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I think the legal term is antitrust. Bringing up the term monopoly seems to always make people assume something with 100% marketshare. The only thing needed to come under antitrust scrutiny is to be in a position that allows said entity to warp market behavior, be it by bundling, price fixing, or some other means.
I'm confused when you say prototypes are you talking

web, apps, etc.?

Hardware as in electronic devices? computers?

Are they functional or just design mock ups?
I believe they were saying Ff on ios is non-existant. However on Android it is decent and growing. I exclusively use it on android. I even have Chrome disabled.
Some Google services don't work properly on Firefox or show annoying banners. It is just a pain. I just moved to chromium.
Oh, you're right. I was thinking the residue material was all contained inside the die, not that the die itself was made from it and would gradually fall apart as you used it.
A good application for this would be prevent "Starvation" when doing random rewards in a video game. For instance, if a special item is to be dropped after defeating a boss...
The specs can be found here:

https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/blob/master/spe...

https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/master/s...
and the authority of governments everywhere is crumbling.

Good.

potentially undermining trust in incumbent governments for the foreseeable future

Even better. Trusting government is a fool's errand.

But, the document says, this should not be seen as defeatism, but rather a “wakeup call”. If nothing is done to adapt to this “post-primacy” environment, the complexity and speed of world events will “increasingly defy [DoD’s] current strategy, planning, and risk assessment conventions and biases.”

IOW, it's not the Department of Defense at all. It's more like the Department of World Domination.
It does indeed. But remember one of the big sells Microsoft made was that with Windows 10 you would get continual security patches. Microsoft dug that hole for themselves.

And to add, a machine released in 2015 (less than 3 years ago!) that no longer gets security updates is hardly the right place to be drawing the line you speak of.
This is a very common complaint, and it's not valid. You cannot have privacy without some form of trust or identity. Network cryptography doesn't work that way. We have to assume the adversary controls the network, and so can manipulate any cryptographic handshake they see.

The "identity" in TLS exists principally in order to prevent network adversaries from substituting their own keys for those of your intended peer.
PM on Stack Overflow Channels here. You make a valid point. :) And I can assure you, the success of Channels is predicated on a solid update to the way we do search (as well as better integration with tools you might already be using, like Slack).
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Call this hilarious if you want, I think it's rather cool, thanks for the pointer. Once this is out of beta it will definitely be useful, if not already.
It sounds to me like they are in fact running a giant devops system, all for the purpose of not using virtual static IPs.

Instead of just provisioning fresh VMs and migrating customer data they're doing this massive upgrade in place on existing machines to avoid losing the assigned IPs.

I guess they decided the benefits of being cloud provider agnostic outweighed the downside of spending months of man hours automating in-place OS upgrades.
The way it works is that the satellite has very high velocity tangent to the earth- so they are constantly falling to earth, but they are moving tangent at the same rate that they are falling- because the earth is a sphere, the ground "falls away" from underneath them. They're constantly "missing" the Earth.
Why Alexa is a big deal?
This reminds me of an article discussing the perceived outcome of RNG decisions in video games. In many types of games, the system will display a percentage chance of success for a given action which allows the player to make risk assessments regarding possible choices. Unfortunately, the unmodified RNG behavior creates an unpleasant experience for the user because the unweighted random outcomes feel "unfair" when failure streaks pop-up, thus, game designers almost always introduce some type of magic cushioning to the RNG so that the user never faces too many repeated failures.
Snapchat had temporary success as well. So much for that.

We never got to see what would have happened to Instagram, had Facebook gone on to compete with it over time with a cloned product (or perhaps some other purchased competitor that might have sprung up to take on Instagram).

One of the most critical powers of a monopoly (with the typical profits that go with such), is its ability to acquire the smaller competition - frequently at high prices - that threatens it. Which is why Facebook was willing to pay such a seemingly immense sum for WhatsApp (a product with essentially zero sales). And it's why they would have happily paid a lot more for Instagram (another product with no sales) if they had demonstrated continued growth.
No, that's not what this paper says.
Well, that's also an option :) But I believe this is a relatively new option.

Personally, I never got into the hype with the NoSQL and for me the only use is as a convenient API for storing JSON files during prototyping so that I can later decide how my data should be structured.

Definitely tech debt for the future but fast iterated design that needs the database stuff fixed has more chance for success than the rigid design with the perfect data architecture.
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What about for IoT devices? I could see NoSQL still having a place there, although I could also see it working just as well with a SQL database.
Good. Here's how things should go:

1. First America stops being world police.

2. America plays ball with rest of world (adopts metric system, becomes a leader in climate, shares control of internet, turns concern toward to real issues like asteroids, population growth, health issues, cyber security)

3. Citizens acknowledge that war is a tool for siphoning tax money into the coffers of people with connections/government-contracts, and move towards a post-war-era.

4. Citizens start to move to a post-nation era, where we acknowledge have more in common with each other than our own politicians who drive us apart for financial gain.

5. We move toward universalizing language, so we hit a point that declaring war with Iraq seems as absurd as declaring war with Canada.

6. The very concept of "superiority" and "class" becomes meaningless as we move into an era of excess due to automation.

[Link to Pentagon's study: https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/download.cfm?q=1358]
Indeed. The one thing that got a relative of mine to go Chrome was that the flash games on Facebook performed "better".
Sure, but it is also another service to keep running. Depends on what scale you're operating at.
Does the paper propose a way to identify (or generate, within a reasonable amount of time) a list of potentially compromised primes?
> Gender (and, likewise, ethnic, etc.) studies is an interdisciplinary domain ...

Yes, like astrology and homeopathy
It will likely have trouble with languages that don't include spaces around words. This will likely work for most latin based languages though.
Its quite surprising that Google has avoided anti-trust scrutiny for as long as it has.
No, the point is that you cannot do that. That's what makes it a plausible NOBUS backdoor.
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In addition to Chrome's bundling deals which override your default browser settings, major Windows updates now appear to reset your default browser to Edge every time.
Thank you for the reference. Seems promising, but let me use and see !
> Schemas: Schemaless does not mean no schema; instead, it means an implicit schema in the app (a particularly challenging misnomer for anyone outside our industry)

Still a challenge for many in the industry.
1) prototyping skills workshop/bootcamp
2) prototyping blog/vlog with affiliate ads/links
3) factor out common sets of items & sell prototyping kits
Exactly. Every now and then I try to switch back to ff but the performance just isn't there.
Indian user here. I avoid majority of Reddit's default sub because of this reason. Just yesterday, I accidentally came across on comment in /r/askreddit where they openly called Indian men as vulgar and rapey. When another Indian user questioned it, he was downvoted heavily. Honestly, 12 hours later, I am still angry. I think I will leave Reddit for good this time.
https://www.wired.com/2012/12/what-does-randomness-look-like...
We've asked you already to please stop posting unsubstantively like this, and we ban accounts that refuse.
Spoken like someone who have never used Oracle with something other than Java. Also expensive seems like a flaw to me.
Hey Kabir! Congrats on making the frontpage :) I loved reading this post a couple days back.
Flagged (clickbait), as it doesn't contain anything interesting about the human brain, just a short text about convolutional networks.
How do you find these less popular subreddits?
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So is /dev/null.
Functional prototypes of both hardware and/or software (web and/or mobile). I used to help companies like theme parks design concepts and build prototypes that they could use to get sponsors for their parks. As well as large corporations that needed wuick prototypes of apps or games that they needed to fundraise to fund the full product development process. I would basically help them up to the internal or externL fundraising pitches. Won awards for my work. Im just sick of client work and would love to find a way that I could use my skills in a more independent way.
PM on Channels here.

I see what you're saying. The honest answer is that we just really need to focus on making sure the product works well before anything else.

I really can't speak with confidence about pricing, because we still need to do discovery on what will work best. But what I do know is that it'll likely continue to be free for many people with some premium features that people can pay for if they want.

And if not, the data you create is yours and you can export it and bail!
That's how the website works, that's not anything particular about the /r/politics mods.
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Extensions are tipping in favor of Chrome. Many of the extensions I use are Chrome only.
I can really follow your question as it is a really tough one and it all depends on what is your interest, because:

- You can use AWS but you will no doubt spend a lot of time figuring out stuff, BUT if you think it is fun and if you can use it to further your career then it makes total sense!

- If your focus is on the development and not a side project you should really go with something hosted like Heroku because you will be able to spend much more time on development instead of configuration and be spending time worrying if you have done it correctly. Heroku is pretty cheap for what you get in terms of hours saved but you are giving up some flexibility, no doubt!
No jokes allowed I guess :)
NPR just reported last week that the ratio of hours watched on Youtube to Facebook is 10:1 right now.
Didn't ff also partner with yahoo at one point? Very dumb move
It's a difficult spot because social networks try to maintain a fiction that they're a public forum where free speech must be respected. As far as I know there is no legal precedent that this is so, and they're free to ban users/cull posts from their web sites as they see fit. Additionally, I'd say they have a responsibility to prevent their site from being used for certain purposes, though the boundaries of what's acceptable are tough to define.

Reddit is not like an ISP, who can (until recently) claim that they're not responsible for traffic passing through their network, as reddit has no reasonable claim to be a "dumb pipe".
> meawhile there are thousands of highly upvoted calls to violence daily. Is this just a reflection of our society? Probably but I'm always interested to see which sites allow what.

Unfortunately, yes. Look at the comments for any news story about a protest. Half the commenters are shouting that the protest should be non-violent, while the other half are shouting that the police should beat and cripple the protestors. There is also intersection between these two groups.

Or the people posting copy-pasta about how violent the Religion of Peace is, all the while advocating for glassing the countries it is prevalent in.

Generally, calls to violence are taken quite seriously, but calls to the worst form of violence - war - are considered political.
Is there a way to find if there's ($$) demand for prototyping workshops?
I had the privilege of studying probability from G-C. Rota. One of my favorite quotes from him was "Randomness is not what we expect", which he used to describe the phenomenon of people disbelieving that random data was actually random. Another great was "This will become intuitive to you, once you adjust your intuition to the facts."
As a D&D player I can see how this might be nice, but at the same time it would be frustrating to get a 20 for something stupid (passing a DC5 check) and know that it had a real effect on my chances for getting a 20 when I could actually use it (a critical attack roll).
/r/all isn't even a thing you can subscribe to or even see unless you explicitly link to or type reddit.com/r/all into the address bar.

It used to be the front page while logged out was /r/all, but that was replaced with /r/popular a while back (which has a completely non-transparent filter applied to it)
Ok, this makes sense then.

The part about "maximizing your glory" is a bit... tiring.
Why is it so important to you that they fail?

If it fails, then I can quit having the same discussions repeatedly as try to talk my co-workers out of using it.
I'm very frustrated that this is getting downvoted. If you are going to downvote, please at least post a counter-point or something!
They in this case are the Trump people that got to the top. Yes, once they are out of power they are screwed. That's just myopic short-term thinking, though.
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I think you'd find that people would start tapping the tracks for the power.
Will do, currently have smaller 1" roller blinds so have to find the tubular motors that fit inside of them.

Rollertrol.com carries some but they are quite a bit pricier than the full radius ones elsewhere.
I'm not asking the Bloomberg article, I'm asking the person who works for the company who responded upthread.
How often do you see an old TV station replaced by a new one with better offerings? How often with websites? A Non-neutral internet has the potential to make the current big-players on the internet as locked-in as the TV networks.

New offerings would not be able to afford to pay for the fast-lanes used by the established companies, and would thus not be able to compete with them. Supporting net-neutrality is not defending Google, Amazon, Netflix, it's defending the sites that might some day replace them.
Really nice explanation on how it works, I think a lot of people could benefit by understanding how a search engine works!
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>The obvious counter-argument is silencing them strengthens their argument and makes them a martyr. I don't buy that argument at all, it's far more dangerous to allow them to indoctrinate and appeal to all the fringe disenfranchised youth which they've become frighteningly effective at. In any case it's clear reddit can be used for good like in this article, I'm just not so sure it's a net positive to society as another poster argued.

This is the road to censorship, burning books, and confiscating servers. Some people are fine with censorship, because they imagine people who think like them as the censors.

You can only fight ideas with better ideas. Kicking them out and silencing them, says to them you can't compete. You can't offer them an argument as to why they should tolerate foreigners, other races, etc. It seems obvious to you now, but the ideals of tolerance and equality took years and years of discourse to dominate public consciousness.
This is not Reddit!

Please post substantively on Hacker News or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Ask HN: Free or best priced geocoding service
I am working on a real estate AVM which when deployed at scale will roughly have to geocode 100,000 addresses a day.

My only "special" requirement is that I need to be able to save the results in my DB. I know some services don't allow this.

I am more concerned about "coverage" than accuracy. If I cannot geocode an address then that property is useless to me. I would prefer to have a larger error in lat/lon than not have a result. But, I am not aware how much of a difference there is in quality between the different options. Error on the order of a full mile (1600 meters) would be problematic but I could live with something like 1/4 - 1/2 mile.

Other than that I'd like to minimize the cost while still using a dependable geocoding service.

What service would you recommend or do you have experience with?
That's a good way of becoming weak. Your enemies will be very glad to watch you try this.
Crappy it may be, it sure beats the hell out of setting up & hosting your own message board!
In other news, Comcast is rolling out DANE for SMTP.
https://mail.sys4.de/pipermail/dane-users/2017-July/000414.h...

dig +multi _25._tcp.mx1.comcast.net TLSA

And I'd also note that mail.sys4.de has a TLSA record for HTTPS.

dig +multi _443._tcp.mail.sys4.de TLSA
>That's not a good software recipe for a community to become empowered or build their own space at all.

Keywords: become empowered or build their own space

The argument was not "that's not a good software recipe to cause high traffic."
Not sure this works perfectly for playlists, because it's still possible for it to roll the same thing twice in a row - it's just less likely.

Long ago I asked this related question on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5467174/how-to-implement... - it surprises me still that nobody has identified a classic algorithm for solving exactly this problem.
Unfortunately, they have failed to produce a product.
I also saw today this article Microsoft Prepares SQL Server 2017 for Linux and Containers [0], from this tweet[1] "Microsoft Prepares SQL Server 2017 for Linux and Containers, SQL Server lab runs on kubernetes and docker". If they moved the entire SQL lab (many thousands of machines) to Kubernetes is quite a big deal. They're probably warming up on how to manage it at scale, and I'm pretty sure that moving Azure SQL DB infrastructure to it is the goal. If they can get better isolation and higher density that today (some Azure Fabric derivative, afaik), it would save tonnes of moneys.

[0] https://thenewstack.io/sql-server-2017-brings-microsofts-dat...

[1] https://twitter.com/slava_oks/status/887359748047216640
Does /dev/null support sharding?
To add to this, the ecosystem around this is what really enables their commentary to spread into threads with only the slightest relation to their hot topics(immigration, black people, islam, etc). There's a variety of IRC channels, Discord servers and other sites(4chan, gab, twitter) that are participating and orchestrating their activities on Reddit. I think that's the larger effect the above person describes.

Even though they are generally heavily downvoted, I worry that their one-liner soundbites and gotchas will reach more people with weaker critical thinking skills.
Because the hate has spilled over into the good communities as well. Hatred and bigotry used to be contained in places like /the_donald and /WhiteRights but those users eventually browse /popular and leave their vitriol there as well.

Having been on reddit for a decade it's sad to see it go from a tech/intellectual community to what it is now. I want real discussion, not arguing with racists. Seems reddit offers less and less of the former each day.
Along those same lines, how about our modern day obsession with LGBT and racial issues. Yes, those are important, but I feel like the amount of time that is put into them is completely disproportionate relative to other very troubling issues(such as the opioid epidemic)
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Sweet deal. Definitely useful. :)
Thanks. DefiantJS uses a different way of searching because it needs to be able to search JSON. Wade is focused on a simpler use case of searching within an array of strings.
This is what leads me to believe most of these complaints about the_donald are misinformed or worse. It is impossible to browse the site not logged in without seeing some kind of anti-Trump astroturfing on the front page.

(And I say astroturfing, not as a throwaway attack, but because the voting and usage patterns on those subreddits are very anomalous and smell of manipulation)

Meanwhile, the_donald is the one and only pro-Trump page on the site that has any kind of popularity.
For anyone who doubts this: next time you see a vaguely or directly racist comment on Reddit, go check where that persons posts.. 75% of the time they're directly from /r/the_donald.
Of course there's science around biological response to stimuli and its correlation to what person thinks of themselves, I wouldn't doubt that. What I'm sceptical about is "sex, ascribed gender, and gender identity." being so separate scientifically. I remember how about 10 years ago, everything seemed to be "a social concept", and I mean everything, including math and physics. Nowadays, it's all about 'identity'. Duh, I guess humanities "scholars" need something to write papers about.
Short of a drug that provided a permanent cure for opioid addiction itself, I'm not sure what sort of solutions can be pursued by scientific/tech research

Along with its therapeutic cousins Cannabis and MDMA, look what else we have on the list of substances for which federal research funds are banned (Schedule I):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine
One of our first house rules for Catan was to introduce a deck. Not quite sure why they went with dice for that game; the deck eliminates a lot of boring games.

Some purists insist that they role dice, so we just let 'em and the resulting game feels quite like you're using gambler's dice.
Please elaborate how exactly this leads to weakness? And how do you define it in the first place?
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I was expecting a bit more than blaming google... The reason I stopped using firefox is because it became nothing more than a 'meh' chrome clone and slowly killed its ecosystem.
Performance is a big one for me. The Firefox UI feels slower, and every so often it hangs, which is frustrating to no end. When I used Chrome I took speed for granted - something I no longer can with Firefox.
>anti-democratic activities of shill accounts

Can you clarify why the actions of shill accounts are inherently anti-democratic? I don't really see the connection between the concept of Democracy and paid posters on a social media website.
/r/politics is pretty sad though. Looking from across the pond, Sanders hype was just ridiculous. The hysteria wether to switch to HRC or keep bashing her was fun. Now it's just endless anti-Trump circlejerk which is getting boring. There's a huuuuuuge difference from niche subreddits that try to stay on.. "scientific"? side of politics and discuss it from a distance.