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The new railway minister has been working relentlessly on improving the situation, we are already seeing a huge improvement. Trains are being run on time, it is a huge problem that doesn't go away overnight. I am willing to give the current government more time if they can stay the current course they are on.

Also, it would be nicer if you keep yourself updated on the latest development on the subject you are going to comment on.
RM's twitter handle is a good place to start.

https://twitter.com/sureshpprabhu
Wow awesone
I wonder if Amazon has done other/more research since and softened their stance since that gigaspaces article...

... because I'm noticing, esp. over the last 1+ years, that Amazon's page loads are getting slower and slower (Win7, FF) with all of the "crud" they are loading with each/every page. I remember when it was all a lot snappier (not like an HN page load "snappy", but pretty good!)
> If the way you measure time takes leap seconds into account, you have no way of saying "exactly X Système international seconds from now".

Note that this is the case for anyone using POSIX time, which inherently assumes that hours start on multiples of 3600, and has to be adjusted or smeared when a leap second happens.

But I've never seen a system that follows your recommendation, using TAI as the internal time and something like TAI-5:00:36 as the local time, except for GPS devices.
We may have identified the root cause of Social Isolation: Cheap lawn furniture. :-)
I think the grandparent was trying (rightly so) to avoid giving a spoiler by being ambiguous. Perhaps you could put a [spoiler] prefix on you post.
I don't think they are naive or altruistic at all; that same partisan environment offers huge amounts of wealth if you consign with one faction or another.

I'm sure being an Official Facebook Fact Checker is a job that pays quite well.
"I still haven't seen anyone point to a substantive example of why Snopes should not be trusted."

You have it exactly backwards. I've never seen anyone give a good reason why Snopes should be trusted. The Mikkelsons were self-appointed "authorities" from the beginning, with zero actual expertise or credentials in most of the areas they opine upon.

Edit: I should add that I view any organization that feels the need to use "truth", "fact", or similar in its name with an extremely jaundiced eye. It's reminiscent of Pravda and "Honest John's Used Cars". Organizations with actual earned credibility don't use names like that, as a rule.
JavaScript timestamps are POSIX timestamps times 1000, and POSIX timestamps have to be corrected for leap seconds at the OS level, not in the application.

The advantage of this is that 1483228800000 is definitely the start of 2017 (and in general, UTC days start on multiples of 86400 seconds, or 86400000 in JS). The disadvantage is that Date(1483228799999) could happen twice, and the first time it would be followed by Date(1483228799000).

In your application, you have to be able to cope with time going backwards for a moment. (But this is already true whenever your system contacts an NTP server.)
Indeed way cleaner than Iron in terms of parsing query (int) arguments and JSON post data (BodyParser).
Because 'Visa' is also the name of a major credit card provider, there are likely to be a significant number of people searching under that term whose needs are entirely different.

My standard concern is that it is much harder to iterate and communicate with users when the delivery channel is an app in an appstore versus a website. It is also more difficult to anchor pricing to a sustainable level and offer personalized service.

Expertise navigating international travel is something that may have more value than a potential customer's flagship mobile device. In an app store, it is going to be nearly impossible to extract that value because...well there's somebody who will offer a service that is similar for free or $1.99. In the app store, the $1.99 service will be largely indistinguishable from a $999 service due to the standard format of app store sales pages.
It says fertility isn't an issue today, but it's a little out of touch with today's anxieties; most of Europe and Japan have such low fertility that their native populations are in decline.
Here's one: The former porn star/professional escort that David Mikkelson divorced his wife to marry is now an administrator at Snopes. No amount of mental gymnastics can get me to look past those red flags.
Some interesting discussion here, particularly the refs in (6): http://mathoverflow.net/questions/215984/research-situation-...
Wow, you guys really love propaganda. You do realize that film was propaganda, right?
Nah. Downloaded it but it's asking for way too many permissions without explaining why. And there's no conceivable reason you need my phone number. So, deleted.
Put your tinfoil caps on. I personally think Google knows this fact but has monetary reasons to not disclose it. If the advertising industry expected to pay say, 4 times as much when they advertise to children, Google would be all over that.

Also, whatever your CTR is, it becomes a lot less meaningful if it turns out the majority of your users are illiterate and between the ages of 1 and 4.

I guess the money making scheme/scam here would be an advertising firm where you make commercials that incentivize viewers to put their finger on the video during the ad and appeal to toddlers.

An ad like "Put your finger on my face! Owww!" may deliver obscene "convergence" numbers. So long as the clients don't figure out the demographic of their viewers, you get the big bucks.
Everyone who's suggesting it's due to insert-pet-peeve-here (content fatigue, quality, ads, facebook) is missing the fact that this happened pretty much overnight. It's definitely a recommendation algorithm change (or as someone suggested, clickfraud fixes).
Currently I'm using NetGuard, which it's open source, but this project sound interesting. I'm gonna give it a try.
>most of Europe and Japan have such low fertility

Their problem is not couples trying to conceive and failing, but people choosing not to have children.
As a fan of adventure games, I got interested in their next game. But the link on the post leads to an immersive blog from, I assume, one of the game's character. Not any info about the game's launch date or a newsletter to sign up.

I looked for the company's website, but it is not updated since 2015.

Maybe I am missing something, but how can I learn more about the new game?

EDIT: realized the post is from February. No news about the game on her twitter, site or steam. I guess it never happened (yet) and indie game development is just hard.
I think Go is being strictly correct here:

https://play.golang.org/p/eSDl2MuFdP
Ask HN: What is most knowledgeable comment or thread you have read on HN?
In relation to making SaaS work, passive income, startup traction, what is most knowledgeable comment you have read on HN?
Elephant and all.
As you said, the goal with OP [1] (and in the initial Chrome [2] and MS research [3] work) was really to apply what we had learned with isolation for operating system level security (for the last several decades) onto how we build web browsers. Dropping privileges and routing calls via smaller kernel should not be cutting edge today.

edit adding references:
[1] https://wkr.io/public/ref/grier2008op.pdf
[2] https://seclab.stanford.edu/websec/chromium/chromium-securit...
[3] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-mul...
Yeah, that's the one. Thank you.
The fact that unfavorable information is out there doesn't obviate a contractual agreement not to discuss it in public per the settlement. Doing something that could cost you (as here) is the very foundation of contract.

I neither know nor much care how their operation runs, and it's not my purpose to defend it. To be honest I've never especially liked the people who run it; their deconstructions of internet rumors are often snarky and shallow, and undermine their factual value with distracting tone issues - but that's how they choose to run their business. I'm just pointing to the fact of the site's general reliability as a fact-checking service over a long period.
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I was really surprised the article didn't mention this. To be fair it's apparently something that has been evolving for decades, so it wasn't so much prediction but they definitely aren't inventing something wild. https://ourworldindata.org/fertility/
A good reminder to watch a fantastic movie I haven't seen in a long time.

I do think the author's premise is a little shoddy though. Broad similarities between the state of the world in 2006 when the film was made and today aren't all that shocking. In 2006 the world was far along the path of globalization set forth through policies developed after the fall of the Berlin Wall and championed by essentially every US president and their allies since. The author does allude to this when he writes "In 2006, all of this seemed plausible enough, but perhaps a little strident, a little over-the-top." I agree that in 2006 most (myself included) probably didn't think that globalization would face the challenges that it does today as quickly and dramatically as it has over the last two years. That being said, that nationalistic and discriminatory behavior and actions can result from decades of globalization and tolerance seems more a reflection of a natural (if not unfortunate) pendulum swing between two approaches on opposite ends of the spectrum. Any particular power of foresight on the part of the screenwriters/filmmakers seems to me like a stretch, although the author seems to insinuate this to be the case.

Maybe I'm thinking too much...the movie is really awesome and I need to watch again.
You are combining 2 seperate issues automation is going to help in many ways.
But there are 2 main kinds of resoure that people use to earn income 1.money 2.labour(mental or physical) More than 99% of the people earn income with the latter so automation will take away the only source of income for most of the world's population.
I am personally pro automation as it will solve many of the problems humanity faces today but at the same time see that the way the current capilistic economies work automation is also going to cause huge problems for many countries and the world should be preparing for it.
Did you know that this behavior is widespread enough that pickpockets sometimes put up their own warning signs, so as to observe where people unconsciously touch their wallet through their outer clothes when they encounter the sign?
More like the universe rolls a die, and if it comes up d20^1000, it creates a group of friends playing board games. There's no possible way for the friends to be unlucky, because in the unlucky case they simply don't exist.

In your case, in 19/20 possible worlds, there will be a group of disappointed friends not playing board games. It is reasonable to look for an explanation of why one finds oneself in the 1/20 case and not in the 19/20 case.

In the anthropic principle, in (N-1) cases there is nobody there to ask the question. Therefore, given that there is an entity capable of asking the question, there is no need to explain why that entity happens to find itself in a universe where question-asking entities are possible. Given that the friends exist at all, there is no need to explain why they are playing cards.

The anthropic principle doesn't answer the question of why there is a universe at all, how many universes there are, have been, or will be, or how many universes have contained intelligence. All it says is that we should not be surprised to find ourselves in a universe where intelligent life is possible, since it would be impossible for us to find ourselves anywhere else.
Kalev Leetaru's c.v.:

http://kalevleetaru.com/vita.pdf

David Mikkelson's c.v.:

?

(disclaimer: I know Kalev slightly)
" It's more the older people that generally discriminate."

I believe younger people are often ageist, and also discriminate based on ideology, behaviours etc..

I also believe that though younger people have no resentment towards other races/genders, that they may have some systematically racial behaviours they are not yet developed the 'self awareness' of.

Finally, I'd suggest that a lot of 'systematic racism' - which definitely exists - may not be as perniciously bad as we think - it may have more to do with 'self selecting' behaviours. In Toronto, there is a strong 'Chinese community', 'Italian community'. They tend to stick to themselves a little more. Basically all of the 'roofers' in my hood were Italian. It's a stereotype but true. They hire their buds, and buds of buds. Nothing wrong with that. (I lived in the 'Italian community' and felt like an outsider, though I never minded it). When this kind of soft ethnocentrism is exhibited by a 'majority group' - it might be perceived as something different, i.e. derogatory, or 'racist'.

I think that the subject of this article would make a really great film ...
"It creates a ton of complexity (say if the investor takes some money out, you don't count the gains that this money would have earned since that point. Then imagine they put more in later - now you have to track the hypothetical returns on that new money, but not from the original investment but from the add-on time. Trust me the math gets heavy). It just proves unworkable for a fund with hundreds of investors to track everyone's benchmarks separately"

Computers are good for these kind of things. It isn't as if the hedgefund analyst has to use an abacus to calculate and record the data by hand inscribing stone tablets. I'm sure the existing procedures for other parts of the business (say valuing options) are equally or more complex and computers are handling them just fine.
Applying the idea of "fact checking" to politically charged topics inherently raises problems. Snopes was a good site to find out if there were really alligators in the sewers. The Forbes article cited by rokosbasilisk here seems to demand a high standard of quality from fact checkers - but who is to pay for it?

Now, The Guardian chose some headlines to illustrate this story with. Presumably the Guardian considers them good examples of "fake news". One of them is about the Clintons "stealing $200K worth of furniture" etc. Politifact has a surprisingly detailed page on this allegation. The result is, typically, gray. It wasn't $200K (suspiciously round number); closer to $190K. And the Clintons paid for or returned the "stolen" items; which either makes them "not stolen" or "stolen and returned".

But the whole claim of "theft" rests on the items' designation as national property, which may not have been clear at the time.

Given that this headline is an example of what the media (including Facebook) wants to shield the masses from - what then do they want the masses to hear? Is it (a) nothing, (b) inoculation/discrediting by labelling the meme as "fake news"; (c) a less sensationalized headlines?
This reminds me :-) of the Remembrance Agent, an MIT project that looked at what you were doing in your Emacs and would pop up related hints and notes from your past as you changed contexts. I think they were trying to move the idea into wearables, but it didn't translate well with clunky eyewear and wearable keyboard. Now, with OCR and vision, your killer app is getting closer.

http://web.archive.org/web/20160304120939/http://xenia.media...
To the extent that anyone is able to run a strategy that does beat the market:

a) they probably can't tell the difference between getting lucky and exploiting a niche

b) if they take on more capital their movements will be discovered and the strategy will fall apart

If you're well connected I'm sure you can eventually find a few funds trading on true insider info or novel strategies... but good luck getting in. As soon as the cat is out of the bag the party is over.

For the rest of us: forget it.
So I have to remember to manually tag every photo I take for this app to be useful? It seems like Google Photos is superior to this app in every aspect.

The only disruption in photo management and search that could get me to switch from Google Photos is an open source alternative with equivalent ML-powered auto-tagging features.
The quote appears to be from Carl Sandburg[1]

The variant I've heard is: "When the facts are against you, argue the law; when the law is against you, argue the facts; if both the facts and the law are against you, get a new client."

[1] http://able2know.org/topic/98689-1
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Would you mind tossing in a "sheeple" or two in your comment?
Every affluent country's fertility rate is below replenishment levels. Their population growth rate is only positive due to immigration.

In fact, global population will likely peak around 2050, and then start falling, which will be a whole new crisis. People will look back at overpopulation fears and laugh.
The Daily Mail Snopes Story and Fact Checking the Fact Checkers
Ssh. Quiet. Don't rock the boat man.

The reality is that the US et. al. allies have caused the war in Syria. Not just funded it or supplied the rebels with weapons. The CIA most likely started all of that, to create the distraction we now have.

When I mention this to Americans, they act like I'm all crazy. The CIA caused the 1973 coupe in Chile. There's the Bay of Pigs, the Iranian Contras, MK Ultra, The School of the Americas .. the list is long.

It shouldn't be silly or a conspiracy theory to suggest the CIA started the war in Syria in order to cause instability, prop up both ends of the weapon industry and to push American's war interests. America is a bully and the CIA is the secrete hand that is nothing less than a criminal mafia.

It fits the pattern like a serial killer.
It's an old movie. If he spoiled it for you, it's your fault. Vader is Lukes father. The Titanic sinks at the end. Lost was all a communal dream while everyone on the flight died together.
My new blog: Looking at Uber's battle with the DMV
Because he married a pornstar means he doesn't do the research properly, wat?
App features aside, elephants are associated with memory in some cultures. Evernote likely chose an elephant for this association. PostgreSQL has Slonik as its mascot for the same reason.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Logo#Why_elephant.3F
Unrelated to the project but to the website: when I opened this on Safari my tab became consuming 52% CPU - is there something resource intensive on this site? Safari points to the clouds being a source of a lot of work.
I wrote a long reply, but ended up erasing it and I'll just say that many of these vulnerabilities are due to the programmer using one type (i.e. string) to represent all kinds of data that might be malicious and unsanitized, and then losing track of whether a piece of data is safe for use (e.g. to be sent to DB) or not.

I recommend checking out the Yesod web framework [0], which leverages Haskell's strong type system to provide type-safety and a whole range of nice guarantees, including preventing vulnerabilities like the ones you mentioned.

Spock [1] is another cool web framework also written in Haskell that looks quite promising.

[0]: http://www.yesodweb.com/page/about

[1]: https://www.spock.li
An /observed/ universe requires conditions to cause observers to evolve.

I don't but that an "intelligent" observer is needed to collapse the waveform, BTW. That uses a very non-physical interpretation of "observer." Any particle that can absorb information, can be said to be "observing." As simple as a reaction that depends on temperature would do it.
"but recent data shows that younger white men are now about as likely as older men to see discrimination as zero-sum."

This is not surprising.

In 1960, it's pretty easy to see how 'ending segregation' can be a win-win (or at least, not detrimental to 'whites'), and that a lot of social justice was needed to help people along.

In 2016, we still have more work to do, but a lot of progress can be made, and a Universities policy of requiring specific ethnic students to be accepted is technically definitely a 'zero sum' situation ... so it's not hugely surprising that public perception has shifted somewhat over time.
That's not substantive, and certainly doesn't have any effect on the thousands and thousands of articles they've posted.

Would you care to link that tenuous red flag to the investigate articles Scopes produces in some fashion?
> although for a number of years, many digital TVs would display blue for missing input

I'm sure you are aware that "the color of television, tuned to a dead channel" is not blue - right?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ZAMjpjYfQ
It's part of the "fake news" nihilism. You attack everything and anything that can limit the scope of the deceit you're creating.
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First time I showed my daughter something on my phone she immediately zoomed out. Someone else had showed her how to manipulate a touch screen, but it was pretty striking to see a toddler adeptly use a phone. This was a few years ago now.