skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has many things going on for it other than search (and you dont have to go for dinosaurs, basic search in some Google properties, like YouTube, is quite terrible), that can count as killer features. Many people use it to organize their lives (calendar) or as comminication platform (hangout, email...) not to mention Google also has its own version of HomeKit as well.

My first insctinct when reading this article, though, is to question wether we put too much faith in the success of any service launched by Google and downplay any other competitor. Weirdly absent from Marco's list is IBM's Watson, quite a success story from a company that does not collect personal information on a daily basis yet somehow has been able to advance significally in the field of AI and Machine Learning.

Aside from that, maybe its me but I don't feel like Siri is so far behind serevices like Alexa or Cortana and until Google Assistant shows up in a more defined state, I wouldnt dare to put it ahead of the pack as well. There are a couple of things Alexa does better, but it mostly has to do with being open to third party services (which im assuming Siri will have soon) and better mic technology on the Echo, a hardware problem.
You're assuming that human brains and bodies are grossly inefficient. I would argue that while humans are bad at some tasks, the brain is a fairly efficient _low-order_ general probabalistic computer, and the body is a fairly efficient as a highly general object manipulation system. I doubt for highly varied, extremely low value tasks that robots backed by AI will be significantly cheaper than humans for a long time, if ever. We're too close to the end of Moore's law, and energy efficiency is such a survival advantage that life has almost certainly optimized this variable fairly well.
No matter how you spread it out, couldn't they just look at the video from when each fraudulent withdrawal was made? Also, what is the vulnerable window here?
SemVer does not encourage the things you listed, it only demands that you show such changes in its versioning.

The difference here with Monotonic is that such changes does not have a special meaning in the version number (nothing on the encouragment side IMO).
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Would you guys consider offering an emergency phone plan? Maybe voice only say 60 minutes a year for something inexpensive like $10 or $20 per year?
While interesting to read why do articles like this one fail to mention this only works on Windows and likely only certain versions of Windows and certain versions of browsers. It's not clear to everyone who might come across this who is impacted.
Why regulate? You could have accepted BitCoin up front, assigned ATMs, then distributed numbers at the last moment.

Cash flows up, risk flows down. Seems to be the MO of most organized crime.
It could actually be an untapped market. Inexpensive backup phone.
> it'll load in about a second or so at worst

A second is slow, and should absolutely not be the standard we're aiming for. If AJAX allows you to get closer to the ideal without messing with the typical browser workflow, why not use it?

Try browsing https://dev.to/. It feels good, no? That's the standard we should be aiming for, and it's made possible in part with exactly these ideas (see: http://instantclick.io/).
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The timing of ATM chip deployment is determined by the region's rate of card fraud, not technological sophistication. There were significant transaction costs for the transition, and it made economic sense to roll them out sooner in places with higher rates for fraud, so, Europe before US. Not sure about how the rollout happened in Japan, but it makes sense that they haven't completed a transition given their very low crime rate.
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I don't find it surprising that release candidates for an operating system are heavily instrumented. The goal of a release candidate is to find problems that didn't surface in the alpha and beta testing stages. Those will tend to be subtle corner cases.

Going further, phoning home is industry standard these days. Not just for Google or Apple operating systems but even Linux distros: e.g. Ubuntu.

I'm not saying it's right, just that it is not unique to Microsoft.
cf Fred Brooks, "No Silver Bullet - Essence and Accident of Software Engineering", 1986
I also think his upfront time estimates were off. He estimated Ruby to be ~15% more productive than C. I don't write Ruby, but I do write a lot of C and Python. I'd estimate that it takes 5x less time for me to write a program in Python than C. Even if the 5x number is off, it's still a way larger reduction factor than 15%!
Windows is unfortunately not yet supported and so far it doesn't look like they are even thinking about it. A few people have managed to build on Windows, but with considerable difficulty.
These are certainly things that need to be balanced, but we already have a system for dealing with sensitive records. I think the ideal system goes like this: recording always on (keep working on battery issues), and anyone can request any video, but the police can ask a judge to withhold video of a sensitive nature.
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The whole point of mules is for them to get burned. Assuming this was done properly, every single one of those 100 people can get caught and the cops won't be any closer to catching the people responsible.
"CFI requires that, during program execution, whenever a machine-code instruction transfers control, it targets a valid destination, as determined by a CFG created ahead of time."

That wouldn't do anything for this. If you can change arbitrary bytes of the binary and have it execute, you can rewrite the whole thing, including patching out all these extra checks too.
While the web site is nice, and the links to Emacs Rocks are great, perhaps it should also include a more comprehensive video introduction to Emacs, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6jfrrwR10k
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The way these things are usually setup, the people using the cards have little to do with collecting the info, or making the cards. If a few are fought they don't know anything about the others, and are much harder to trace. So cops don't put a lot of effect into tracking these people.
I'm really surprised to see people say they like this style. I hated it. I was reading it and was saying to myself "why is this fake questioner so fixated on a number?" It is the straw man interviewer. I would much rather he get to his point than thank this fake dialog.
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Does this work with windows? I'm still not clear where Clang stands.
Diagramming sentences would be most akin to studying basic language syntax. Algorithms and data structures are orders of magnitude more complex. The best comp there might be studying themes, tropes and plot devices in literature - which would be something that makes you a better writer.
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>Amateur hour.

Please tell me how you'd do it instead? Build robots to go to the ATMs?

Only thing that matters here is the link between the people going to the ATMs and the people actually running the operation.
Do you have a source for this? I'm curious where they managed to institute this
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Seriously, I have spent some time in my career in the online advertising world. In the video ad world, we have actually done simple fraud test (stupid bots clicking on the same pixel all the f'ing time is a clear give-away). A good 50% or more of video ad views are fraudulent. Since video ads are paid on CPM basis, advertisers totally get f'ed. Ad agencies who manages the spend don't care bc they take a % of spend. So it's all a giant collusion.
> 1. In your opinion so I'm not going to deconstruct.

> 2. Yes. His Bon mots are brilliant. And they all have a grain of truth. In this instance he mocks the fawning nature of the relationship the music/art/radio6/radio4/Guardian newspaper have with Radiohead which is really perceptive.

I mean, come on, they recorded the album in Provence. How bourgeois can you get?
Indeed, that sounds like "a feature, not a bug". A lot of other companies don't even bother answering if you ask them for such things.
They could've replaced boundary with margin, but perhaps that would be stretching it a bit.
>Everyone in the audience has come to listen to your lecture with the secret hope of hearing their work mentioned.

People are narcissistic as hell.
Why would SemVer encourage releasing backwards-compatible new features more than this? You have just as much motivation to not increase the compatibility number.

releasing bugfixes for older releases

Good point. The "manifesto" should mention this.
>Good point. It will also be way more difficult to regulate the spending habits of the group, which will draw even more suspicion.

These 100 guys aren't a part of "the group" though, they're just random idiots hoping to score a quick buck.

The people actually running this in all likelihood aren't even in japan.
My answer is always this. If I write a line of code, discover a bug, and fix it right away, it's part of the normal coding process and covered by the hourly/daily rate I've quoted the client. What difference does it make that the bug was found later or by another person?
Body cams as a required accessory for police work is a terrible idea that will have very bad unintended consequences.

The very notion that you need to be monitored constantly during your shift to ensure you behave as you were trained to is demeaning and insulting.

We trust LEO's to carry loaded guns, mace, tasers, and other weaponry, and we expect them to risk their lives in the line of work, yet we also don't trust them enough to do their jobs honestly and professionally.

If we can't trust our law enforcement personnel to do their jobs without constant video surveillance, sometimes under very difficult circumstances amidst a hostile civilian population for example in the ghetto areas, then we basically can't trust them at all and should find a different model for controlling (or ignoring) criminal behavior.

The ongoing slowdown in police activity in the ghetto areas of Baltimore, Chicago, etc., and the accompanying uptick in violent crime should be a sobering indication of what's in store if we tell our police, "We don't trust you and we blame you if anything goes wrong, now get out there and risk your lives for us."

Put yourself in their shoes and think on this. "I'm honest, I have no reason to oppose video," you may claim from your safe, suburban sofa. But get out on the streets and deal with some of the tough customers they have to deal with, then let's hear how nice and proper you are. These characters only respect strength. If the police are hobbled and limited, they'll just laugh at them.

I prefer the Giuliani model of police administration. Back the police force, give them the authority to stop and frisk, to pick people up for loitering or breaking windows (the "Broken Window" policy), to establish total control on the streets. Then the criminal element will be cowed and subdued, and the police will be confident and enthusiastic, and this whole issue of police feeling they have to overcompensate and work around the laws will go away because they'll be working with the community, working with the government toward the same goals.
Tried to build it and git is asking for username/password

git clone https://root.cern.ch/git/root.git src
Username for 'https://root.cern.ch':
Password for 'https://root.cern.ch':
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://root.cern.ch/git/root.git/'
I wonder what happens when you apply Google's AlphaGo against the Nigerians.
The biggest benefit of using Emacs is easily fixing and altering its behavior to meet your wants ... crafting your editor.
If we start allowing any deletion, police will simply find a way to stall until the deadline is passed. This has happened several times in Seattle with dash cams
There are two very good things about this versioning that people seems to miss it here on the comment section:

* One, stated in the manifesto itself, is that we don't have the minor and patch distinction anymore. Let's be honest, most of us (but not all) simply doesn't care if the library update is a minor or a patch, we are only scary of the major number.

* The second is that with Monotonic you have a sense of ordering of the whole project (note that I'm saying order, not progress). If I give you two different SemVer version numbers are you able to say which one was released first or how old they are? With Monotonic you can answer that, the RELEASE number is common to all COMPATIBILITY "branches".

I have to say, I liked it. But I guess it won't be adopted by many since SemVer is somewhat ubiquitous and is entrenched in the how we think version numbers.
Yeah, it's really odd. Only Post Office and 7-11 ATMs work with my non-PIN credit card. (Mine also has a chip, though.)
This is on exactly the opposite side of the spectrum from amateur hour.
for download : https://root.cern.ch/download/cling/
"An array of giant parabolic dishes obscured by thick forest cover are housed on a mountain ridge just over a mile southeast of the main property. These, however, are not part of the sale."
A more accurate title would probably be "120M stolen from hacked South African bank via 1,400 convenience store ATMs across Japan"
I want to see something like this available from gdb. Following code that uses shared_ptr in gdb is still awful. It would be great to be able to explore the stack frame properly, looking at STL containers without hassle and calling functions and everything.
How would that make a difference?
This is also the man who suggested not so long ago that we'd now explored the entire space of possible programming languages and paradigms and there were no more significant improvements to be found.

I don't know why people regard Robert Martin as any sort of authority. As far as I can tell, he spends a lot of time telling other people how they should program (often needlessly insulting anyone who doesn't do things his way) yet has neither much hard data nor exceptional personal experience working on software projects of his own to support his positions.
Has anyone experimented with turning cameras on when officer heart rate increases? Potentially with a notification sound and a button to explicitly turn it off if this triggers when you're taking a shit.
https://root.cern.ch/download/cling/
So they are made with other organic compounds. Do they function as shirts? What is the problem with nylon?
Post from 2004. Not much seems to have changed.
Oh we're past chips, and have NFC enabled credit cards. Which is even worse, see http://privacy-pc.com/articles/hacking-in-the-far-east-7-too...
Go tell that to someone in Venezuela. If you think everyone everyone is in the same boat, you are indeed delusional.

And by the way, if you were born in the US, Western Europe or other developed countries, you belong to the "1%" of the world.
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That's one hell of a caveat!
Future Americans will, I hope, look back and say, what primitive and violent people the police had to deal with. Fortunately we today in the 22nd Century provide excellent education and intervention services for children at risk, so that they don't grow up to become criminals.
yes, i use google voice for this. i just hope they don't kill it!
This is some cool data. Am surprised how often AFNetworking and Crashlytics are used. Unsurprisingly, for advertising, FB and Google Ad SDKs totally dominates. I signed up. When will you be launching the site with full data?
Even if faces are clear, how realistic it can be traced back to anyone?

How can you really find someone from 100x100 pixel image? I am genuinely interested.
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weird they didn't compare with clang...
That's only valid if they also don't result in police avoiding confrontations with bad characters.
The may be Gophers but do they do not support gopher://
Paris has some crazy catacombs. I think Google Streetview should just go down and index it. Then there'll be plenty of people doing ghost hunting on their computer screen.
From a security stand point, why is Windows a bad choice?
Here's my theory on what makes a game fun:

Games should be filled with challenges and rewards. Some of these are tiny (give a unit an order, hear "Yes Sir!") some are big (defeat a boss, see victory animation). All of these things should in some way (no matter how tiny) be seen to advance the overall game. Games are boring when they either don't give you enough little rewards or when the little rewards seem superfluous toward the overall goal.
Life has had billions of years to evolve into an efficient system, from a thermodynamic standpoint. We may make AI backed robots that eclipse humans in terms of capabilities, but I strongly doubt we'll approach human price/performance ratio for highly varied tasks for a very long time, if ever.

Positions that involve a wide variety of fairly simple but involved skills such as landscapers, mechanics, or maids will probably be around for a long time. Don't forget the fact that as other jobs are automated away, the supply of these sorts of laborers will increase, resulting in lower wages.
Inflammatory, uninformative, rambling, one-sentence-per-paragraph Daily-Mail-style writing. Someone's really doubling down on the anti-EU propaganda in the run up to the referendum.

After the way they covered Snowden, if baffles me that anyone takes the Telegraph seriously any more.
What do you mean? A mile south would mean there are roughly 640 acres between the land being disposed of and the array. It doesn't seem to really be part of the area being sold, just a nearby property.

It's like saying that such and such skyscraper doesn't come with a house located some distance away.
Sure, but that's engineering (inspired by what theory of basic NN we do have), not theory.
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I was more surprised to learn that they run on an Oracle Database.

But now looking back, I'm not sure what better option they would have had.
Technically, "never decreasing" is more correct than "always increasing", regarding "monotonically increasing". In MonoVer the Compatibility number is monotonically increasing but not always increasing. The release number is both.
I actually find the politics of popular music fascinating.

I'm not scoffing at Radiohead (alright, I am a bit) but pointing out the cultural/socio-political context of the band. Which is a position borne of privilege and the self-confidence you get from attending public school.
They are the hedge fund managers of the music world.

I don't actually care whether you like the music or not, that's not the point of my argument, fwiw I adore 'The Bends' - their best.
The Feynman method is a nice hack. Good mental model.
I always wondered why mobile carriers don't text you "voicemail from ..." and attach an mp3 file of the message.
The mules get busted. The mules are amateurs.
Former merchandiser here. Staples are always furthest from entrance and then separated(ie: bread one back corner, milk opposite) to make most people walk the entire store to get what they need. And that 'convenience' case in the front... take a look at the expiration dates on the products in said case, that product needs to be sold faster than the stock in the back.

Edit: PS: That economist, it's his job to rationalize the action monetarily. I/we/most people realize, if returns could be increeased, hamburger would be in a cooler next to the checkout.
The argument, astonishingly ignorant as it may be, is basically anti-dynamic: the advantage of dynamic is "no compile time", and that's it.

I think that's more an argument that imperative vs. compiled isn't a significant difference any more. In the modern world of JIT-compiled runtime environments and fast, incremental recompilation, it's actually one of the few points I agreed with in this article.

His premise that almost nothing else matters as long as the above is true and all programming languages allow very short write-test cycles is absurd, of course.
> Even in Canada today

Drop the surprise. Canada is populated by people. People in Canada are just as assholish, racist and disgusting as people anywhere else in the world.
Neat!

I welcome people making applications such as these that show us just how public information is and how little we truly appreciate that fact (I assume many will find this creepy).
Nice. Thumbs up. Would love to see a larger data set
Who could the target market possibly be? Is this supposed to be like ankle monitors, put on unwilling criminals by the police? I don't understand.
We typically sit behind a reverse proxy. That said, we do have apps that control their own rate-limiting too. They usually do so because some logic is needed.
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This article slightly overstates how disruptive the strategy is. Of course top-level Scrabble players already knew about rack management and defensive plays, and would not always just greedily play the highest-scoring word. It's more a question of finding the optimal weightings of the different elements, and the Nigerians have shown that the conventional wisdom was probably weighted too highly towards making big plays immediately.
But isn't your need to always pay the minimum amount?
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They can keep the dishes. Can you imagine how much it costs to dismantle them?
IMO programmers have got more to worry about the future of their job than bricklayers. It seems rather obvious to me that the job of software developer would be the first victim of advances in AI.
Seems someone hacked that website, this is one of the headers:

Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ#sup_Charge,_got_a_bug_bounty?_cuz_I_just_found_an_earworm_in_your_site
Surprised to see so much use of AFNetworking. Is it really necessary?
Looking at the example code it doesn't seem to add much (these days), with the overhead of managing another sdk.
PhoneTag[0] can do that via email, though the transcriptions are generally good enough that you don't need to listen to them. I've been using it for years and don't remember the last time I actually had to listen to a transcript.

0. https://www.phonetag.com/
Of course Knuth wrote rather more deeply on relevant cognitive overlaps than this NYT author (Hipps): http://www.literateprogramming.com/knuthweb.pdf
Why is this thing asking for my credit card number?
But the laws that they don't follow have very little to do with doing the right thing. As far as I'm concerned, Americans have a patriotic obligation to disobey corrupt laws like government-sanctioned taxi medallion monopolies. Those laws are no different than handing out tickets for doing 56 MPH in the middle of the desert... which also would still be the case if drivers hadn't protested the law by rendering it unenforceable.

Whether Uber would have behaved more ethically than taxi companies with regard to racial bias, I don't know. An Uber driver has no idea what the race of his/her next client is. It would require some genuinely evil behavior on Uber's part just to support racial bias, much less carry it out.
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Public doesn't necessarily mean "outside my company" or "seen by anyone but you". It refers to the interface available to users (human, if it's an application, or other packages, if it's a library). If it doesn't have a public API it's not usable by anyone and you can save time by not working on it anymore.