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I agree with you that the mood affiliation of the field agrees with what you say. Taleb agrees with you as well.

I'm also agreeing with Taleb that the specific facts don't support Piketty, yet no one even discusses them. They just appeal to the zeitgeist. Somehow Piketty can survive Taleb and Rognlie knocking down what he asserts to be his core claims, as well as Milanovic showing that his work is hopelessly myopic (Piketty mentions Balzac and Jane Austen more than China and India). Specific facts don't matter, only the mood does.
> The notorious "protocols of the elders of Zion" is in some way the original "fake news".

No, Hearst and Pulitzer's "yellow journalism" was fake news of substantial political impact that predates the Protocols forgery.
When you say "doesn't meaningfully improve security", does "meaningfully" mean "for the majority of users"? Because I can assure you that for a single user who does things properly it does improve security.
Since it's a throwaway, mind telling a bit more? I'm not from US too and it's hard to find remote jobs there. Are you in one of the nearby countries or Europe?
Or, you know, replace them with machines that are safer.
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Wasn't there some issues around a "custom library" for this? I distinctly remember there being some kind of argument about what is legal and what isn't.

That is, I think I'm thinking of this:

> k-nucleotide will explicitly require built-in / library HashMap.

https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&group_id=1008...

Since C doesn't have a standard library hashmap, you can write an entirely custom one just for the benchmark. But since Rust has a built-in hashmap in the standard library, you cannot. Even though you could write Rust code that's the same as the custom C hashmap.
I found this essay to be fairly comprehensive, accurate, and informative; some of the items mentioned I have little experience or knowledge of - or didn't even know existed (BGP, for instance, was new to me).

I think the author's heart is in the right place, and I would love to hope to see some of the ideas espoused in the essay come to fruition - but I think that the momentum of history may be difficult to overcome (much like tiling window managers are now popular with some people - though IIRC, Windows 1.0 was a tiling system, then for some reason switched to overlapping windows - perhaps as a result of singular lower-resolution displays being the norm). The author mentions LISP and some other programming languages trying to be an OS, but failing to gain hold commercially for various reasons (though in LISP's case, one could argue Symbolics did succeed to an extent?).

This essay certainly is "food for thought", and I plan to re-read it and think about it; I'd love to see it expanded to book form (or some other format to explore the subject in a deeper manner).

Kudos to the author.
I want to have a decent process, but suck so bad. The process usually goes...

1. Resolve to take notes using {notebook, evernote, whatever}.

2. If not a notebook spend a week thinking about how to do it right.

3. Take a couple notes and feel dissatisfied.

4. Repeat.

The method that ended up sticking was using nvAlt synced with Simple note. On my laptop it's basically a small collection of text files, on my phone it's rendered as if it were markdown. Most my notes are either things I only expect to look at over the course of a week/month, or running logs.

Would love to find something for notes I'd want to revisit over years, though.
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You're demonstrating the difference between authentication and authorization, not the difference between identity and authentication. Notice you use the word authority, which has the same root word as authorization. Authentication is merely the confirmation of identity...it is not the same thing as authorization.
Not entirely sure if this is what you mean but there's a system called Vitess that sounds like it might be relevant: http://vitess.io/overview/
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The AI approach is interesting but there are just too many problems with it.

MozJPEG is actually using something similar called trellis quantization or soft-thresholding. The idea is to further quantize DCT coefficients in noisy areas. There are some limitations [1] though. But it's not an issue with locally sensitive metrics and can be improved with edge detection.

Another challenge here is to estimate the current image quality and the target error.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg/issues/129
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I could hack something quickly in django, thinking raspberrypi 3 and camera, QR code for identification. I dont have a huge amount of time but i like to help where I can
(I will define what sort of time I can give)
I dont need any guarantees of equity or money
Here's an example of a lawsuit compelling refunds of in-app purchases made by minors:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apps-kids-idUSBREA2U0M9201...
Each individual state presumably already has an authority with all this information. That they have it is a necessary evil I have already agreed to. Sharing it internationally makes their use of my information more effective, so I'm completely for it.

It's not that I don't mind when my information is used/shared/gathered but for some causes it's the lesser evil.
Yeah, my point about std::variant is that it doesn't get used pervasively. With a few standardized macros for pattern matching we could get someplace, but right now, like with most new C++ features, codebases and libraries are very selective about the ones they use. This means that your natural C++ "style" can't rely on them, and not all libraries are written with the pattern in mind. OTOH in Rust everything is designed using enums, and any Rust code I write will be free to use enums. It works out quite nicely. In Rust it's not a tool you sometimes might reach for, it's a tool you reach for a lot, because most data is an "or" type.
> So where's your public outcry to give him asylum?

There were many demands to give him asylum. Here some German articles about this topic (if you want to know what happens in Germany you will not get around understanding articles that are written in German):

The reactions in Germany after the Snowden revelations:

> https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Snowden&ol...

[TLDR: They were very positive towards Snowden]

Fears that Germany would extradict Snowden if he came to Germany

> http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/antrag-auf-asyl-warum-deu...

USA threatens Germany if they give asylum to Snowden:

> http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/snowden-asyl-usa-solle...

> https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Asyl-fuer-Snowden-US...

A very recent (22th of November 2016) article about whether Snowden could nevertheless get asylum in Germany

> https://www.vice.com/de/article/so-bekommt-edward-snowden-do...

Another article from 2rd of May 2016 on occasion of that there was a live link with Snowden on the re:public. This article [even its headline] nicely brings across the completely different opinion that the German government and many German citizen have in the whole Snowden question:

> http://www.rp-online.de/digitales/internet/edward-snowden-au...
I believe they use a midrange PowerPC for doing the computation; not any more compute power than an average laptop.
Medium.com has such a beautiful UX (please ignore, just a love post)
I'm in love with medium.com's UX. It's just so clean, responsive, simple, and beautiful.

Just giving a shout out to you guys over at medium. Your team must be amazing to produce something so elegant.
I saw stars indicate difficulty; do colors also have some meaning?
Ask HN: How to read CS papers?
Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13268748

My problem is going from:

Reading and understanding a paper => Implementation

Let's take a few papers as examples:

- Gorilla http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1816-teller.pdf

- Dremel https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/36632.pdf

- Hokusai http://www.auai.org/uai2012/papers/231.pdf

I've tried to read those papers and implement some basic code, but I have no idea where to start. I've gotten so used frameworks that document each piece of the beast, as well as code to back it up, that I don't know how to understand a paper from a "conceptual" level.

This feels like a deeper skill that I'm missing. Any thoughts?
I think this is so far beyond what your average professional politician is capable of understanding that it is hopeless. Their only choice is to believe the loudest voice.
There's been some interest, but I think the likes of jblows Jai language that emphasize rapid development and programmer convenience over correctness will likely catch on faster.
These are good comments.

>A righteous operating system should be a programming language.

Like the Commodore 64, VIC 20, TRS 80 and many early home computers.

>Any decent software environment ought to have a fully featured database, built in, and no need for a 'filesystem'.

Microsoft tried to have MSSQL as a file system in Windows called WinFS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

If he's referring to non-relational, then most FS as we know it are key/value databases. You put in a key: c:\files\myfile.txt (/usr/root/myfile) and you get a byte array. It's more sophisticated than simple numeric tokens because it adds a 3d structure in the key.

Part of the reason for these seemingly odd things is we stand on the shoulders of giants that came before us. Because of this, iterative technologies must be backwards compatible to survive.
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It would be interesting to learn how the FreeBSD code submission and review process works. Even in FOSS, very few people actually review the code and I'm confident that top maintainers could find a way to include or exclude something if they wanted to - they know the system, process and people far better than anyone else, and have great influence over all of it.

For example, OpenBSD excluded virtualization for a long time. I don't at all think it was something nefarious, but if Theo de Raadt had wanted to block virtualization for some ulterior reason then very few people would have the ability to detect his motive and the ones who could are strongly influenced by him.
A safer following distance is crucial too, fwiw. It honestly feels like 90% of the vehicles on the highway travel at insanely close distances to each other.
Unfortunately, not all professionals are aligned on this issue.
I often give money anonymously. I dont expect anything back.

Its just extra zeroes for some people. If you have $5,000,000 then giving $5000 to some worthy cause is not a big deal at all. Its like going to Starbucks... chump change.

if you have $500,000,000 then $500,000 becomes chump change.

Someone who made lots of money in the recent tech bubble could easily swing this much $ with no strings attached.
I'm using a Dell P2415Q using the provided mDP to DP cable and it works just fine in 4K at 60Hz.

Maybe you were using it at 30Hz?
Taleb talks about a couple of articles he wrote, but unfortunately does not cite them, nor does he provide any details from them that would support your assertion that they "prove" anything, mathematically or otherwise. And none of the third-party articles linked from the footnotes contains any such critique of Piketty.
Yeah, if I was willing to drop $90k on a car that would have been an option. The E-class station wagon is cheaper, but still more than we were looking at. The Mazda 5 was an amazing car, but is now discontinued in the US, meaning there are now no compact cars that can seat 6+.
Same here, though I am not that enthused at the rush to get machines to do it rather than passing skills on to people. I don't see what all the formerly-employed people are going to do as their skillsets are automated away.
> but it cannot convey a person's facial expressions or emotions that otherwise might be present in their voice.

We're now talking software development, right? I accept that those things can be very important in other endeavours, but to me the person's well thought out and articulated opinions are much more useful than all those things. I agree, it takes time to put your thoughts in writing and often you end up tweaking your original ideas because you realized a better way of doing something while writing them down, but that saves a lot of time for both parties, provides a solid piece of documentation you can refer back to afterwards, and usually results in a better implementation which covers more edge cases, has fewer bugs and is more maintainable in the end.

> and so the company pays for travel when that is needed

In my experience it's almost always been a waste of time and money. It did provide other benefits, such as getting the remote people to hang out together, but that's neither here nor there. But then again, I never really valued whiteboard conversations much over discussing in writing (slack/email).
> My point is that if you compare like meals with like meals home cooking is going to be far cheaper just about every time.

Is that meant to be a tangent to the original discussion?

This discussion was about restaurants not seeing the benefits of economies of scale. I'm suggesting that they have, it's just not particularly obvious because people are quick to ignore most of the costs of cooking at home.

If all you are saying once you have already invested in the means of production, and don't value your time, that a home cooked meal is cheaper... then sure. I'm sure just about everything you could possibly buy is cheaper than retail if you are only including the raw materials you need to get the job done.

If you already have a garden and your time is free you can grow the food for far less than the grocery store charges. Heck, if you already own a silicon fab and don't value your time designing chips, you can likely build a computer for a fraction of the cost of one in the store. But that's a pretty silly way to look at it. There are real costs to having the production capability that should not be ignored.
Many are from the area and have lived in the area most of their lives. The current situation has evolved over the last 20 or so years to the point where it has become economically impossible to live because of the "outsiders", from large tech companies, coming in and displacing them.

How willingly would you be to pick up and move in this situation?
Polish government is not right-wing. There may be right wing of it, but it is not right wing per se. Right wing of what? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanation for a better clue about what current polish government may aspire to be like. It may have some right wing parts of what is above all big centrist coalition.

Another issue is. How is this government blocking development that could hurt coal industry any different from what all former polish governments were doing ? But i agree that all those governments are mostly known for their "block everything" attitude.

The website makes my Firefox browser slurp 3GB of memory, renders it unresponsive and it crashes. And please do not color Poland black, if as Wikipedia says (Yes I know. I know). Carbon dioxide (chemical formula CO2) is a colorless and odorless gas that is vital to life on Earth. Paint Poland and Estonia green. Green as in Greenhouse. Painting it black may suggest some form of blame for some imaginary "pollution" which i hope was not the point of the authors of the site. Or was it ? Come on. Don't make us look like Mordor.
They're not going to have to patch what you can touch because they already want for themselves the information the government is going to request.
The bloat issues are (a) a constant overhead and (b) a matter of defaults.

See https://lifthrasiir.github.io/rustlog/why-is-a-rust-executab...

Rust statically links to libstd by default because it's not there as a dynamic lib on most platforms. On top of that, it links in jemalloc. This makes small Rust binaries look larger than they need to be. The overhead dwindles as you start looking at larger Rust programs. If you actually need to get rid of that overhead, the option is there, it's just not default.

Addition to popular package managers is being worked on.
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I remember a similar site with someone who set it up as a "learn a language in a jiffy" where it was set up sequentially instead of a cheat sheet. Had languages like Python and Ruby, can't remember the rest.

I haven't been able to find it, but it was a really useful resource, and I wish I could remember what the name was.
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There's not a way to combine both Touch ID and PIN for iOS access, but some apps do provide a PIN or passcode setting.

For me, with the banking apps on my phone for example, I use my fingerprint to get into my phone and then manually type in the password. Seems like the best combo to me for mobile security. (Not that I'm worried about it, I'm just security minded.)
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I'm a little confused game developers are so dismissive of attack surface -- after all, most games I've played in recent memory have some level of network access (multiplayer, achievements, etc.), and very few game developers seem to be OK with rampant exploitation in their online communities.
I have been using this project for over a year, but I would appreciate some feedback.
You're right, Piketty is correct because Taleb did not format his citations in the manner you desire.
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That was Sonic's job. But look what happened to him in the long term.

Maybe better not to be cool?
I think that's a difficult comparison to make because you can reasonably secure your house against unwanted entry and it's fairly likely that breaches could be detected.

Obviously malicious law enforcement could still circumvent that just as they could a warrant depending on their level of capabilities and your house's security, but there isn't a similar path to securing your water usage data against warrant-less searching. Its security is wholly in the hands of a third party and any security breaches are essentially invisible to you.

That said, we're both painting in broad strokes.
I didn't realize the Mazda 5 was discontinued. Too bad, it looked like a pretty practical design.
And that's probably because they don't want to include the Reboot option in the power menu [1].

[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/12/02/sony-is-trying-to-pu...
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The only thing that truly protects open source from corruption is the fact that it's open source. We can look at the code and we can fork it or choose not to use it or, as most of us do, rely on other people looking at it.

Surely if a bad actor wants to do nefarious things to the code base there are cheaper and more reliable methods, such as simply becoming trusted contributors and sneaking in back doors.
Under the second item - Operating Systems this author states:

"Well-specified interfaces are great semantically for maintainability. But when it comes to what the machine is actually doing, why not just run one ordinary program and teach it new functions over time? "

What is her referring to there? What is the "alternative" a a time-sharing system that the author is alluding to? Does anyone know?
My car, with myself and a friend inside, almost got ran over by a truck when the driver didn't even bother to slow down for the yellow light and crossed at high speed the red light. Luckily he didn't hit anyone.

I totally agree with you.
Autopilot would take over trucking even if it was no safer than humans under the current safety regime applied to human drivers, simply because it could drive nearly 24/7 without degradation, improving asset utilization.
The article goes into that. It's hard to get funding.
I was asking a question, not making a claim. Though I obviously made it clear what I think the answer likely is, I'm genuinely interested in the thoughts others can contribute. I'm not sure what the snarky response contributes, though.
This is the Origin policy that basically forced Valve to act and implement their own:

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/account/returns-and-cancellat...

* Within 24 hours after first launching the game

* Within 7 days from date of purchase

* (If pre-ordered) Within 7 days of game release date

Valve gives to a little more calendar time, but Origin has no play time limit as far as I can tell.
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This was added in 7.1: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/10/19/android-7-1-feature-...
Sorry I only speak english and Afrikaans try run that through google translate..
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No idea, but VMS have something like that, and probably also other mini computers of the era.

I'm only 40 so I'm to young to know :-)

I think that Unix' "everything is a stream" concept won because it's simple and powerful, but it's a good example of the failure of our educational systems that only old geezers have a clue that there are alternatives.

I feel like 99 % of the things I do at work, some guy at IBM should have made a generic solution for in 1979. Actually someone probably did.
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This is a very pretty map! It shows that location is important but time is also an interesting domain. You can do your bit by running appliances at the best time. This is a post I made on https://energyuse.eu (part of an EU trial I'm involved with - https://www.decarbonet.eu).

Saving energy in general is a positive step. For example, we've just bought a new freezer and dishwasher with better energy ratings and these will save money over their lifetimes. However, when is the best time to run a wash to save the most CO2e?

Unless you are on an Economy 7 style tariff or have solar panels then when you use power has no effect on how much it costs you. If you are, then at night or in the middle of the day is better, respectively. Dynamic demand to grid signals isn't ready for consumer adoption yet but you can look at the information manually if you want to use power at less demanding times.

The grid frequency[0] is a reasonable indicator but is pretty technical. There are other, easier to understand, data sources available:

- Earth Notes: GB Grid Intensity[1] gives a simple traffic light indication

- GridCarbon[2] is a real-time carbon intensity app (CO2 Modeller[3] is from the same guys)

- MyGridGB[4] shows similar data on the web (and includes Solar data[5])

By avoiding peak time you may not save money but you can save carbon.

[0]: http://www2.nationalgrid.com/uk/Industry-information/electri...

[1]: http://www.earth.org.uk/_gridCarbonIntensityGB.html

[2]: http://gridcarbon.uk

[3]: http://www.co2modeller.info

[4]: http://www.mygridgb.co.uk

[5]: https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive
The complaint about scanning through #general for a 0.5% chance that someone solved your problem is the same as the other fellows complaint about listening to all of the #general office chatter on the chance that some of it could be relevant to you.

I think the answer to both of those situations is a searchable Q&A board. (internal StackOverflow)

StackOverflow has already addressed the problem for most topics that can be discussed publically. What remains to be addressed is the internal/sensitive topics that people are unwilling to discuss in the open.

There are some projects attempting to replicate SO functionality but so far we have not seen one gain adoption like Slack has in the chat space.
Same, would love to hear someones thoughts on using this in production, especially compared to BLESS by Netflix (https://github.com/Netflix/bless).