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> Or do you think employees are entirely fungible?

This is what every self-respecting capitalist believes and knows in their heart. Employees are resources. If a founder doesn't know that they will fail.

Maybe you thought startups were an exception and that startup employees are unique snowflakes but BigCo employees are drones?

> Does my last employer not have a large contract with Prudential, because of my work?

If that contract is what made the business viable, then the company must be completely fucked without you and be on their way to failure. If the contract didn't make a substantial difference in the company's outlook, then how does that relate to my point?
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Very good article, thanks for sharing. I quote:

> 16-pixel text on a screen is about the same size as text printed in a book or magazine; this is accounting for reading distance. Because we read books pretty close — often only a few inches away — they are typically set at about 10 points. If you were to read them at arm’s length, you’d want at least 12 points, which is about the same size as 16 pixels on most screens.
Google is only showing a small bit about what they know so it's misleading to think they are a leader in this regard. There is nothing here about all of the sites they know you visit because of ad tracking, etc.
This is what the city can do. What can you do as a shop owner?
The video service almost always works. The website has issues pretty regularly.
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Well we started some small online-only (virtual) businesses in the country we are both from to make sure we could survive anywhere years before that (we had no clue where we would end up; it was basically just a coincidence). The plan was to live of that anyway once we left; I am however someone who cannot sit still, especially when I have no stress; I will start companies so that's what I do anyway, where ever I am. The computer example is what some of my friends are doing there; it's an option if shit hits the fan. We started in another, much smaller village (100 people) and that actually was in a place that was quite spartan; it was even more beautiful and cheaper to live, but we couldn't make a social life there. There were only artists who were there to make art; they didn't want to socialize, so we move to a random other village and that was a good one.

We did not save up; both of us being entrepreneurs, we just left. We sold the stuff we had left in NL after a few years later.
ShutterStock is similarly vague, although they give some examples of offensive use.

From the ShutterStock license:

[YOU MAY NOT] Portray any person depicted in Visual Content (a "Model") in a way that a reasonable person would find offensive, including but not limited to depicting a Model: a) in connection with pornography, "adult videos", adult entertainment venues, escort services, dating services, or the like; b) in connection with the advertisement or promotion of tobacco products; c) in a political context, such as the promotion, advertisement or endorsement of any party, candidate, or elected official, or in connection with any political policy or viewpoint; d) as suffering from, or medicating for, a physical or mental ailment; or e) engaging in immoral or criminal activities.
How are you planning on addressing the fact that none of this matters in the slightest if academic career growth/incentives/reputation specifically revolves around publishing boring pdfs in established journals? What do I gain by sending my work to your platform where the first question anyone in my "target audience" will ask is "why didn't this get published in a real journal, whats wrong with it?", and I will get essentially zero resume kudos points for it? Keeping in mind that it took me at least many months to do the work, I don't exactly have an abundance of papers to throw around, and my officemate almost certainly will submit work of similar quality to a traditional journal and reap the benefits of that.

Just saying, my decision to publish in traditional journals isn't as much as a decision as it is a requirement of the very career I am attempting to pursue.
> Aren't we all choosing between work and starving?

Oh yeah. Just like slaves could choose between serving and torture and death.
Then we might be in some alternate reality talking about how Twitch could never deliver a viable service because the developers kept creating segfaults. C is the last language I would choose in a race to a viable service.
Yes, only the statically compiled code is GC free.
That last data points they have from me is April 20, 2015. Maybe I locked down all my privacy settings then. Or I guess it helps to be using an iPhone.
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This is why Snapchat will fail. Too easy to copy. Too little stickiness.
"read C" is a very loose term. Yes, I can read C. But, as I am not using in daily practice, I am rusty. While as a Go programmer, I am quite trained in reading Go code. You also do need to know the behavior of one compiler (the Go one) vs. also have a good understanding what the C compiler does.

Also, Go is a much clearer and strongly typed language, so Go certainly is a much nicer implementation language than C. (If I thought C was better suited, I would be using C in the first place...)
It's interesting to watch how what was considered good taste a short time ago is gradually becoming tired, cliché, phoney -- and in 10 years will look as outdated as 2003's web designs look now.

The software industry and startup scene is enormously fashion-driven. A lot of people like to pretend it's the opposite though: a group of ideal meritocracies building highly needed products based on rational data-driven decisions...
Frustratingly, I think what "deleted all my stuff" might actually mean is "deleted my access to all of that stuff".
So it rejects code for which it can't prove lifetimes. Why not just say so? There's an uncomfortable degree of beating around the bush in this thread.
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Seems like npm's team is awake. They are taking a look now.
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It's true, you can cut off the data stream. I have done so, at times, myself. At this point, though, I have it on (with some device exceptions where I do anything that might be sensitive, or I might want to avoid someone accidentally finding out [e.g. gift purchases]). My reasoning is that I am likely being tracked no matter whether it's on or not. At bare minimum, even with stringent cookie policies and software removing "tracers" on a regular basis, my cellphone carrier, or isp, can track what I'm doing, unless I have a VPN on. While I don't mind having a VPN on, when I don't have it on, it makes the most sense to me to be able to view just what I've been doing. I like having that log, because I then have an idea of what other companies know about me. It sucks that I'm put in the situation where handing over my data to someone who does the responsible thing and reports it to me is a sensible choice in my eyes.
Part of your response is accurate as to 'why' dedicated separators never became mainstream - software compatibility - but frankly 99% of csv files were/are never meant to be hand edited, simply used as a neutral file. For the later usage, dedicated separators that do not require escaping or import settings would be major improvement.
Ah. It was delayed so much to allow time for printing. It all makes sense now.
So White Ribbon Australia was a women's initiative now (before they entirely took it over and turned it against men)? Well that's some nice rewriting of history.

Maybe a few more women should be focusing on what THEY can do to reduce their contribution to violence too, rather than just expecting men to do that for them.

If you want to know what women actually did to get DV shelters off the ground, then I highly recommend you do some research on who Erin Pizzey is (who founded the whole movement) and what she thinks of the situation.
And Japan's economy "broke" in the early 1990s and never really recovered. Is China next?
Interesting, thanks a lot for the tip!
I was speaking strictly about blog sites not forums. Frost is the New Black[0] is one such site that's cruft free and about the hobby. Granted, it's now defunct, but it's an example of what I mean. Big Bear Butt[1] is another.

Sites like the one you mention have always existed. I was part of a major video content forum back in the mid 00s, and even we had the flashy ads with a circle of affiliates like Shoosh, Kill Some Time, etc. I'm not so naive to think that the '09 web was a place without obtrusive ads and small, optimized web pages.

[0]: https://frostisthenewblack.wordpress.com/
[1]: https://thebigbearbutt.com/
I think everyone agrees that not murdering people is a good thing, yes.
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Why is the output format not RSS or Atom feeds? It could be trivially collected and re-used then without coding to your API.
?? How did you not know this? That is basically the backbone of their business.
It is possible to do that on this page: https://myactivity.google.com/delete-activity
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There are more homeless people than beds in shelters, for one.
That seems like quite a natural thing to collect to improve their search algorithm at the very least. "Are people finding what they're looking for?" basically.
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Are personal defenses, like mentioning your own family similarly not allowed? Or do the rules just make that an irrefutable argument?
Isn't Facebook's chat also powered by Erlang?
That's what I say when I see something needs Ruby.
Haha - not my project, I just work on it for now. But thanks for the great ideas!
>The inflexibility of the Chinese script has always reinforced the inflexibility of the Chinese state.

The democratization of Taiwan and Hong Kong must be pretty frustrating to writers who want people to take these kinds of baseless yet simplifying statements seriously.
Interesting. I don't see generic Kalman filter implementations too often. Thanks for sharing.

I've always found that determining where to put outputs from disparate sensors as opposed to just filtering a single observation like the GPS output in your example is challenging. Have you tried extending this to include input from other sensors (e.g. accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, etc.)?
> If this is unavoidable, why bother with the thing at all and just have a skeleton staff of actors to roleplay the yes-men?

Arguably it is the responsibility of leaders not to tilt their hands before the intelligence is available.
I still think Social Psychology was one of the most useful classes I ever took in college. Sure some if it is probably dated by now but the cognitive biases theories really helped me further in life.

I remember telling some class mates to take the class and they assumed it was for an easy A and not for how useful the class would be (and I went to a GaTech a long time ago and well the social sciences were just not respected like engineering disciplines at the time).
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Most frustrating to me is the "high accuracy" location service. No, I do not want you to track what wireless SSIDs I'm near. Accurate within 25 feet, as GPS usually is for me, is just fine.
That requires navigating corporate bureaucracy though!
That's nothing, when my dad died my boss complained vigorously when I wanted to take 3 days off as my dad lived a thousand miles from my workplace. I told him that I was going even if he fired me, he did'nt but I quit a couple of months later and never looked back. (Norway)
It definitely was when it originally launched. After that I have no idea.
Yes!! Maybe it's only the persistence and sticktuitiveness that is valuable, maybe the struggle is only necessary in its service toward not giving up. Not everyone is prone to giving up. And your insight on integrating new knowledge is, I think, directly relevant. My wife is educated in and practices child development, and her answer to the stoplight question is 'give a child the answer, and then relate it to other things they know.' She said the identifying of patterns and connecting of separate bits of knowledge is what's important, not the struggle of forcing them to derive it on their own.

I'm also wondering if there are certain kinds of knowledge and/or values that struggling helps with. Perhaps certain phases of learning a topic. Or maybe it works on some people and not others. Or maybe mood and context make us receptive sometimes, and at others times we need it beaten into us. I really don't know, I just see that we tend to tell stories that struggle is always necessary, and I'm seeing lots of counter-examples, and starting to wonder if the struggle is sometimes counter-productive and more useful as a tool for some jobs than a dogmatic blanket generalization.
So this is traceable to the Intel reference implementation. I am going to assume incompetence but let's say I would assume malice instead (some government agent wrote the reference spec full well knowing it's exploitable with or without the knowledge of Intel) how would one go about soft-proving that?

Compare machines that are vulnerable in the wild and same spec machines from important people at Intel and/or suspected government agency (assuming they'd simply use a non-vulnerable version instead of some completely different hardware)?
This example is totally unclear to be. Although you declared a clear hypothesis in your very first comment, it is totally unclear what exactly your assumptions are that would lead to this hypothesis.
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We're going nowhere anyways.
No tail recursion at the moment but it's something I'd be interested in adding later.

I'm being very conservative with adding different type constructs but sure, Rust & Go certainly gets a lot of things right in that department and I'll consider their solutions for the future development of Carp.
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I actually think web-based SSH is not a bad idea, I just wish NaSSH (the Chromium shell) was better used.

If you're interested in centralized key management that doesn't compromise private key security, I have written this for EC2: https://github.com/kislyuk/keymaker. It uses IAM to store public keys, and each instance fetches them on demand.
This is, by far, the most important point. Google could make it very easy for you to use their apps offline, but they don't. The recent searches in Google Maps not being saved offline is especially annoying to me personally, and Google seems to think that it's impossible to store data if you don't send them to Google.

I can see them saying "we didn't want to confuse customers who thought syncing was broken when they didn't see their searches in other phones", but given how easy it is to tell the user "you have disabled sync", I don't think there's any excuse for Google to behave like this.
There are likely other tradeoffs. This (GC pause times) is probably not the only criterium, nor even the most important. It's really hard to draw a conclusion based on such limited information.
Go to any Google results page, right-click a result and copy the URL. Paste it and see what's really in there. It's not the actual link you wanted, instead it's a link to a Google server with lots of metadata about your search that redirects you to the link you wanted after recording everything about your search.
I am assuming it is on the same level as a guy sitting on a bench in a park watching people everyday. He notices certain people going to the same coffee shops around the same time of day, he notices others like to come out for a smoke a few times. He may even notice the types of coffee / clothes they prefer and build profiles in his head. All this without knowing the people personally.

Now this person could be doing this for fun, or he could be sent there for research (for advertising) or for surveillance.

Why is it then people are paranoid about a website collecting stats anonymously, but do not so about going into public places?
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How much content have you "stolen" from others and reposted?
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It's not only Android. I use iPhone. I use Google Maps. I intentionally have location tracking on. I'm not sure which apps contribute but I assume all google apps can or do.

http://imgur.com/g0St0b1
Funnily I've gotten pretty used to seeing my logged browser history the past week or so intermixed with a few other friends as I've built this webapp (http://www.websee.io/) that anonymously aggregates browsing activity from all the users and displays the content with the highest recent crossover, basically sharp peaks in browsing distribution across all URLS.

It's odd to me that Google collects all this data, but doesn't really seem to offer any specific applications that depend on it, individually or in aggregate. Even though they have trends, they don't have any lists like Alexa of top traffic websites, despite the fact they have a better sample than anyone, and could make such information available.

I guess I can just hope that between the more "interesting" ads they show me and whatever other magic they use the data for to improve their services, that it's worth letting them have it.
So I'm using stock LG G3 Android Marshmallow (completely stock manufacturer ROM). I have Google settings kinda locked down as much as possible and I've been carefully managing app permissions since I upgraded from Android 5.

My google activity shows only google maps searches from the device and some google website searches from desktop (probably from when I happened to be logged into GMail and made a search query via google.com).

I use Gmail on Android, Signal for SMS (no-one I know uses Signal) and Firefox with self-destructing cookies and uBlock origin (I use a similar setup on desktop too - to prevent persistent logins) I can't see any other activity being logged. That's not to say that it isn't flowing through Google's pipes somewhere or other.

My point is that I'm only conducting basic privacy measures but (as in, not having to root or reflash my phone) - and not having most of my activity recorded in this dashboard.
Had no real idea where the title was leading for the short article / snippet, but definitely got the point. Personally I like seeing action follow principles (whether I agree or disagree irrespective) and this certainly seems an example of such a process.
Possibly in the past, yes. But if they're now just paying 1ms in GC every so often, the advantage is now gone. Go is generally faster than Erlang (in Go-native vs. Erlang-native code) so the system is quite possibly net outperforming what Erlang can do now. 1ms is just noise when packet latency jitter is higher than that.
Yes so true. All this stuff about "de-cluttering your life" makes no sense to regular people. Regular people can barely afford to put a roof over their heads, they would love to be in a position as to have 'too much clutter' in their lives.
Maybe the final part of the proof I gave is a bit dense, so here are some additional notes.

First of all, if you know that

(A1 & A2 & ... & Ak) -> H1

then the following two terms are logically equivalent:

A1 & A2 & ... & Ak
(A1 & A2 & ... & Ak) & H1

Also, for the proof which I gave it is sufficient that Pd1 = Pd2. It does not need them to be zero.
Why not a general priority system? Why only for a milestone?
>So philosophy isn't science?

No, it's not. Math isn't science either.
Yeah my initial reaction was...wait a second ML is used in info sec. The most obvious examples are intrusion detection and general network analysis. A less glamorous example is pretty much every spam filter (which also filters fishing stuff and is thus very much infosec-relevant).

I think false positives are a huge problem in the info sec context and less so in other domains. To give a made up example let's say you have ML-based intrusion detection that is hotwired to some sysadmin pager. Even if your false positive rate is fairly low (at acceptable levels in other domains) with the sheer amount of data a bunch of sysadmin calls will be triggered in sum. That is a huge human factor risk as it most likely will result in teaching admins to ignore certain alerts....which of course opens up the interesting attack vector of understanding/"reversing" the ML and triggering false positives a bunch of times until you want to attack through a channel that will trigger a similar response.

Regarding the available data sets: I suppose honeypots/-nets could be created for the purpose of gathering some data sets.
Defining comfort is a whole 'nother beast altogether.

What's "comfortable" to a person choosing an SUV as their third car because they already have a convertible and sedan is entirely different to someone stuck on public transportation, for example, who'd appreciate anything with a running engine.
C is not a very nice language for concurrent programming.
What is the benefit of running it this way? There is additional cost of burden with doing this and I am genuinely curious.

Does the cost out weigh the perceived benefits?
Because there aren't guys sitting on benches on every corner, while Google is everywhere on the web.
There's also a big confusion in the discussion with "ordinance" vs "zoning"

There are parks near my house you can sleep/camp in, and others you can't. There are parks you can skate in, complete with some cool government built and maintained structures, and there are parks you can't skate in.

Zoning differs in every municipality in the world but locally there's zoning codes for neighborhood park, resort/campground park, and formal gardens type park.

Arguing some homeless dude has to be supported to sleep and live in a neighborhood park is exactly like demanding I should be able to build a leather tannery or chromium plating operation in my backyard, because I want to and who cares who it bothers.
Is this still an issue? I don't remember Google asking me to do this for a long time now.
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You see this a lot of airports. One particularly egregious example is EasyJet's 'boarding lounge' (which you are funneled into long before a plane even arrives), which has a few leaning benches but is otherwise standing room only. This isn't for any public good - it is meant to push you into paying for 'speedy boarding', which gets you access to a roped off area with proper seats.
For that last one, I assume you meant this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

That one has always amazed me. A nuclear reactor just sitting in open air! Moderated by a flammable material! And then everyone is shocked, shocked! when it catches fire.

But at least Windscale and the others had the excuse of being military projects. I'd have hoped a civilian reactor would be at least marginally sane.
>Since when do we have to rely on science for raising children

I'm not going to risk my child's life cargo culting behavior of others when there is no sound evidence supporting it.
For a brief time I worked on a DARPA program to develop platforms for the DoD to plan to conduct and assess cyber warfare in a manner similar to kinetic warfare. It was a really interesting project with very difficult problems to solve.
Shortly before his demise Dr Kelly attempted to be a source that the 'dodgy dossier' was 'sexed-up' to journalist Andrew Gilligan.

The BBC was chastised & curtailed for standing by journalism that in hindsight was true and important.