ultimately the harmful conclusion of any absolutist idea that ascribes guilt to the citizenry for the actions of the state it is subordinate to. You will notice similar ideas spread in ostensibly democratic countries. If you vote and the nominee ends up going berserk, it's your fault for picking them. If you don't vote, it's your fault for not stopping them. The idea that the voting system used might be inefficient is completely discounted. Further, the idea that maybe most people have no real agency over the actions of their government is treated as a rather foreign one.
The tone of your post is odd, as if you normally would expect everyone to do exactly what all the most current science suggests (nevermind that there are usually multiple conflicting theories). "Hasn't been stopped?" Stopped by whom? Lots of things that are far more harmful than running have not yet been stopped. Not everyone wants to use fancy machines for exercise...I'm just kind of baffled by this "how can people still be running?!?!" perspective.

I'm also confused by the part about expensive gear...running is one of the few forms of exercise you can accomplish with literally no gear at all, all you need is your body. That is probably one of the main reasons for it's enduring popularity - it is a basic and instinctual animal movement, there's no overhead, no setup time, no instructions, you just move your legs until you're in shape. Some people prefer that simplicity to all the fancy science and machines.
This is a big problem for us in the finance sector. We're SOL when it comes to Windows 10. It's a complete dead end if we can't lock stuff down with GPO.

There are meetings taking place to work out what to do about this in various companies and the general answer so far is jump the sinking platform ship and "thank fuck we wrote everything in Java". Some of the big guys are already rolling out RHEL desktops.
> Only 30%? That's nothing. Were in the world would you pay less?

27,5% for income and 15% for capital here in Brazil. What is very expensive considering the quality of public services. And the taxes paid for products are much higher.
I am intrigued too but for different reasons - seeing the world from a different perspective. But if I was looking for mostly solitude, I will pick couple of weeks of camping in a national park or somewhere remote.

Recently I did two weeks of camping in Glacier National Park MT. It was solitude and bliss, no cell service, no Internet, as primitive as I could handle.
There are also reactions with fewer overall neutrons such as D-D fusion, which one of my professors was a large proponent of.
It's really disturbing how many would be indistinguishable (to almost everyone) from malware servers. Lots of .net domains and entities I've never heard of.
Sure there's always value in doing. What I believe is foolish after learning more about what the industry does is the belief that a DIY program can actually make money.
Just changed two rules in Windows Firewall to blocked and it appears to no longer send anything. https://i.imgur.com/a5yu5vb.png

Wondering if I should go through all the Windows stuff there and turn them off. Edit: just did (except for Edge and obvious internet related stuff).

Is there a way to change Firewall rules with a registry tweak? That would be the ideal way to distribute this.
To the extent that shareholders are driving pressure to separate the experimental bets with the more stable parts of the business, I'm not sure that I understand the point of replacing Google's stock/ticker with a new one. Any insight here?
The problem with this is that users have to download a binary of over 40mb just to run a "hello world" app. The whole thing has to embed all of node.js plus all of a browser. I miss the days where to download a crazy complicated app required only 200kb - like uTorrent for example. I know space and bandwidth have gotten cheaper, but there's something about creating an app that only carries the bare essentials that calls for quality.
If you believe that 'good' and 'evil' are fundamental and inseparable aspects of humanity, meaning evil can never truly cease because it's part of what we're made of, then yes, you might believe that balance is the healthier option. Belief in either extreme can lead you to a dehumanizing view of people, and a lot of evil has been done in the world in the name of ridding it of a greater evil, for the sake of an unquestioned good.
How would you do it instead?
Go profiling broken in OS X
Unless you've never even considered the possibility that non-human intelligence could be dangerous to humans, this article adds no value to your understanding of the topic.
Well, Google is already quite fractured in the EU - it has something like 20 subsidiaries, one in most EU countries[0] ?

That is also a common (mandatory?) setup, for multinational companies to have a local subsidiary in every country where they operate. I guess institutions like the EU must be handle that and focus on the activity independently of the fine details of the company structure, so that the restructuring would not really help or hinder.

[0] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001193125070...
An alphabet of shuttered Google services
> Reader was hugely successful, which is why the outcry on its closing

Umm, no. Reader was not hugely successful. Users loved the idea of using Reader but they did not actually use it.
A bit off topic, but this seems like as good a place to ask this as any I've seen lately.

Is it just me, or is there a huge hole in Haskell's type systems around dictionaries and tuples?

If I understand correctly, if you want to do something like a C/C++ struct (a collection of data fields, not a class with some behavior), then in Haskell, you either make it a dictionary with string keys, or you make it a tuple. But if you pass either of those to a function, don't you lose type safety?

Let's say that I have a structure that represents a person. It's got a first name (string), a last name (string), and an age (non-negative integer). I create a tuple (first, last, age), or I create a dictionary ("first" : first, "last" : last, "age" : age). (The syntax there is lousy, I don't know how Haskell has you assemble a dictionary. It's intended to be read as ("key" : value) entries.)

My function can require that it gets passed a tuple. I suspect that it can require that it gets passed a tuple with three items. But can it require that it gets passed a tuple that is (string, string, integer)? Worse, can it require that it gets passed a tuple that is (first, last, age) and not (city, state, zip code)?

Dictionaries are even worse. The function may be able to require that it gets passed a dictionary with three entries. But can it guarantee that it gets passed a dictionary with a "first" key, and that the value of that key is a string?

So it seems to me that C/C++ in this area can give you stronger type safety than Haskell, because a function can guarantee that it got passed a Person struct, which has a string first, and a string last, and an int age, and that it did not get called with anything else.

Or am I all wet, and only an idiot would try to do structs that way in Haskell?
I mean at the conceptual level. So many things are defined in terms of their opposite. If we have no knowledge, understanding, definition, experience of evil, we don't have a benchmark against which to compare our actions and make sure they are different. Hopefully once understood, it stays remembered but in the past.
Get home at around 6pm, stream League of Legends until midnight. Go to bed.

Due to donations I can treat it as a poor paying part-time job.
What tax benefits this move might have is my question as well. It seems like if this were purely about internal organization they could have effectively reorganized Google in the same way without making Alphabet (although I'm not an executive so I could certainly be missing something here).
And regardless, even if there is an impressive increase in regular trading, I don't see why that's surprising... this would appear, at least on the surface (which is what Wall Street reacts to when you consider the scale of a day), to be a good move.
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The app in question is the search UI/Cortana. It has no need to use the OS store and could easily pin to MS's CA.
Investors already thought/knew this. Listen to any of the earnings calls from the last year and you'll see what I mean.
You are pretty good at complaining, now if you can figure out how to do it with arms and legs instead of fingers and mouth...
I guess, they are very open about it.

They are selling an Intel based appliance running a hardened Linux [I think] distro that is customized to provide the service/protection they want. I guess it is only as secure as the packages they bundle.

Their site details their TeleTrust Cert comitment as:

The company headquarters is in Germany

The company offers trustworthy IT security solutions

No solutions that contain non-declared backdoors are offered

All the company's IT security research and development takes place in Germany

The company complies with the German data protection law.

[http://www.gateprotect.com/en/why-you-should-consider-techno...]
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Probably best is to figure it out for each individual. Make a list, try them out, decide. The process will be interesting.
My uncle did a few cruises around the world on cargo ships, it always seemed like a great way to see the world on the relative cheap. Of course, he was a retired, single, Army officer, so taking the months such a voyage required was more practical for him than most.
This is not happening to me either. I have disabled many things in the Settings => Privacy menu, I guess it might be related to Cortana (Settings => Privacy menu => Speech, inking, &typing), but I am not enabling it to find out.
While true, that doesn't invalidate robmaister's point.

If mobile GPUs as a class almost never receive updates, this will slow adoption of a new low-level way of using them, regardless of a few scattered exceptions to the "Mobile GPUs never receive updates" rule. :)
Here is the full quote, "When I say 'hero' do not picture someone with the strength to fight and conquer Evil -because Evil is not something that can ever be conquered or defeated, Evil is natural. It is innate in all humans. But while it can't be defeated, it can be controlled. In order to control it, and live the life of a true hero, you must learn to see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two."

Source: "The Whisper Within: Zen and Self" (p. 150)
For anyone not familiar with Cisco's market shares: one of Cisco's most important markets is India.
or move to Seattle and get paid enough you don't have to live with roommates unless you enjoy it.
Canadian here.

I'd move to the US in a heartbeat.

- Access to most online services on day one (Pandora, Netflix, etc)

- Amazon.com

- 35% less taxes

- Groceries are 50% cheaper.

- Restaurants are 25% cheaper.

- Fuel is 25% cheaper

- Salaries are 200% to 300% higher (in tech)

- Housing is cheaper (on average)

- Superbowl ads

- Best TV shows

- Better health care

- More exciting politics

- Less regulation

- Better culture

- Best universities

- Stores are open longer (some are even 24h)

Too bad immigration is so difficult.
> I don't think the quote supports the idea of evil persisting out of balance, but rather that to advance the greater good one must balance the need to oppose the notionally evil things (which nonetheless contain good) with the need to oppose the evil contained in things which are notionally good.

That much is absolutely true; conflicts and war are evils in themselves, even when some would consider them "necessary".
I should add that I sell and install these. They are easy to deploy [they have an eGUI similar to WatchGuard appliances], come with all communication turned off and you need to allow/route traffic where you need it, and they have excellent technical and sales support.
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The desktop Firefox has one of these. It's been quite unintuitive. It contains some commands depicted by icons, which constitute an overlapping set of the functionality under the regular F)ile menu, like "New Window", "New Private Window", "Print" and whatnot. But there are commands that appear in other menus: the monkey wrench Developer icon appears to have similar content to "Tools/Web Developer".

I think what we are supposed to understand is that this Firefox Hamburger Menu (FHM) is really a TOA: Toolbar Overflow Area. It's a repository of icons for doing arbitrary things.

Its Customize button at the bottom invokes exactly the same UI as View/Toolbars/Customize: a big view where you can move icons between an editable version of the FHM, the browser toolbar, and a repository of available tools (shown in the main pane as a large area).

So any item that can be on your toolbar can go into FHM, including bookmarks. Hence: TOA: toobar overflow area for items you don't use much.

It would be better if they initialized it empty, and if it somehow clearly communicated "Hey, I am a toolbar overflow area: put stuff here that would go on the toolbar that you don't need so much, when you don't have space on the toolbar."
Researchers point fingers at Android phones' fingerprint security
That much is true; we shouldn't forget what evil is, lest we painfully rediscover it, but even if we define good as its absence, there's no reason we can't maintain that absence. Much like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio... , we can talk about things without enacting them.
I like the ideas behind the blog post, but in practice, I do not care about design as much as I do content. Yeah, content is mostly terrible on the Internet, but the solution isn't prettier design. It's better content. And in fact, I may prefer the cold, clinical machines over this blog post design that serves to distract people from the content and make navigation harder.

Also, it seems hypocritical to me to decry monetization and advertising, only to then advertise a yearly subscription service after the blog post is done.
Joel has always seen things from Microsoft's point of view. And we are actually living in the world he mocked: both hardware and software, on the server side, have been largely commoditized.
You probably can't beat the market. But if you can beat a savings account earning 2% interest it's probably worth it for the learning experience.
Wow, how about:

http://abc7news.com/technology/naked-sculpture-in-san-leandr...
http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g60713-d1...
https://thebaylights.org/

Not to mention countless parties, maker spaces, artist spaces, (eg: american steel), and many other space which are all very open to newcomers and hold a lot of parties and host and support all sorts of arts.

As for the indulgence of burning man, put in a certain way, anything but work seems like an indulgence. So you're going on a cruise? Putting all that fuel oil into a remote inaccessible place and slowly lighting it on fire? Or a road trip - really, burning all that petrol?

As for _my_ burner friends, most of them are NOT "techies".
This reminds me of the 1951 Ray Bradbury short story, 'The Pedestrian'. The outside runners may someday again draw suspicion, when people prefer jog-questing in their home Oculus Rooms.
> We'd be A-OK without having people that have, as the near entirety of their existence, hunger and pain.

That's exactly the kind of thing I meant, yes. Some things are universally wrong no matter where or how they happen, who is doing them, or what "side" they're on.
Sweden sold off Swedish Pomerania at the end of the Napoleonic wars in a good piece of business. Initially they wanted to swap it for Norway with Denmark, but as the Norwegians balked they never handed it over and then the Prussians swooped in and bought that and other bits and pieces off Sweden and Denmark.

It was a good piece of business as the defense of it would have cost resources but it still would have been a walkover against a serious opponent. And they would have lost it soon enough, at the latest in 1848 and the upheaval then.