skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google earns a lot from advertisement, but they're not just showing ads, there is a difference. You're actually paying them to find the right customer to show the ad. And that is probably always be valuable. Much different from a game that exists for the sole purpose of showing ads from google between games.
Planned obsolescence is the opposite of a perverse incentive, by definition.

A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable result which is contrary to the interests of the incentive makers.

Planned obsolescence is intended and has a desirable result for the incentive maker.

An example of a perverse incentive at GM would be attempting to make a few extra cents per car by squeezing suppliers and cutting corners on internal design decisions, while awarding bonuses for doing so. The end result being GM's use of a cheap ignition switch that ends up costing the company billions
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Manchester, UK? Helsinki, Finland? Tokyo, Japan?

(I now wonder how many others I don't know about from personal experience!)
Don't get down on yourself, you did nothing wrong. Sometimes things don't work out.

Just look for another position. There's another one out there, you found two, you'll find another.
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When looking at the UK government it is good they are not in control. They want to regulate the Internet and control what you see on the net and want to have access to what you text e.g. in WhatsApp messages. In 99% of all the cases it is worse when a state wants to control the Internet.
No. This MAGA (Microsoft, Apple, Goggle, Amazon), is actually making American tech great.
Part of the key, in both the trials and I hope in the clinic, is that they can use genetic/antibody screening to determine whether one of these PD-1 inhibitors will help you against a cancer... however, it's complicated both for scientific and ethical reasons, when you're running a trial and treating patients.

See the excellent Drug Discovery blog _In The Pipeline_ by Derek Lowe:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/08/23/not...

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/05/25/an-...
Ask HN: Does Karma really matter?
When reading HN, I never look at the user who posted the content and never consider how much Karma that user had at the time of posting. So it's made me wonder, do these things have much influence at all on here?
Drones can be the fastest way to deliver medicine in some situations.
"order me a pizza from domino's." "order me a pizza from papa john's."
How about switching to reasonable alternatives when you can (and use the Google product as a fallback)? For example, OSM is fine for daily navigation, there are plenty of cloud storage solutions and email providers. Obviously there's going to be some cost to pay for not being in Google's walled garden, but using the alternatives (and donating to them) stimulates their development.
So do a lot of people. Graduation is a bitch
3 person company with revenue in the low seven-figures. Our AWS + IT spend is about 3.5% of revenue
I played this years ago, it's better to think of this separate from each other. As in remove the context of previous ingredients when making new things
How is that different from a yellow pages?

If you are going to say "amazon only offers you one choice" that is an assumption you could make of yellow pages as well (it's a commercial publication, they don't have to list everything). The yellow pages chooses to accept payment from competitors to offer more choice. Amazon could do the same.

And if you are going to say "what is yellow pages?" then damn am I old :)
python does this to be consistent with C, not the other way around.
Often the dumpsters are packed to the brim with other items during move-in/out seasons, and clothes (and expensive perfume, furniture, books, and computers and xboxes?!?) are put in boxes sometimes in the dumpsters and sometimes out. Hunt down the "rich frat kid" dorms/apartments.
Donated. Dropped them a line about a bootable iso

I don't have a ton of cash but I believe in the hacker culture and as an aspiring developer I figure I'd put my money where my mouth is.
He spent so much time and effort creating and running the store and fighting this. I mean, paying $20/hour for people to shop Trader Joes to get him goods at retail? That's so incredibly inefficient.

Why didn't he just create his own store with his own brand and mimic the Trader Joes products and aesthetic? He could buy goods in bulk at much lower prices. He doesn't have to worry (much) about legal issues or spend money on them.

Clearly demand was so high he could still get away with charging very high prices.
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I disagree. Advertising has been around since the 1800s and I don't really think it'll be going away anytime soon. And besides, Google is diversifying its portfolio these days anyway (GCP, Google Home, Waymo, and tons of moonshots).
The point is it's important to define a new spec if you are being "liberal" in what you accept. For example, while RFC 4180 defines line endings as CRLF, it might be reasonable to "be liberal" and accept files with just LF if and only if you add a rule similar to

<line-ending> ::= "\r\n" | "\n"

to your input grammar, and properly recognize that the input matches that grammar before using any parsed values. It's an extension ("being liberal") to the official spec, but still strictly defined in the implemented parser.

> This lets you exploit things by sneaking in headers

In the talk at my previous [2][3], Serge specifically mentions Travis Goodspeed's packet-in-packet[4] exploit as an example of why you have to define what "liberal" means if you want to implement Postel's principle. (You should also limit input grammar's complexity to deterministic context-free, or the recognizer will be undecidable)

> in practice has made things a nightmare

That's what [2][3] is trying to fix. Stop using Turing Complete input languages, explicitly define your input grammar no matter what you're choosing to parse, and formally recognize all input against that grammar. The data either matches the defined grammar or it should be failed as invalid. Any allowances for sloppy input must be baked into that process.

[4] http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com/2011/09/remotely-exploit...
Another good food for thought regarding identity: If you take a complex object like a jumbo jet and replace every single component in it one after another, at the end, is it still the same jumbo jet?
I'm going to push back a little on "new" and "weaknesses still being found". The underlying theory of curves and their hardness has been pretty stable for awhile --- since well before 2000, I think. More progress has been made against conventional multiplicative group Diffie-Hellman than has against curves.

The complicating factor isn't the curve problems themselves, but rather implementation details, some of them particular to specific curves.
The last sentence is just not true. More doomed would be to invest a lot in infrastructure and economies of scale and try to beat Amazon at their own game.

So don't do that, open a small convenience store instead. Where else are all those retail jobs coming from? Not a rhetorical question, I really don't know.
why do you need it to be sequential then?
Interesting read, I appreciate stories like this and I think they are even more interesting when the struggles, dips, failures, mistakes, etc, are included in the narrative.

Often, persistence pays off. Congrats and thanks for sharing.
yellow page publishers don't actually know the details of my orders.
It's a nice API around pexpect [1] and therefor fills the same niche - spawning and interacting with console applications in a programmable way.

[1]: https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
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so: monolithic frameworks vs loose coupled components?
Microsoft and IBM never had the penetration Google has as far as individuals depending on it for individual ideas and decisions, minute by minute. Nor were the network effects of Microsoft's products, however strong for interop/compat, anything close to what Facebook has.

Many companies now only publish their information on Facebook. It's becoming harder and harder to even find a phone number for a business without hitting Facebook. Sometimes FB even requires a login before letting me see details (perhaps the business misconfigured their page?) If FB ever bans me (the person) for using a fake account, it'd be very difficult to do many "normal" things.

If we get anti-net-neutrality markets going, like FB is already doing in some countries (I see "free WhatsApp/FB with any SIM card" offers all the time), this lockin will become even more powerful

Also, MS still has a ton of power. But imagine how much worse it'd be if MS was sevrice-only. What if they decide to ban your company? It might be very difficult to remain in business if they could revoke all your Windows licenses (say, if you're in medical, or need MS compat for another reason). IBM perhaps less-so, since it's more real back-end systems.
Remember in the 90s when Microsoft was the subject of an antitrust case over bundling a web browser?
"I'm not religious, but one of my ideologies is to do unto other as you would have them do unto you."

That belief was created and pushed by religious, political, and business elites who themselves did not give equally to other people or treat them fairly. They always schemed out more for themselves. Your rule is best modified to do onto others as they would actually do onto you to the best of your knowledge. Otherwise, your rule will result in more evil happening overtime as the good people will work within the schemes created by the bad people. That's already happening.

Illustrated nicely in Hawk-Dove game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(game)

http://www.oocities.org/hawkdovegame/simulation.htm

Even includes retaliators which are relevant here.
I think your comparison of companies with states is really far fetched. An employment contract is completely different from citizenship. The freedom of speech comparison is particularly odd, obviously if you are a trouble maker in your company, they rightfully conclude that your value to them decreases.
Regulation only makes the largest companies that much more untouchable. Why not invest what would have been spent on regulation instead on education? That way the next pioneer could be fostered. Or invest in subsidies for health and wellness and food programs so the next Zuckerberg doesn't go hungry and can have the luxury to innovate (terrible analogy since he came from a middle class family but still). Or if you don't want to do that what about allowing foreign nationals with an idea but without capital and a safe and business friendly government to come to the States to create their businesses?
How is that a bad thing? Most people who attempt suicide and survive say they regret the attempt.

In the US it's not fashionable to kill yourself at work, but people jump from bridges a lot, so lots of bridges have safety nets. They don't just delay suicides, they outright save lives.
> Microsoft's wins are hard fought and fair

Was giving Internet Explorer away for free along with Windows and bankrupting Netscape fair ?
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this is awesome, something I really want.

but I hope there could be a live demo.
No, it's not.

Also- wrt SQL Server ignore anything they say about GUID's as indexes. Just don't cluster them.

Also- enjoy the benefit of not having to ever ask the DB what the pk of those records you want to insert is going to be.
Indirectly they do because the more orders you make through yellow pages, the more a pizza place will pay to be listed

Also are you complaining that Amazon will be able to order the options it gives you based on your personal preference?
I'm specifically referring to the voice interface of Alexa and Google Home. Voice doesn't lend itself well to listing out choices. The yellow pages has many listings for pizza.

There are fair ways to implement it, sure. We're depending on their goodwill though.

However, this specific thing is just one of many ways it's getting worse. Google, for example, is slowly, but surely pushing organic results down the page, for their own benefit.

I'm saying that in general, the problem is getting worse, for a variety of reasons.

Edit: Yes, there are workarounds, like using the App. I'm not talking about how to solve this for myself though. I'm talking about the collective effects.
>These big companies turn regular people into corporate livestock to serve the wealthy.

That's weird, I thought they were all building robots to serve the wealthy by replacing everyone's jobs?
Who exactly is going to oppose it? May has built a narrative where anyone opposing these ludicrous, far-reaching breaches of privacy is on the side of terrorists and paedophiles.

May was frightening when she was in the Home Office; as Prime Minister, the thought of what she is likely going to do is absoletely terrifying.
and no sane person would write it that way. whatever it is that its trying to do.

i agree that i misinterpreted the codes intention.
My experience is the exact opposite. Pratchett described it best:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-ri...

The clothes I buy are on the expensive side, but they last me a long time. The trick is to avoid popular, fashionable brands, and go for utility brands instead. I own a pair of hiking pants I bought from REI nine years ago and to this they day are my favorite pair.
> Microsoft's wins are hard fought and fair

No, they were unfairly fought. Don't let the fact that it is your former employer cloud your vision.

Not many companies have such a sordid history of unfair competition as Microsoft does.
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..then use the app? Echo actually gives you multiple options in the app in response to a voice query about commercial establishments as a general rule. Would be a good application for the Echo Show as well
That's a reasonable point and I agree with you, but I think you've read into my comment something that's not there. I said:

>> But all the elliptic curve cryptography is comparatively new, and weaknesses are still being found.

It's the elliptic curve cryptography that's comparatively new, and the weaknesses are being found in the full crypto package. That includes, and in many cases is primarily in, the implementation.

So actually I think you're not pushing back, I think you're clarifying exactly what I said.

Of course, I may yet have misunderstood you, so feel free to add more. You certainly know more about this than I do, and I'm happy to learn (or have it clarified further).
you are a good person!
Apple is rigorous (I've been rejected close to 20 times). But app review is also hard, especially when there is a flood of new app submissions every week, day and hour. Validating that an app does what it says it does isn't really what App Review is for. Most of my rejections were for how I described a feature, not how a feature worked.

Also there are ways to defeat App Review. Geo-fencing, time-boxing, etc so your illegal code never runs during review.
And yet, only very large companies are able to make a certain class of investments in infrastructure and services — that push technology and society forward as a whole — that small to mid companies due to lack of capacity never could, and governments due to lack of vision and political will never would.
Sweatshop owners want good governance and infrastructure. That's how they protect their capital investments.

Who would open a sweatshop in a place where the government could expropriate it, organized crime could take it over, or a simple rain could make the workplace inaccessible and the merchandise stuck in a warehouse?
Don't try to come up with an idea. Instead find a group of people that are into something(preferably something you are into as well) see if they have any problems or friction with the thing they are into. Try to offer them a solution for their problem. If they start to eagerly use your solution, try to generalize your solution for larger and larger groups of people.
do you have any evidence that your suggestions will actually improve the consumer experience or are you just suggesting killing businesses because of a gut feeling and some anti corporate sentiment?

>If we let monopolies take over, then the economy of the world will start to mirror the economies within these large corporations.

None of these companies can be said to be monopolies.

> We will gradually lose freedom of speech, in the same way that employees of large corporations don't have the freedom to say what they really think to their bosses.

This is the slipperiest slope I've ever seen.
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Hey

Thanks for the kind message, that's a good point! Guess I'll just get back on the applications!
I don't think anyone is proposing banning them. Among other things, many people are skeptical that they should be allowed to fly willy-nilly over everyone's private property. Which seems a reasonable question. After all, you can't typically drive and often even walk on someone else's property.

I do think there are special circumstances where drone delivery of medicine and other urgently needed items may very well make sense. One hour Amazon delivery of a USB cable and a Red Bull? Probably not.
Actually advertising has been around alot longer in one form or another. The need has always existed to somehow inform consumers of the availability of products and services:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_advertising#Pre-mod...
Personal drones are incredibly annoying at best.

I realize they can take interesting footage and have industrial uses, but at the consumer level they are never anything beyond a loud invasive public nuisance.

I'm sure in no time at all every self-obsessed youth will have a little selfie drone following them around broadcasting live too. Who would have predicted the future would be annoying narcissism?
> obvious that it's not going to use the popcnt opcode instruction ... I'd guess totally impossible in Java

I don't understand why you would guess at what Java can do when you can find out for certain?

public class Test {

private static int bitCount(int a) {
return Integer.bitCount(a);
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
while (true) {
bitCount(14);
}
}

}

Compiles bitCount to

0x000000011e637980: sub rsp,0x18
0x000000011e637987: mov QWORD PTR [rsp+0x10],rbp ;*synchronization entry
; - Test::bitCount@-1 (line 4)

0x000000011e63798c: popcnt eax,esi ;*invokestatic bitCount
; - Test::bitCount@1 (line 4)

0x000000011e637990: add rsp,0x10
0x000000011e637994: pop rbp
0x000000011e637995: test DWORD PTR [rip+0xfffffffff10ed665],eax # 0x000000010f725000
; {poll_return}
0x000000011e63799b: ret

There's your popcnt instruction. No need to guess.
There is a 35-60 day lag time in getting paid. If you started scamming May 1st, you wont' be getting paid until the first week in July for your May scam sales, so there is the potential in freezing the account.

I found a scam competitor once and reported it to Apple and they pulled it just before the payment day so I'm hoping he never got paid.
>Poor people in India who bathe in the open sewer known as Ganges, one of the most if not the most heavily polluted waterways, is a recipe for breeding a super disease.

Cholera, to be specific

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera#History
Call me old fashioned, but I remember when encapsulated was lauded as a good thing because it insulated the programmer from whatever programming model was considered popular this year was a virtue.
That's true, but it's not clear which way the causality runs. If wealth were more evenly distributed, ordinary people could pool their resources to make the same investments. They can't do that now because they have no disposable income to invest.
I'd put a little more faith in LSTMs. There's a lot less evidence for what they can't do than what they can. With enough fiddling, can get LSTMs to work for most tasks.

I'm not sure they're quite as complicated as you're making them out to be. If they are, then try a GRU instead ;)
Logical duplication tends to be bad.
But code duplication -- that is not logical duplication (business rules, etc) -- might not be.
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The capital requirements are generally low in the tech sector compared to traditional industry.
If we go to war with China I don't think you or anyone else will care much about your company.

I know you meant it as an example, but this sort of extreme attitude towards security is just another footgun.
Right, but you see the difference from a Google web search for "order a pizza", right?
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> True, but that's not what the article's arguing.

Reading it twice, I think this is a very veiled argument against generics in Go on the grounds that well, uh... proportionality?

I agree with the post above you. I do not like the premise of this or of Go. I see it as a deliberate attempt to walk away from empowering programmers. It's not solid technology, it's the technical manifestation of business decisions.
Problem is at some point some person or more likely group of people has to be entrusted with the Master Keys. Using different keys for production machines and that sort of thing is all well and good but they're kept somewhere, meaning if an admin decides to screw you, there isn't a lot you can do.

Seems like the better option is keep your admins happy as much as possible.
At that point the pool is mirroring a large corp. while it's still in the small so to speak, it has the same ends and reaction to the same stimulus
I think LSTMs are far from being replaced. They work too well and are too simple to use.
In general, I agree with your warning that Alexa and co. could limit choice. But is really anyone ordering just "a pizza" or "a lightning cable" by voice without further specification? Isn't customer satisfaction key for using the assistant in the future again?

If using a virtual assistant for ordering, I'd instruct Alexa (or Google or Siri) to order a specific pizza in a specific size from a specific pizza delivery. And if not satisfied with the result of a request, I'd want to be able to specify: "Never order again from the delivery you used last." - or I'd never use the assistant for this task again.

But most likely, I'd just order by hand or phone (instead of voice assistant) as long as I can't tell the voice assistant to just order "my standard pizza" based on my order history.
> Are you delusional?

you are delusional. i want a ride. when i want a ride, i want a ride. what i dont want is to sit in a queue. uber provides that service by pricing people who are less well off out of taking a ride that they can give to me, while making more money off of me that they would make off of a queue.

they prioritize the customer that spends more money with them, over the one who would spend less money with them. our business objectives are aligned.

sure, a queue would be more fair. the idiot over there pressed the button first so he gets served first. because thats fair.

FAIR. FAIRER THAN FAIR.

go read some more marx.

and dont compare taxis to healthcare. different issues.

btw, i was talking about the german taxi market. which is scary as fuck. dont want any of my loved ones ride one of those taxis.

> But it isn't just "an option" it's the only option.

Its not the only option. There are taxis. Cant afford uber, get a fucking taxi. I dont care. Get into a queue. Huddle under the taxi stand while the rain pours down on you waiting for a taxi. Meanwhile I surge price home.

Youre only pissy because peasants get priced out of a service that is scarce. go read some more marx.
How does garbage like this get through the App Store? I thought Apple was notoriously strict on approvals?

Also, do people still use the App Store? I don't think I have casually browsed for apps in 5 years or more.
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