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> or the network for issues

I never see the network blamed, it's usually ignored. I've seen way to many instances of slow database queries being replaced by slow cache reads when the problem wasn't slow queries but 1000's of fast ones.
Here's some more info on the World Tribune. Looks like the publisher was at one time associated with the Reverend Moon.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/09/08/fit-to-print-2
Why not? I just looked at a dedicated server I have at a Codero colo site, and it says "System status: Database up for 516.23 days."
Why does it need to be either/or?

To me, being a decent human being who wants to serve rather than play god is a minimum requirement for public service. I also want that person to be able to think critically and base policy on evidence (when there is evidence to be had). Sometimes, these things even overlap: For example, criminal justice.
I've had restaurants ask me exactly that, after asking whether I was happy, and no, I wasn't pissed. I like the restaurants in question. Heck, I've had my dentist send me an email asking me to rate them.

When you live in a world where reviews can make or break your business, of course you're going to do whatever is possible to encourage good reviews. There's too much riding on it, and too many jerks out there that will rate you 3 stars or less because you weren't exactly right for their needs (or tastes in the case of a restaurant). Because people are going to just not go to a restaurant that rates a 3 star average, and they mostly won't download an app with a 3 star average.

A little bit of reality here: You can't always make everyone happy. You just can't. And because people who are unhappy are something like 7x more likely to leave a bad review than people who are happy, you pretty much have to encourage people who are happy to leave reviews. In other words you have to game the system just to have an accurate review profile.

EVERYONE games the system, even if you don't realize that. Asking for a "fake rating" and then sending them to make the real rating is the obvious way to game the system, and it clearly troubles some people. A far more subtle approach is to just wait for someone to use your app several times over a week and then ask them to rate it. Anyone who's using it that much probably likes it. Halfway in between could be the app that asks you if you're having any problems before asking you to rate it.

But really it's just a matter of degree, and it's life in the app ecosystem, and even in restaurants and other domains today. Railing against it is like railing against the tide.
You might like the book Snow Crash. Spoilers: One of the plot points is that looking at certain visual pattern (in the form of tv static/snow) can permanently destroy someone's mind. The later parts of the book explore auditory signals.

This premise is somewhat believable since there are already people affected by epilepsy and can't tolerate flashing lights. And even regular folks are susceptible to optical illusions with (short-term)lasting effects such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCollough_effect, https://gfycat.com/CoordinatedSleepyAnole, etc.

I wonder if they are really some combination of sensory input that can like you say "drive oneself mad" after exposure.

Side note: Optical illusions also affect artificial neural networks where they misclassify noise with high confidence as real objects: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/03/30/breaking-convnets/
Edge is getting pretty good, it's UI performance is as good or better than Chrome now. BUT, if you're leaving Chrome because they include proprietary binaries, moving to Edge isn't an improvement there.
I have no idea why you got downvoted. The only questionable thing in your comment is the use of 1 and 2, instead of 0 and 1. Downvoting for this reason seems petty. :-p
Hey, just a clarification. Could you ballpark, roughly, the ballpark that you're talking about for "highest IQs" and the IQs of the better leaders you've worked with? Because I think in software development, we fail to appreciate that 100 - by definition - is the median IQ and that half of people are below 100. I'd say the bulk of highly effective leaders in software I've worked with were substantially over 100. Before software, I have worked with different populations with greater variance. Unintelligent people usually make poor leaders.

Anyway, people have written and research a lot about this (MBTI, EQ, etc) and IQ is just a component and IQ itself is a very coarse grained metric that has many subcomponents. High IQ certainly doesn't hurt in general.
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Because most of the users did not realize that they were buying the phone from them, they just bought the cheapest one they could find (from what seemed like an authorized retailer). Had the user known the phone was counterfeit, they may have bought the legitimate one.
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I assume you joke, but I'm truly worried that the Fundamentalist Christians are making progress towards their goal of imposing Christian sharia law on us all. They are a powerful and single issue voter block. They will show up to vote for anyone, even a "pussy grabber", if they feel it will help their cause. If you've never been to the South and think I"m exaggerating, check out Jesus Camp[1] to get an idea of how this group thinks. People rarely acknowledge the danger of our own religious extremists.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486358/
> the main qualifier for high office is having immense wealth.

I would modify this to say that the main qualifier for high office is having the capability to generate a lot of wealth (in the form of advertising revenue) for the media companies.
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How about electing more leaders who know how to solve problems and can do a decent job of breaking down complex problems?

I don't care where they learned how to do that.
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Another programming interview I blew
I am an old fart. 47 years old. Thats dead in computer years. First computer at 16. 48k of memory. A closet nerd. closet. I don't look like a computer guy. I know. I know. I have been told so many times. I go back. ms dos.. dbase qbasic. And I know the modern stuff. 20 year track record
I won't bore you. 10 years C# SQl server. Im playing with nodejs and vuejs now...

Anyway. I have been to 5 interviews this month
and nobody gave me a fucking job. Programming has humbled me I know you can only know so much.
I blew 5 interviews this month. 5. Thats crazy.
Every single one of these interviews was somebody asking me some random shit. RANDOM shite and if I didn't answer there random generated shite I didnt get the job.
I should have been a dentist I would have gotten more respect and maybe more love. Any replies.
What languages do not support the equivalent of #ifdef in the C world, such that you can have variations in actionable code without having permanently separated code branches?
and it's something you can't really walk back.

It is not something easily or readily walked back.

Nothing takes the past away like the future. If HN wants to walk it back, it can be done.
TouchID has the issue that a law enforcement can make you unlock your phone. In short cops can get your fingerprints, which is on you, but not compel you to say or do something.

https://www.engadget.com/2014/10/31/court-rules-touch-id-is-...
It isn't like you're buying a used laptop from someone on Craigslist, the people buying these phones were intentionally mislead to believe that they were buying a brand new (in a shrinkwrapped box) phone from an authorized retailer. If bestbuy sold windows laptops, advertised that it came with a valid Windows licence and they turned out to be lying, should Microsoft brick their laptops?
There are other parties. The two party monopoly is exactly what led us to this disaster of an election.
The call is for more engineers and scientists to be part of the decision process in the hope that they would be able to balance the anti-science streak that seesm representative of the current political make-up.

No-one is saying that political office should be held only by scientists and engineers.
You owe your life to STEM. We don't get to ~7 billion without it. You are the roadways that bring you food. You are the pipes that bring you water, and carry away your feces.

I agree with your assessment though, STEM isn't sufficient to be a good leader. You need to care about people and want to improve their well-being too.
I wonder how many of these people truly disbelieve climate change, and how many are "towing the party line"?
Point of trivia: Mussolini didn't even make the trains run on time.
Certainly not impossible, but do you have any evidence to support that?
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There may be a simpler two codon system embedded inside the three codon system currently by Earth life. That is when multiple codons specify the same amino acid, they almost always share the first two nuclides. So it could be that Earth life experimented with 2 and 3 and maybe even higher codon systems before settling on the one nearly all life uses. There may have been tradeoffs in protein complexity, reliability, energy requirements, etc with system that survived. Maybe just some accidental luck too.
I meant real high IQ like most engineers & scientists, maybe IQ > 125 or 130. I guess there may be some relation between higher IQs and poor communication skills, less courage and other traits. But that's just a personal view with no scientific evidence.
This involves URL editing, so mostly useless if you watch Netflix through an appliance e.g. Apple TV
The problem is the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Everyone thinks they're decent.

Few would disagree that reducing illegal immigration is OK, the issue is ordering a wall with little consideration of costs, effectiveness, game theory, political reactions, etc. The hard stuff.
How does Linux compare with either MacOS, Windows, or just using an iPhone? Any particular distros that are more secure than others, or software to include / not to include?

I assume Android is a bad idea because of the ease of picking up spyware and the privileges that such software can have once downloaded?

What's the best way to secure your web browsing & search history? Being an ex-Googler, I can think of a couple things to do - don't sign in to Chrome, turn off your Web & App activity, turn off location history and don't grant permissions to use the location service - but I'm curious what the non-Google threats would look like (honestly, I don't believe Google is your biggest threat for a freedom activist).

What would you recommend for sharing documents, source code, or other permanent work/organizing products?
I'd like to suggest taking some time to read through some off the EFF's collection on this.

https://ssd.eff.org/

If you are worried about more national level threats

While it is more dense PrivacyTools.io has pretty good material.

https://www.privacytools.io/
Or.. simple keyboard shortcuts, like 'f' for full-screen with the Windows 10 player? It is downright aggravating to have to use my HTPC keyboard to find the little square in the bottom right every time I start playback. (Let alone just let the app be full screen all the time).

Or ability to play a 21:9 movie natively on a 21:9 monitor, not cropped to the 16:9 area for all the pillarboxing?

For their massive budgets Netflix _amaze me_ with their lack of UX clout and ability.
LSD and cannabis make it really easy to hear things out of ambient or static noises. It's pretty bizarre. But if you're aware of it as it's happening, you can actually control it to an extent and even make yourself hear whatever you want.
Standboxing what just introduced in Firefox as well. But yes I agree.
>Hmm, their contact form keeps failing with cryptic error messages, but never explaining what I did wrong.

it used to barf helpful error messages (including info it should give like internal network details), I reported it and got a thank you email ... and immediately got banned from their forums :)
Regarding USPS "subsidization": I've seen it written that a big part of why USPS budgeting shows huge losses is its benefits expenditures for retired/disabled employees, and this is accounted/reported in a different way from other Federal employees (i.e. more like the private sector). Does this ring a bell for anybody else?
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You are missing the plot completely if you think the USSR failed because of a lack of computing power. The incentives at every level of the communist system were misaligned. It was all about loyalty, not embarrassing the higher-ups, and not rocking the boat. Working too hard, or pointing out a flaw in the system that embarrassed your boss, were horrible things to do in the USSR. That's why there were shortages of even basic items like bread, where the supply was easy to predict. It's why a lot of things that got built, got built extremely poorly, like cars. And eventually, it's why Chernobyl happened, as well as many other nuclear disasters you never heard about in the Urals.
I'll be really sad if that's the case since it's cheap as hell, and supposedly has (i'm gonna take this one study with a grain of salt for now) anti inflammatory, antioxidant, and antitumoral properties, as well as being a decent cox-2 inhibitor (without the nasty effects of long term use of a NSAID)...
PRISM = FISA - it's just the NSA code name for data collection under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. All tech companies were involved, because to do otherwise would've been illegal.

The press cycle around the Snowden declarations made it seem like the big tech companies were in bed with the government, but honestly they hated it as much as you did, and in many cases the programs had different names within the NSA from when they interfaced with the companies involved, or were done entirely without knowledge of those companies.
When I clicked the link I expected to be presented evidence this approach would create better outcomes than the status quo.
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> Switzerland's financial industry is really in need to reinvent itself (due to the banking secrecy being effectively gone)

I take it you are neither Swiss nor familiar with our banks. The selling point isn't, and shouldn't be, secrecy. It is competent execution. At this, UBS, CS, Pictet et al are still king.
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We don't allow bakeries to choose which weddings they will cater

I think it's incredibly entitled to want the government to punish private businesses for refusing to do a job. Not everyone has to agree with your ideas or provide you a service. Getting the state involved to literally force a small business to make a cake is an insane, authoritarian over-reaction. The fact that it seems OK to you because you have no problem with gay marriage (neither do I, btw) is really besides the point.

By all means - boycott the bakery. Call them stupid for the bad PR and lack of work they'll get for not making the cake. But coercing them under the threat of force to do a job they don't want to do? Absolutely insane, and I can't agree to it.
Designing a neural network is a thousand times harder than I imagined.

After AlphaGo, I tasked myself with creating a neural network that would use Q-Learning to play Reversi (aka Othello).

At that point, I had already utilized Q-Learning (the tabular version, not using a neural network) for some very simple and mostly proof-of-concept projects, so I understood how it worked. I read up only perceptrons, relu, the benefits/disadvantages of having more/fewer layers, etc.

Then I actually started on the project, thinking "I know about Q-Learning, I know about neural networks, now I just need to use Keras and I'll have a network ready to learn in about twenty lines of python."

Boy was that naive. Regardless of how much you understand the CONCEPTS of neural networks, actually putting together an effective one that matches the problem state perfectly is so, so difficult (especially if there are no examples to build off of). How many layers? Dropout or no, and if so, how much? Do you flatten this layer, do you use relu, do you need a SECOND neural network to approximate one part of the q-function and another to approximate a different part?

I spent MONTHS messing with the hyperparameters, and got nowhere because I'm doing this on a desktop pc without CUDA, so it takes days to train a new configuration only to find out it hardly "learned" anything.

At one point after days of training, my agent actually had a 90% LOSE rate against an opponent that played totally randomly. To this day I am baffled by this.

I went into the project thinking "I have this working with a table, the q-learning part is in place -- just need to drop in a neural net in place of the table and I'm good to go!" It's been almost a year and I still haven't figured this thing out.
You won't believe the number of aerospace/mechanical engineers in the federal government that believe in Creationism.
It goes farther than that in my opinion. I would be willing to ocassionally take an Uber Pool, which costs more than a bus but less than a taxi. That whole market (of ride sharing) did not exist previously in the US. (It has been pretty common in Turkey though)
The Core banking system (the one that is actually processing transactions) may still be in COBOL. The other add-on services are probably in other languages. I know a few banks here (Thailand) that has successfully transition its core banking to Java, so I would guess many large banks have done the transition too. However, I doubt smaller banks would have done the transition.
Toeing the party line would be voting no on climate change bills and keeping your mouth shut. I came across a couple of people apparently doing that, and they of course didn't make the list. I think all but one or two of the people listed gave some wacky statement invoking the Bible to say that humans can't change the climate.
As the reverse engineering communities will be glad to tell you, software basically is open source. It must eventually be decoded into instructions to run on a processor, and while it's not impossible to fully sign / encrypt the binary blobs before they are run, it is practically not worried about for most applications. Without using specialized hardware, you can at best obfuscate your code, but you cannot make it impossible to eventually disassemble and understand.

Assume your code will be disassembled at some point by a bad actor. Don't assume that any code distributed to a client is safe or trustworthy, and expect that any data, methods, or secrets contained in that code are now public knowledge. To secure your environment systems under any other assumption is a dangerous falsehood.
I hear you, I just think you're a lot like that Soviet cybernetician [1], meaning that you think you're very close to the technology of that ever-elusive tomorrow, but you aren't :-) Of course it's not really fair to say that since you qualified your statements, it just sounded good and I can't miss an opportunity to fire a cheap shot at the AI/big data bubble :-)

[1] Nobody was called that as cybernetics was declared "a servant of Imperialism", I guess nominally because automating away jobs hurts workers or something, which is one reason the USSR never produced particularly good computing machinery. But I get whom you refer to.
And, yet, study after study after study suggests that diet plays a significant role in health outcomes. But, foods and spices can't be proven effective in promoting health.
Indeed! There's a tonne of things which rightly fall within the domain of the executive to make regulations, I happen to think that this immigration order goes way too far - and indeed even if it was made by the legislature it would still be immoral. I agree that legal != unobjectionable, of course!
Why would you recommend a apple only service?
No doubt, being good at cal 8 doesn't mean general smarts.
It's a pretty bizarre misuse of the term. The obvious person to suspect in this situation is the person who has the most to benefit; for example, it's not victim-blaming to suspect a homeowner in an arson case when they got a large insurance payout, it's choosing the obvious suspect. Graduate students'/post-docs whose research is going nowhere have done all sorts of stupid shit in the past (like sabotage another student's work for no apparent reason).
IRC is one of the things that I still use very frequently. If only the planet had a way to make it immune to DDoS attacks from angry people, though.
For Flash there is actually a solution. On chrome://flags you can look for chrome://flags/#prefer-html-over-flash and set it to Enabled. Afterwards it is like that Flash is disabled. No idea for Widevine except of course using Chromium instead of Chrome.
I love Snow Crash. And whenever someone recommends it for that bit I want to also recommend the short story "Blit" by David Langford, from 1988: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
Maybe it's just me being silly, over-critical and nitpickng minor things, but... Various design decisions didn't feel right to me.

Few examples that come to mind:

- Sync is just terrible. It's insecure, awfully overengineered, poorly documented proprietary mess.

- Mandatory addon signing was understandable, but still didn't felt exactly right. Probably because I'm a luddite don't fancy those walled garden app stores, and that somehow resembled those.

- Moving to WebExtensions-only is going to hurt badly. AFAIK it was announced they'll soon stop signing new non-WE addons for Firefox 53 (which is quite real soon). I don't want a Chromium clone with another rendering engine and Firefox Account instead of Google.

- DRM support. Browser market share, user requests, etc, but still - thanks for helping that cancer spread more freely.

- Test Pilot instead of just publishing an experimental addons on AMO feels weird. Especially the fact that those addons self-uninstall after someone says the experiment's over. Well, it's Mozilla work and it's their decision how they want things to be, but it just doesn't feel right to me. FLOSS used to be somehow... different in days back there.

- Pocket integration was sort of controversial. I've used Pocket's extension, but it surely didn't belong to the browser core.

- Some UIs were dumbed down to the extent of being barely usable. Some comments blame Chrome hiding TLS info here, but Mozilla had pioneered that (although to a lesser extent).
Wow! Do you have a source? I'd love to know more about that. When you say protection do you mean from radiation or do you mean to trap an earth-like atmosphere in the rock?
> It's good as long self-termination is a nice-to-have feature. If you REALLY want them to self-terminate but you found out that they mutated and can now synthesize X & Y, you're in trouble.

That's the premise of Jurassic Park 1, except with an amino acid.
VHDL and Verilog are used in pretty much all CPU design.
and the authors HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516221
This is really bad for getting better at typing for code in the same way all other typing tutors are.

The problem is that programming overuses a bunch of character sequences that rarely come up in standard english and thus in most of your typing practice, e.g. special characters, and mid-word capitalization. If you want to improve your typing speed for programming faster than you would just writing code normally you have to focus on those sequences.

You would probably want to practice with something that looks more like obfuscated code than beautifully formatted segments. Ideally you could even generate such segments so as to work out your least performant two character sequences while not slowing you down too much by being too random looking. Though even just repeatedly typing "jf" then random characters using the right pinky will be more helpful than this or https://typing.io
I think the parent comment was sarcastic.
Reasons/links as to why no Telegram? Honestly curious.