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Oracles lawsuit is centered around Dalvik which is a JVM implementation, I have a hard time understanding on how generating code and using an API is the same thing as that ? But I may miss some nuances here.
When France, Germany, Russia, Austria and maybe possible the Ottoman empire fight a war its defiantly not in any way 'local'.

I really don't understand how people can blame Britain for join a war to enforce a treaty that Germany had was a signatory to, and had broken.

That seem like evaluation the two power with different moral standards. Britain tried everything in their power to bring people to peace talks, these peace talks were blocked by Germany and Austria. Then Germany is the first to violate borders and Britain eventually joins the war because they had a treaty and because the Germans behaved like animals in Belgium.

How can anybody make the argument Britain is at fault here?
Why bend over backwards and cut yourself off from your college community just to cater to jerks? Do you think the mods of HN are "hyper-sensitive pricks" for trying to preserve the quality of discourse here?

People seem to live under this illusion that the internet is somehow completely removed from real life, that the bigotry and hate doesn't count if it's over a computer. "Just close your eyes and pretend it isn't happening. So what if people are calling your house, your employer, your family; stalking you everywhere you go; threatening to kill you on an hourly basis; calling in a SWAT raid. Just ignore it!"

On the contrary, I think it's long past time our society grew up and stopped trying to make excuses for outrageously bad behavior. These aren't harmless pranks. They're part of a culture that normalizes hate to the point that it emboldens people to commit violence, on college campuses and elsewhere.

https://wamu.org/story/17/05/24/wake-college-park-murder-cam...
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You do understand that it doesn't only rely on fingerprints, right? There is retinal verification in addition to phone OTP. I had another phone number when I got Aadhar, I changed the city, lost my phone number and now there is no way, I can without physically getting somewhere and submitting the application to update my phone number.

API for commercial services isn't a bad thing per se. A lot of time, it would save time in documentation. Btw, if you have such a privacy concern, Are you not using Facebook, Whatsapp and all other services for free that sell you data, you behaviour to commercial companies.

It's really easy to believe the FUD going on and coming up some original ideas on how to tackle the problem. I hope you are in the second group that would help make our Country a better place to live in.
Neither. But as I use Google Maps almost every day, I feel it's beneficial to both Google and me to improve the map quality.
I'm a little disappointed that the "Cartography Comparison" only looks at two commercial maps. Not even all commercial maps, let alone including OpenStreetMap. A big post detailing the minute differences between two of the big ones are not that interesting...
Thank you for lying so brazenly. Wish could downvote you.

> Even worse, the government of India is selling access to this database to private companies to use and combine with other datasets as they wish. This would allow companies to have access to some of your most intimate details and create detailed profiles of you, in ways you can’t necessarily see or control.

Liar, the information they get is your name/dob/gender/adress-if-available because that's all the Aadhaar system stores. Which they would already have since you are signing up to be their customer - mobile company for example.

These are intimate details, or are you delusional? Btw, these are also public details in voter id list which are on the internet, and anyone can look at.

> The government can also share user data “in the interest of national security,” a term that remains dangerously undefined

Which country has been able to define the term "National Security"? And a district magistrate has to approve the request. This is true for all data, just that in Aadhaar law it's codified.

> There are little to no protections on how Aadhaar data is used, and certainly no meaningful user consent.

What data? For subsidies govt already knows who you are. If you don't want to share you name/gender/dob with a private compnay don't use Aadhaar to authenticate.

Why force your choice on me, which loves getting an activated mobile connection in 15 min. Or gets access to Mutual funds and Insurance since complaince cost got reduces from 1k Rs to 10 Rs.

> India can solve its problems by its own when it recognizes that beyond money, there are people who are willing to support its technology movement. Competant tech people have time and again come out against the architecture of the solution - the last to suffer for it was Kiran Jonnalgadda (jackerhack on twitter).

Oh, so it's all about self promotion for your consultancy in the guise of privacy. Hope you get more clicks, Kiran Jonnalgadda!

Good job Mozilla. You prove you are really delusional.
> This all seems to suggest that Google’s location data is more precise than Apple’s. (Or that Apple’s geocoder is buggy.) And perhaps here we’re seeing the fruits of Google’s decade-long Street View project.

How can Apple catch up? Is there an obvious acquisition?
My point was, that you'd be going from a train-wreck to a pile up on the interstate.

They're both fucking ridiculous concepts as the leader of a country. That you've got one of them now should be eye opening enough that this doesn't happen again for a fucking long time.
Are you an US citizen? If not, I don't think there are many limits on how your data might be used by the US government or by private actors in the US?
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No and no, although there is a points system with some meager benefits:

https://www.google.com/local/guides/benefits/
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In the tech-related (but now fully mainstream, unlike a few years ago) news these days, there are a number of recurring themes.

1. Massive security breaches affecting major corporations, governments, and so on.

2. Massive IT outages, affecting corporations, governments and so forth.

It doesn't take a lot of incidents to mark them as 'massive' since things are strongly centralized in this world.

Meanwhile, in the last 15 years of my IT career, never have I seen such a strong push towards offshoring. One would think that with such a vulnerable IT landscape mixed with an unprecedented dependence on IT infrastructure, that CTO's would want to spend more and not LESS on operational costs.

I'm slightly baffled.
> Notice a fun fact, Aadhar was introduced before 2013, before the election of 2014. Not many these so called privacy and human rights activists stood up then.

I realize you're probably talking about people in India in this context, not people in the U.S., but I helped write part of this anti-Aadhar post back in 2012:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/09/indias-gargantuan-biom...

In support of your view that some critics have minimal knowledge of India, but also in opposition to your view that critics are motivated by considerations of Indian politics, I don't know which party was in power in India either before or after the 2014 election.
> You ignored my post entirely.

I did not. You said Go is in a lot of respect much more challenging than machine translation, speech to text and auto-driving. I merely pointed out that is wrong because the following exists: superhuman go player and the following do not: superhuman machine translation,speech to text and auto-driving. Go is a perfect information game with no shallow traps. Perfect information means unlike poker, information sets are not cross cutting and as such algorithms can leverage the fact that backwards induction is straightforward.

No shallow search traps and perfect information makes things a lot easier from a computational perspective. Driving at a superhuman level would require a sophisticated forward model from a physics perspective, before even considering predicting other drivers. Speech to text and fluent translation without brittle edge-cases requires hierarchical predictive models that capture long term correlations and higher order concepts. I'm not disputing Go is hard but the hurdles: high branching factor and no evaluation heuristic were the core difficulties. Training via reinforcement in a way that broke correlations which get in the way of learning and integrating roll out with the neural nets (breaking evaluation into value and policy as they did) was the Deepmind's team genius. The roll out and evaluation are what eat up so much electricity.

> The fact that it took the most elite ML lab in the world to engineer this solution using proprietary hardware never seen before that's orders of magnitudes faster at evaluating than what's available to the rest of us is a testament to how hard it is to beat Go.

AlphaGo can run on a GPU, just not (for now) as efficiently as on a TPU. Deepmind is indeed unmatched in output. AlphaGo did build on the 2006 breakthrough paper on tree based bandit algorithms. There was another important 2014 paper on the use of conv-nets on Go. Deepmind did amazing work, but it was not out of nowhere.

And, sure Go is hard. But from a computational perspective, it is still much easier than being able to run up a hill or climb a tree. Humans are just not very good at playing combinatorial games, so the ceiling is low.

> I am merely pointing out that it comes with a broad set of challenges that you aren't even aware of and is a lot harder thank you think.

That is absolutely untrue. I have a decent understanding of the implementation and a strong understanding of the underlying algorithms.
> Bayesian inference is a way to get sharper predictions from your data.

Funny, if I had to summarize it in one sentence I'd describe it in the opposite way: Bayesian inference is a way of making less sharp predictions from your data, with quantified uncertainty.
Their tech is not open enough to even allow for proper innovation and differentiation. That's the main issue with legacy IT.

When you live in a world w/ Docker, REST (and every other open tech there is), you can build systems which are way more innovative.
Good guess, but this wasn't creosote either. It was much more irritating than that. Who knows, maybe it's an especially noxious mix that was only used by sawmills here in the Ozarks? Like I said, we can't find it anymore. My dad had a bunch of 16' 1"x6"s for fence boards in the last batch treated at the last sawmill we knew that could do the treatment, and that was some years ago.
Nice. Way back in the day, maybe 20-25 years ago, I had a first look at the boot process and wish I'd had something similar to the first chapter then. Man, it was hard to find information and ones you did you realized understanding it meant learning an entirely new subject.

Those were the days really. Barely having started my English studies I went looking for a single piece of information and found so much else on the way.. The tinkering and nights of frustration gave insights and a feeling of accomplishment that set me on the path to the profession I have today.

Then I started high school and someone showed me a shaded and textured cube they had rotating on their screen and I found out what math is good for :)
Just to be fair his insight seemed to more valuable than my original comment...
I'm exactly in that condition, how did you overcome?
But using Facebook and other websites is a choice. Using Aadhar is not a choice - its mandatory.
You aren't touching the inside of your copper pipes, you are touching your faucets.
One of the big problems of Aadhar to me is the mandatory use. I understand the terrible problems of stolen benefits, and how the card could help.

But in a country as large, dispersed and disorganized as India, mandatory is a risk. Plenty of people will slip though the cracks and be unregistered. It works in a tiny country like Germany where it was built on top of other infrastructure (ID cards were introduced in the 1930s; other uses were introduced lated once they had become essentially ubiquitous).

In addition, the lesson of China is salutary: siblings (whose very existence violated the one child policy) were often not registered, and thus missed out on schooling and other benefits. The "hukou" system controlled who was allowed to work or travel -- and surely everyone can imagine a government trying to fight urban slums by prohibiting migration from the countryside (by denying benefits)?
1) Fingerprints are harder to fake than what's being used currently - signatures and xerox

2) Fine. Don't authenticate with Aadhaar when you go to get a commercial service. Why force you choice on me?

And the info they get is name/dob/gender. Which they would anyway have - Aadhaar or no Aadhaar - since you are their customer.

Please think through it.
If you take advantage of the two-hour edit window and remove the spaces in front of 1 and 2, it will be easier to read, especially on mobile:

1. The maintainer of llgo is a Google employee (and a very talented LLVM engineer).

2. I don't imagine there would be tremendous differences in the strategies used to generate LLVM IR between the tools. ISTM, if there are deficiencies in llgo, then it would be better to fix them rather than creating a whole new tool.
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This is a great video/site. After watching this, it made me think how amazing the blockchain would be if our accounting and trading systems were built on top of it. As a programmer outside the financial services sector, it seems to me something like this has to be the future. But it would be really interesting to see what quants and others in the field think.
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How has your experience been compared to your previous tech?

How mature is the standard library? How abundant are third party libraries?
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Yes they scan the biometrics and I allow it. But do they make it the password for different services? Coz thats where its headed. Authentication and Authorisation are not the same thing.
> Aadhaar is fundamentally different than a National ID which every other country in this world has.

Not the United States!

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card... seems to suggest national IDs are voluntary in 15 countries, nonexistent in 9, and mandatory in 82. One thing that seems possibly significant is that six of the non-mandatory ones include the entirety of the "Anglosphere".

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

That's right, each of the Anglosphere countries has no mandatory national ID. And although the culture and politics of those countries varies quite a bit, including with regard to privacy and civil liberties issues and beliefs about state power, I believe that each one includes a significant number of citizens who are quite proud that there's no mandatory ID, regarding it as a particular way in which their country is more free than others, and as something worth defending.
What if you were that prisoner?

An impossible scenario? You could never be a criminal, so measuring the outcome need not take into account the prisoner's stake?
I did wonder what virtual machine this GollVM would be...
I agree strongly with you that the direction to be taken is independent messaging clients for existing messaging channels as long as those channels allow third party API use.

What channel would you use to share the keys on FB? The Facebook API simply will not let you do that anymore. Direct messages have a character limit and you can't just post to someone's wall anymore.

I tried working on something like this for seecret.io but was confounded by the Facebook API's limitations.

Twitter is much better for that. Probably other network too.
> fucked if it doesn't work for you anymore.

There are plenty of responses: sue them under antitrust statutes, break in and steal their tech, go the politics route and seize it via eminent domain, etc.

It's true though, a lot of those are impractical. But in the end you're pretty much back where you started before you began a relationship with the company; fucked is a relative term, when you should be thinking on an absolute scale of reference.

> all companies will do evil inevitably and thus are intrinsically evil

I guess it depends on your philosophy of evil. Sure, corporations are like hungry tigers, in that if you're in the same room as them without protection you're likely to get killed and eaten eventually. But does that make tigers (or corporations) evil? Consensus seems to be "no" or "mu": https://www.quora.com/Are-tigers-lions-and-hyenas-evil-creat...

(mu being defined as in http://webpages.charter.net/sn9/literature/mu.html)
Hopefully, this will be a wake-up call to the industry - government regulation in IT is needed.
if this is another case when they employed a horror coder who doesnt know to program, they'd better employ me !
Propaganda? Your 30 minute old account sounds

Do you know the difference between a reader and writer ?

Please Google the difference.

Not every reader on hn for over 5 years needs to have an account.

And, not every old account need not contribute anything useful to the discussion.

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It sounds and looks really bad, but, India currently is so desperate to ridicule corruption that it's going to any lengths possible, which includes invading people's privacy. Now, I don't know if that's the right thing to do.
I can share the data with you. Actual Aadhar failure logs. Do you want them ? Give me an email.
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I don't think it's necessarily wrong, I just think it's inconsistent (all methods are eta-expanded... except properties), just in a slightly different way.

Depending on what this did on conversion to Java-land, this could still be confusing for beginners:

`int foo() { return 1 }` in Java could either:

@ def x = foo
resXX: () => Int = $..
// Why was this eta-expanded - it has no parameters?!?

@ def y = foo
resYY: Int = 1
// This is 'normal'... but it wasn't defined as a property?

You could also argue that right now, if you want to turn any method (lacking generics) into a function, you can use the `someFn _` syntax, which in fairness perhaps not everyone is already familiar with.

Also, removing parens from an upstream method would change the downstream type, which seems more confusing to me from a 'statically typed language' perspective[0] than up-to-N-parens all having the same type - the rule right now is simple to explain as 'you can drop as many empty parens as you like and the call will stay the same (but IDEA will warn you)'.

[0]: In your scheme:

@ def foo() = 1
@ val x = foo
resXX: () => Int = 1
@ def foo = 1 // Upstream author changes their mind
@ val x = foo
resXX: Int = 1 // ???
@ val x = () => foo // Have to go around changing to this.

... and vice versa (if an author adds parens, all of your property calls start magically eta-expanding instead)
These comments demonstrate how patriotism can affect ones rational and objective thinking.

There are understandably benefits and convenience, however the articles focus is not that. It highlights the inherent threats to citizens individual freedoms that has somehow been missed by commentators.
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Watching dog whisperer, I learn that there is a difference between punishment and discipline. Do not punish.
When you take action like yelling or grounding out of frustration, anger, fear, or ___, it is a punishment.

When you take action from a calmer standpoint, it is called discipline.
Uhhh, I'm not complaining about dead bodies in some out-of-the-way spot that I'll never see, and suggesting that something "should be required". That was the other person. I'm fine with the bodies remaining in place. I like all the actions we're seeing in this context.
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Good explanation why genius is usually a stupid word to use.
> fearmongering at a scale unseen before

Such hyperbole weakens your argument. It's borderline zealous. I don't think you are a zealot and I think you have a valid argument, although I disagree with you. But expressing good thoughts in hyperbole is not effective here.

(Another example is the "no right to criticise" argument. Nobody cares who has a legal right to do disagree. This isn't a court of law. All we care about are good arguments. If someone is hypocritical, point that out. But people can be hypocritical while still having a good point.)
Aadhaar has the same data that your US birth certificate has. Name/DOB/gender/Address-if-available. Unless I'm mistaken everyone in US has a Birth Certificate.

EDIT IN RESPONSE TO YOUR EDIT

An birth certificate is also an ID. There's no rational reason of being proud of not having a national ID, when you have mandatory birth registrations and birth certificates.

If anything Aadhaar store less information than your BC - no record of who your parents are for example.
I am not Kiran. Aadhar stores a lot more. Are you that stupid ?

Usage/Frequency of access by whom and for whom etc (logs) are also data.

I take it that you are not in the know of how things actually work, that the problem with Aadhar is using biometrics as a mechanism of validation.
But note that the term "algorithm" is much older than automatic computers; speaking of the problem of sorting, it also had existed for many years prior in the form of various playing card puzzles, but not only - one famous example being Tower of Hanoi.
I was surprised by how out of date Apple maps were. I guess TomTom doesn't update their data that much.
How do you suggest in a country of fucking Billion people you would get people to use something? 40% people don't understand shit, doesn't care about privacy, they want food on their table, they want to get the money they rightfully earn. These people are less fortunate than many of us. With Aadhar and Household gas linked, they get the subsidy rightly in their bank account without paying every fucking agent that would loot them at any possible point.

I agree, making it mandatory for "Income Tax" is bit controversial. But even you also know how many people in India, rightfully pay taxes. The percentage is pretty damn low.

And frankly using Facebook and Twitter is not really a choice. It's a result of being Socially coerced into being on one of the platforms to not feel left out. And anyone who talks about privacy and openness would never be on either of these two if he really knows what he talks about.
How exactly will I believe that whatever you are sharing is not plain bs?

If you are taking about the simple tricks people use in Google search to get names and numbers, then no thank you.

Those are not Aadhar failure logs, those are human errors
Or more precisely: having a physiology best suited to walk/run mode was an evolutionary advantage for most humans. Maybe we can tinker with our genome to produce a sit-mode optimized human in the future, if desired. For me personally, I would rather be able to hike all day, thank you.
you didn't address his main points though.
1. Revise

2. Practice

3. Turn off the TV, and social media

(You can apply this to a lot of other things)

Not sure what you mean by "take" though. I think it is both good and important, if that is what you were asking.