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In Firefox, we've had a number of security issues created by AV. They tend to run as root, patch up our dynamic libraries in-memory, play man-in-the-middle on the network layer, deactivate security updates, rewrite security certificates, block entire processes at every disk access, ....

Some of these practices might make sense if they had the resources to actually follow the update trains (in my experience, they don't, so Bad Consequences ensue). Some, I suspect, are due to them working in secrecy out of fear from other AV vendors – so much secrecy that we actually don't know what kind of APIs they need for their code to work more cleanly. Some suggest that they simply don't care about killing the performance of the entire browser. And I have seen at least one bug that showed a complete misunderstanding of how SSL works.

I hear that the situation is improving. But for the moment, I'm not a big fan of reading crash reports and cleaning up after messes left by AV software.
On Joe Duffy's profile there is what I thought to be a hexadecimal: 284d69f1cb

I tried converting it to ascii and decimal and nothing interesting came out. Anyone know what that is? Maybe a key signature?
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Its a different problem because mobile is about walled gardens (I am against walled gardens). Fighting ads that appear on an app will become harder and downright impossible without rooting your device.
"If you live on a farm off the grid...."

I agree, the monkey that does what you described shouldn't be forced to pay taxes.

But I am still confused as to why the monkey and his family can't attend private schools, drive on private roads, receive medical services from a private doctor, and donate any bananas he voluntarily decides to contribute to right the wrongs of his monkey island :)

In my opinion, the other monkeys that are trying to force him to subsidize other monkeys' consumption habits are just trying to collect rent from him!
To be honest, you should probably look at their RDF dumps if you are from a CS background or you will end up in Ensembls Perl/MySQL swamp.
I don't believe so. UberX is not ridesharing, UberPOP is. Also, if I am mistaken, please point me to the source in the article that actually states that they're targeting UberX. The article explicitly mentions UberPOP, if it would affect X I'm fairly certain they would've mentioned that along the way.

The fact that POP is not operational in Sweden at all doesn't mean it automatically targets X. UberPOP is just the ride sharing service most people are familiar with so it makes sense for Reuters to use that as an example, as well as add to the appeal of their article. There are however other companies that do provide for-profit ride sharing services in Stockholm. This just means that there's now going to be a law that prohibits UberPOP and similar for-profit ride sharing services entirely, regardless of if they already operate or not.

As also noted by Uber itself, X is not ridesharing.

UberX is the most popular private car service that Uber has to offer. It's commonly referred to as the "low-cost option" for riders, it allows you to quickly arrive at your destination without breaking the bank.

To contrast with UberPOP

With UberPOP, you can share your UberX and split the fare with multiple users.

That's ride sharing.
39x11 the whole way home..
OP was making a principled stance for a more direct democracy. When you argue against a more direct democracy, doesn't that make you scratch your chin and wonder if you really support democracy at all? Do you really support your fellow man and his pursuit of happiness, or do you know what's best for him and wish to dictate how he lives. Based on what you wrote, you don't support democracy at all - which may possibly be a valid view.
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That's hard to compare. Typically FPGAs are doing fixed-point math, so they can do more operations with less power. GPUs have traditionally done floating point. However, with the new Pascal architecture, certain cards (P4/P40) support 8-bit integer dot products, which give a massive boost in performance/W. It's still fairly high at 250W, but that's for an entire card with 24GB of memory. You'd have to compare that to an FPGA with that much memory on a PCIe card if you're doing apples to apples. Something like this is appropriate for comparison: http://www.nallatech.com/store/fpga-accelerated-computing/pc...
Intimidating competitors. The taxi industry is notorious for this.

Of course it's only a few bad apples that ruin the basket, but it's not unheard of.
At first I thought I would have a hard time searching for it with such a simple name, but it clearly is a Haskell tool.

This looks like a reasonable alternative for people who control the whole lifetime of their code, life server software developers. But for someone shipping a library or anything they expect someone else to build, what advantages does this have over Make in the *nix world or CMake in general?
Thanks. That was somethimg I had in mind and it it reasonably grandpa-safe ;-)
Taxi ranks at (wealthy) airports are almost never subject to market competition. To avoid crowding and crime, some number of drivers or companies get permission to pick people up at the airport, and everyone else is shut out. Other taxis can drop you off, but not pick up a return fare. Usually this comes with fixed prices to avoid extortion, but if it doesn't you get this oligopoly pricing.

Incidentally, this is part of the vehement objection to Uber - on-demand pickup still happens, which breaks the stranglehold on cab ranks.
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Just run a conduit of fiber out to the parking lot temporarily.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
From the perspective of the student S3 over university wifi is not "better" than local USB2 hard drives. It actually is a risk budget wise.
Of course, I have no way of knowing how soon "very soon" is.

However, although my post may have wishful thinking in it, I think if you investigate the reality of the cells that contribute to human thinking, you will come to the conclusion that it is impossible that this or some similar system should not be modelled in computers within the next hundred years. You can look at the processing involved yourself. Just remember that the whole is the sum of the parts, and the parts are doing slow, biological things - it's not silicon etchings that work at practically the speed of light. Neural signals propagate at something like 100 meters per second at the fastest[1] - light propagates at 299 792 458 meters per second and if you look at our 4 Ghz CPU's you will see that in a clock cycle light just goes about 10 cm.[2] Light goes fast enough to make a million trips across a server room in the time it takes neurons to fire. While staggeringly complex, the fact is, our server rooms are doing more.

This is like heavier-than-air flight. Let's say the fuels and engines are there - but we don't know how to assemble them.

When we see neural nets produce results that are similar to what young children produce, this is amazing. I cannot overemphasize that at any moment we can have a breakthrough. We have so much more computational power than required: 3 pounds! 20 watts! 86 billion neurons with 7000 connections! And at speeds of 300 herz.

The training time for a human brain to get to intelligence even close to adulthood is, let's say, 12 to 14 years even in the most precocious.

We're looking at the output of neural nets that receive perhaps months of training.

This stuff is happening right now. It's absolutely astounding and there is no limit to what can be unlocked overnight. Any server farm at Amazon or Google has the hardware today to go through 10 years of human brain training in about 10 months, and then end up with a network that thinks ten times the speed of human thought. It's there, today. Three pounds. Twenty watts. Three pounds. Twenty watts. Three pounds. Twenty watts.

It's not miraculous. It's happening.

[1] http://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/21790/how-long-do...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=c+%2F+4+hgz
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Talk to an older Swede.

If you're young, and talk mostly to young Swedes, it's a different story.

Actually, one of the reasons that this may be 'contentious' is because of 'startup culture'.

When I say 'business' - you might be thinking 'startup'.

Surely - it's 'cool' among young people to be at a startup, doing some cool thing like 'games' or 'music'.

But the attitude towards most business, by that I mean what is really 99% of the private economy is still pernicious.

Cultural example - do you know the film 'Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' - the Swedish version? The film is about the follies and evil of an old Swedish noble/industrial family. In the film they are all portrayed as bad, they hate each other, they are greedy, one is a rapist/murderer. Arguably this could be 'populist' anywhere, but it's I think anecdotally relevant for a Nordic country. Across Europe 'business' remember, is the 'bourgeoisie' - i.e. one of the 'offending' classes of 'the revolution'. The view that 'rich people' are basically entirely get their wealth from the economic enslavement of the 'working people' is a cultural epitaph there - and across Europe, to varying degrees.

The idea that people can 'create things of value' an 'exchange them' and 'create jobs' - was not widely held. Wealth was a 'zero sum game' - some had it, other did not and that was it.

As further indirect support, I'll offer the rise of the Social Democrats during the early 20th century, who had enormous power (near total) and influence for decades - and become so entrenched that the were almost de-facto the nature of Swedish/Nordic (and to some extent European) political culture. This did not happen quite as much in the UK, and certainly not in Canada, Australia or the USA.

During the 1980's-1990's they underwent a series of reforms to undo some of the 'socialization of the economy' (same time as Thatcher, Reagan). Same thing happened in Germany in the 1990's, but on different terms.

Anyhow - 'startups among young people' - surely. And surely nowadays the government 'gets' that startups are 'good'. But the cultural aversion to 'big business', I believe, still exists if you factor in all generations, government, institutions etc...
I am anxiously awaiting the videos, so this is welcome info, thanks! Any idea when the videos will be posted?
The consumers applications (which interface with Tank brokers via a Tank client library) are responsible for maintaining the sequence number they are consuming from.

Suppose one such application is consuming every new event that's publishing ("tailing the log"). As soon as another application successfully publishes 1 or more new messages, the consumer will get them immediately. If the application that attempted to publish failed to do so, or didn't get an ACK for success, then you are guaranteed that no new message(s) were published(i.e no partial message content).

I am not sure if that answers your question, if not, can you please elaborate?
Not much. Could it be less than 4% due to not having memory cards at hand, etc.
We usually sync 3-4 times a year.
That sounds like forcing a service (that you might not want) down your throat, and accusing you of stealing if you refuse to pay. It would be surprisingly better to let monkeys pay for what they want to use, instead of making every monkey pay for what they won't ever use.
> "The US doesn't actually do anything with natural resources anymore" ... "we don't "add value" to natural resources"

Not sure that's accurate. The US refines more oil than any other nation.

http://www.hydrocarbons-technology.com/features/featurethe-1...

And is #4 in steel production

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_steel_pro...
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I appreciate your response and POV :)

Why can we not assume that the doctor monkey is operating a private medical practice, his daughter is sent to a private monkey school, and they drove together in a privately produced car on privately maintained roads?

In the USA, I pay income taxes, and I still have to pay for all of these things above (fees, fines, tolls, surcharges, sales tax...)
I'm pretty sure I've seen exactly this - information booths at airports saying "this is what a licensed cab looks like, this is the fare to downtown, don't be fooled". It's not universal, though, because you'd need to get rights to put up the sign.
The advantage with Snowmobile is you only need a dozen or so ports, not hundreds.

Also - think about the person having to do this - If I had to move 100 petabytes of data to AWS - I really don't want to be messing around with hundreds of appliances, tracking them, figuring what we uploaded onto what devices, figuring out how to fragment the data to properly fit on all the devices, etc....

Definitely want to go the Snowmobile route.
It sometimes depresses me a little that on the best ways I know to 'impress' (but only barely) friends of mine with my line of work is to do a 3D css transform/transition on whatever website they're currently looking at...

Thankfully there's been the occasional friend who got really excited at the thought of being able to use their browser's devtools to change things on the page through css or javascript.
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Or just set up a taxi next to it for 2.5x the price? Or maybe force taxis at airports onto a centralised exchange with a big electronic comparison billboard that everyone can see?

I get that something is preventing that, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation. But what is? Can we fix that instead and make the market more accessible?

If not, then regulate away, of course.
Because all those private services that you describe in turn use public services.

Unless all these private services band together so that they become truly widespread and form something that makes paying for them easier. Maybe to make it fair the people that use them the most and profit the most from them should pay the most. Maybe we could call such a banding of public services a nation and call the usage fees taxes....
> The 'anti business' attitude in Scandinavian countries is (or was) palpable, esp. among anyone over say 45. It's a much more difficult thing to illustrate, but go ahead and talk to an older Swede. You'll see what I mean.

I'm Swedish, my Aunt is a hardcore "thought the USSR was great"-Vänsterpartiet-leftist, but even she does some work as self-employed entrepreneur and when I came of age and started doing contract work breathlessly started telling me about all the stuff I could deduct off my taxes.

I don't think you can generalize this.
>You can't have 0% corporate tax and free healthcare and education.

I don't think this was really your point, but is there any particular reason you think there's a need for corporate tax, rather than just taking the same money via capital gains tax?
Congrats on launching!

I'll be honest, when I clicked and got a login page I thought "is this what we're supposed to hack?" ;)

I second the recommendation below to add some pictures or a video to show what you're getting into. A lot of people will not register a new account when they don't know what they're getting.
All the monkeys only got the bananas because they were transported to them on public roads paid for by taxes, etc. Wait, you mean your example doesn't really fit the problem at hand?
One monkey says to a group of other monkeys: "We all need to take one of the 5 bananas we individually have to pay for a 1.2 trillion banana fighter jet that doesnt work, and also to give bananas to people who aren't contributing any bananas at all"

One monkey from the group, who makes 4 of the 5 bananas, and doesn't want a 1.2 trillion banana fighter jet notices that all the people who are clamoring to take bananas aren't putting in any of the bananas themselves but are instead on the receiving end of the banana transfer, gets annoyed that they are basically having a meeting to take his bananas and give them to themselves. He gets upset by this"

Remember context. Full Context is important.
The letter itself can be viewed here. [1]

[1] http://www.mitvalues.org
Very well said. I remember all the bright kids from my college having to decide between Google/Amzn/msft or Facebook pre-ipo. News articles at that time had similar proclamations based on leaked revenue estimates. Most of them that joined FB are now multi-millionaires. Which is not to say that Uber will be successful, but there's just too many unknowns to make a conclusion either way.
The fact that browsers don't have any built-in mechanisms to load-balance resources it disappointing, but not surprising. Think about who are the main drivers of HTML specs. There is probably a way to implement such balancing manually, though. Either through loading parallel documents and exploiting cahcing or through using setTimeout and loading a different set of resources.
If you imagine a grizzled Texan spitting into the dirt and saying it just after the words "Dangit Clancy..."

... it makes a lot more sense.
One of the cofounders of the Echonest (acquired by Spotify) created this back in 2004:

"A Singular Christmas" was composed and rendered in 2004. It is the automatic statistical distillation of hundreds of Christmas songs; the 16-song answer to the question asked of a bank of computers: "What is Christmas Music, really?"

https://soundcloud.com/bwhitman/sets/a-singular-christmas
> The taxi company that I used to drive for was large enough to build its own modern [1] app-based dispatching system.

If nothing else, I appreciate that Uber is pushing taxi companies to develop on-demand hailing apps. I've started seeing local companies advertise them specifically in response to Uber's success.
Everybody is a neoliberal until they have to pay for their own hospital bill.
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Hey love the style!

I went through 4 steps of the tutorial and I found myself wanting to do more so good job! I'll try a bit more on lunch break :)
Why does having Windows preinstalled matter? You can always install Linux over it.
'Bandaid' is going easy on them - what AV is selling is an antipattern. "Blacklist the bad executables" is so obviously ineffective and ultimately infeasible compared to "whitelist the good executables"
This is an interesting point. Could AV become obsolete in the future, provided the security of OSes becomes good enough?
I'd be concerned about OP if he/she signed an NDA,
but I guess he/she is smarter than that.

I participated in the interview as well.
5 hour long face to face interview. Hour each with 5 different engineers
Did not get an offer.
Maybe the dollar is only going "up" because the other economies are scared shitless of Trump as a president, and their currencies are going down as a result of the uncertainty.
But we don't buy those natural resources from other coutries
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I was one of these people. I just got a maxed-out Thinkpad X1 Carbon and run Ubuntu on it. It's a really nice machine, you should look at it.
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Most of the software you use is complete and utter shit full of shoddy, high-risk code. Do we need to bring that up every time when we are talking about something specific?

The lack of hooks into the browser is brought up because without them AV has to do these weird things to scan the content browsers are happily loading from untrusted sources. If you use an AV product that scans network activities that is.
"As a Swede:
1) Cheating on taxes is quite literally stealing from every other person in the country."

Yes - thanks for this.

You made my point better than I could.

'Cheating on taxes' is seen as much more of an 'immoral crime' in Scandinavia, than in other places.

In Canada, 'cheating on taxes' is seen like maybe 'cheating a payment' or something. It's 'wrong' obviously, but there is not a 'stigma'.

For whatever reasons (socialized culture, very small community where cause/effect are direct - I don't know? - you tell me :)) - cheating on taxes is a 'much bigger deal', socially, and probably even legally.

But you said it better than I did :)
Granted, it will never win any awards. Part of the choice behind it might have been the desire to "ship" it before Christmas.
"But since he does..."

This is a fatal assumption to make ;) I personally pay income taxes, do not have health insurance, and on the off times I require medical/dental care, I go to a private medical practice.

It is therefore immoral to force me to pay for a service I am choosing not to use :)
That's the hard part in this process.

Not in Sweden. There are probably hundreds of taxi companies in Sweden and starting a new one is basically no harder than starting any other company.
I agree... it seems that getting the code into peoples hands would be a positive business driver. But once you raise $50m+ in venture capital, all bets are off.
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Not sure if the following has already been mentioned in other comments, so apologies if I'm posting redundant information.

The "ride-sharing services" that make profits are already illegal in Sweden according to court decision, since it essentially means "taxi company without the annoying taxes". And consequently UberPOP has been suspended in Sweden along with several other EU countries (as also noted in the original post).

So the new proposal mostly seems like a way to clarify legislation: If you do something systematically to make a profit, we call that business and you pay taxes and follow all other relevant legislation (worker's rights etc). Makes very much sense to me.
Awesome analysis, thanks for that. :)
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I want the game to have a "this is not a game" feel in the sense that it has no points, bonuses, levels, so that the player, even thou it's obvious that it is a game, feels like a real hacker.

But you have a point, and I will add some info to the login page. Thanks for the feedback!
I would say the inverse. The only people I know that leave a "watch" on are sleep trackers.

Which is a tiny tiny niche
Nokia is back?
I know, I know. But I think they have some influence.
It's a balancing act. Too weak of a yuan undermines their efforts to shift towards basing more of their economy on internal consumption.
A lot of oil is imported for the refineries to process.

https://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2014/10/28/why-is-the-u-s-...
Idea: Pivot into ProductHits.com and do this for different categories. Use Amazon affiliate links and promote it on social media by making videos and blog posts about "this weeks top ten products".

You owe it to yourself to make this. :)

PS. If you dont I will. ;)
Nice. Keep it up. Side projects like this are what has gotten me into this career.

I've actually been thinking about hacking together something very much like this, because I found myself manually making spreadsheets for cross-checking specs when shopping for a laptop recently. In addition to the facets you have, I also wanted to have max RAM, CPU, and SSD size to filter by. Might be useful additions.
I am an American and I pay for all of my medical care privately, without insurance :)
But isn't this exactly the duty of an entity like, say, the municipality or the airport administration? That's one of the major roles of the state: To step in when there is no profit motive to do the 'right thing'.
If this were entirely true then people wouldn't buy home security systems or safety deposit boxes.
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