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As the uncle of three teenage nieces, this article hit home for me. It's a look at some of the elaborate rules teenagers have created on how to use apps like Snapchat and Instagram to maintain their self-image and what it means to get insufficient likes.

It's amazing how mean I see girls being to my 15 year old niece on Instagram. Their little meangirl phrase is "tbh" - short for "to be honest." So they're write something nice, then "tbh" and then something mean. It goes like this, "you're a sweet girl but tbh your new backpack is kinda ratchet" or "your hair is beautiful but tbh u r slutty." Or whatever... I told my sister about this and she locked down her insta but she still gets random comments like this all the time. They all do.

Getting likes weighs on my neices 24/7. They were complaining when I took them to Star Wars that their insta photograph of them kissing yoda "only" got 15 likes.... and were considering deleting it! Because only 15 likes is about 30 too few likes.
The EU spends approximately the same per capita on direct farm subsidies as the US.

Your choice of words however would mislead people into believing that 40% of European national budgets are devoted to farm subsidies and that EU subsidies exceed US subsidies by a similar proportion. This is grossly untrue.

The difference is the US consumer realizes far less benefit. e.g. corn receives far more subsidies in the US than in the EU yet somehow is still more expensive to the US consumer.

What the US does have is an aversion to enforcing anti trust laws, tariffs designed to disadvantage consumers (eg on rice), a taboo on regulations and effectively no consumer advocates in government.
With so many exemptions to minimum wage laws (self-employed are exempted, family-owned businesses are exempted, waiters are exempted unless their tipping income does not put them over minimum, anybody working under 1099 is exempted) the comparisons become a bit muddled - a minimum wage worker who lost his position and decided to get some moving gigs or drive a few hours for Uber/Lyft certainly has "a job" for survey purposes, someone whose hours were cut certainly still has "a job", but the definitions have changed in-between.
I guess it depends on how you bracket the problem and how you define "large". According to http://www.marketswiki.com/mwiki/High-frequency_trading,

"It was estimated that as of 2010, high-frequency trading accounted for an estimated 50 to 70 percent of trading."
This doesn't really affect your point, but gas station attendants aren't completely gone - in New Jersey, it's illegal for a motorist to pump their own gas. The purpose, of course, is to keep those minimum-wage jobs around.
Similar question as with the other Uber posting: some of the positions look interesting... but can you share whether the SF or NY offices provide private office space or only open-plan offices?
That's not unusual for any app based on the JVM.
How come they're limitless when it comes to facing off against gravity, and completely defeatist when it comes to erasing class distinctions?

The key distinction in this problem is between overcoming fixed barriers of nature and overcoming the dynamic, highly adaptable nature of human beings. Personally, I don't believe we're ever going to come up with a fixed set of laws that could constrain the infinite range of human behaviour to the realm of fairness and make cheating impossible. At least not without eliminating all freedom for everyone.
Regarding the initials, isn't USSS somewhat standard? It avoids the unfortunate associations that come with SS.
Fantastic article as to how cracking was done back in the day. Plus, I've gotta give style points for it being formatted as 40 column, even if it isn't in all upper case, like files from back in the day would be. Though I was surprised he didn't check to see what that solitary bad sector was near the beginning of his explorations, because that was a pretty common way of keeping raw disk copy software from duplicating programs. All in all fascinating article.
I wonder if someone at Bing, ordered to do that, deliberately overdid it to make it clear Bing was censoring.
That's why I recommend using PouchDB to work with whatever API is available. Storage limits are harder to work around, but if your HTML snapshot weights more than 50MB (or even 1MB!) that it is a problem by itself.
There's a difference between "following the law" and eagerly participating in state-sponsored censorship.

There's also the fact that, in countries with basic human rights codified in their constitutions (i.e. most of the Western world), companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft make a lot of noise about protecting the rights of their users. But in less free nations, they tend to silently flip to the other side and go out of their way to appease the governments of those nations, especially wealthy ones like China. Hence the ease with which their services are manipulated in those countries.
I agree with your distinction between groups who care about "causal inference" like the debates between Judea Pearl and Andrew Gelman on the role of toy problems in statistics, and groups who care more about "prediction engineering" (as long as we are careful to also admit that people in the ML prediction engineering camp care very, very much about the theoretical properties of their methods, especially in avoiding overfitting, because engineering predicition in a climate of overfitting is useless).

I would just add a big third category that probably encompasses the vast majority of people who "work in statistics" and that would be people who are not interested in causal inference nor in predictive efficacy but are interested in a much less rigorous idea of "explanatory modeling" -- and this group generally is very poor with statistical hygiene.
It's possible to extrapolate too much from general biological trends. Considering that the hypothetical "new" protozoan is as likely to target black-bellied bustards as it is to target humans, and that malaria is an awful blight upon humanity, I expect most humans would be pleased to make the exchange.
I don't have an online source, but paper version of Business Week magazine did a graph on monetary value of each loophole for US Treasury, and carried interest impact was miniscule (remember that it's still taxed at 23.8% vs 39.6% if it was treated as income, and with so few people taking advantage of it, the total rake-in is rather small). Not that the loophole itself makes any sense.

If you want some major impact on government revenues (which would also open doors to things like public finance of campaigns, subsidized tuition, subsidized healthcare, etc.), remove the mortgage interest deduction and standard deduction, but then you quickly find out that one man's loopholes are another man's "Washington reaching into our pockets yet again".
D has integration with Python/Matplotlib too =P
http://pyd.readthedocs.org
http://d.readthedocs.org/en/latest/examples.html#plotting-wi...
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Most of the folks at my work just use the free version of IntelliJ instead of bothering to get a license from IT. Not sure your argument about it being $$ driven holds water
>The US redistributes enough money to the poor to make them richer than the UK

Source? Also what do you mean richer than the UK?
Why derail this over a word? Wage slavery is a well-known and widely-used term that is useful.
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The discussions prompted about what terms to use when talking about the various nations who preceded what is now called the USA and Canada are good.

The most accurate and respectful approach is to ask what actual nation some one is. Terms like 'Native American', 'what tribe are you from', etc., are frankly way off course. The best way to explain what I am trying to get at is to refer to the word 'European'.

When I fly and land in Germany, I don't ask someone which European tribe are they frok, or, 'how do I say Hello in European?'. When I go to Italy or Sweden or the Netherlands and ask, "how do I speak European?", the response will be, " well, since you are in Italy, you speak Italian", or, "In the Netherlands we speak Dutch". No European I've ever met self-identified, nor liked being called, a tribe of Europe. Nor would most visitors think in such terms.

But for some reason the various Nationalities in what is called the Americas have all been lumped into one large ephemeral group 'called' Indian, or Native American, or First Nations. When those terms are used with the same kind of understanding that the word European is used it reflects actual learning, understanding, and respect, which appears to be the attitude those involved in these discussions aim to possess.

So forget the words Indian, first Nations, Native American. What is important is what nation, or, what nationality the person, or group, is. The more this is practiced the more I believe the overall situation is helped.

Tl;Dr. Ask someone which nation they are, NOT what tribe they are.
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I've seen people run a Linux firewall in runlevel 0 (this is 100% possible if you disable the shutdown script) where the entire user space was disabled and only the netfilter stuff running in memory was active. This MASSIVELY limits the attack vectors to only the kernel itself and virtually nothing in user space while giving you a full Linux feature set, something I'm guessing Qubes doesn't yet do. I learned about this technique in the late 90s where a guy had 2 firewalls in active / failover mode using I believe LVS (also in kernel) with the sentry firewall cd (http://sentry.sourceforge.net). There was out of band VPN into the network which allowed serial access to reboot them but once the ACLs were burned onto the CD, it was as immutable as it gets with no serious way to harm anything. Besides it being slightly harder to manage, I can't believe no one else has tried it and written about it.

Sorry for getting side tracked, this looks absolutely fascinating and is another great use case for Qubes. The world of unikernels and containers / lightweight vms is clearly converging for immutable infra.
Wait, are we talking about humans or our nascent AIs? Humans need hope and social / political pressure-release-valves or else ... bloody revolution.
On jeez. I got halfway through the post reading it as "Magic Schoolbus" the entire time, and was very confused...
I'm on a ~5 year old Thinkpad (w/ an i5-520m; apparently it benches to roughly the same as the M-5Y31 that's probably in your macbook), but IDEA pins a couple cores on my processor to 100% for half a minute whenever it opens a project and incurs a noticeable delay when tabbing to and from its window. Compared to my work machine, IntelliJ truly crawls.

I suppose I'm asking, have you had _any_ responsiveness problems? Or does it work flawlessly?
How should it have been phrased?
If anyone is interested in learning more about the contemporary Indigenous world, my wife runs an excellent weekly email digest that focuses on First Nations, Inuit and Métis (IE primarily Canadian) topics. See: https://makook.com
In order to have intelligence, not just pattern recognition, systems must have analog of emotions.
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I assume it's

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chine...

but it wasn't "PRISM-like", it was an internal database of accounts under court ordered surveillance (in this case, orders specifically "issued under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act"), and it wasn't the attack vector, it was apparently the attack target.
This is just an assumption, but maybe it is because your comment had no relevance to the topic at hand.
Nitpick- BTC's market cap is ~$6.4B right now.
Sure they would. Just imagine we had a 100% VAT on all goods and services (except essentials such as food). Now imagine you're running ZannyPAC with a fund of $100 million dedicated to the campaign of Joe Sixpack for US president. By law right now you can't just give Joe Sixpack all that money; you have to spend it on his behalf through advertising, venues, promotional materials, etc. Well guess what? For all of those things you'd be stuck paying the 100% VAT; that means $50 million of your fund would be taxed and used to pay for services to help people: health care, child care, parental leave, housing.
I think the Atlantean's and their villagers that don't require drop-sites combined with their human infantry is overpowered.
He's not debating the merit of fast growth vs taking it slow, he's just pointing out terminology.

pg's 2012 essay http://paulgraham.com/growth.html suggested using the term "startup" for hypergrowth-oriented company, and the term "small business" for slow-and-steady approach.

Both types exist, deserve to exist, and are nown to end up at a different place than the original goal they had in mind. But using suggested terminology saves us from the replay of the same argument over and over.
I think the first two are, indeed, fairly simple from a technology perspective. CTOs in government (or whatever other role is responsible for making the data in question available) isn't simple or technology-related.

From my perspective -- both working with groups mandated to make data available and researchers consuming public datasets -- those responsible for making the data available DON'T get it in the vast majority of instances. It's tough to tell if it's obtuseness, incompetence, or... call it what you will, but if you are mandated to make information available that can directly assess your performance or the performance of the organization you lead, you might not have the right incentives.

A recent experience: the federal (US) government releases data regarding clinical trials conducted by drug companies and universities available for download in a format that they basically made up. OK, no problem, I've written lots of parsers. Ingest the data from the source files, but wait! There's no data dictionary or even a vague description of the relationships between the contents of the (many) files they publish. You can make pretty good guesses, but it definitely doesn't follow a well-documented API (or schema, whatever). Just a recent gripe that's stuck in my craw, but it's not an isolated case in my experience. I have come across a few that are very good and follow the best practices you note, but most I've worked with do not. I would guess that the former have your third characteristic; the latter likely do not.
The Bay Area is the exception, certainly. The question concerns whether other places would be more or less equal.

There are three assumptions behind the claim that wealth-seeking is better for income inequality:

1) rent-seeking is "easier money" than wealth creation (so if all physicists engaged in wealth creation instead of rent-seeking, as a group they'd end up having less money, hence less inequality for them v.s. non-physicists

2) wealth creation creates wealth, which in general is good for everyone, thereby reducing inequality by giving more people more stuff

3) wealth creating activities have a range of side benefits. E.g., unlike finance, it often requires recruiting, training, and leading teams to build things, which in turn creates jobs and better people, reducing inequality.
This does seem a bit crazy, but it's worth remembering that the named tuple is copied from Python. Although I suppose the excuse there is a lack of structs.
Interesting exploration and impressive persistence. This approach definitely provides more detailed information about how the process worked. This seems like the only approach that would have worked back in 1982.

Reading the description of the archive.org project at https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am&tab=about makes it clear that this effort intentionally deconstructs and documents the original copy protection.

Other than as an exploration of copy protection, though, I can't help but wonder if the simplest approach to preserve and run the same software today would involve an appropriate emulator, more accurate floppy drive emulation, and the unmodified original disk image. The crazy amount of self-decryption and obfuscated code wouldn't matter as long as it found what it expected on the disk; the modifications just let it run on real hardware using a copied disk.

Apart from allowing the use of the original unmodified disk, emulation would also avoid the possibility of missing more subtle copy protection schemes. This particular disk made things easier by just stopping the game at the start. Some of the worse copy protection mechanisms developed later would detect a copied game, leave it somewhat playable, but make it either exceptionally difficult or intentionally broken near the end. Sometimes they would include a more obvious copy protection scheme to defeat that prevented playing the game at all, so that a prospective cracker would think themselves successful once the game starts. See http://media.earthboundcentral.com/2011/05/earthbounds-copy-... for an example.
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Eclipse has gotten quite a bit better over the past couple of years. If you haven't tried it in a while, try again.
Is opting to pay inside with card only in some states?
Further - I would say it needs to happen. Not because I'm excited about the loss of privacy - but because until we lose that privacy, encryption won't become something relevant to the average person.
Encryption is a solution that expects "bad actors". When government succeeds in overtaking privacy, better encryption will prevail.
Can't recommend ToDoist for one reason - there is no straightforward way to duplicate sets of tasks. You can't copy and paste. Not in the iOS app, not in the web app, not in the Mac app. ToDoist is super inflexible and For that reason I had to bail.
Watching this particular dance has been interesting. And the whole Wayland / X discussion as well.

One of the more interesting thing about Graphics drivers has been that while it used to be the CPU that was doing the rendering, and so having it part of the kernel was critical, modern GPUs are so much more capable in terms of rendering than a typical CPU that you have this network interconnect in the form of PCIe and you more often than not have two very nearly distinct memory spaces, so it again is a triumph of multiprocessing over microkerneling (if that is even a word).
Reminds me of the time I installed Visual Studio 2015. That pig sprayed over 30 GB of files onto my HDD and still needed 3rd party plugins to be on the same level as IntelliJ.
What people forget is that what the big, old, sclerotic, 20th century companies did well was provide a functional wage for the 50% of people who were below average.

It's lovely that the 1% are paid what they are worth. It's not so lovely that 50% are now paid minimum wage or, worse, zero.
The answer is HTTPS. Unless China can compromise the whole country's OSes by forcing them to install a security certificate that lets them impersonate Wikipedia, Google, etc, they can't block individual pages on sites that only serve over https * They can only block whole sites. Wikipedia forces https sitewide for just this reason. Selective censorship isn't permitted.

Fun fact #1: That's believed to be why the Chinese government orchestrated the attacks against github in April 2015 using the great firewall to distribute infected javascripts via Baidu. They were trying to force github to take two projects offline that were being used to get around the great firewall and gain access to the unedited NY times online. The Chinese government can't selectively block those projects because github enforces https sitewide.

* Fun fact # 2: An intermediary of China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) issued several fake certificates for Google-owned domains in March of 2015. Google untrusted the certificates in Chrome and Android and Mozilla did the same in Firefox.
My gripe with using a relational database as a priority queue is tends not to scale well. (Similarly as if you tried to use a relational database as a queue).

Once you get to the 10s of millions of messages per day (for example ~8M at priority X and 2M at priority Y), performance tends to go down the drain (due to contention), disk space bloats (due to vacumming/deletes).

I've yet to come across a good task scheduling system that will take into the account resources available and the priority of the tasks, while still usable on a largish dataset that isn't a pain to maintain.
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PG does appear to want to do a better job than the rest of his industry and he should be applauded for that.

But there is very little evidence that PE or VC funding adds much value to a company through advice or services: the poor performance of post-boom PE funds and their companies, for example, suggests that such claims are vastly exaggerated. I recently had a conversation with the head of a very successful fund who, reflecting on the aftermath of the financial crisis, openly expressed his doubt that his fund had really helped the companies they bought stakes in. He, of course, became exceedingly rich and the steady stream of inflated IPOs produced healthy returns for the funds investors (at least until they didn't.) A large part of the problem is that the compensation model (the traditional "2 and 20") is geared towards the capital providers not the entrepreneurs or indeed to social benefits. Funds are incentivised to raise huge sums of capital from sources who offer nothing but cash and a healthy appetite for risk and over-capitalise the companies they fund (the fund earns 2% on invested external capital regardless of how it performs). To compensate the investors, the funds rely almost exclusively on extracting a very large profit from the few "unicorns" that succeed outrageously (of which the fund gets to keep 20%, or sometimes more). Taking $100 million from a single company is hard to justify, however greatly you value the advice and support you got. And the many worthy productivity-enhancing near-successes are left to flounder. PG may like to focus on the positive impact he is having helping founders succeed, but the reality of his business model is strongly skewed to financial rent extraction.
Do you think emotion is necessary for all (not just human) intelligence? Or do you think emotional intelligence merely is one form of intelligence? Or perhaps it helps other forms? How do you define (what do you mean by) intelligence?

I would be more inclined to agree with your statement if it was restated as "In order to act in a human-like way, systems probably need an analog of human emotions."
Ensemble was a truly great studio. I hear people rag on AoE3 but I personally don't think Ensemble ever missed. Once. Between you and Westwood, RTS was pretty great for a long time.

Whatever you did for them, thanks for some really fun entertainment across many years of my own life.
I'm both impressed and terrified that most of this article makes sense to me, even thirty years later.

It feels like writing the protection must have taken longer than developing the game itself.

If you're curious, here is the actual game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wEWftbwSm4

Hard to imagine they went to that amount of trouble to protect it, but those were different days.
Why does this require C++14?
I've not tried it yet, but it gives me an impression very similar to that of Forth, in particular ColorForth. Very fascinating.

I think the author would get along with Chuck Moore ({Color,}Forth's original author) very very well, and that they'd resonate on a lot of points. It'd be cool to be a fly on the wall watching that back and forth :P (...pun not intended...)

Also, while a little tricky to discuss, I wanted to point out to whoever finds the site design jarring that this individual seems very open-minded to change and evolutionary development, and to me resembles somewhat of a polymath who only stumbled on the social nature of the Web quite recently. The source code looks very clean, and I suspect the 2010 copyright date I found in the code is not all that far away from the point the site was started at.