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This isn't a new phenomenon, when there were 3-4 major network outlets did the masses get "all the news" or was is pre-filtered by monied interests? It was most certainly the latter, the platform has simply changed.

This is something that is changing w/social media. Most users would rather have their own biases confirmed instead of challenged; because social media is just a way of monetizing a user's time, the big players have an incentive to create an echo-chamber for you, guaranteeing you have a higher probability of a positive experience when you use your X platform. A similar phenomena is present in cable news (MSNBC/CNN:neoliberal, Fox News:conservative), anyone watching will acknowledge the news they are watching IS SKEWED but will watch it regardless, despite the fact they'll admit it may be altered (thus less factual).

What will change is how the "channels" are created and maintained. Here is where Facebook has an ungodly level of power, it wouldn't be hard to divide the political spectrum into many more pieces than the traditional conservative and liberal lanes. The amount of possibilities are mind-boggling.
Every chicken I've ever cooked, including the one last night had bones. We're talking bones that take a lot of force to break.
Yes. The filter bubble and information overload are two problems, somewhat related that many companies have tried to tackle.

However, it is really difficult for a company like Flipboard to change user habits and compete with Facebook. Users are already in their platform. I think we must hold these companies to a higher standard..
Didn't know it was used so much out of Google, that's a lot of downloads and that just for NPM, I would guess maven and direct downloads are even bigger? not counting clojurescript and scalajs which bundle closure in their compiler.
There's a lot of interesting story in this article, but this sentence caught my eye:

" Our email is completely secure. . . ."

Why would Bill Gates say that? Surely he knew their e-mails were going plain text through a host of providers, network operators and mail relays, or weren't they? Apparently PGP is from 1991, but they are using msmail (judging from the headers) so I don't reckon they were using that.

The movie "Hackers" would come out about a year after that. The cyberpunk genre had been going on a full decade, did Bill really believe no one could read their e-mail? Of course Bill knew about security issues, but was it just not on his mind? Obviously it's not very smart to talk about the sort of thing that is a fundamental threat to business of internet technology to a journalist, but to state outright that it was completely secure seems to be a be going a bit far.

I always wondered why it took so long for Microsoft to develop a proper security story, or even properly developing anything Internet related properly in that time. They could have been twice the company they are now if they took it as serious as this article makes it look Bill took it. Microsoft wasn't anything on the Internet but the company who built your OS and let your mark up your documents for the next ten years after this article.
What happens when you have no affordable housing in cities is an impossible situation for low-wage workers. All the jobs are in the city, all the homes are outside the city, and the cost of traveling back and forth is very high relative to the pay.

Also you need socioeconomic diversity to have all of the things that make up a high-quality urban or suburban life. You need doctors, lawyers, and bankers but also bartenders and cashiers. If you only have one or the other, it won't be a very enjoyable place to live. Building affordable housing can achieve this type of diversity, whereas a free market approach will likely do the opposite.
This has been standard at MS for decades now. Of course, to create a "hotfix" required more justification.
The problem with spies of any stripe is that you can never know if they're lying. Le Carre's books do the best job of communicating this depressing fact, I think.

So if you can't know whether they're lying, any information they provide is just noise ultimately, because you'll very rarely (like never) beat them at their game; and if you do, they'll change the game.
My favorite is the elementary x&-x (isolate least significant set bit). This is basically a priority arbiter using the carry chain, and in hardware (HDL), since the carry chain is already heavily optimized, is faster than priority arbiters using basic gates.

Next favorite is "compress selected bits", because I figured out the inverse, which Henry Warren then published as "expand" in the 2nd edition: http://www.hackersdelight.org/hdcodetxt/expand.c.txt
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Do you think device drivers or servers like Nginx could ever have been written in Pascal?
That's actually a great question...
I don't live in a major city, I live, ostensibly in a suburb of San Jose/Silicon Valley (have for 25 years, and a bay area native).

Living close to Silicon Valley (being in tech) as well as being a part of a community that is tied tightly to agriculture, looking at how people work and what they require/demand from society is interesting.

Santa Cruz, based off of really questionable "point in time counts", has a homeless population of around 3500. If Santa Cruz was to scale to the size of San Francisco, we'd have nearly 50k homeless. Basically 5% which is absolutely nuts.

We are a mixed community, tech, service, labor, farm, etc. Even with a "day labor" center, I daily see individuals from central and south america looking for work. Do I see the "indigent" white kids freeloading downtown trying to work? No. There should be a need to require (or at least work towards a path of) doing something gainful for the community in exchange for services, housing, and rehab.

Homelessness is a real issue. Unfortunately, the majority of those in the "industry" can't/won't/refuse to distinguish different categories and that is a problem. The 20-something meth-head from Santa Barbara, I reached out to her "friends" on Facebook to get her the hell out of the local spiral, no response. Our community owes her nothing. A friend of mine who lived across the street, works in the arts, couldn't find a single room rental in his budget is currently couch surfing and thinking about an RV/Van, he's been here 20 years; I'm trying to help him out. He has enough contacts/etc, to not enter the system based off of a housing need, he's an exception.

The system should provide for locals and those with a track record of ties. Yet, in liberal areas, like the military industrial complex, there is a homeless industrial complex...Non-profits and others that "mean well", but require those state, federal, and private dollars to "do good" and justify bloated salaries.

If "homelessness" was cured in Santa Cruz tomorrow, I estimate that 1000 people would be out of a job, at the least.

I understand the need for non-profits and those willing to do the hard job, but many times "compassion" is bandied about as a means to milk $$ and do nothing.
Pardon my threadjacking, but I know a lot of people reading this are in the SF Bay Area and would like to do something to help with SF's homelessness problem (which is similar in scale to Seattle's).

Consider a donation to a local organization like Larkin Street Youth Services (http://larkinstreetyouth.org/). It's not just a band-aid, these organizations can actually turn life around for a homeless person and help people get off the streets for good. There are ~10,000 homeless people in San Francisco. It's a huge number, but there is more than enough money in this city for private citizens to do something about it. You don't have to wait for politicians to think up a plan.
A death on Usenet: Sharon Lopatka and the strange case of “consensual murder
Agreed.

I spent a little time working with Guido on cache design for the App Engine data access api (ndb). In Java-land, it's a big win to cache datastore entities in memcache because fetch latency is about an order of magnitude faster. In Python-land, caching is a mixed bag - real-world profiling found marginal benefit even with 100% hit rate, and a significant performance disadvantage if the hit rate drops off. This is primarily attributed to pickling overhead.

If you're curious, here are the benchmarks (from 2011): https://github.com/googlecloudplatform/datastore-ndb-python/...
This is brilliant. I wonder how the authors got the initial motivation to do the study -- seems like quite a bit of work to find a very specific statistical anomaly; doubt they went into it blindly not really knowing there was something to find...
I would bet even within the agency (assuming he's real) this guy is an exception. most of the feds i've met at "FedCon" are actually pretty normal people and seem genuine in the interests and motivations (even if people disagree with their roles). The whole article comes off a bit braggadocios for this insider and more of a fluff piece by the Intercept to push more viewers.
EntrePass has been catch 22'ed a few years ago. In order to even apply, you need to have investment from a limited list of approved investors. On top of that, you need to hire a certain number of people within a certain amount of time, and there are a bunch of other rules to be able to keep it.

The "standard" way would be to incorporate, capitalise the entity with around 40,000 USD, prove that the business will be a business (and not you buying a visa) with letters of intent from prospective customers and a detailed business plan, try and set things up so that you're not the shareholder AND the director AND the visa holder, and then apply for an Employment Pass (EP) under your own business.

That EP will be yours if you have received a high enough salary for the past X months (they ask for your salary history for years), if you have set yourself a high enough salary that you'll need to pay out every month, and - in many cases these days - the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will probably still ask you for "manpower projections" which I think is a euphemism for "prove to us you'll hire a few locals". Oh yeah, and budget another 3,000 USD or so for the advice from Corporate Service Providers (CSPs) after your initial round of DIY applications get rejected for no reason given. The whole process should take you 6-12 weeks. Whilst a Singaporean applies for a company online for a few dollars and gets it done in a week.

Once you've jumped through those hoops, yes, things are pretty good. Low taxes, extremely efficient government that treats you like a customer, rule of law, low cost of living (compared to Western large cities, not Bangkok or Beijing), great weather, international community, easy travel to dream locations, and so on. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. But it's not a pain-free process the way say, Hong Kong was before 2014.
I have a 6 year old that can navigate an interface with links. He can also read. However, his critical thinking ability is still being formed, as is his frame of reference of the world. I'd prefer to not give him access to an unfiltered firehose just yet.

I don't know how old you are, but when I grew up, the web was in its infancy, and you could take your time to process the information available, and everyone wasn't yet posting about everything they may or may not have a qualified opinion on.

Times have changed, unfortunately, and we have to adapt with them.
I like the idea of this filesystem quite a bit, but I'm poor so my opinions aren't necessarily relevant. I understand why you would call it bcachefs given it's heritage, but do you think it might benefit from a new name? I know bcache is well-known among the type to try out new filesystems; and the name bcachefs may be confusing. Just an idea.
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Keyword is "basic", I think.
Do you not see your own contradiction?

If you want to give people freedom of movement, that includes giving like-minded people of similar means the right to cluster up and live where they choose.

This is why it's so hard to take the "science" of economics and politics seriously. It's just arguing in circles.

As for me- I'm with OP. I want to live in Beverly Hills, but tough shit I can't afford it so I live in Oakland close to my job.

That said, we should keep opportunity open so that if someone wants to try to do something to generate enough value to be able to afford to live there, they should.
Most cars manufactured in the last hundred years has a tendency to, you know, _crash within seconds_ when the driver lets go of the steering wheel. In practice, this tends to train users to keep a hand on the wheel.
>doing awesome support has tremendous ROI.

But diminishing returns. If support had a great ROI, everybody would do a good job of it. It really only has a good ROI if you're a new entrant in a competitive market.
it's great to see my group's project on HN! I'm one of the 2 engineers behind UniK. Feel free to ask any questions here
This might be true. When I worked at a helpdesk, I was given praise for having the fastest call times on the floor. In the same review though, I was critiqued just as strongly for not being personal enough. It was and telling.
I can buy the conclusion except that I believe you can only usually tweak performance in small degrees without actually over-exerting yourself, since the central nervous system _is_ in fact an expert on what you are capable of doing safely.
I have had great experiences using Rapidminer community edition which is like this but on steroids. I say community edition because they've started charging for the pro versions and probably future versions so community is still free and open source. I think a lot of people miss out by not using these tools to prototype their pipelines. You can get probably an order of magnitude more experimentation done using one of these visual pipeline creators vs. trying to essentially reinvent the experiment infrastructure yourself in your own code.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidMiner
I'd say we're about 3-4 weeks out from C/C++ support
Progressive Neural Networks for learning multiple tasks
I notice you comment on self-driving cars a lot and seem knowledgeable on the subject. Is this just something you follow closely or do you have some background in this area? I ask solely out of curiosity.
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Genetics affects choice of academic subjects as well as achievement
It's an interesting thought that under the Romans (vulgar) Latin displaced a whole variety of Celtic and Germanic languages in France, Spain, and Belgium. Like, within a couple hundred years of the Roman conquest of Gaul the Gaulish language, and its culture, were extinct.

Anglo-American-Capitalist dominance is performing similar functions today.
Our Laws, Moralities, Religions, and all knowledge, including scientific, is merely another ploy towards power. I honestly do not believe that there's anything ulterior other than power that motivates us as human beings.

We have all sorts of conmen that market it all sorts of bogus ideas, even the ideas of food is bogus, and entirely irrelevant to the survival of this body.

It is the attachment to the pleasure movements that motivate us, but more fundamentally the attachment to the thought structure, and demand the repetition of various kinds of thought that has produced the human being, and at a very basic sense our selves as we know it.

So it is the thought there that has demanded continuity, and in that continuity you have a plethora of varieties that add to the momentum of that thought, and this is the case with all things, from scientific, to the so called "artistic", to the religious.

What is religious thought other than the demand for ultimate pleasure without a moment of pain, to have compete happiness, bliss, without a moment of another, which is in itself a bogus idea.

So the ultimate question then isn't really a question at all it is really an answer, as then the only thing left is what we demand in thought.

So then what is it that you demand?

I personally see no reason to kill anything at all for the satisfaction of this body, nor do I see any motivation to purposefully torture animals, but if that is what you do then it is up to you, but basically it is not required, and is only demanded by that repetition of thought.
I read this and then looked up the cost of living in Belize vs my nearest city in Ohio... and Ohio is cheaper! Just made me laugh :)

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=cost+of+living+Belize+...
If the claim is that muscles don't fatigue, then I am skeptical.

In college, I took a weightlifting class with a bunch of athletes in it. One day, we did lunges (no weight) around and around, in a line like ants. Nearing the end, my brain thought I was totally fine. I cannot stress that enough. Bam, like a light switch, my legs went from 60% strength to 2% three quarters of the way through the last lap. Had the instructor not caught me, I would have fallen right over.
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A better link would be http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnana.2016.00...
No we have compilers that can do these things today.
Really? My impression was that immigration mainly cares about having a stable situation, and the gov't generally wants to make sure you're paying taxes. Do you have a place explaining this in more detail?
Yup. Also, you can keep the services on and turn this setting on after enabling them.
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Nope, social work is not just government jobs. My wife is a social worker at a hospice (not government). She had to have her masters to get the job. The next thing she has to get is a clinical license. Fun fact, that's a paying internship. She pays a mentor for 2 years to watch her do her job. After the monitoring, my wife is eligible to take a test. If she passes that test, she gets the license. That licenses enables her to increase her odds of getting a social work job in a hospital or government job like the VA, which is not just hospitals.

When all of this is said and done, she had her undergrad (fortunately paid for by her mother's employer, the school), which cost about 100k. Then we paid for her 30k masters. Now we'll pay 2-4k depending on the license mentor. So 132k for a job that pays...wait for it... at best 60k a year! Compare this to my BS in CS which opened at 42k and now is somewhere around 120k. Yay idiotic higher ed inflation.

As an interesting side note, most of this stupidity is caused by the social workers themselves. Like Rodney Dangerfield, they felt like they got no respect from the doctors, legislators and nurses. So they actually pushed for laws around mandated education! They pushed for licenses. They pushed for licenses that could only be obtained with job experience! You couldn't get experience to get the license to get the job that would get you the experience! We actually fled Indiana because of it. Florida is more reasonable.
The notion that diversity is necessary to enjoy a variety of food is readily disproven by visiting San Francisco. You can enjoy great food from all sorts of cuisines: French, Chinese, Greek, Puerto Rican, Hungarian, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Polish, etc. But if you look in the kitchen, it's all made by Mexicans.
‘Star Wars’ and the Fantasy of American Violence
See an earlier comment -- regions should have an overall approach to affordable housing and transport.

That said, specific to Santa Cruz? As an alumnus, I'm appalled at how much the university (and bureaucracy) has grown and that on campus housing hasn't kept up with enrollment figures.

Hell, administration overhead has grown way more $$-wise than available bed space has.

Santa Cruz has limited space to build, the UC system buying up property around town (taking it off the tax rolls), and not building more housing is a huge issue.

If I decided to move, I could AirBnB my house for $200/night (like a neighbor) or charge $3300/mo for a 2/1. Things are messed up here.

But, cities, counties, and state entities don't actually plan. And in this case, the city/county can't put restrictions on what a state institution does, yet, it can take parcels off the tax records and not build housing to keep up with enrollment.
Google does offer phone support (and email etc), with SLAs - however this is for their paid offerings (I.e. Google Apps, which is like Gmail/Calendar/Docs/Drive etc). Google Apps start at $5 a month, so the entry price isn't astronomical.

For free products, there's support on official forums.
Delphi was years ahead of it's time. I remember coding a patient data entry system (for the VA) and submitting machine learning college courses.

Always got pushback, but it was quite maintainable code and it ran fast.
>>They were so poorly managed and so focused on bottom line that customers wants and needs were not important.

That's because tech support is regarded as a "cost center", where the primary goal is always to keep costs to a minimum. This is why most support centers prioritize making the customer go away rather than actually solving their problems, documenting the issues and working with other teams to find permanent fixes.
“Aatish Ali?” one said to me just a few months ago as I arrived in New Delhi. “Quite a name you’ve got there.” The subtext was: You’re not part of the Hindu majority, so not part of the deeper organization of caste.

This is an incorrect interpretation. Aatish means a cracker and possible the office was being humorous. The sense of humor is a bit different in India and a little more crude (though harmless).
Many will die, but some are being digitized.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28prof.html
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I don't necessarily agree with this, but FYI the thinking goes something like this:

If people truly don't want to come in and work in the city/expensive area, the market should take care of it. Eventually wages will have to rise to where it's worth it for someone to take that job, either because the higher wage makes the commute worth it or the higher wage enables them to live in the area.
Man those homeless guys in Chicago.... they are tough. Few blankets and sleeping under the overpass. I think the worst few nights they pull most into shelters , but plenty sleep there when it is 20F outside.

That said if I ever want to be homeless its SF or Hawaii.
>>Also, I need a number to reach support at Facebook, if you have it.

You don't pay to use Facebook, so you don't get support.

Google does provide phone support to Google Business accounts, though, since those cost money.
Imagine if we did something like that for home loans what would happen?

In reality, a student loan amount should not be given more than some percent of 10 year salary estimate for that enrolled major. That obviously means some professions like teachers or social workers may have difficulty in affording an education. In those cases they should be supported through grants.

Atleast we need some feedback loop to keep education costs under control otherwise schools will keep raising the costs.
One place the branchless techniques can come in handy is with SIMD (or simulated SIMD by packing several small ints into longer ones.) A branchless algorithm that's 50% slower can pay for itself if you can process four elements at a time.

Agreed that performance testing is absolutely necessary, preferrably with something that can tell you not only where exactly the processor is spending its time but also whether it's spending its time computing or waiting on memory etc, whether branches are being predicted well...
You can also see this in some of the whitest states in the nation. All of these types of cuisine are available in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire, in the major cities (i.e. > 50k people...) You don't need a whole lot of population to supply the ethnic food economy.
Both Hover and Squarespace have amazing, wonderful, useful tech support. They are selling somewhat technical products to what are, at best, a "power user" level of customer. They make it work.
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