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However I remember the chore that was writing portable C code when you could not rely what compiler was available, specially outside UNIX.

For those of us in MS-DOS and Windows, only Turbo Pascal mattered, to the point it was more relevant to be TP compatible than supporting ISO Extended Pascal, which also sorted out most of the complaints.

Complainants which were nonexistent in Modula-2 anyway.

The industry choose the easy path, now we all pay with our mainstream OSes built on top of a quicksand language.
I think we just envisioned a highly anthropomorphized AI: essentially, a very smart and entirely obedient person to serve as the perfect aide. The Star Trek dream emerged before computing technology was very far advanced, and well before the idea of constantly mobile wireless communication. We thought our AIs would be small and physical, easy for a single person to entirely own and unable to remember more details than a human; instead we got unfamiliar algorithms run on machines far away.
So Siri.
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I have an open ended question-- mostly born out of ignorance; But why is this a bad thing? Isn't an artificial assistant that not only knows and understands us but anticipates our needs incredibly useful? In the process, sure they'll collect your info for better advertising, but short of Totalitarian Surveillance or Data Breach Concerns (The former is a bit of a reach if you live in the west, and they can survey you anyway if they really want to, the latter also seems somewhat unlikely)-- whats the issue here? Genuinely asking because I'm trying to understand.
While I normally detest simplistic evo-bio approaches to complex emergent social behavior (particular as it is frequently used to justify shitty, misogynistic behavior), quite a few of those examples could be chalked up to evolution taking a slightly longer view than "get everyone pregnant all the time".

There is probably a strong reproductive advantage for a population as a result of having reproductively disinterested members, and there are individual benefits to sex and sexual desire outside of it leading to pregnancy.
The new assistant in Allo which automatically suggests message replies to images by detecting what's in the image... it scares me.
This doesn't decrease the value of the better camera. What if I print some of my photos later? What if I zoom in and then send that section on whatsapp?
Semi-offtopic: this is what the front page of Twitter looks like for me.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s5LeMVvmcJ0/V_UeJYgxG6I/A...

There's this and two more tweets, in rotation. They are three sports-related Tweets from two years ago, with that shit image quality, and what's even more amusing: since I'm based in Spain, they believe I'm interested in Argentinian football, probably because I speak the same language (but Spaniards usually know absolutely nothing about sports from South America, neither are they interested in that).

Even better, the cookie use banner moves the tweet down, making it overlap with the footer.

And this has been like this for two years already. I guess nobody ever logs in in the company?
Because iPhone 6S made execellent pictures even without OIS?
Because someone has to or civilization doesn't exist.
I beg to differ. I work for Pindrop. We have a unique product and we're growing steadily, with serious funding to boot.

https://www.pindrop.com/about-pindrop-security/

https://www.pindrop.com/what-we-do/

We're also hiring: http://grnh.se/iwk5m4
So, at the risk of making myself ridiculous and branded a Luddite:

I've totally passed on the 'mobile revolution', I do have a cell phone but I use it to make calls and to be reachable.

This already leaks more data about me and my activities than I'm strictly speaking comfortable with.

So far this has not hindered me much, I know how to use a map, have a 'regular' navigation device for my car, read my email when I'm behind my computer and in general get through life just fine without having access 24x7 to email and the web. Maybe I spend a few more seconds planning my evening or a trip but on the whole I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.

To have the 'snitch in my pocket' blab to google (or any other provider) about my every move feels like it just isn't worth it to me. Oh and my 'crappy dumb phone' gets 5 days of battery life to boot. I'll definitely miss it when it finally dies, I should probably stock up on a couple for the long term.
only if you hacked together your own search, maps, calendar, etc. as well.

Maybe someday that will be a realistic endeavor, but it would take a lot of effort to set up and maintain your own personal versions of all of google's services, and integrate them
I'm considering purchasing a Home. I already have an Alexa, which I really like, but based on what I know of Google's data and AI (and their service APIs, which I assume/hope will be extended to Home), I can't imagine it not being significantly better than Alexa.

That said, I agree with the OP's takeaway: people should be asking questions. I mean, people should have been asking these questions long ago, even as just search users questioning how Google manages to return such geospatially relevant results. But most people don't even stop to think about it, as that kind of thing is just taken for granted as the thing computers just do.

Maybe with Google's data and AI in the form of a physical, listening bot (I don't know many people who use OK-Google on their phones) will be the thing that clues people in. I'm mostly comfortable with Google's role in my life (though not comfortable enough to switch to Android just yet), but I'm aware of what it knows about me. If AI is to have a trusted role in our lives and society, people in general need to at least reach the awareness that the OP evinces, if not her skepticism.
Many software companies have been trending toward on-device AI though that largely avoids these privacy issues.
Same here! I picked up htop ~2011 and learned about mouse support in ~2014. :D

Also- if you're on a Mac and you use tmux I just started trying out the tmux integration with iterm2. Pros and cons but it's interesting to see first class OS windows for tmux.

Edit: add missing iterm2 reference. https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/TmuxIntegration
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Feel free to email me at ronald [at] resin.io to apply or just to ask questions.
> We joined Google just over a year ago to continue our mission...

Well, that explains it.
I'm looking to write a powershell script for creating lists and updating subscribers for mailchimp api v3. However, Im kind of lost. I only found old code samples. http://poshcode.org/3479 http://poshcode.org/3351
Does anyone know any new code samples for mailchimp v3 api for powershell.
Until it started happening I always assumed it'd be powered by a central computer I had in a clean area of the attic or something. Not some DC somewhere.
Yet, from 270 SRB's flights one of them failed. STS-135 included parts flown on 59 previous missions, including STS-1.

The main problem was actually the weight load as the shuttle was hanging off the side.
It really is the big problem at the moment with the cutting edge of AI.

ML relies on large data-sets and if anyone tried to release a personal device it simply wouldn't even work, let alone compete with the mass surveillance google/ms/amazon are bringing to bear.

Unless the state-of-the-art in AI suddenly morphs, we seem to be stuck between giving up our privacy or having vaguely intelligent AI.

I personally fall heavily on the privacy side of stuff, but I can see the intellectual and commercial appeal of pretending it doesn't matter in order to get there.
I'm willing to sacrifice an amount of privacy now for future potential improvements to my life.
Don't most people hiring freelancers accept bids within a week? My worry with this service is that by the time I see a project, the stakeholder has already hired someone for it.
I got some basic muscle memory in Vim, then tried for a long time to learn emacs. Now I've found spacemacs, and couldn't be happier (which uses EVIL mode under the hood). If you haven't tried it, you should check it out.
Internet was a way to share information, things, it was never for money. Money destroy everything. Human Rights Council have stated "to condemn the restrictions on access to information on the Internet" (A/HRC/32/L.20)

http://thehill.com/sites/default/files/a_hrc_32_l.20_english...

It's all about ethic and control of the source. If you can check the source, you can't tell if it's true or not and also access to information should not be limited by your money.

This make me sad the way Internet is turning to.
I think most fantasies are okay with the anthropomorphic AI assistant knowing everything about us, but don't involve the AI transmitting all of it's data back to "the cloud" where advertisers can mine this data or the NSA could listen in with a secret gag ordered wiretap. Probably wishful thinking, but maybe one day a privacy first company will dip their toes into this arena.
Whoa now friend. The 1541 is a computer onto itself. The slow loading was because of Commodore’s desire to keep backwards compatibility with the VIC-20 drive, which used a buggy 6522 chip, not because the 64 couldn’t go faster.

BTW, if you want to run GEOS faster, get an REU and let the DMA transfer fun begin. This is 2016 after all; you must keep up with the times :)
What makes Google an advertising company and Apple a product company? Since both make products and sell advertising.

Obviously advertising is more important to Google than it is to Apple but at what point does Apple become an advertising company and Google a product company? Is there a revenue threshold? A branding threshold?

Edit: I'm not saying Google isn't an advertising company. I'm asking what makes Google (but not Apple) an advertising company.
Objects are in C as well, with structures. You can do abstraction like that in different ways in comparison to classes. For example, components are common. Difference being that objects are components, but not all components are objects. Also function objects, aka functors.

I try to organize into specific components and piece them together into a sequential or threaded or both model, depending on what I do. Of course, it is specific to what I do. But there are large C projects that are successful - for example, Linux kernel.
>I am astonished by there being row upon row of empty new build housing in central London. Care to show where those are?

Feast your eyes:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/24/revealed-for...

This isn't the only one it's just the famous symbolic one. I've walked past tons of others. Some neighborhoods have basically emptied out because the property owners are mostly or entirely absent. I remember Mayfair and Sloane Sqaure are noticeably much less busy these days than 10 or 20 years ago.

>Roman Abramovich and Prince Whoever may have more space than they need, but overall impact of the space taken by the very wealthy is small.

It's not small at all. While the wealthy get bigger and bigger spaces the middle classes are squeezed into smaller and smaller spaces. I live in a room in a house because I can't justify the cost of a whole flat. Many more people these days share rooms. Meanwhile the wealthy have townhouses that could easily be split into 4 flats for 4 families and the ultra-wealthy have enormous mansions that could house 50 or 100 people and often live in them two weeks a year. The most extreme example - Buckingham Palace - occupies enough space to house maybe 5,000 people (in skyrises).

Anybody who wants to buy (most people don't want to rent for the rest of their lives) is forced further and further out. Hence trains became more "popular".

>Their negative impact is probably larger in the jobs that they offer

Please. Nobody believes that "job creator" schtick over here. For every Elon Musk creating jobs there's about 1,000 Philip Greens destroying jobs.

>And as you can see, London, like many major cities, has population growth.

The price rise in the centre cannot solely be accounted for by the rise in the number of polish and Romanian cleaners. They have taken to sharing rooms on the outskirts rather than occupying mansions next to Hyde Park.

>Assuming jobs and other pull factors remain the same, distributing wealth differently would just mean that different people compete of the same housing

It means different people compete for the same space. It would mean fewer mansions that could house 100 people (they would be converted) and fewer people sharing rooms and much, much less unoccupied housing.

>House prices going up helps the problem in that there is more incentive to build new houses

It actually doesn't help that much currently. As you can see St George's Wharf was basically turned into the equivalent of unused bars of gold housing almost nobody.

>(and more tax revenue from property taxes).

Property taxes are part of the problem. They are kept very, very low. If they were raised the tendency to treat property like gold would go down. Fewer empty properties.

>Regarding tax treatment, I expect you would favour a Land Value Tax, and there you've got me with you, along with both leftists and neoliberals.

Leftists yes. Neoliberals no. Blair & Blairites and the Tories and the rest of the neoliberal establishment have never advocated for it and never will. Corbyn has. Not coincidentally the establishment want to see Corbyn's head on a spike.
What makes many of us sour, is that it isn't theory, rather already proven in the past, back when C was only a UNIX language and barely relevant outside it.

It was the commoditization of UNIX in the industry that pushed C outside UNIX, just like we nowadays have JavaScript outside the browser.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I think Pascal "TYPE" blocks and C "typedef" statements do pretty much the same thing.

(they don't look the same, but you can use either to define record/structure types or enums, for example)
What I want mainly from Google is more and easier ways to customize my level of privacy. The article touches on the EFF's stance against incognito modes briefly, but it's an important one; I don't want lack of monitoring to be something I start a separate session for, with a logo of a creepy dude implying I should use this only for spying and pornography. I'd like to get as close as possible to an assistant that remembers relevant data on where I go and how long it takes, but ignores my browsing history to psychologically manipulate me into buying things--of course, that needs a different revenue model.
how about beat them but not duplicate the work, let's say send a few living quarters there.
Arguably, at a scale, it is cheaper for every separate device to process it's own voice-to-text and automate things.

But, doing it offline, has no incentive for advertising companies.

Universities / home automation companies / etc would be probably be more incentivized to develop that.

So, any advances in AI, if they come in the 'always online' will come with strings attached. It is not your AI optimization software, it's somebody's else.
I find this explanation particularly compelling because it also explains a host of behaviors that have little to do with producing children.

Khufu didn't build the Great Pyramid as a place for his kids to live in.
I am in the same boat (of waiting to update my Nexus 5, which I love dearly). What do you think of Moto Z Play---unlocked version coming at the end of the month? Inexpensive, a giant battery, USBC, quick charge, and reasonable price.
Oh god... doesn't this mess with plugins or something?
Dude, I promised not to buy more books until I'm done reading my late shelf of 150 books, and now I feel the urge to buy this one and break my vow :)
Can you cite that, please? I've actually read laws trying to find the answer to the original question and I came up empty.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12639809
Well, since most media is advertising dependent, they're dependent on access to information to give you something of value, to in turn sell ads. If investigating or reporting on something shady means, a press operative can no longer be allowed access to an election campaign, or means their correspondents get snubbed at press conferences. They'll cooperate or not report on something, or follow the delivered narrative in lieu of their long term business interests.
...until it's broken into.

I suspect that chances of would-be burglars or identity thieves breaking into Google data are pretty slim, in comparison to a home-installed system.

OTOH both Google and a private person can be strong-armed by a court order, or even a three-letter agency, to open up their AI knowledge vaults.
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It's easy to speculate on what could have been but we shoudn't forget that Twitter actually did exceptionally well for itself.

I personally could never have imagined that Twitter would become so popular. I'm still surprised that people are using it (the whole thing doesn't make any sense to me).
It makes sense to diversify his wealth.
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Amazing project I'm using it a lot!
Both landings successful, though the capsule didn't seem quite as stable as the booster at separation burn time.
It's true -- we also, however, ban firing based on race or sex. Purportedly, in the view of the managers who would wish to do so, their company would be more efficient if they were allowed to hire and fire whomever they wish (i.e. only employ white people, for example) -- perhaps they believe, in their racist world view, that having a company full of one race would create workplace unity, etc.

We could just let the market decide, and since we know the antiracist hypothesis is true, racist companies would miss on a huge amount of qualified labor and get beaten in a free market, forgetting for a moment that free markets are a myth and don't exist, and that the markets we do have aren't even close to efficient.

But we don't. We force companies to act a certain way even though they don't wish to because we are forcing ethical standards on them. This is, akin to your point at the expense of all of the workers not protected by the law. Every time we prevent a black person from being fired because he is black, it's at the expense of the white person who would take his job. The costs are passed down to white people. Neither choice is completely without consequences, yet we've made the one against racism.
Does https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols?pli=1 do what you're asking for? It's fairly fine-grained.
Full process and results here - https://github.com/Alnaimi-/database-benchmark
Fair enough, they have some small way of monetizing, which is 400 - 500 million USD short of covering their operating cost.
Too late now!
And ritalin fixed this? What did I just read
How about for potential risks? What if thieves/criminals get a hold of that data? 'Oh he goes to the pool every day 2-3 and lives alone with no home alarms'.
as any school bully would know, you have to pick targets that are weaker than you.
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>i think eventually, we'll think of I personal information as a commodity or "raw material" and regulate its extraction and trade as such.

I don't think there is eventuality. We must fight hard now to change our society. We live in a era that determines how future will look like. Politics is path dependent and wrong choices now can have consequences that last centuries.

Economic information asymmetry[1] over consumers and competition benefits few large corporations that can leverage it over customers and competition. They will fight for tooth and nail to prevent consumer regulation. Governments have additional agendas.

1: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/lau...
The difficulty is that the performance of queries on the final graph is dependent on it's shape. As lorenzhs said, you want the shortcuts to be as long as possible.

The final shape of the graph is highly dependent on the order you contract the nodes in - small changes in contraction order have large effects on the final shape.

One of the very expensive parts of the pre-processing step is determining the best order to perform contraction. Sure, you could just iterate over all nodes, contracting as you go (and parallelize), but you'd end up with a contracted graph that's not a whole lot better for queries than the original. Order matters.

The original CH paper covers lots of the details:

http://algo2.iti.kit.edu/documents/routeplanning/geisberger_...

There is a general group of approaches that do what you're describing - partition the graph recursively, and produce optimized overlays in various forms. This can be done in parallel, and recursively:

http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/challenge9/papers/holzer.pdf

Query performance is generally not quite as fast as a well-optimizied CH graph, but the overlays can be generated much faster and that work can be highly parallelized. We hope one day to get a chance to implement this approach in OSRM.

The difficult problem with the second approach is partitioning the graph well :-)
Not exactly. He still owns 19,780,472 shares of Class B stock according to the form filed: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1295032/000112760216...
If they tag on a "where the heck did I leave x" search engine while building out the technology I'm down for the MayoGoogleFridgeAppAss
"Knowing" in some sense everything about us is not the same as owning that information or trading in it. There are many other possible approaches to applying ML to our personal needs and data, so it is worth being careful about not conflating issues with a particular implementation and issues with the area as a whole.
Probably if 99% of their revenue comes from advertising you can call them an advertising company, and if 99% of their revenue comes from hardware you can call them a hardware company.
I don't get it. This can't be about decrypting traffic between internal clients and external servers, because the bank doesn't have the RSA key in the first place. It also seems unlikely that it's about decrypting traffic between external clients and internal servers, because (a) that's not what the bank rep said and (b) the server would just log the traffic.

That leaves two cases: internal client <-> internal server and internal client <-> internal MITM. For both of these cases, I see two easy solutions:

1. Log the session key.

2. Define a custom TLS extension that contains the session key encrypted with against a known bank-controlled public key and have the server/MITM send this extension after the handshake. Problem solved.

In any event, the internal client <-> external server case is highly problematic. What's to stop, say, Snapchat from running an extra unauthenticated DH exchange in JavaScript and encrypting all the application layer traffic against the resulting session key? The MITM proxy won't notice unless it's very clever indeed and then all those nice MITM proxy logs are useless.