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Indeed. I don't recall uploading data to LinkedIn, but it's possible I gave it permission to access my email at some point. If I did so, it would have been years ago. Problematically, that data has now been stored on LI servers, so I can't revoke access.
The data changes real-time, but I guess they use some older reference point to calc % change so Google Finance shows -5% while Yahoo Finance shows -1%.

Edit: the absolute value is actually correct, it's the reference change that scared me.
You can innovate around the issue, like some of the comments mention.

You should focus on growing sustainably, instead of selling yourselves to advertisers for quick cash. God knows there are a plethora of other places we can get our content from.
There's enough information pollution in our daily lives - I won't accept you polluting my reading of your 'well-written' articles.

So, in summary... good riddance.
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Twitter is a poster child for why diversity is key. Not racial, but socioeconomic. Twitter is very popular with people who have reached a certain threshold of technical competence. After that though it falls away quickly. They needed to really hire non SF based techno geeks and advisors to change the product. It was pretty telling when older people on their board never used it.

My Dad loves FB; he's kind of the family stalker now where no picture or comment goes unnoticed! He really wanted to use Twitter but has given up after multiple failed attempts. I think that's their problem in a nutshell. He so wanted it to work.
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Same here. I wonder how long it will take before people get used to it.
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The Microcorruption folks are in beta for 'Jailbreak' along the security angle again. They are also doing Stockfigher a trading simulator. https://www.stockfighter.io
I can see that's an interesting idea - but most "enterprise" products already have pretty tight email integration and with the growth in popularity of IM tools is that niche really wide enough to support a "Twitter at work"?
As far as I understand the article, a lambda generally is a closure (or more accurately: is generally implemented as a closure), but that's expensive and it can often be optimized into something cheaper. At least by Guile.
I hope their webpage isn't an indication of performance of EC2! I keep getting timeouts and errors :(
And if they cannot add more users, they need to streamline their operations to fit their costs into their revenues. If they choose not do so, or do not have the capability to do so, then they fail.
Well, yes, the idea that there will be GC pauses and you just cannot get a _consistent_ framerate no matter how hard you try does not sound good. (Disclaimer I currently write games with Unity ;D)
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That means if you keep releasing updates for a project for 5 years, you need renewed permission from them, right?
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Yes. I got a letter from OPM detailing what may have been compromised an offering me some identity theft protection/monitoring service. They got my SF-86 (https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf) and my fingerprints, so pretty much everything.
I've asked many IBM employees to explain to me what Watson actually does (like for real, not the marketing BS that's on TV) that would make me want to buy it. Nobody could explain it. Literally some where just like "yeah, I think they're still trying to figure out how they can make a product out of it."

The Jeopardy thing was cool but since then it's turned into this mystery black box that will supposedly solve all your problems, but nobody's can seem to point to any real successes that would matter to a business. Honestly it seems mostly like marketing fluff built on some midly proprietary distributed computing technology.
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Although we don't know who's responsible for it (and fairly doesn't really matter), I think any transparency activist would consider this to be a step in the right direction.

Looking forward to the next act of transparency.
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you said "a lot of the development cycle", as someone who hates Xcode I worry that won't be enough (not making anything requiring compilation on mac at moment, so not particularly worried)
One hour a week? That's a lot. But I guess it's not that you have to do this but that you can and want to spend/invest this much time.

I run my own email, XMPP, various storage (git), few simple websites and a bunch of minor services. I tinker with those, like, maybe just an hour or two a year. When I feel like I want to tinker with stuff, or I learn that I need to update.

Oh, well, and I had a bad day once in ten years when the hardware failed. Luckily, that was just a PSU failure, so besides the outage while I had to get a new one it wasn't a big deal - didn't even had to touch the backups. And this only applies when you host it on your own hardware.

Otherwise, things just work.
Holy fuck, this is cool.

We've actually been thinking about this exact problem recently and were considering building something like this. This should prove a great proof of concept / starting point for our work.

Awesome.
The last 15 years of IBM has basically been open.

1) They're in the top 5 re: Linux contributors. (Guess who else is in there? Microsoft.)

2) They dropped their JVM (J9) for OpenJDK - again upstreaming their patches to the community.

3) Eclipse was founded by them in 2001 (later released into the public domain).

4) They released (at least part of) their ML system "SystemML" into the public domain as well, during the same month MS opened theirs and Google opened TensorFlow.

They aren't patent trolls in the sense of those Texas LLP's who lease a few hundred square feet and fire off scare-letters. They hold a lot of patents because they are one of the few companies that actually funds pure research. They make a ton of money by bilking banks/the feds/states who still run their RMV on AIX @ 2mill a year in support contracts, etc, who are vendor-locked in. A not insignificant amount of money goes to:

5) Post-docs from really smart uni's to publish theoretical comp sci work in more journals than you'd imagine, which guess what? is also public domain!

They're really not hurting the consumer at all. In fact, I honestly don't see how they could be MORE open.

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[1] (And guess Who's not upstream'ing much at all but making billions off community written software? I'll give you a hint, its not Barnes & Noble! Even VMware donated back to FreeBSD. Support HN users who actually pay-it-forward[2] and use Tarsnap[3] instead of S3.)

[2] https://www.freebsdnews.com/2015/02/25/donate-freebsd-founda...

[3] www.tarsnap.com . Not affiliated with Colin but he's been a long-time HNer who isn't a conglomerate, taking GPL/BSD software, slapping a pretty coat of paint on it and selling it for huge margins. Pay a few cents extra and support startups. Karma, guys. < /preachy hippie shit>
...should at least make you question the official guides.

No extant suggestion or evidence (fairly disputable that there's none) is not the same as "never happened in the Colosseum", and certainly "retroactively invented" in entirety (highly disputable) does not follow from "never happened in the Colosseum".
"I attribute that mostly to the quality of Google Maps severely degrading in recent years."

Seriously? I can't see how that would happen unless you're living somewhere prone to dramatic road rebuilding. Or do you mean the quality of the Google Maps interface?
Is this really a KPI? It is really only measurable, not directly improvable. In addition, what does "improving" it mean? Is low good or bad? If we had a highly functional system and were growing 1000% then this number goes way up. Is that bad? This number, IMO, communicates very little between a CTO and CEO.

In additon, this number has no intrinsic value component. What is the value of being able to migrate to another system? Who cares? Rewrite for what? Does code rot? Are there bad spots like an apple? Does recreating the apple keep bad spots from being created next time?

There are only 4 states for a rewrite value judgement:

1. App is small and provides little business value..so who cares.

2. App is big, but low values so what's it matter.

3. App is huge and high value so better be very very careful.

4. App is small and high value, so why?

Your ratios restate that and provide no additional information in the only state that matters which is number 3.
How so?

10 (say) lines of code, 0 lines covered by tests, test coverage is 0/10. No division by zero, nothing undefined happening.
LinkedIn is ostensibly about "business networking" as well as job hunting/offering. If I wanted to join your suggested service, I might not be looking for work, but I might want to get an introduction to an interesting colleague through friend-of-a-friend style introductions.

Perhaps that could be added to your wish list, again as opt-in/-out functionality.
The day we can have a discussion on text editors without someone trying to slip in a little dig like that... well, it's a day that's not coming anytime soon.
Language is a convention. It can change.

The convention seems to be the data is these days. Like agenda, which took the same road in the past.
Your dad sounds like me! I can #not @understand @twitter #at #all. Every message is 90% noise.

Facebook on the other hand, is full of interesting news from people I love. Technology has come a long way when I get more accurate news from my mums friends than I do from the local TV news station. Our village had floods and the local pumping station failed, Facebook friends (and shared posts) kept us all in the loop and organised sands bags, pumps and help for the elderly.
That's not what "hacker" means. An Hacker is some person who enjoys tinkering with systems. You mean "cracker".
The rewrite had already taken place (the pocket version of Minecraft).
He "just" tweaked the graphics pipeline to minimize latency using techniques such as asynchronous timewarp, optimize framerate and add the other VR related stuff.
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That would be true for a toy Haskell compiler. “The standard” Haskell compiler, GHC, can do a whole lot of optimisations and produces really good machine code nowadays.
Theranos should take this as a clear sign of what they need to prepare for if they can't clearly explain the shenanigans they've been accused of, some of which are similarly brazen flaunts of well-established agency/industry regulation.
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> Soon we will need to pay for every site we visit. That's aweful.

I don't think that is something bad. For example clickbait would slowly disappear - without ads there is no need to trick users into more page views.
I agree with you and this is a reminder of how critical it is to use a different password for these accounts and for your email address. Because LinkedIn put what is essentially a fishing screen in front of you where they ask you for your email address and password. Now you can very easily have used your email address to log in to LinkedIn and therefore you can easily assume this is linked in asking you to relogin. What you don't realize is you're giving up your email address and email password if they have a good match what you think you're typing in to login to LinkedIn
There are a few differences:

* CGI is the closest UNIX thing you can find, fork a process, write on STDIN, read from STDOUT. Lambda actually is a framework for running javascript/java/python code, from which you can call actual binaries.

* Lambda's attractive point is that containers are reused, which means that instead of paying the full price of a new process your context is already "hot", even for the actual binary you run. That means less latency and less CPU usage, allowing you to scale far more easily

I'm no Lambda user so I'm possibly wrong, but the idea and execution behind sure looks nice.
EuroTopics is a daily press review that has a correspondent network that scans the press in 30 European countries (the EU plus Switzerland and Turkey) and publishes translations of opinion pieces from those countries.
Yeah, it just now occurs to me that the low oil prices could be (partly) explained by a hugely slowing world economy. We could be in the midst of a massive depression and because of all the BS loans we don't even know it.

So what to do? Buy gold?
The comments here are full of lame hypocritical excuses. First it was "I don't wanna ads but I would pay for quality content". Now when outlets give you the option to pay "It is too complicated to pay every single publisher". When publisher will join to enable a single payment solution system the excuse of the day will be "Oh, this is too expensive..."
>Your signature is exactly supposed to be the "clear and convincing evidence" that you read and agreed to the contract.

And if a signature can be substituted for informed consent, well I have this crayon signature from a child promising me a billion dollars if I let them play one of my video games. The signature clearly outlines that they understood and consented to the agreement.
3DS Max definitely exists. Autodesk is still supporting them, and not as a 'oh this is just an auxiliary side project'. The breakdown (oversimplified) is Maya is more for complicated models used in animation/CGI (MEL scripting is their 'killer' tool that puts it ahead of Max), while things like architectural and game models are mostly done in 3DS Max (but theres a lot of overlay between the two, i.e., I've seen tons of work done in game modelling on Maya LT).

Speaking of which, Maya LT is not that badly priced for what you get - I have no animation ability but I've seen my friends do some incredible things with it. If you're artistically inclined, have a play. Regardless, the lack of Blender support makes me sad.
The website sucks. It asked me twice about my email. Fucking twice. Cant read that shit.
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Hey! This was built at HackCambridge (and it won first prize)! Great to see it here - it's such a cool project.
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Agreed. I was recently miffed when they switched their RSS feed to only include a snippet instead of actual content. I was also recently miffed when Forbes started blocking ad blockers.

I have subscribed to the Wired print magazine off & on over the past decade and never paid more than $10/yr for it. I am not currently subscribing, but if presumably they'll put their best content in print, too, why in the world would anyone pay 5x the print cost for online access?
On Facebook, my feed is full of thousands of amateur writers trying to interest me with cats, jokes, rants, and family pictures. They also do news, politics, religion, and anything else they think will get attention (including like-begging)

On Wired, I got what? 100 folks all doing the same thing only with more taste and style?

I get the fact that Wired, on average, is better consumable content than Facebook, but hell, Facebook is free. The rest of the net is free.

I do not have an answer for the Wired guys, but I gotta admit it's sad/funny that Facebook and Google are such close partners with so many content providers. They're the guys driving the bus that's taking you over the cliff.

For the record, I own the device or app that consumes my content over the net. If I choose to own a device or app that only displays text, or only displays text from certain domains? That's my business, not yours. You can certainly turn the spigot off or on, and perhaps you'll get me to pay for you turning it on, but that's the limit of our interaction on this matter. What kind of device I use or whether or not I see certain things you want me to see is none of your freaking business.

In addition, as far as I'm concerned, any information I provide back to the server about what kind of browser I'm using is highly provisional and subject to change without notice. It is a courtesy that I provide anything.

It continues to amaze me that people who are in the business of providing entertainment somehow feel that it's a good thing to go to war with the people they are entertaining. For the life of me I just don't get how that makes any sense.

One day somebody is going to write a "meta browser", a browser that opens up other browsers in invisible windows and surfs the web, then sucks out filtered content for the user to consume. (There would be a provision for faking out credentials, spoofing the signature, resetting the cookies, signing up under assumed/real names, and so forth) Once that day comes, both the browser vendors an the content providers are going to be unhappy. But that's where we're headed if this radar vs. radar detector battle continues forward. Content consumers will win. They always do. (I imagine we're going to see a big push for legislative relief here. Prepare yourselves.)
I feel Watson is very heavily marketing heavy. I've tried their APIs and their technology is very limited in functionality and accuracy. I have seen too many videos around "cognitive abilities" but their application at the moment from trial runs seems to be extremely crude.
It depends on where you are, and for some countries only certain % of the population will get it as it ramps up slowly. For some products, the new isn't ready so it falls back to the old stack. It could be due to the ramp, WIP, or just that the old code is too old to the extent no one wants/dares to modify it.
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I'm a pretty tech savvy guy, a pretty competent programmer and data analyst, and I cannot figure out how to use Twitter. I mean, I know physically how to create an account and tweet, and I've made multiple tries of getting into it, but can't find a use for it. So much noise.
That sounds like a good reason to not use indentation – since Zig is so low-level, it is a good candidate for machine-generation. But I can’t think of a good reason for Zig to separate statements with semicolons instead of unescaped newlines. Zig-generators should be able to generate "\n" as easily as ";".

The only reason to keep semicolons I can think of is to look familiar to C programmers, so as not to scare them off. I’m not very familiar with that demographic, but I think most of them would be fine with it, especially if they have used other semicolon-less languages. Semicolons, which are present on about 50% of lines, add visual noise and the cognitive load of remembering to type them.
Now that sites are being more aggressive when detecting ad blockers, but they still want search engines to index the site and so they happily serve content to the crawlers... Would it be possible to write a browser plugin that can let your session masquerade as a robot? Even pay walled sites let Google index their content, that's how they lure unsuspecting chumps to the site. So why couldn't we have a plugin to imitate a robot, getting the content and by having to suffer through several megabytes of ad network code?
I've never got on with Twitter either. Most people I am interested in are on Facebook if they use any social media. Twitter is just boring stuff.
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Haha I don't even know which one to join. Feels like I'll make the wrong choice. GNU projects always remind me why programmers alone isn't enough, apps also need good design and UX.
When I was back in school, around 2007/2008, I remember reading one of those 'future-of-work' type articles where the author went on about how teams of the near future were going to keep each other updated via Twitter. Given the early direction of the product, it seemed like a foregone conclusion.

"@devTeam @productTeam @PMNameHere Currently building out remaining API endpoints. Complete by standup tomorrow #productName"

It feels like Slack ate what should have been Twitter's lunch. I don't understand why they didn't push harder in this direction.
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The post is very interesting in itself, but what's more interesting to me is an example of the migration of the typical academic journal based conversation to a hybrid journal/blog conversation.

Pre-internet, the content of this blog post would of normally taken the form of a journal "response" article in which one academic politely lambastes another for making a mistake, and then 6 months later we'd hear the "reply" article in which the academic says "we weren't really wrong but here's some corrections".

Now we have a faster feedback loop. It's fun to see and I hope the academy can find a way to make this more common.
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I can confirm that it works for both personal as well as business accounts. A nice gift.
You install WhatsApp, like a billion other people.
That's just relativism, and falls very far short of what we know based on the MSS available.

I doubt the victims felt no pain, or felt no injustice. Mob violence has been around for centuries.
If they were blockaded and could no longer import food, would they really be able to send factory ships to the arctic?
You just reminded me of the time when IIS extensions (ISAPI) executed in kernel space and I was tracking down a bug...
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This thinking is exactly what's wrong right now.
Everything is debt and debt is a constant drain.
Debt wasn't running the economy, it was propping it up - consumption was increased by taking on debt.
That bs is in a death corner now - how long can you lower interest rates? Are you going to PAY people to take on more debt? Or force them to take it?
Would be nice if some dose of reality was brought in.
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Do you think the companies that have healthy price to earnings ratios are in a bubble?
The article clearly states that the test extends to many forms of randomness beyond Gaussian:

"Nevertheless, the desired effect of stochastic volatility namely, fatter tailed distributions ..."

"... we want a test for the random walk hypothesis which passes (it concludes the market is random) even if the returns demonstrate heteroskedastic increments and large drifts. Why? Because both of these properties are widely observed in most historical asset price data (just ask Nassim Taleb) and neither invalidate the fundamental principle underpinning the random walk hypothesis, namely the Markov property (unforecastibility of future asset prices given past asset prices)"
Not in most third party clients (e.g., Tweetbot for OS X). I've hardly used the web site for Twitter and don't really like it. I can't imagine the service without a good native client.
I fell for this years ago. It's super creepy. I only recently figured out where to go to delete that data, but I still get creepy suggestions.
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