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Online, immediate publish, publicly visible, no barrier to entry, crowd source moderation / no moderation, mass access media...

Is toxic.

Convince me otherwise.
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I elaborated on this quite a bit a month ago when it was posted[1], but the cliff's notes version is basically that Postgres + Solr turned out to perform better. It was also more familiar to us. I did actually prototype the project with it, and it affirmed a lot of my warm feelings, but performance was the deal breaker.

I'm really happy to see forward motion on this project though. It's the kind of thing I'd love to be involved in, if I were a completely different person.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12650171
Yep, the old Nokias did that too
>How do you figure?

Well, e.g:

"Farmers are reconsidering the use of biotech seeds as it becomes harder to justify their high prices amid the measly returns of the current farm economy"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-the-monsanto-deal-doubts-...

"The introduction of genetically engineered (GE) crops has corresponded with increasing monopolization of seed by biotechnology companies and higher seed costs. This has led to tragedies in some countries, while pushing out conventional, non-GE seeds and reducing farmer seed choices."
http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/blog/2013/oct/4/the_gmo_seed...

"Angelika Hilbeck, senior scientist at the Institute of Integrative Biology at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), and several other researchers analyzed seed catalogs in Spain, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. They found that in Spain—the largest European country to adopt GM corn—farmers’ seed choices declined overall and increasingly became a choice among GM varieties.

“Non-GM cultivars of maize were replaced with fewer GM cultivars,” Hilbeck said. But, in three EU countries that ban plantings of GM corn—Germany, Austria, and Switzerland—farmers have either many more corn seed varieties available to them now than in the 1990s (Germany and Austria) or at least the same number (Switzerland). Hilbeck presented their findings at a conference on GM crop cultivation in Bremen, Germany in June 2012."
http://non-gmoreport.com/articles/march2013/farmers-seed-opt...
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I had same thought except with an all trees will suffocate plot twist. The ice age angle is interesting.
Reverse engineering tools like IDA can be used to audit closed source code. However, this takes significantly longer than reading source code, and it's not exactly feasible to audit the entire operating system for something (hypothetically) intentionally hidden.
Since when is it a faux pas in the tech industry to deny someone for a poor "culture fit"?
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The NY Post are the ones that didn't do their homework. Their source for this article is FB trying for transparency.

If you have proof of inflating metrics and numbers, especially deliberately, you're welcome to post some. Posting detailed reports of errors discovered during an internal audit when under no obligation to do so, on the other hand, is not in keeping with your conspiracy theory.
> Somehow I feel we aren't getting the whole story there...

Well, yes, since Google isn't providing their part of the story.

I have no reason to think the OP of that thread is misleading, I believe from their perspective it is an accurate account. You don't have to go too far to read similar accounts from others who got suspended over Google Pay/Google Checkout fraud flags.

Unless Google comes out and says the OP missed out key information, I'm going to just assume OP is telling us everything they know from their perspective.
Funny, I didn't realize Spotify had a 1-click integration with Last.fm. Scrobbling now for the first time in over a year, thanks for the reminder!
You can estimate to some extent based on FPGA resources. For example you know you need X thousand flip-flops, Y hundred block RAMs, and Z hundred DSP blocks. And then you look at the switching speed specs and guess how fast you can clock it.

But in the projects that I've been involved with, it turns out that it just wasn't feasible to route all the stuff that was originally envisioned at the planned speed. Interconnect is a big killer of hopes and dreams, once your FPGA starts to fill up.

Really, the only way to be sure is to run your design all the way from synthesis to place and route. The problem with that is you rarely have the luxury of starting a hardware design with all the HDL already written.
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Arbitrage is a risk free transaction, so that's an oxymoron.
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So people with more average characteristics are less likely to be convicted of a crime? Could mean they are at a disadvantage with juries.
There is a rash of outlets turning out completely fake news with inflammatory, baiting headlines, which can be more easily shared now than ever before.

This problem is undoubtedly different than if some newspapers in one town or city publishing wrong information; then it was contained to a geographic area, but that's no longer the case with electronic media.
Someone, anyone... please patent a process to invalidate patents like these.
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Fwiw sounds like they are opening up to independent third party review with viewability vendors like Integral.

Now if only they'd let me use DCM tags to measure impression data and VTs.
Domino? Oh boy, we have run out of names.
On mosh's note. It's great experience for slow connection. Totally agree. There is new ios client recently released client with mosh support build-in [1]. Happy user

[1] http://www.blink.sh/
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I mean, I agree that we are backing away from GMOs to some extent. That $2.50/bu premium is worth it. On my farm, we haven't grown GMO soybeans in almost 10 years because of it.

But the fact remains that it takes that additional $2.50+ to cover the costs of non-GMOs. If you took that away, it'd be pretty difficult to not return back to growing GMOs. The costs are lower, and the savings really are being passed on to the customer, in this case – to the tune of $2.50/bu.

I'm still interested in your analysis of how it directly applies to our farms, rather than a bunch of random links. We don't need third-party media to have a discussion with each other. I'm sure you have some good points of your own.
That page constructs its own argument and then deconstructs it. It doesn't actually disprove the OP's statement.

The reason that GR and SR have "no bearing" is because they've already been designed into the system...

From "Understanding the NAVSTAR" 2nd Edition, by Tom Logsdon ( one of the designers of the system ) the time-dilation is compensated through:

1. Off-setting the clock ticking-rate during manufacture of each satellite.

2. Applying a unique onboard corrective factor according to the eccentricity ( egg-shapedness ) of each satellite's current orbit. The latter is correction is constantly recalculated for each satellite.

Without these corrections against relativistic effects the accuracy would suffer by 14 nm after 24 hours ( without tick-offsetting ) and 100 feet or so per day due to orbital
eccentricity.
but 4chan does have good memes...

Fast churn allows you to measure the zeitgeist?
Western media has slowly been turning into propaganda outlets (or has it always been like that, and I just started noticing more). Even ignoring the WMD fiasco, in recent years they've been just regurgitating facts from government mouthpieces (e.g. that NK hacked Sony and Russia hacked DNC - without any concrete proof), and they're incredibly one-sided - always attacking and vilifying Russia (e.g. the recent reporting about Russian/Syrian offensive of Aleppo vs. US/Iraq offensive of Mosul is one such example), attacking Trump and largely ignoring Hillary's sins. I also personally have an issue with the media engaging in identity politics and calling everybody racist, sexist, etc, and pretty much ignoring the much more significant economic inequalities (e.g. Panama papers got some coverage, but it was quickly replaced by more "important" topics like Trump's "locker room talk").

To regain the trust, I think the main recommendation would be, explicitly include a plurality of views, and push back against this trend of "political correctness above all else" - critical thinking is still valuable, even if it sometimes results in some inconvenient truths.

Edit: [0] is an example of what good media should be. Actually non-hysterical and fact-based. Even if you disagree with his conclusions, it's laudable that he included a link to an opinion that contradicts his.

[0] http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wo...
Mmm, to be honest, I was never a slashdotter so I have no experience with it at all (strangely enough :))
Hey now - there's plenty of fake news to confirm everyone's biases on Facebook, yours included.
While overall I agree that an organization like Wikileaks is necessary to hold institutions accountable, I find their actions during the last Presidential election questionable. They simply guy played by Russia. My biggest problem with their approach during the election is that they provided assymetric information to the public that heavily biased people's opinion. So DNC was working with Clinton campaign against Sanders, and I am pretty sure RNC was working against Trump as well. If there were some media collaboration on one side, I am confident this is a campaign norm and happened plenty on the other side. Especially when you got the Breitbart executive running the campaign. But by publishing one side of the story Wikileaks did a disservice to the Democracy that it longs to protect. Ideally, they should have hold on those emails until after the election or until there was comparable material available from the other side
I think that assumes that advertisers can immediately see the effect of brand advertising on the bottom line or some other metric, something I wouldn't assume especially for big businesses focused on awareness advertising.
Then again, if my numbers are right, if humankind dedicated <1% of land used worldwide for food to growing trees and locking away the cellulose, we would cancel out worldwide CO2 emissions. Since most of that land is used as pasture, there is more than enough play to keep the world fed, and I could see up to 10% being tasked to this purpose , which seems doable in an emergency.
I saw this tweet go around, and although it seems silly to those of us with technological experience, isn't clarifying what all this means a good thing? Perhaps rather than making this a fact check-like piece of media, it would be helpful to simply make a clarification.

However, for someone who isn't familiar with tech too much, I think it's reasonable for them to hear a server and acid discussed, and assume acid was somehow poured or ventilated into the machine. It sounds really weird to those of us who deal with technology every day and had familiarity with this story, but I think it's a clarification worth making.
It's not a 'conspiracy theory'. See my other comment. I worked at the Ad Team for a few months. Saw it from the inside.
Smart advertisers were (and not just direct response advertisers... brand advertisers to), but not advertisers are savvy enough to know what to measure. Also, Facebook could benefit from clarifying some of their definitions definitions as you might think they represent one thing when really they are another.
Congratulations I guess?

I've had quite a few computers that didn't have any problems and worked right out of the box. That doesn't mean there aren't still problems with other computers.
Hidden files, sure. But system files? I can't see any reason to ever display them.
It's probably mostly a legal protection for them so that they can blame someone else when they get sued.
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Every time we click Share or Post, we are a journalist.

I think training in this new world to help everyone be a responsible social media journalist would greatly benefit society.
One of Signals worst problems is that it entirely relies on Google to not provide a malicious APK during initial installation of the app.

(Yes, it is open source, but most people don't have the knowledge or time to compile software themselves)

I still think Signal is one of the best secure messengers though.
You're funny. Telling me my years of experience of this behavior biting me in the rear end is "wrong".

There isn't even such thing as "my files" and not. Are you aware that many people run antivirus products that sit between you and the filesystem and might choose to also open "my" files in an asynchronous fashion based on my own actions? That such an antivirus product has been built into Windows for some time now? (msmpeng.exe) Suddenly that file you thought it safe to have exclusive access to... it wasn't.

Even controlling your own actions is hard and yields unexpected results all the time. Almost any time setting dwShareMode to something other than 0x7 and I saw it bite me in some unexpected way due to things my own process is doing, that I did not think of ahead of time.

Once you have Windows filesystem code doing this at any appreciable scale you will see this. It takes enough of seeing sharing violations and delete pending errors time after time to realize these are just dangerous patterns on the platform, avoid them and move on.
What was the impact of facebook and the nature and intensity of fake news four years ago vs now? If the difference is even slightly significant, it could well explain part of the phenomenon.

And one does need to explain why such large percentage of Trump's supporters believe things like Obama being foreign a born muslim, and why they voted so conclusively against their own self interests
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> how complex?

Yeah I thought about this very hard actually, and came to the conclusion that just a "weight"(+) button is enough.

And, if you care that much so that you would waste your time providing more ... contextual meta-info (about the weight itself), you simply need a pop-up and a quick way to select words from a common dictionary. Certain users can even make content "more spammish" by simply increasing the weight with a click (they agree with the labeling and they are "special" in some way).

This, and the weight itself should provide enough info for a comprehensive "decoration" of the postings.
My experience with azure is subpar : slow, deploys failing for no clear reason, terrible ui. Do you have bettee experience with it?
>Some believe that fringe information was a major factor in the U.S. Presidential election.

Yes, but Trump won despite the fringe information against him.

See why these political posts are vapid garbage that do nothing to add to the conversation?
I hope open source software can be fully embraced by healthcare, to dramatically reduce costs.
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I don't know, I find it hard to be believe that with Trump getting what over 300 electoral college votes and Hillary having the worst Democratic performance in 28 years, that people who voted for Obama just simply didn't show up to vote or voted for Hillary.

Washington Post (if you trust it, I don't much, but got nothing else here) says this

---

Nearly 1 in 5 Trump voters say they approve of Obama's job performance. That would mean about 8 percent (note: large margin of error) of Americans went to the polls on Election Day liking what Obama was producing as president but deciding to vote for the other party's unpopular nominee anyway.

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They are quoting Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University there
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Right, it's very similar to most plans where you break even around ~2 screen replacements. Like you said, if you have to utilize the insurance for things aside from the 2 screen replacements, then you come out even further ahead.

But that requires foresight in buying the insurance and most people just don't have that. In my case, I have only ever broken one phone, so buying insurance with the idea that I break even at ~2 incidents would not be worth it for me. In the Pixel's case, I would like the option to pay full fees for fixing rather than only the option of previously having had foresight AND having to break my phone twice.
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Just make the necessary hardware illegal to sell or own and the problem is solved.
Watch out you don't get Saddam along with your goods...
I've found myself thinking this too. I wouldn't suggest they license macOS to all and sundry, but they could work with one or two carefully selected hardware vendors to fill a couple of lower-volume niches: workstations, and workstation-class laptops.
What is the end game on that though? Everyone for themselves, buy a shotgun, and hick USA?
You're equivocating. You said

"If the internet stopped people from falling for bullshit, "post-truth" would not have been 'word of the year' for 2016."

which is making a general claim. Whereas now you're implying that you weren't making a general claim about "stopped".
Many of these are not possible due to backwards compatibility. Even if we could:

1. Most Rust users, including me, like the implicit returns. We would face a ton of pushback if we tried to drop them. Rust doesn't actually need that many semicolons: you can frequently leave them off.

2. This is tricky, because it can have surprising semantics if not done right (e.g. right shifts). There are proposals to do something like this, though.

3. I disagree. That would eliminate much of the benefit of ? to begin with.

4. Not possible. This would complicate the already very complex typechecker too much.

5. Macros 2.0 is coming. We can't just remove macros: they're fundamental to basic things like #[derive] and string formatting.
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It's a recurring theme. Whether we talk about global warming, science, evolution, woman's rights, racial relations, human rights. There are beliefs and beliefs almost by their nature are irrational. Try having a rational discussion with a religious Jewish person about why they can't turn the light on or off in their home on Sabbath. And that's an easy topic. Some arguments are made from a rational position but many are not. Some are from an emotional position. Some are based on beliefs that don't care about the rational argument. Now to be honest judging things by rational arguments is a belief on its own.
Not limited to http.

http://databaseblog.myname.nl/2014/07/decoding-encrypted-mys...
This is extremely naive. These guys are professional marketers and they are doing a job. When you build a product do you really think house best can I help my customer or how can optimize to get the best click or get the best conversion or get the best retention?
First of all, a patent is presumed valid unless proven otherwise. (35 U.S.C. §282). However, this is challengable. In litigation, the patentee would argue that the invention at issue is a process and that, in the language of your citation, is one to "transform a particular article into a different state." Here the "article" in question is a "subject exhibiting symptoms..." who is transformed into the state of being a subject who has been treated.

The scope of the invention is stated by the claims, not what is disclosed in the specification. So, as you wrote, the "diet protocol" does have to be followed exactly, and all other other elements of the claim need to be present in order for there to be literal infringement of that claim.
Sometimes, when I get very drunk, I'll watch Warhammer distopian videos about how it all goes wrong. Is it wrong that I think of Musk as The Emperor, come to save us?

(Firmly tongue in cheek.)
I don't see a downvote button. Do you need a base reputation for that, like Stack Overflow?

Edit: yeah, karma is needed.
I seeded someone's homemade album I discovered at Salvation Army... that was made in the 80's.
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Unfortunately Linux Mint does not track security issues or issue security updates. That alone is reason enough to avoid it completely, but then when you add in their server breach and the way they handled it...

Stick with Debian and Ubuntu. And more Debian, going forward.
And it begins. The birth of a company with a direct conflict of interest in making Kubernetes so simple to use/administer that you don't need to pay another company for 'enterprise support'.

This happens quite frequently with open source infrastructure. Keep an eye on them to push back against improvements that directly conflict with their company's "enterprise sauce".
Sounds like you want to be a consultant, or like you said, at a startup. It's a tautology, but working for a big company makes you better at working for big companies. And startups are biased against corporate/enterprise developers. If you've been there a while, you may need to compromise on some level.
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I think this is awesome news. We have been experimenting with container engines for past 3 months. We are building a massive API backed for bioinformatics where container orchestration and wrapping of heterogenous tools seems to be the way to go.
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That indeed might be an issue in a long run. In reverse order we can see this story paralleled by MongoDB.
Isn't the NT async IO API just a front for a kernel side thread pool though, and may block depending on worker thread availability? They say[1] "if you issue an asynchronous cached read, and the pages are not in memory, the file system driver assumes that you do not want your thread blocked and the request will be handled by a limited pool of worker threads"

Things may be different for socket IO, but there Unix had select() much earlier, around 4.2BSD (1983)

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/156932
We will just burn more and more ...
I watched the video you linked to, which is mostly about people who rip content from YouTube and upload it to Facebook.

The people who view the pirated content are still viewing content on FB. That isn't "artificially inflat[ing] their view counts." Those are real views, which is what advertisers are paying for, even if what they are viewing is stolen.

The point about counting 3 seconds of auto-play as a view is problematic, unless advertisers know that is what they are paying for. Maybe 3 seconds is enough for someone to glance at it and at least read the brand name in their mind, which does seem to count as an "impression".
> Chrome is Chrome...installing Flash player requires a PhD

Huh? Chrome has Flash built-in, and for everything else, just `apt-get install flashplugin-installer`.
So, people wanting to learn about the world should go to Somalia and North Korea to round up their experience?
I don't think the problem was resource availability. Some of my students attempted to start t2's because we weren't going to be doing particularly heavy calculations in this class, and were rejected.
>And would you have recommendations for ways "the media" to gain back that trust?

Not feeding questions to a debate to 'the chosen candidate' before the debate.
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I mean, at least I was clear about that up front :)