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Context: some time ago on reddit there was a post about the most popular cities that use reddit. One of the cities was the one where Eglin Air Force Base is in Florida.

It is known that the cyber-ops team is based from there. There was a lot of astro-turfing going on, and in one of the wikileaks(?) post that came out - it was revealed that one of the founders of reddit was attempting to sell his services to the USG and others to show them how to drive/control/manipulate online sentiments (shilling).

There are a number of other cases about this online and in reddit in particular.

My comment was based on the fact that anything negative about GS appears to be immediately downvoted regardless of the veracity of the statement, if it even appears to be slightly negative.

My statement, then, is that I feel that GS is running/paying for a service to monitor any mentions of them and either (on social sites that allow votes) downvote these statements or, at times, post shill responses.

However, on a site like HN, any overly positive response to any denigrating response to GS would certainly be too transparent as astro-turfing, thus they simply downvote.
Are you talking about google paying the website for each click/impression or are you talking about advertisers paying google for each click/impression. Both are termed under impressions (CPM or PPM). And in both cases google loses money in rolling out this feature.
That is fascinating, thanks. There definitely is point where the primary life hazard is us and we fail to realize it sometimes.

Reminds me of the speech from The Edge. "Most people in the wilderness die of shame ... instead of thinking".

That said, all fatal fire reports have one thing in common. All the people who read them think "I have no clue what I would have done if that was me".
No, they didn't assume a risk of "oh, let's just forget the whole debt thing, who cares about that stuff anyway".
Man that author is spreading so much ignorance. He is a defeatist. He didn't figure out how to stand properly so now he is on some mission to justify his own failure. Standing desks are not the answer unless you have good standing posture and know how to move. He makes a few decent points but then he smears them together in a completely idiotic way. It's more complicated than he would have readers believe.

Isn't this just basic psychology then when you fail at something you try to justify why you didn't want to do it anyway? i.e. Tickets to the concert are sold out -> "I didn't want to go see Black Sabbath anyways. They aren't that good and they're too expensive anyways."
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So, is this incorrect or am I just misunderstanding it? I intended my original statement in the context of functional truth, because the ownership of the actual landmass doesn't seem to matter when we are discussing a legal/political issue.

"While diplomatic spaces remain the territory of the host state, an embassy or consulate represents a sovereign state. International rules do not allow representatives of the host country to enter an embassy without permission --even to put out a fire -- and designate an attack on an embassy as an attack on the country it represents."

http://diplomacy.state.gov/discoverdiplomacy/diplomacy101/pl...

Edit: I think it should have been pretty obvious that I wasn't claiming that it actually is one of the United States, only that it represents a sovereign state.
> So what I did was bought a beefier android phone (not that beefy, just a Nexus 5), and flashed FirefoxOS on it :)

Isn't going from Android to FFOS taking a few steps backwards?
OK not new tools. But great tools. Most of the tools the web offers are pieces of shit - many developers will agree to that.

And many complain that the web stack sucks. The simple example - you have to learn css, html, javascript, and some backend language - just to build say a business site, when you could do so, at a higher level, just by pointing and clicking and entering some code with something like microsoft lightswitch(which was discontinued).
Web development is fine.

- There are loads of options for the back-end – Rails if you're building something CRUDdy, Java if you're building something enterprise-y, Go if you're building a simple API, Node if you like Javascript… They're all suited to particular niches, and it's great.

- The front-end is getting much better. For quite a while we had nothing except mad DOM-twiddling, then we had jQuery (which helped to some extent), now we have better frameworks that work more effectively with the way we want to develop apps. And there are options there too – React can help to control view complexity, for example, or you can go right ahead and build a full SPA using Angular or Ember or whatever.

Now I'm no fan of using Node for a server app. Personal opinion is that there's no requirements that aren't fulfilled better by another language. And indeed, I'm often frustrated by the extent to which people develop SPAs for things that should be static sites - Blogger, I'm looking at you.

But you know what? I'd take this in a second over the buggy soup of untested PHP, incompatible browsers, Prototype.js, IE6 and so on from only six or seven years ago. It's so incomparably better in every way.
What I particularly like about Forereads is that it's not just another news aggregator that drowns you in tones of curated info, thus throwing you back into an "analysis/paralysis" vicious circle.

The algorithm selects only a few tweets from experts. Less is more.

Congrats PJ
> The Windows versions of iTunes was crappy.

Oh joy. I remember those days when people were angry because plugging your iPod into a new PC means wiping your library!

> That said, I don't buy the "Apple software went downhill as of late" thing.

Perception on Mac after people switch from Windows to Mac OSX immediately is awesome. The perception is different if you use Mac OSX for a long time and suddenly you see computer frozen every few days and requires a hard reboot. Many of that have to do the software you are running at the time, but why a sudden OS freeze, mouse couldn't move? That can't be a fault with Office / Skype, it has to be either a OS issue, or underlying hardware issue.

Mac OSX is generally really great, it doesn't feel slow compare to a lot of the PC out there. Polished UI and very responsive. In some release you do see slowness opening between finders or moving from one setting view to another. Those are defects people will cry and ask those defects weren't caught by the performance team.
Your initial point is not valid. All you said was that you're going to wait -- there was no mention of spending on games in the same genre.

Inaction (i.e. waiting only) is not easily measured by game developers without spending money or doing additional work on market research or surveys. Waiting by itself incentivizes nothing.
And it would seem in literacy and numeracy. 2013 OECD study on England's 16 to 24-year-olds: - 22nd for literacy and 21st for numeracy out of 24 countries.
Why not use the Tensorflow Docker images?

Or if you think they are too old, you can rebuild them manually, it will still be easier than installing all the dependencies manually.

There is also an easier way of downloading cuDNN v2 (there is no such thing as cuDNN v6.5 by the way):
https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/blob/master/ubuntu-1...
> I've also found it nearly impossible to gain any leverage or visibility within the company.

How have you asked?

Can you make a short list of 6–10 senior individuals in your company that you can get access to? These might be Director or VP types.

Ask them (in-person preferably) if they have any projects or assignments you might be able to assist them on. Tell them you're reaching out, looking for a new challenge and professional growth.

They will likely welcome your initiative and assertiveness. And you might be surprised what new opportunities this creates for you.

Ultimately, changing companies and moving away is easy. But the challenge of raising your visibility and getting career traction doesn't go away. You can get what you want, by helping others get what they want.
His terms probably include that the country promises not to agree to any extraditions unless the extraditing country also agrees to the terms of not sending him to the US and not allowing further extraditions without the same promise.

IE, Sweden would not give him to Australia unless Australia also agreed to not let him be extradited to the US or any country that does not promise to maintain the promise.
It can in the browser they control...
I have no problem with people giving that advice, and agree with it myself.

However, if you're going to dispute the premise of the question, you need to explicitly say so and connect it to the alternate point you're making rather than expect readers to see the connection; otherwise, it looks like you're just being non-responsive.

And indeed, that's what the thread looks like now.
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The proposed partnership basically amounts to your becoming part of your customer's business. The hard facts are:

+ Such a partner can leverage lower prices for their business and under the deal, you get half of the lower price and half of whatever higher price you can get elsewhere.

+ Such a partner is in a position to influence the structure of deals with their competitors in particular and other potential customers in general. This may kill some deals while lowering prices to others.

+ Such a partner can put the needs of their business above those of other customers in terms of resource commitment.

+ In general, this looks like someone who is optimizing for their interests over yours. That's not a good basis for a partnership.

+ The terms are onerous as described. If a business is in dire straights that's not uncommon. Decide if it is, and determine if it's better to walk away or start over or essentially work for $0.50 on the dollar for the new partner.

My gut tells me that if the potential partner thought the business was mainly cash positive, they'd make a traditional loan against future revenue and if the business was more growth positive, they'd make a traditional equity investment.

That they want both is worrying. On the charitable end, it fails to recognize that your long term incentives are diminished by the deal (even if your short term incentives might not be). On the uncharitable end...well the terms are not favorable.

My personal experience is that people who want to exchange a great deal up front for the promise of lots of business down the road are full of shit and are the worst sort of customers. Bad clients are worse than no clients because they impede finding good clients: e.g. those who pay full rate and on time.

Serious people know the market and negotiate from there: only amateurs and grifters express absurd expectations. The absurdity of the offer, not its merit, is what makes it hard to come to terms with.

To put it another way, does £6.5k profit on £110k in revenue over 7 months sound better or worse? That's what's on offer.

Good luck.
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Perhaps I should clarify -- I am (happily) not involved in web development, and from the developer's side browsers may very well be in pretty good shape these days (I wouldn't really know).

But speaking purely as a user, I think the statement "browsers suck, like really bad" still holds very true.
Do you like this? Something for a very fast reaction
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If Apple made a new OS, using a Linux kernel, and getting rid of the NeXT framework stuff (no more Objective C bullshit, no more deprecated Carbon, or Cocoa/ObjC/Swift), I think it would work pretty well.
Really like the architecture of streams driving updates to surfaces.
This number is pretty deceiving. The degree of separation is meaningful only if you can actually leverage your relationship to pass on the message in the graph. In FB graph, I would think that vast number of relationships are not mutual, active or "leveragible".

Here's better way to find degrees of separation:

Assign each relationship some weight. For example, if two people haven't interacted mutually with each other than weight is much higher and vice versa. Now compute all pairs shortest path and take average. This would give a much better picture of actual degree of separation.
To be clear, Freon is just a name for the graphics access model. There's no free-standing freon library per se (All is scattered as bits and bobs between Chrome, ozone and aura)

I've been building a generic windowing system, basically just a pet project to get a custom Aura window manager running on Ubuntu without chome OS.

I started by checking out, building and getting frecon to run from here:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/frecon...

This gets you input and display using Linux KMS and DRM.

Next, dig into Ozone code and dig into the drm platform code to figure out how Aura (the window manager) builds.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/ui/ozo...

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/ui/aur...

That's basically where I'm at - I have a KMS screen init'ed and am able to push pixels. I'm still working on getting GL wired in correctly myself.
I'm not sure if you know what the "first amendment" is. I'll tell you what it isn't, it's not a magical trump card that lets you say whatever you want.
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My theory on the decline of Apple software is that they're starting to have the Windows legacy problem. Years ago Apple was able to wipe the slate clean and build a modern toolset exactly the way they wanted without having to worry about legacy support, but now they don't have that luxury. Refactoring technology is hard, and it's way harder when you have a lot of developers dependent on the things you want to refactor, and it's even harder when you have a huge ecosystem like an OS.
This is kind of a weird article to me. I've been using a standing desk for about...three years now? Somewhere around there. When I'm tired (which stopped being a major concern after about three weeks for me, but if I'm standing for a couple hours straight without doing much moving it can be a little annoying) I pull up my draft-height chair, which I got for a hundred bucks, and sit for a while. Then I stand again.
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Caveat: i havent used it on my main machine yet, so a lot of this is impressionistic; feel free to correct.

Still a total disregard of Fitt's law. Horribly inconsistent keyboard support. Behaviour that should be trivially configurable seemingly set in stone. Still, I think, impossible to cut a file in Finder. However many shots that take, apple can't get WiFi working properly. The transparency is an abomination.

If you want something more 'big picture', I think all the changes introduced over the lifetime of OSX have been a bit piecemeal with no overall, unifying process. For example, full-screen mode gets bolted on, rather than nicely integrated with other window actions. Notifications blossom into a side panel, but there's an overlap with bouncing icons in the dock. Etc. There are some great ideas there, but we could really do with an OS11 that picks the best ones and presents them together, in a clean interface, in which they all belong.
I used to have a Firefox add-on which rated the sites linked to in Google ads.[1] I could have deleted the ads, but didn't. Should I bring that back?

It was amusing to run that. Ad quality was much better on some sites than others. Ads on Business Week pages were generally legitimate. Ads on entertainment sites were awful.

Totally deleting ads seems to have won out over merely thinning them out.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adrater/
I've been refusing to use Scrapy because of not being able to use Python 3 :P So this is a very exciting announcement for me.
If you're standing absolutely still at your standing desk, you're kind of crazy. I'm constantly moving; right now I'm sort of idly shifting back and forth from left foot to right. And my arms aren't held out in front of me, they're at my sides and bent loosely at the elbow to reach my keyboard and mouse. When I'm not typing and just thinking a bit, I stick my hands in my pockets, too--I don't leave them sitting on the desk.)
The server side used to be sane. It was where your sanity was when the client side was ridiculous. Now it feels like server side is just a ridiculous as the client side used to be.
One feature I've looked for is "completely" nested mind-maps. What I mean is that when I click on a node, I want the outer mind map to completely disappear as I zoom into the clicked node as an entirely new, nested mind-map. Even with collapsing, traditional mind-maps have too much information overload for me.
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I lol'd at this trend the second I heard about it. Friggin' hipsters.
I think the relevant bits are in the second half of the article. Squats, stretches and general moving around is good for anyone who has a sedentary job. Too much sitting or standing is not a good idea overall.
This is why tiny houses on trailers took off; it sidesteps building code due to them being classified as RVs.
A MOOC to be a mook.
You're probably right - I wouldn't even bother trying it with query strings, though.
Also isn't clear at all if they're accounting for multiple comparisons. Given they're looking at (glancing through they paper) at least seven or eight cell phone related factors, it'd be pretty crucial here.
> How connected is the world? ... we've crunched the Facebook friend graph and determined that the number is 3.57

Agreed. this statement is presumptuous and self-aggrandizing and just incorrect. They should re-word this sentence and its implication.
This talk covers the concept of doing "deep work" very well in my opinion
I don't think you understand...normal people are both the creditors and the debtors. Banks are just the intermediaries that take a cut from the normal people on both ends for "efficiently allocating assets that would otherwise accrue suboptimal rates of interest."

The real problem is that the banks are allowed to take risks without paying the price for these risks when they do not pan out. We have set a precedent that the large financial institutions are too big and too important to fail, and thus they may operate with quasi-impunity knowing that they might have to cut some junior employees/restructure/spin off some divisions in the event of a downturn, but that the revolving door between the public and private realms will always be open, through which both taxpayer money/credibility and new jobs will always flow to those at the top. Nobody will go to jail for being a self-interest optimizing sociopath because our legal and economic system is set up to favor corporations and those with the money to thoroughly defend themselves rather than society as a whole.
Somewhere in the dark recesses of my closet is a "System 7.5 sucks less" shirt. What's old is new again, I suppose.
Draft-height chairs are great for this. So's my exercise bike, which fits perfectly under my desk if I take the handlebars off.
I remember the initial Windows release of Safari. Apple insisted on doing their own font rendering, and the result was blurry headache-inducing text.
That spinning colored wheel issue went away for me when I upgraded from 4GB RAM to 20GB. It was constant and terrible in El Capitan before I did that, though.
then finally filtered out to the lazy 98.8% who couldn't be bothered disposing of their phone and buying a new one (or>rooting and upgrading their phone manually or abandoning their contract to get the marginal improvements over now-mature products).

This is the bulk of what I was referring to in the comment. The first line is a blatant attack against anyone who is not willing to part with their phone. By even telling users that is what they should do with their Android phone, the author is supporting this viscous cycle.
Clock has bugs. I've had alarms not go off 3 times in the last year. Pictures to prove it because when the alarm goes off it's no longer "on" (its switch is slide to the off position) so the fact that the switches are still on 30 minutes after the alarm time past means the alarm didn't go off. Nearly missed a flight.

Music once it went flat UI is now complete crap. It drives me nuts all the time and I use it often because there really isn't an alternative.

While I'm ranting one thing that's been bad from the beginning is the locked music UI. The next track button is just a few mm from the volume slider which means about once every 2 weeks I blow my ears out trying to skip to the next track. That "feature" carried over to the toolbar menu (or whatever the slide up menu is called)

http://imgur.com/a/gJ3QN
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Boot to Gecko is an open source technology stack. Firefox OS is a product built on that stack. B2G can live on if there's interest from enough hackers and testers.

A decade ago, Mozilla abandoned the Mozilla Application Suite in favor of Firefox, both built on the Gecko technology stack. Because a product ends doesn't mean the open source technology ends too.

(BTW, volunteers picked up the Mozilla Application Suite, renamed it to Seamonkey, and it still runs today.)
As a meteorjs dev, I feel like web dev is the easiest it's ever been.
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Just don't expect any answers to serious questions.

Like to what extent their software is used in planning drone strikes and other military operations. And what, exactly, Palantir knows about the number of civilians killed and maimed in these operations. Let alone how any of the engineers working there, behind their hoodies and their high-end headphones -- perhaps reading this very thread right now, as we speak -- personally feel about this situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_US_dr...
What's the battery life? That's a HUGE issue on mobile devices and it's something that you really have to optimize for. I'm surprised it isn't mentioned on the page (or, suspicious it's not good and was omitted on purpose).

Running generic Linux (as opposed to something highly customized like Android) makes me worry the battery life won't be that great.
> I think it's pretty clear that the bar for safety must be much higher (10x) than human-level for these to be accepted by consumers.

You might be right about that, I just don't see why it should be the case. Humans are not very good at driving safely, it seems like an easy bar for robots to clear. Even if robots are "only" twice as safe, we should all jump at the opportunity to halve injuries and deaths from auto accidents.
I would suspect that was not the case 50 years ago. There are plenty of "medical tourist" destinations where you can go to get a very complicated medical procedure done and they will tell you exactly how much it will cost before hand.

From a U.S. physician's perspective, knowing what insurance you have is obviously going to be a prerequisite to estimating the cost (unless its one of the rare doctors who accepts no insurance). Different insurances cover different things, different providers, different procedures, different prescriptions, then there's the issue of deductibles, contracted costs, etc. It's a complicated mess, and while I don't know enough about the laws affecting health insurance companies and doctors, I would suspect there are regulations which exasperate the problem. Clearly Obamacare (mandating everyone have insurance) is not going to fix the problem.