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The rule of thumb I used was: if Google is paying someone enough to go online and post defenses of youtube like "Please do not spread falsehoods", and tell me things I already know like "software that is 100% perfect is pretty much impossible to write," then part of his paid job should also be filing bug reports using the bug tracking system he uses every day, and probably already has an account logged in and a tab opened on, when the falsehoods turn out to be true.

If YouTube were open source, and I could look at the source code of the keyboard handler to find the cause of the problem myself, prove my bad experience was not just a falsehood to be brushed off, and possibly even suggest a fix, then maybe I would have been more motivated to put my own time into filing a bug report.

But Google is a huge well funded advertising company that payed billions of dollars for YouTube and makes billions of dollars off of it, has a huge complex system set up for digital rights management, promoting and paying for advertisements, enabling copyright holders to report violations, paying many employees for actively pursuing and resolving those copyright violations, removing inappropriate content, hiring conservative lobbyists and sending executives to kiss Donald Trump's ring [1], etc.

So I would expect YouTube employees to put at least as much time and effort into reporting bugs about their own product to their employer, as they put into monetizing YouTube while defending its reputation from people they perceive as spreading falsehoods about it.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-google-idUSKBN14...
I think the thing that bothers me more about the subscription plans right now is that I don't have an expectation of what I am going to get for the first few months. There is no schedule, no 'theme' or anything like that listed on the OP but I feel (recently) that every time I am presented with a new subscription service I have no idea what I am getting even the next month, which defeats the point.
I'm a huge fan - congrats on 2.2!

Here's a tutorial I wrote up on trying out Darktable recently:

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Hey, I'm from Nigeria in West-Africa also self taught and learned about remote jobs. It's really easy to get one especially in Europe. You just have to know your stuff, pick a technology and focus on it. It pays to be a T-shaped individual i.e know a technology very well and a little bit of others. I have worked successfully as a remote developer for a startup in Stuttgart, Germany and currently relocating to Berlin to work at a Bigger(IPO'd) company as a front-end engineer.

There are tons of startups looking for remote devs. Most times to the employers the pay is really cheap, but when converted to your local currency you are a millionaire and you can live the good life and pursue bigger opportunites like I did. Spend the money by investing in yourself. Buy programming books, pay for courses. Just keep getting better.

Most of Africa is shut-out from the technological advancement happening in the world but you can be a part of it by taking advantage of the internet, using your financial resources to learn a lot and fill knowledge gaps in your skills. You will discover once you start seeking out remote dev opportunities that there is a lot to learn.
> the median scientific paper is wrong

What does "wrong" mean in this context? Does it mean that most scientific papers will be shown to be inaccurate in the due course of time? That is bound to happen given the nature of scientific progress.

But peer review aims to assess the methodology and rigour of the papers being presented. I agree that it is often debatable whether this happens in reality, but that doesn't explain your statement I quoted above.
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> did this person/restaurant really do any more than the server of the last entire meal that cost $20?

This question applies to the bill too.
I think the trade-offs are mostly in the future. Right now we just jumped out of the plane. Give it a few decades of free fall.
*For now.
Isn't a big part of the enjoyment satiating the addiction? With fewer people smoking (and non-smoke methods of getting a nicotine fix), I still see this as a great thing.
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That's not necessarily true across all "fast fields". There's definitely selection pressure against fields sensitive to faulty experimentation to "move fast." Computer Science is one of the bigger subjects within Arxiv. Retraction rates within this discipline is extremely low and the field as a whole moves very rapidly. Having access to preprints makes it much more scalable for researchers to stay at the cutting edge.
> You're free to continue smoking in the privacy of your own home.

Not where I live, was banned years ago.
SSL only, yet SSL error - website doesn't work. A good reason to offer HTTP too.
I don't know about the quality of moderation in r/AskHistorians however.

I read a recent answer there whose first sentence was the opposite of reality. Thinking of how I could demonstrate this easily and effectively, where any person could follow up easily and see what's right, I posted a comment saying it contradicted the second sentence of the Wikipedia article on the topic.

My comment was automatically banned by the auto-moderator because it had a link to Wikipedia and no other links. I tried reading the subreddit rules before posting, but it's pretty hard to find this rule -- indeed, it is not explicitly stated as far as I can tell.
I don't want this to come across as if I support these particular programs, but I would imagine some tech comes out through veterans and takes on consumer applications.

Does the NSA file patents? If not, usage of tech is probably enforced by the honor code
When doing train/test splits in a time series context like this, would forward chain backtesting (train on steps 1:n, predict n+x) be enough validation, or would you advocate for further sampling of the training set?
Uber's in the negative. Have they ever turned a profit?
The TSA is the closest I've felt like basic training since I've left the military.
When I made a similar argument in similar discussion on Reddit, I was instantly labeled the worst and the most vile person ever for not appreciating daily struggles of poor waiters
Not really. Unless you are driving team you still only get 10-11 hours of driving a day. (iirc. I know the regulations have changed a LOT since I grew up in a truck in the early 00's)

There is plenty of time to recharge a truck over night at a truck stop. The issue is gonna be infrastructure at the truck stops. I am gonna guess at 150-300 spaces at most truck stops. If the majority of trucks go electric then I am not sure the electric grid's connection to the truck stop is gonna be able to support that.

Anybody know the math on how much electricity would be needed to take an 80,000lb truck 700 miles? (700 miles would be on the very upper end of the scale but you want that kind of range to accommodate for climbing hills with a full load.) And after that the math for charging say 100-200 of them? (I doubt the truck stops will all be charging at once)
and this exact nuance keeps US salaries high compared to tech hubs with free-er trade agreements like the UK, so if you anybody is looking at all these "cool startups" like it would solve all your problems, the irony is that those employees mere presence would [eventually, in mass numbers] help make the sector less appealing
It's seemed to pull alot from the US invasion of the middle East, except that the rebel terrorists are the good guys. Alot if desert scenes, roadside bombs, even some of the style of head dress was reminiscent of the black head scarfs Al-Qaeda uses
> Our operating system detects even the tiniest corruption to files and will automatically restore them from our service. The system is completely self-healing.

Can you share details here?
<A different principle and different considerations are involved in the case of public (i.e., governmental) scholarships. The right to accept them rests on the right of the victims to the property (or some part of it) which was taken from them by force.>

She answered this question regarding accepting public scholarships but the principle is the same. The money was taken from her by force so she had every right to recoup her losses.

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How can a game that's something like 3 years behind schedule be considered "successful"? Even Half-Life 2 only added one year to their development time. I think your definition of the word "successful" is quite different from the popular one. The only thing Star Citizen is successful at is suckering people into paying for nothing.

Ok; so the number I gave isn't Star Citizen's budget. What is? Reminder: Skyrim had a total budget of $90 million, was released on time, and also managed to hire some kick-ass voice talent to-boot. I highly doubt Bethesda had an additional, what, $50 million in operational costs separate from the Skyrim development costs.
I think we're on the same page. The world isn't black and white. It's a matter of accepting which constraint (scope, quality, timeline) is the dominant one.
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I'm not sure if your point is applicable here. This is a dam from 1986, not some new fangled contraption no one understands. It has a known maintenance schedule and is old school technology. The problem is, ISIS decided to murder or chase off the staff who maintains the dam and didn't keep up with the work it needs.

Worse, the construction was done "on the cheap" as dictated by the Hussein regime. Instead of digging deeply into the delicate and soluble gypsum and grouting properly, the engineers were forced to use a shallow blanket-grout technique which simply requires more maintenance going forward as it failed to stop dissolution. Grouting on this dam is done six days a week. That's right, every day but Sunday since 1986. ISIS's pause of this created this crisis.

Contrary to your point, if it was done "first world style" it would be a much more stable dam, but instead the Hussein regime was too busy buying palaces and gold toilets to care too much about getting large scale projects right. Iraqis now much pay forward the technical debt of the shallow blanket grout until the dam is decommissioned. There is no alternative here and this dam should be a study of autocratic regime's attempts at cost savings which ultimately cost more in the long run and may eventually cause a human rights disaster. I believe 1m people are at risk of drowning if this dam collapses. These are non-trivial numbers.
In my opinion, translating Neruda is a monumental task: the translator might get the essence behind the words, but as a native Spanish speaker, there are dimensions to the way he played with words that I have found, can only be enjoyed by reading his work in its native tongue.
Alexa listens only to the words after the wake word. What's more it doesn't capture more than 10-12s past the wake word. If you have a device you can check this yourself (Alexa, One Mississippi, Two Mississippi…).

It's actually hard to get it to capture this much. Take a breath or pause to long and capture stops sooner.

The request of the police is nutty and indicative of not understanding the technology. Unless the murdered woman yelled out "Alexa {pause a little bit for wakeword recognition} Heeelp, my husband is killing me, call the police" or the husband asked "Alexa, how do I clean a bloody hottub", nothing material will be discovered.

I have 4 of them. After the first one I checked what was captured, what was stored, what was streamed. Nothing that mattered.
seems like a lot of costly accidents all point to human error of the "driver". falling asleep, speeding, etc.

just seems very odd that no one from the big ones - Siemens, Bombardier, etc would go after that. Not even in Japan or China, both train heaven.
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I remember a talk of his about Perl sec issues in bugzilla (I think - correct me if I'm wrong here). Even though it was a problem that was a result of clearly bad code, he still blamed Perl for it.

At first, I thought he was going for a darker Brooker-ish humor, but in the end, the lack of research showed. I got the impression that he tried to shoehorn some corner-case examples into the general "Perl is a security nightmare" narrative.

It could have been someone else, but it sure sounds like him. It's a bad thing to do in a talk either way.

Edit 1: I've found a rather angry response[1] to the talk I was thinking of (Perl Jam 2). This is just for reference, I don't necessarily share the blog post's opinions.

Edit 2: Here's the Bugzilla[2] "bug".

[1] - http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/2015/12/response-to-...

[2] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1230932
If an API has a problem, you fix the API. If necessary, you release a free library to back-port the improved API to older OS versions as well. You come up with a fixed version, make it as convenient as possible, call it the “new standard”, officially deprecate the alternatives, and then write a blog post. Except the blog post would only need two lines of sample code showing how easy it is to work around the problem now.

Not this. Frankly, few developers will even know about the need for careful coding such as this, and even fewer will actually do it because it will muck up each and every program with dozens of lines of extra stuff to work around a deficient part of the PLATFORM.
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Hooray for arxiv :)

Long live open science!
> You're a moron.

Personal attacks are not allowed on HN and will get your account banned, so please don't do this again.

Also, the site guidelines ask you to drop this sort of name calling from your comments here:

> total bullshit, a complete rip off & insultingly anti-useful. This is serious propaganda, total malarkey

(Though I admit that is an impressive run.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
If you think peer-reviewing is slow then it's probably because you don't get the PEER part of the reviewing process. The PEERS are simply colleagues who have their own lives, priorities, and research. They don't stop what they are doing to review your wife's papers.

And please, I see what's happening here: I have been portrayed as the "traditional journal apologist" although it's definitely what I wanted here. I simply wanted to express my doubts that pre-printing is the answer to it all.

Anyway, is there a study that shows how many pre-printed articles in ML have been retracted or refuted so far? Until this is done, and shown as small as in peer-reviewed journals, keep a small basket.
Do all 10 work at your company, or are the remaining 9 employed elsewhere?

You get called out for using clickbait headlines, and then double down by stating an absurd and baseless opinion. Not a good look, man. Decide what you want; to share insights and information or gain attention.
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Could you clarify what you mean? What's wrong with -DsomeParameter="$var"? Or am I misunderstanding?
I wish more american restaurants would embrace the iPad ordering tools I've seen crop up. Then the waiter just brings out what you ordered. I like the food at waitstaff-based restaurants but as I often eat by myself (and work or sit around on HN during that time), I think the idea of being waited on is silly.

Also: tips on carry out? Why is that an option.
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There's a formula for the coördinates of where two arcs meet, where a line and a circle meet, etc., in terms of the coördinates of the points which generated the lines and circles — and you only need a few such formulæ (linear and quadratic equations, in fact) to cover all legal straight-edge-and-compass constructions.

So keeping track of exact, algebraic locations of the points is basically equivalent to manipulating exact expressions for roots of polynomials, which is not totally trivial (the tricky bit is simplifying roots of a quadratic equation whose coefficients were given as roots of a previous quadratic equation) but it's the sort of thing Maple and Mathematica have been doing for decades.
If by daily driver you mean weekly 300mi weekly roundtrip that usually ends around 5-10% and ~30 miles a day otherwise then sure.

My numbers line up with what most Tesla owner experiences. If your friends are at the forefront of the profession then I'd be a bit worried about whoever they're working for.
> They're not trying to pull their usual "we're a special snowflake beyond regulation" stunt.

Okay you need to understand that laws come with consequences. And if the consequences are not sufficient to deter an action, then the law does not exist.

Uber finds the consequences possible from state governments and smaller administrative authorities to be negligible. This is an accurate assessment generally due to predictable underfunded nature, deficits, lack of case law and lack of political will that these areas have.

The federal government is not any of that and has unlimited resources to ensure compliance. It also provides the benefit of supplanting state law, good across the entire republic and helps with reciprocal agreements in other republics. So there are both adequate consequences for noncompliance and adequate benefits for compliance.

State autonomy has been irrelevant since interstate commerce became the only form of commerce, and most of the time people are just playing along.
I had a hotel owner give me a ride downtown when the cab didn't answer. I gave a stranger, who was in a different hotel lobby, a ride to the airport on my way out when the cab didn't answer. I had someone at a takeout place offer to bring a replacement order to my house when I noticed my order was wrong (couldn't eat it) when I got home. I've had plenty of positive experiences with non-tipped customer service employees, when I was working non-tipped consumer service I always strived for good service.

Some people just want to provide good service and/or be nice people without the expectation of a monetary reward. I'd much rather have those people serving me than the ones who require bribes. I really don't want to turn all interactions into business transactions, I don't think that makes the world a better place and it encourages an extreme form of classicism where the only people welcome are the people who can afford ever increasing bribes every single place they go.

I also really don't want "impromptu meetings" when I'm trying to eat my dinner with my dinner companions.
You're absolutely right however I'd argue that the presence of that tip line there leads people to feel bad and leave something there, which starts the feedback loop going to the point where it is/will be expected
The answer was "call the police," or it actually called the police as an answer? I assume you meant the first, but I'm not quite 100% on that.
I guess a way around this is:

1) Put the speech to text.
2) Put the text to speech.
3) Send the data over Tor.

Although #3 would use a Tor exit node and would allow packet sniffing/logging/mangling etc, it'd at least be more anonymous.

Thing is, this is in nobody's interest. Not in the police or Amazon's interest. For the owner, it'd depend on if they are the defendant/suspect or the victim. The victim is not always the person who owns the Amazon Echo. But an Amazon Echo is a nice point of defense because the proof cannot be deleted anymore. All one has to say during a robbery is "Alexa, call the cops". That's quicker than having to dial the number. And at any point, if you do say Alexa, you can also trigger a warning or proof. Ultimately, if you could change the keyword to something more generic you could trigger it without a robber noticing, or by tricking them. A keyword like "put your hands up"? I don't know.
Downright deceptive summary.

The article shares a boatload of interesting, relevant evidence of a correlation between certain viruses and fat.

Plus, the article actually expresses some doubt that the "hook" was the cause (it was not a hook, it was a rooster's talon)
and part of the compensation package associated with "their job" is tipping.
If it's just spoken voice, the customary value is actually 8kbps, mono.
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I hope it is replaced with something better soon. You cannot see access statistics concerning the papers you upload, and they provide this absurd reason for not doing it: https://arxiv.org/help/faq/statfaq (it seems they think arxiv users are idiots or something, so they have to take care of us). Also getting the uploaded latex files to be compiled without errors is a pain, and they don't let you to just upload the pdf (this has pros or cons, but I wish there was the freedom to choose... and I guess that 99.999% of the time people just download the pdf).
And don't forget the entire lower class of super-important minimum wage earners who collectively have disdain for minorities that don't tip as high.

The insanity is amusing just typing it out, amongst other commenters talking about how strange America seems from other countries.
This would be of interest for the elderly, "help, I can't get up" with an omnidirectional microphone instead of a fragile, not waterproof, awkward beeper that you carry everywhere
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Checking this by saying "Alexa, <long string of words>" and seeing at what point it starts doing something does not prove that it's not listening all the time, doesn't prove that it doesn't keep recording, and in general only tells you about Alexa's UX, not the underlying technology.
> Do all 10 work at your company, or are the remaining 9 employed elsewhere?

I'm only aware of one other person who fits the criteria I've stated (many others would if I loosened the "work with PHP full time" restriction).

> You get called out for using clickbait headlines, and then double down by stating an absurd and baseless opinion.

Absurd and baseless?

There are probably very few security researchers that have looked at more application-layer cryptography features than I have, especially those written in PHP. If you know of any: Ask them if they believe my assessment of the PHP community is wrong.

https://paragonie.com/security/advisories

https://github.com/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=author%3Aparagoni...

You're free to dislike the headline. I've got nothing to say in defense of it.
I'm going to use this opportunity to ask a question I've been thinking about for a long time. Why do we have both environment variables and command line arguments? They are the same thing, except one is key-to-value and one is positional and often needs to be parsed by hand in an ad-hoc fashion. I don't think that people should use command line arguments when environment variables are an option, and I'm not aware of any use cases where they are not an option.
Well I'm pretty happy with this kind of things, I recently bought an MSI GT72S and the trackpad is a 5/10 for a whopping $2400 notebook, never had one before but used a Macbook for about 2 months and it was beautiful, in that time I never felt the need of a mouse.
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You're doing exactly what you claim they're doing -- misrepresenting the article. They're saying there's possibly a virus that can cause obesity, and it might come from chickens. They're not claiming that it causes all obesity, just that it may be a vector.
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