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The piece in WSJ from 2014 titled "Was Snowden's Heist a Foreign Espionage Operation?" is worth reading (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304831304579542...).

Even though I am sympathetic to Showden for his disclosures of gov't surveillance of American citizens and others, the scope, complexity, and execution of operation leaves many questions unanswered.

National security officials (both Republicans and Dems) are quoted in the piece that they believe that Showden operation was an espionage heist.

From the article:

"On June 10, 2013, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, described Mr. Snowden’s theft of documents as “an act of treason.” A former member of President Obama’s cabinet went even further, suggesting to me off the record in March this year that there are only three possible explanations for the Snowden heist: 1) It was a Russian espionage operation; 2) It was a Chinese espionage operation, or 3) It was a joint Sino-Russian operation."

So on one hand we have people like the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Obama officials who were neck deep in intelligence work, and on the other we have feel-gooders like Oliver Stone, who really don't know what's going on, and who might never ever find out what really happened, because it could be classified for ages...
The problem is that many of the people who voted for Trump don't read any news other than news explicitly designed to make Trump or the GOP look good.
> How about a 'subjectiveness' ranking instead, with notations for "unable to find link to a source of factual claims"?

What would that mean? Let's say I write an article where I claim White House is controlled by reptiloids from planet Nibiru. Would it check that I have any links in my article at all? Or that the links actually prove my claims? Or that these proofs can be trusted (I may just link to my own website or one created by my friend)? I could insert a hundred links to a most respectable austronomy sites to prove that planet Nibiru exists, but how would you know whether these links actually prove it? I could refer to a lot of actual news content as the proof White House occupants can't actually be human. How you evaluate if these links actually support my claim?
Hey.. "vector intrinsics" looks very cool. Thanks for mentioning that!

so what you mean is that, even after throwing facebook scale resources at java.. it is possible for a <10 people team to get 10X performance over java using the features that you mention.

That's a huge loss of face for java IMHO
Mobility is planned. Getting a ride somewhere via an app by an autonomous Tesla.
It's a spectrum. Compare Airbnb to Craigslist, VBRO, or HomeAway. Airbnb layers on additional services: payment processing, mainly. Some ratings data as well, but VBRO has that, too. Not wildly different, and—at least in my mind—Airbnb "hosts" aren't "independent hoteliers under a central brand".

Here's another interesting hospitality analog: all the big chains are franchises. If I own a Marriott in Des Moines and don't pay my taxes or follow building codes, is Marriott International liable? (I really don't know: "it's complex" is probably the real answer.)

Uber is a step further towards the service economy. In all these cases, and going back to my central thesis here: "local laws are not set up for national marketplaces". I think these guys do bear some responsibility, but at the same time, you can't just require them and individuals to follow the current process because it doesn't work. Taxi medallions in NYC cost a million dollars.

I think Airbnb and Uber are incentivized to build checks into their systems, because they add assurances to their customers: both suppliers and users.
It's not enough to hire a machine learning expert if you are planning on building out your own capable ML operation confident in competing against the best and the brightest at Azure, Google & AWS. You'd need a team of ML experts.

On the other hand, it's easier to piggy back off the hard work of highly paid experts in this space now commoditized into 1/10th of a cent per application of an ML algorithm from Microsoft or Google or IBM.

Commoditization is going to be in full force as businesses realize they can just have a junior developer to plugin IBM Watson or Azure than hire an expensive PhD student who may know everything under the sun but cannot compete against an army of highly paid experts completely under the control of a highly collusive labor market.
resume? really? I'd gladly share my github, but... linkedin?
Android is more of the userbase, but the Apple userbase is disproportionately willing and able to spend money, so it remains attractive to target.

It's also probably overrepresented among influencers in many areas, making it attractive to target for other reasons.
> As if anybody ever cared about a few hundred megabytes of overhead on a server

Kids today! Sit down over here, and Grandpa will tell you about the days when a few hundred megabytes was more than your average server's entire storage capacity. Now, in those days you tied an onion to your servers, which was the style at the time...
I mean, what would you like them to do? They're aware of it (and this thread obviously shined a brighter light on it) and are going to go over it with their lawyers. Isn't that reasonable? Contract changes don't exactly come quickly especially with expensive lawyers involved.

I'm just not sure what you would like them to do about it right now.
are there any tools that help you do QA on MT data entry in a Bayesian way?

seems like the situation is ripe for such a tool

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start with a subset of questions you have a predetermined answer to, only keep feed questions if the person responding has met a certain quality threshold on those question

every so often feed them a QA question

every so often send the same question to someone else to check it for redundancy

seems like there is a lot you could do to adjust theses based on Bayesian confidence intervals, and exactly how mission critical you need certain data to be

maybe something like that already exists, idk

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(edit: is this what the Scale API does?)
> don't have a sense of scale

From [1], complete db is ~300GB and from some iffy pixel measurement of the graph at the very bottom of that page, copying speed between otherwise idle db hosts was about 22.8 GB/hour (in-production replication is probably slower than that).

From that, 4GB of replication lag would represent 1.3% of db by size, or 10+ minutes of lag (as measured by time required to catch up under ideal circumstances).

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-...
Seems to be a good reason to have a mobile website as well as apps. Though I've never bothered to see if my main bank even has a decent mobile website because I always use the app. But another bank I use has only a mobile website and has no app.
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basically homomorphic encryption is being able to perform mathematical operations against encrypted values. So you can for example add two numbers and get an accurate result (also encrypted) with zero knowledge of the underlying values before or after the operation.
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Good to know Gigster really doesn't care about the developer. Will let my friends know not use it.
It's very unlikely. I tried it a couple months ago just for the experience, and in the ~1.5 hours I spent, I may have made $5. I honestly don't understand why anyone would participate as a worker on the site.
ahh I see - I should have looked at the demo gifs!
unfortunately concourse when not deployed with bosh does not have any automation (spawning workers, auto-discovery).
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U.S. president calls journalists "among the most dishonest human beings on earth” or that his chief strategist dubs the media “the opposition party."

I think their reason to respond is self-explanatory.
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The ID you're looking at isn't just for proposals, it's used for every post on the A51 site. So this number doesn't mean there were 100,000 proposals.

And most proposals are seriously terrible and never attract more than a handful of users. Even the real number of proposals on A51 wouldn't mean all that much.
why, because they challenge your world view?
A megabyte of disk space is now worth about $0.0000290, according to this site:

http://www.jcmit.com/diskprice.htm

The numbers we're talking about here just aren't a practical consideration any more.
Why does the "Scale" logo on this page not link to your home page? From that API documentation page I have no context about what Scale API is or what it does. The "Introduction" page isn't even that helpful if I've never heard of you before.

All that said, Scale API seems like a nice alternative to Mechanical Turk for some kinds of tasks.
The contract even says inside that for it that to be valid the signer has to have been given the ability to ask questions about it (section 11.5).
Good! I'd like to talk about what the engineer learned from the experience. Certainly if trawling through someone's public repos and records turns up a pattern of repeated mistakes, that should be considered - but the mistakes we all make from time to time are chances to learn.

So what I'd be interested in seeing is if the candidate did learn. The mistake is less important than the candidate demonstrating they moved past it as a stronger developer.

On the flip side - given a choice in situation, I'd prefer not to work for a place that dredges up my old bugs and uses them in isolation as a basis for their decision. That suggests the kind of environment I wouldn't enjoy being in.
To some degree, you can do something. Contribute to OSS, or work for a charity, while looking for paid work and you can use this question as an opening.

On the other hand, studies have shown that starting a career in a bad economy will damage your salary for life...
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The NYT article [1] about this says (para 2) that Thiel does have American citizenship.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/business/peter-thiel-new-...
Apple had a name conflict with a 60's band which used the name "Apple Records". That was settled around the time the iPod came out.
And terminal has better such tools?
$ ls -sh /usr/bin/gcc-5
896K /usr/bin/gcc-5

$ ldd /usr/bin/gcc-5
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007ffc64bf5000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fda3da4f000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055f2460a1000)

(so no specific .so dependencies)

And why would you need that in production ? (hint: use fpm)

This article seems strange : why do you include xcode in npm ? why use a mac if it's that heavy ? sure an IDE is nice but I wouldn't take that as part of the language. Or also include eclipse + plugins.
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Funny you mention that, that's exactly why we wrote this tool. We were having a ton of support issues with our Windows users having to install Java, incompatible Java versions, needing admin privileges to install the JRE, etc...

We fixed this whole class of issues by doing exactly what you suggest: bundling the JRE and writing our own launcher binary.
> Your reputation is something that takes a lifetime to build and only 5 minutes to ruin permanently.

This is the most important takeaway from this entire sad thread. Wonderful comment!
It's even worse, selection of stories is the whole point of news, they exist for the sole purpose of influencing people's opinions. And the fight against "fake news" looks nothing more than the fight for censorship in the space those in power not yet control.
Well, I sure wish I knew how to make our Clojure dev server (`lein ring server`) take less than 2 minutes to start up on a 4 core i7 16GB MacBook Pro.

Fortunately I typically only need to restart it when switching branches.
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> 1. The startup times, not so much of the JVM itself, that just takes 1,5 secs

Where do you get these numbers from? On my five year old MacBook Pro with default JVM options parsing a 20 MB file:

real	0m0.248s

user	0m0.325s

sys	0m0.043s

> 2. Memory usage of Java objects is quite heavy.

That's IBMs enterprise VM that uses three word headers. HotSpot is actually better. If you compare that with other "lightweight" programming languages it is really, really light.
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I'm not sure impugning their professionalism qualifies as friendly advice.
> I'm a believer than an app always outdoes a "mobile-friendly" site.

On the other hand, the website is available on all platforms. An app is typically only available on whatever platform(s) the creator thinks is/are most valuable.
> "By pulling back at the end of his book, Epstein tries to have it both ways: weaving conspiracy theories while maintaining plausible deniability and some veneer of evidence-based journalism. But his indulgence in speculation, his treatment of questionable claims as established facts, and his misunderstanding of surveillance combine to undermine his book’s credibility."

TLDR - Epstein's book is horse shit and the accusation of Snowden being a Rus. agent is horse shit.
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I don't know why you are downvoted, because it's clearly true. It's part of his playbook, The Art of the Deal. Scott Adams continues to be an annoying but fairly accurate narrator of the Trump narrative:

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Trump is a more long term threat due to the long term fallout and international perception of the United States as a result of his actions.

Yes, his Immigration related EO does not affect nearly as many people as the rhetoric would indicate -- but what it does do is prevent travel to the United States for some 22,000 persons (and counting) at the very least while, by consensus, not really being likely to prevent entry to actual terrorists. It is not that the bill is truly discriminatory, just that it is likely to be ineffective in its aims while damaging international credibility of America as a land of inclusion (or, to rely on imagery from the plaque of the Statue of Liberty, a golden door, to accept your tempest-tossed refuse).

Second, while his threat of 20% tariffs on importation from Mexico may seem like it originally promotes "buying local", there are several long term ramifications. First, construction materials and machinery [1] for American factories will ultimately increase the price of American produced goods as a result of this measure. Second, this bill will, directly and immediately, grant China greater bargaining power--with the United States. Thirdly, it causes Mexico to negotiate more aggressively with its local neighbors and with overseas partners, potentially closing trade avenues altogether with America.

Ultimately, it boils down to one thing: Trump's measures appear to be reactionary, with little view for long term fallout, international reputation, and future trade relations with partners that are not directly related to his current target (eg: trade relations with Mexico deteriorating, giving China greater negotiating power).

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At my last job, we started off using Mesos and Marathon, but eventually ended up dropping that in favor of a homemade solution using SaltStack (the manager demanded we drop Mesos/Marathon and use Salt - it was pretty shitty).

At my current place, we are using Teamcity to run tests and build images, and Rancher for the orchestration part. I built a simple tool to handle auto-deployments to our different environments.

I cannot recommend Rancher enough. Especially for small teams, it's just a breeze to set up and use.
They have something similar in cities in the US (at least NYC anyway), they're called dollar vans.
It would not be legal or ethical for most websites. But HN might be different, because it doesn't try to make money (so you aren't depriving it of anything tangible by rehosting its content), and it has a public API that includes stories (you should use it, of course) that doesn't mention anything about republishing content being forbidden, or say that it's limited to personal use.

Hopefully an HN moderator or similar will know the answer and reply here. If they don't, you should email HN.
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Thanks for the context, in my personal experience at jobs dealing with large databases, we always used "minutes behind" to determine how well our replication was keeping up. This was the first I had heard of someone using data size for that same metric.
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