skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This should be a top comment - this kind of tracking is not possible at scale and probably won't be for a long time. Identifying a person in a group of 100s/1000s has been a solved problem for decades. Consistently identifying a single person from a database of 100Ms/billions of people who are constantly gaining weight, growing facial hair, etc is impossible with today's technology; false positives will become an exponentially bigger problem as you increase the candidate space.

Perhaps one day increased camera resolutions will allow trackers to identify something humans can't, like retinal scans. This would allow cameras to basically "fingerprint" people, and will be super creepy.
I am not particular about any submission. I just notice that old member's submission tends to attract more comments/discussions than new one. Just asking this as my observation.
Sometimes I wonder how people can use mailing list without thread view, it is a mystery for me. :)
Low stakes poker tournaments both live and online have juices >= 10%. See any live tournament up until maybe $500 buyins and $5+0.50 SNGs that you play online. The $1 SNGs are juiced like 25%. People still play them anyways.

Not necessarily disagreeing or agreeing with you about 10% of rake being a scam.
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You are probably right.Just my observation
It is outrageous to suggest that the blame lies with a handful of people and not a whole division of the company. I don't work in the automotive industry, but I do work as a design engineer in the semiconductor industry and for a mature product in a highly competitive industry, I can guarantee that the external test wasn't the only test that these cars were put though. When we release a chip external reviewers will run it thorough a handful of benchmarks, but we run far more tests internally because when you are building complex systems, not everything that you plan for happens, and you need an extreme level of detail to be able to understand and fix performance problems. Literally hundreds of engineers will participate in performing these measurements, and most of them, along with the whole management tree up to the CEO (especially for an important consumer facing product), will participate in interpreting them. Not doing this means getting left in the dust by your competitors. There is no way that only a small number of people knew about this. Two is laughable, people here with software engineering backgrounds should be highly skeptical that any piece of software in a product with as many users as a car was only examined by two people. The only explanation is that a large number of engineers and managers knew about this and did nothing.
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I paid for 4 million pixels. I want to use them.
Another possibility is that your social graph might have more overlap than you realize, even if it's not very much, it could be enough to make them the 'nearest' to you in some way. At least some of the graph data can come from sources invisible to you (i.e. people looking at other people's Facebook connections).
Appreciate another insider viewpoint. Going by this:

http://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf

Do you think they could apply any of that to current project? Particularly in sections 3-5. I defer to you here as your experience is directly relevant. Would any of his approach, on top of looking for top 10 C issues, have improved the security of this app? Or was none of that applicable?
The creation of the EPA, (and OSHA, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, Highway Safety Act, FOIA) was created because people demanded it, not because a Republican President was benevolent.

Ralph Nader, and the organizations who were influenced by his work, took advantage of the social upheaval in the late 60s/early 70s to make these laws pass.

Even though activist voices are as loud as they've ever been, we have a government that no longer fears movements. I've heard the Nader generation of activists make this point regularly. Power has been sharply shifting from people (activists organizations, labor unions) to business since the late 70s.
That's a great point I didn't think of. If so, it seems a little odd -- I would assume, as someone who's toyed with Meteor but not dived in (in part, waiting to see it mature and what hosting with the canonical experts costs), that they'd realize they can capture some of the bottom end just fine. I'm surely not the only developer who falls into that category/potential market.

With the mention of Individual plans coming soon, I'm sure they are after that, too. I think it's more that they didn't make the offering clear, nor make it more obvious that these plans aren't the full shebang.
Depends on how much computing power and expansion ability you need. If a Mac Mini has enough for your needs then it's hard to beat the ease of just buying one of those. OTOH, I built a Hackintosh because I wanted lots of CPU, drive bays, etc., and an equivalently spec'd Mac Pro would have cost more than twice as much. (This was before the current trash can version of the Mac Pro came out — not sure what the price differential is now.)

Getting my Hackintosh up and running was a breeze. Assembled it in an hour, installed OS X, everything ran perfectly. I have had zero problems upgrading from OS X 10.8 to 10.9 and 10.10. It's slightly more involved than just clicking the upgrade button in the app store, but not too bad (i.e., it'll take you about an hour to create a bootable installer on a thumb drive, etc.). Point version upgrades (e.g., from 10.10.4 to 10.10.5) are not an issue — you can just upgrade through the app store as usual.

You do have to wait a few weeks for the Hackintosh community to work out the kinks for new major versions of OS X, e.g., I don't think you can upgrade to El Capitan right now unless you're really brave, instead you'll have to wait a month or two. (That hasn't bothered me, since I'd never consider upgrading a Mac to a .0 release anyway.)

I'm not planning to build a Hackintosh again -- my next desktop will either be a standard Mac Pro or retina iMac -- but it's really not a headache at all to build and maintain a Hackintosh, if that's what you want to do.
You say that as though the people deploying things like this[1] care much about false positives...

[1] No fly lists, for example.
Honestly, I would say something to your manager. I would try and step away and not get personal about it, refer along the lines of "the attitude is deamining to other developers" and "can harm retention and acquisition of new talent".

I was recently in a similar situation where anyone disagreeing with the "golden boy" was chided by him. He's just another bully, generally when you stand up they leave you alone.

I had a word with my bosses boss and my boss at the same time, said basically I have thick skin, but at the end of the day his behaviour is pissing me off, something needs to be done because if a Jr was being "coached" they would likely freak out due to the condescending manner.

Good luck!
I appreciate the response here, and appreciate the offer.
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It's true that he wasn't convicted for the murders but the judge did mention it in the sentencing... see page 82:

"So, we also have your own violence and there is no doubt -- really none -- that you wanted to and paid for the murders of five people to protect your drug enterprise. That is not the conduct of conviction but it is relevant conduct, so how is that consistent with harm reduction?"
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While I sympathize with the underlying sentiments of this, I have to disagree with what it actually says. If the EFF were really trying to help users, it wouldn't be trying to get Facebook to change; it would be trying to get users to stop using Facebook. The problem is not that FB needs to improve its name policy; the problem is that we have a single centralized social network for everybody. What we should have is a way for people to build their own independent social networks, so that someone who wants to be able to connect online with friends while avoiding their creepy ex can do so. Why isn't the EFF pushing for that?
Long ago, I saw this TED talk as a Long Now talk. I still find it inspirational. The big take-away for me is that a for-profit company can make a lot of money by helping even extremely poor people become less poor.

https://www.ted.com/talks/iqbal_quadir_says_mobiles_fight_po...

http://longnow.org/seminars/02008/may/21/technology-empowers...
One of the people named is Audi’s chief engineer, and they're both described as "being in charge of R&D" at VW. So I would presume they're pretty high up the food chain, not the low-level guys who actually wrote the if: test then: cheat bits.
Back around 2003, there was some controversy over similar benchmark cheating for graphics drivers:

http://www.geek.com/games/is-nvidia-cheating-on-benchmarks-5...
Isn't that so obvious that it's reasonable to say it's by design?

I think this specific flavor of jury trials, gun ownership and the second amendment, this insanely broad free speech thing, they all are consequences of the same fact:

America optimizes for resilience against a hypothetical future totalitarian regime and happily sacrifices acceptable outcomes in the present.

I'm not convinced it achieves even the former, but that's obviously highly controversial.
I'll tell you why I love it - it just feels intuitive. I don't even think about where I want to click, it is almost as if the section appears before me before my brain even realizes it. All the fluff / stuff I don't click on or use regularly is hidden, and easily acceptable. A little narrow on my super widescreen desktop monitor but other than that 9/10
As far as I know, ownership percentage is available for any player in your lineup as soon as the first game begins. In other words, this is information is already public. That's what makes threads like this possible: http://reddit.com/r/dfsports/comments/3n1cdu/fanduel_percent...

Even if it were hidden from the public, it's fairly straightforward to reason that it is stored in a database and that at least one employee has read-access to that database. I would be more fascinated to learn that no DraftKings or FanDuel employee ever played DFS without at least looking at their own ownership data.
>Regulator's aren't stupid enough to be fooled by a couple of junior engineers being offered up as a sacrifice. They'll definitely go after the highest-level people they can get.

Maybe in a just world. I don't hold out too much hope.
Pseudonymity is a double-edged sword; it enables people to hide from abusers online, but it also enabled a lot of online abuse (Twitter is rampant with the stuff, not that Facebook is immune). I don't know which side is right, and I wish that there was some way to combine the best of both but so far nobody's struck that balance or even really come close. But if that balance is struck, I don't think the sort of stridency the EFF is engaging in here is going to be part of the solution.
In all seriousness, you ruined the best thing Reddit had going for it.

The vast majority of the time I'm using Reddit I just want to be entertained. With what? I don't know, with all the stuff I like and have subscribed to. I want to go to Reddit.com and see a bunch of stuff I like without having to think. That's 99% of the use case.

Way to take a crack at it and try to see things differently, but the fact that I have to make a decision of what I want to see first completely kills the experience for me.
> While I realize, as a developer, that said caching behavior would add heavy load to a web service's servers; the benefit is WORTH it.

FYI: you can almost certainly get away with stuffing the comment-in-progress in localStorage on most modern browsers/devices. I believe this is what Discourse uses, which shines on this and many other someone-really-cared-about-the-details details, but haven't checked my understanding against their actual code.
A variation on the legal-DSL inquiry upthread: what do you think about open-source code that ships with open-source legal terms-of-service which are enforced by the code? Even something as simple as attribution for CC-BY-4.0 does not have a "reference implementation" or lint-checker.

Some attempts have been made at Finance DSLs, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23448/dsl-in-finance
What about the sea turtles with tumors in Hawaii? There is some concern that humans are to blame, right?
You can't quantify a level of conviction or belief like that. That's unreasonable.

Other than that: since people indicted are more likely to have committed the crimes than the general population (oh, I can already hear them scream...), you'd have to take that into account if you really wanted to calculate probabilities.
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>any effective technological measure

How effective is a measure if it was just circumvented 'without authority'?

I'm sure this is just one of many contradictions in the final document. I guess we'll get to see soon.

Any programmers in the negotiating committees perchance?
> But I think that's a pretty narrow use-case

Then you're not paying attention. It's a very common use case.

Did you ignore my pointing out that my family and my co-workers call me by different names? This is _very_ common.

> For teachers, sure, but I don't see a reason for teachers to be Facebook friends with students

I don't see a good reason for anyone to ever have a Facebook account at all. But many people clearly do, and Facebook is doing all it can to ensure that all real-life relationships are reflected in Facebook... but not actually making it possible to do that sanely. That's causing problems, and will continue to cause problems until either people realize that Facebook shouldn't be used for all their relationships or Facebook fixes their setup to work better or society in general radically changes how it's structured (and not for the better, in my opinion).

We can argue about which of these solutions is preferable, and which is more likely (I suspect the answers are different), but let's not pretend like the problem doesn't exist.

As for teachers being Facebook friends with their students, consider the situation in India, where Facebook is pushing for "internet access" that only includes Facebook. At which point, if you want to communicate with your students electronically at all, you have to do it through Facebook, since that's all they can do on the internet.

The situation in the US is not that bad, but again some teachers are using Facebook for their classroom communication (by choice). I agree this is a bad idea, obviously, for oh so many reasons.

> You can certainly be searchable by names in different character sets

It's not just searchability. It's also whether people seeing a message from you recognize who the message is from, say.

> why not just make separate Facebook profiles

You mean apart from this being explicitly against Facebooks's terms of service and the fact that they will shut down some or all of these profiles because they decide that the name on them isn't a real name?

Again, as I see it my options today are:

1) Lie about accepting the terms of service, deal with the fact that Facebook can arbitrarily shut down parts of my social interactions because it decides it doesn't like what some people call me.

2) Set up Facebook relationships in a radically different way from my real-world ones.

3) Just don't use Facebook for interacting with anyone I actually care about.

My personal choice is #3. Most people seem to choose some combination of #1 and #2, with a strong lean to #2. The EFF is claiming that this choice only has to be made because of some particular Facebook policies and users would be better off if those policies were changed so that the choice didn't need to be made (e.g. so that having separate Facebook profiles were actually an OK thing and not grounds for having all your Facebook profiles terminated).
Alerting is a great idea. Unless you've set the device to 'range' mode, it automatically contacts emergency services with GPS-determined location, 30 seconds after firing.

30 seconds gives you time to switch it to range mode if you're at the range and forgot :)

Plus a camera, streaming. Starts uploading video and audio the moment it's out of its holster.
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Averages can be useful, percentiles can be more useful.

However, the biggest asset in useful monitoring is focusing in on the right events and data. Is an average latency across all of your requests useful? Probably much less than averages per API or page.
Can putting those numbers side-by-side in such a way mislead people on the social impact of those events?

Murder is rare, but it has a very high impact on society and the surrounding people. It creates an environment of stress and fear. Car accidents do the same to a much lesser extent. Smoking related diseases are somewhat more expected, they aren't so sudden. People have time to adjust, receive medical attention, and so on.

When you put the numbers together it feels like we should tackle the causes of the largest number of deaths first, then work our way to the fewest. But I don't think that is beneficial, or even a rational approach to improving our society.

You could use those numbers argue for ignoring mass shootings: i.e., there are so few related to other causes of death. But it fails to take into account just how many people they effect and how much it twists society (e.g., having schools perform lockdown drills with 5-year-olds who don't understand why they have to hide in a closet [1]).

I don't think we have a good measure to use to compare murders, to car accidents, to death by disease. As raw quantities they skew our perception and priorities. As pure numbers they fail to indicate to us the impact they could have on our society.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rehearsing-for-death...
The first example is not first degree murder, it's second degree. First degree has to be premeditated and deliberate. You're right, context is important, it's why we have judges determine sentences and not the law, but that's a poor example.
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As a CPU architect, I can confirm that all those except possibly 2) will not yield significant benefits. Prefetching hints will only be useful when the particular code fragment is highly memory-bound because most wide superscalar microarchitectures will easily hide L1/L2 miss latencies.
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It's less than awesome, really - people got richer and demand rose for a cleaner environment.
Facebook beat all other social networks because it is the best at connecting people who already know each other. And its most effective tool to connect these people is its search functionality whose effectiveness requires that all its users use their real name. It is unrealistic to expect Facebook to risk its very existence just because the EFF demands that it do so.
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Thanks for sharing. We are considering to move to the Bay Area and we heard a lot about this problem, this confirms it.
Anyone who's ever nervously handed their kid their phone so the kid could play Angry Birds for a bit can tell you why Android's method of handling users isn't perfect.
To waffle on this point: He has a higher (double) chance of picking a goat if you've picked the car. So by unplannedly revealing a goat, he gives you more information about whether you're in a world where you've picked the car, or one where you've picked a goat.

If you pick randomly between a fair coin and a double-headed coin, there's a 50/50 chance of picking either. If Monty then flips the coin and it comes up heads, that suggests you're more likely to be in a world where you've picked the biased coin. If, on the other hand, Monty deliberately takes your coin and places it so that it's heads (and he was gonna do that whatever coin you picked) then you have no new information.
I'm using React + Redux + Koa (+postgresql). The most annoying thing with JavaScript right now is that Babel gives you all ES6 features in your front end bundle, but node 4 only has a subset, so you have to remember when you to stop using features. (No I don't want to transpile back end code).
This is a "me too" move by HP. Open network linux already exists, already uses ONIE, and is already a part of the open compute project.
http://opennetlinux.org/

This is just a land grab by HP.
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>Also big money doesn't control the govt -- there are lots of times where they don't get their way -- immigration reform being a prime example where nativist sentiment has stalled it for more than a decade even though the business community is largely for it.

Immigration reform is more of a fight between the corporations that want more legal immigrants to depress high wages (e.g. Facebook/FWD.us) and the corporations that want to keep employing illegals at sub-minimum wages (e.g. fruit & vegetable pickers).

This actually puts them in direct opposition to one another on a range of legislative issues.
"Most perpetrators of mass shootings (more than 4 people shot) do not have a diagnosable mental illness."

It's almost like there's an unwillingness to use the E-word to describe them.

"No sane person would do that."

"No, no good person would do that. Sane mass murders are evil."
As opposed to what, The NJT's readership ?
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> I hope they finish one day.

"Software is never finished, only abandoned."
I dunno about the TPP but the work of /u/phlogistic https://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlelistentothis/comments/vnqae...

is just mind boggling if you are interested in classical music.

note: some of the early links to some YouTube links are dead but it is not hard to search for alternative given the information provided.
What currently happens on reddit: the user (1) opens reddit (2) reads a page of titles without minimal scrolling, and (3) opens links that interest them. What happens with your design: the user (1) opens reddit and has to click through a directory, (2) has to scroll aggressively to go through content, and (3) is forced to look at everything. I'm not sure this is an improvement.

Also, two of the best things about reddit are its content density and assumed intelligence of the user. Where sites like Facebook spend hours picking the right icon at the right size for the laziest of users, reddit shows the relevant links and info about each post as a small row of text. These seem like (good) intentional design choices to me.

I get it's fun to design these "alternate interfaces" and I'll state emphatically that there's nothing wrong at all with doing so. reddit just isn't broken in any ways this fixes.
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Draftkings have been running ads heavily on Saturdays for college football. I think it's more than ESPN; I remember seeing the commercials on CBS as well.
I assume your rationale in blocking Android / Windows 10 devices is to only allow secure devices on your network.

But if all the other devices are secure, then what is the harm in allowing an insecure device onto the network?

I suppose they could become host an exit node or seed an illegal torrent or something, but you (personally) have indemnity as an impartial carrier in that case, right?

I'd also suggest looking into a segregated guest network.