skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although your examples are valid, there are many counter-examples: see increasingly-stringent enforcement of anti drunken-driving laws since the 1970s. Although drunken driving does still occur, it's vastly more uncommon than it was before we began legitimately enforcing the laws we have.
Does that mean that Google now has no more use for Gmail, and soon millions of people will be scrambling to cover yet another product sunset?

That would certainly cause an enormous loss of goodwill, but.... imagine this scenario:

Google has some slow growth quarters, they need to keep the numbers up for shareholders. They start to examine what they can squeeze. Gmail costs them X (hundreds?) millions per year, but doesn't gain much from it...

Certainly its unlikely, as it is also a SSO tool, etc. Still....
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I have one of those and it's kind of a PITA. I actually didn't realize it blocked RF until after I bought it. It's annoying because I can't just tap my wallet on the MUNI gates or the card reader at work, I have to open up the damn thing and press the edge of the card poking out of the card holder against it and hope it works (sometimes it does, sometimes I have to pull out the card).
Perhaps you should ;) Google is a corporation, my immediate reaction was "They must've developed something more profitable" - and they have, they're continuing to compete with MS/AWS for business customers.
"Just like a lifeboat, the US can't let everyone in at once or we'd sink."

Actually, the consensus among economists is that immigration makes your own economy better off. It has a net positive effect on productivity and prosperity.

In other words, your "rate-limiting" analogy makes zero sense. You want more immigration, not less.
You're referring to the Thompson hack:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358210

The system needs to be bootstrapped in such a way that the compiler can be trusted. This may include compiling e.g. gcc through a multi-stage process starting from a simple, easily-audited compiler with a small set of features and working your way up to a full-featured C compiler. It might mean double-compilation---comparing output from multiple compilers.

Combining that with reproducible builds, you can (one day) trust your toolchain and your system. Hardware is another story.

https://reproducible-builds.org/events/athens2015/bootstrapp...

Hopefully this will be all sorted out and standard practice in the near future.
The fact that the only important factor you can think for a text editor to improve on is text rendering speed shows that you're not really on Atom's target demographic.

You'd think that hundreds of thousands of Atom users would convince you that maybe there's something to the editor that works for others if not for you. But nope, all those guys are happy with switching their main IDE to "a total step backwards", for some reason.
There was never an attempted invasion of Japan by the Han. Nor was there an invasion of Tibet.

Tibet, and Xinjiang, were invaded by the Manchus (who ruled China as the Qing dynasty at the same time they ruled several other jurisdictions under different names. Everything was later relabeled "China" as essentially an accounting gimmick).

Japan was invaded by the Mongols (who, similarly, ruled China as the Yuan dynasty).

Han aggression has been pretty much limited to Vietnam (and ineffective there). Blaming China for the invasion of Tibet is slightly less ridiculous than blaming Nazi-occupied France for the invasion of Poland.
Amen. The obscuring only works against known techniques.

So long as signal remains in the collective data, as the state of the art advances individual data streams will inevitably emerge.
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I actually had to take the server down a few days ago due to a bug crashing it every time someone logged on so you can't play it right now but here you go: http://canvaslegacy.com/

The bug is fixed but I forgot to branch the repo when I started on the new patch so can't deploy anything right now (since I'm working in master).

It's a browser game that requires no account so normally you would be able to open the link and start playing immediately.

Some media in case anyone is interested: https://www.facebook.com/pg/canvaslegacy/photos/
I've always thought that would be cool, then just have a fiber connection for communications and either air gap your main power or provide your own via solar and wind.
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Unless it's bit-for-bit reproducible.
I never understood the argument that some automatic scanning for keywords is like "reading" your mail. By that same logic isn't Gmail's spam filter still "reading" your mail? It is classifying your mail based on content after all...
> Will it ever see those levels again? I can't answer that. You can accumulate wealth extremely quickly with those kind of rates.

Doubt it. When the average savings account is <1%. I think that became permanent.
Good point. The case wasn't grounded but that is more common for embedded targets/laptops.

We haven't looked at attacking desktops but the fact that there is a market for tempest shielded desktops (from OSPL, etc.) is perhaps an indication that it might still be possible...
I'm curious how much of that is actual infrastructure improvements and how much is ISPs increasingly prioritizing traffic to speedtest.net.
People working in and around HPC centers. Obviously. :)

And no, it's both accounting and security issue. One guy I know who does security in ASIC's that stole HPC time in the past did it by modifying the accounting system to not show his jobs. It was easy as it wasnt designed to stop accounting fraud by hackers.
"The decision didn’t come from Google’s ad team, but from its cloud unit, which is angling to sign up more corporate customers."

Interesting timing with the story earlier this week about Wal-Mart telling vendors to stop using AWS
"Their priority in the waitlist is determined by a market."

I'm very surprised registration systems aren't (generally) some kind of phased auction. There's got be some research, experiments somewhere exploring different strategies.

I worked on student facing software in higher ed. Admins were obsessed with fairness. Our registration systems had all sorts of arcane rules. Which were hard to explain, validate, troubleshoot. And probably neither fair or effective.

Some kind of auction, where blocks of seats were made available to different populations, progressively over time, would greatly simplify the implementation and understanding.

For (a greatly simplified) example, GRADUATION REQUIREMENT ABC has 200 seats. 50 seats are released every hour. First hour, seniors have first shot. Second hour, opens up for juniors and program enrollees. Third hour, sophomores. Fourth hour, freshmen.

Of course, there are other factors, like multiple sections (same class offered at different times).

--

We also talked about predicting demand (capacity planning). A novel solution there might moot the entire registration stampede. Perhaps a "buying club" type solution, where students state which classes they'll "buy" and roughly when. Then registrars form up sections to satisify the largest number of students. This could reduce the twin connundrums of waitlists and over capacity.

Anywho. It's an interesting problem, ripe for innovative optimization, matchmaking, auction/market solutions.
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Here are the few issues which I have observed when I was browsing through the website.

1. When you scroll down on home page, it take you to the code, how do I get back up ??
2. What does CMD+S mean for a windows user ?
3. I'm on the last page of the website, how do I go up ?
4. I would suggest you to add mouse scroll functionality on the page to move freely from down to top.
5. After clicking on "Try now", I was redirected to a page. I see the screencast, i also see a scroll on the top, what should I scroll ??
6. I added new app, I still see the scroll bar on top, Try to remove it.
7. Provide functionality to go back to the home page from App design page.
8. Check out the network tab from developer tools of chrome you are passing the "key" value ? Try to hide this value
9. you have your apikey value exposed.
10. Your accountinfo key value is exposed.

Some may be functionality and some are security issues. Try to fix those.

Thank you
Cue discussion of how with open source you don't really know either, since nobody can read and find out all the backdoors in the source of the whole system.
I agree - I read the article. But having many sources to feed the ads probably made the decision to announce universally that emails are no longer going to be scanned easier to do in the first place.
Back to a job working for someone else, no?

Kind of an obvious answer.
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>"free market would have been a good thing before automation and AI, but it won't work for the future."

Can you elaborate on this? I am curious to hear why those two things - a free market and AI are mutually exclusive.
> Not really. The word you are looking for...is simply - speculator

Market making necessarily involves speculating. They're one and the same.

Modern market making has many conventions extraneous to the definition, but there are still markets where market makers only quote one side of the market at a time. For over-the-counter stocks in the United States, you are even allowed to offer soft quotes, i.e. the market maker can renege on a posted quote if they want.

The sheep example is resolutely a market maker. Just in an illiquid market.

Source: I used to be a designated market maker.
But will they stop using Hangouts IM content for customer segmentation? I probably say much more relevant things in Hangouts (from a marketing perspective) than in email.
The answer is, of course, that men do not harass women.

The article claims that -in Cairo- some young and poor men (obviously not the sharpest in the pool) harass women as a way to feel power and escape from a boring life. Even if the claim is true in a local context, is a very narrow point of view that can't be applied neither to all men in Egypt, nor of course to all men in the world.
I wish that I had done this in my previous relationship. We were young, and we talked a lot, but I didn't realize what was really important to her (travelling, saving money). So when we'd talk about goals, I'd never realize how much things meant to her. A contract may have helped us define our goals, and what we wanted, and make things a little easier for dense ol' me.
This is terribly unhelpful. Can you at least elaborate on what you mean?
That is such a weird expectation to have.

I play the Beethoven Sonata's I play well. I'd have to answer with dunno to all those questions. My piano teacher did have a professional jazz pianist as a student, because he wanted to learn some more traditional techniques.

Yesterday I went to a class of a famous Brazilian percussionist. When I asked him about whether there is a dictionary of the rhythms, so I can at least look them up, he said, dunno, if you want to learn get close to people that know, learn and practice.

But as the GP said, if I knew that was the expectation I would prepare for it and try to control the interview.

All the people I interviewed with I was still in the university did have top grades, but were otherwise terrible engineers. You're basically looking for those people.
I agree that those are problems as well.

However while you may not agree the Fed is a problem, unfortunately the Fed and central banking has an aura of group think around it that is usually only available for religious groups. I mean the fundamental concept of the fed's mandate: price stability and employment targeting--yea they sound great, but at what point do you question the ability to create value out of thin air just by playing with money. It is by definition financial alchemy.

And yes, I'm already familiar with Keynes' arguments in his General Theory, which is the historical work that set the precedent for this.
Hugely unpopular opinion time, especially on HackerNews, but I'm just going to say it: I don't believe any of it. I don't believe WaPo, I don't believe the/their "Russian interference with the elections" narrative, and in fact, if there is one country that has interfered with elections all over the world, the USA would be it. Now the narrative has been shifty to an extreme, but this attempt to - again - make Obama appear to almost be some kind of fantastic leader, is just another poor and perverse attempt to turn history and current events into something it isn't.
Agreed. However, in addition to viewing the F35 as welfare you can also see it as Too Big To Fail. I think there are side benefits to defense spending. Silicon Valley was built on that [1]. But there's tremendous risk with large (and doomed) projects when they fail (which they will).

[1] https://steveblank.com/secret-history/

Uber is going to fail. The F35 is going to fail. Throwing good money after bad will stave off that day of reckoning but then only make it a worse accounting.
Yeah, take a look at Nuclear Throne [2] vs Wasteland Kings[1].

Nuclear Throne is something I'd consider "shipped". It's polished, the design is solid and it's currently sustaining Vlambeer commercially. Compare that to their prototype(wasteland) and you'd get an idea on the difference(also ~2 years dev time if I recall correctly).

[edit]

I can also highly recommend watching anything from Rami Ismail of Vlambeer. He's brutally honest about the realities of being an indie developer and the mindset you need to be successful.

[1] https://vlambeer.itch.io/wasteland-kings

[2] http://store.steampowered.com/app/242680/Nuclear_Throne/
Couldn't you just let anybody sign up for $LONG_ENOUGH_PERIOD and then randomize who gets in the classes? It sounds like a much better solution in general.
Heh, my hobbies are actual HR repellant; building custom lock picks and participating in TOOOL and teaching knife throwing!
Considering gmail is a major part of google apps as well, I imagine they're making plenty of money off of it
Yes, if your financial advisor isn't doing their job you can fire them. Many of them (used to) have skin in the game with your money, too.

Also, lots of folks who lost out on the last recession would be in an equal place post-recession had they left them money to recoup the losses. It wouldn't have been gains, but it wouldn't have been the kind of losses they experienced either. Much easier said than done, though. I don't blame them.
This seems like a ridiculously paranoid worldview to have.
The problem is not the concept, but the current application. And that is not even a construct of the law as written, but the courts application of said law.

Patents started out as a 20 year protection on mechanical mechanisms or chemical processes as long as what was protected was publicly documented in full. Thus once the patent had run out, anyone could replicate it from the patent document.

But then the chemical process side used to argue for a quasi-software patent in court, because the patent described a computer monitored mixing process. And thus the ball got rolling.

Thing is though that 20 years is a very long time when we are talking software. By the time the RSA patent ran out, the algorithm described was largely obsolete.

On top of that we have gotten a mass of patents that are so generic in terminology, that even if they describe something mechanical they can potentially be applied to something done in software.

Not that patents have not been a problem even before computers. Serious refinements of the steam engine for example didn't happen until after the initial patent ran out.

Similarly Smith and Weston sat on their refinements for the Colt revolver until the patent ran out.
I probably just have too much junk in my wallet, but I can't ever just tap the wallet against an NFC reader anyway. It either doesn't read anything or it reads one of the other low-power NFC cards contained (I think I have 3-4). For quick access to a single card maybe you can get a lanyard or one of those retracty thingies people wear around their belt loops?
I think this is the canonical review article: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~aaroth/Papers/privacybook.pdf

(No, I haven't read it...)
> That way the information in aggregate is still useful, but no one measurement is necessarily true and also you can not use the lack of a data point as a proof of anything.

This is great, succinct, description of the goals of differential privacy.

> Doesn't it also introduce noise into the dataset? It could modify rides at random, let's say that 10% of rides would have the start or end point swapped with some other ride or completely changed.

It can. There are variants, and offline/online systems operate differently.
This just read like a bunch of "I think" and "it might" instead of "I know" and "it will." So, stating that crony capitalism is hurting regular capitalism doesn't do anything except make people attack an idea instead of facts.

And focusing on the financial industry might make you feel good because it's easy to say "wall street..." and everyone joins in on the bitch fest. It's a ton of conjecture and hypothesizing as to why business is failing, but to make it sound like one industry is just banking cash while providing nothing, is a disservice to all the people that work in that industry.
The source code to Simon Tatham's Puzzles is open-source, so you could see how at least one person does it.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/devel/
https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/puzzles.git;a=summary
Most places believe they are selective, or present that image. They can claim they only interview X% of people who submit resumes, and then only hire X% from that batch, and present their process as more selective than a top university.

The problem is that it is difficult to know if a company is constructively selective, or if other variables dominate. You present the variable of self-selection, which definitely exists for some companies and positions.

Back to the original point, many people can be turned off when companies try to talk up their selectivity and maybe rightly so. Candidates don't have infinite time so there needs to be a higher $ reward for time invested applying to extra-selective organization (higher expected value), and they might have experience that shows this self-assertion is more arrogance than reality.

Swinging too far in the other direction to claim "we hire anyone!" can also turn away good candidates or attract people without the necessary skills.
It's kind of off-topic for this thread, but I think there are quite a number of arguments to be made for Haiku's continuing relevancy (although I'm clearly biased :). You're right of course about performance being much less of a big deal these days (Haiku still far outshines even Linux in efficiency, though not in raw speed, mostly due to our lack of GPU acceleration).

Instead, the relevancy now mostly has to do with the unity -- or rather the lack thereof -- amongst NIX operating systems. While Linux dominates the server market, the "year of the Linux desktop" that everyone's been hoping will arrive for at least a decade now hasn't arrived. Sure, there are new challengers now and again but most of the problems and criticisms of Linux aren't about the look and feel, but usually fall on a more fundamental level: "Stuff breaks and then it's impossible to fix." -- "My audio drivers don't work and this tutorial to troubleshoot it is incomprehensible to me." -- "I took some updates and now Kdenlive doesn't export audio anymore."

Haiku is very different in this respect because its underlying architecture is the one thing Linux/BSDs are not and never will be: unified. The entire system, kernel to HTTP client to file manager, is developed by one team on one infrastructure inside one git repository. Which means as a result, you always know whose fault it is when something breaks (ours), and that when we fix it, it'll appear in the "nightly" update channel by the next day. It also means that there's no long series of configuration changes to try when something doesn't work; almost universally, stuff either works or it doesn't. Really -- there's only one exception to this I can think of (relating to a bug in our port of FreeBSD's Intel WiFi drivers.)

Linux has been trying for a more unified system both up front (e.g. elementaryOS) and in back (systemd...), but the more I use it, the less I want to use it and the more I want to use Haiku.
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Lol. I love how it's so hopeless that the best solution is to move to another planet.
I confused, you sound against the idea of differential privacy, even though the foundation of differential privacy is that anonymization DOESN'T work to protect people's privacy. In fact, the canonical example used in the differential privacy field of failed anonymization is the AOL fiasco.
I have all daughters, and I've recently started a new hobby, painting.

I've been doing quite well. I e been watching Bob Ross, and started painting things I find o. Reddit...

The goal is to be able to paint butterflies and unicorns, but I'm currently on trees and mountains and clouds..
Here, I'll save you the read. The keys to success are:

- "Make sure you build something people will pay you for"

- "Make the Value of Your Product Really Obvious"

- Hire good people but not too early

- "Be Relentless in Your Focus"

And in case you are interested (like I am) in hearing how entrepreneurs honestly evaluate mistakes so that we all may learn from them, this company only made two mistakes worth noting in their history:

- Not enough PR made it hard to hire early on (but they wouldn't do anything differently)

- Leaving out almond butter is how you get raccoons

This is the kind of "we're amazing at all the generic things and the only mistakes we made are humblebrags that aren't mistakes and irrelevant anecdotes" puff tech journalism that gives this industry such a bad name.
Well, if I was doing security at your company, I'd probably want employee credentials to be visible at all times, which would also happen to take care of your problem.
Welcome to Canada! Also: it's not all like Saskatchewan, most of it is really nice. ;)
Where has this been?
I can confirm: my AM4 motherboard has DisplayPort and HDMI connectors.
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Or position yourself in a market that's competitive where you can demand higher wages and still benefit from tax/mental/equity-based benefits of having a stable home. If stable is what you want, that is.
Software isn't protected by patents - it's just IP laws as well. You can't patent software in general. Maybe the look and feel of your product, but not the functionality.
I think I've become jaded because I just don't believe it. It's like Google Home. A wonderful device but when I heard it may start listening to everything I say... I just figured yeah, that should be expected. So now I just expect Google to read, listen, and analyze everything I do with their products.
If you like puzzles like this, you should check out Nikoli (http://www.nikoli.com/en/). They're a Japanese gaming company with a bunch of puzzles online. They don't have this particular puzzle, but they have similar ones, like Hitori (http://www.nikoli.com/en/puzzles/hitori/).
Indeed it is, it explains the rule, gives you feedback, and it better looking in general.
...It's "fewer" there, isn't it.
The article claims it's because of companies that have become too big. And the only way to break up those companies is government intervention.