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> I'm actually surprised to not hear about huge declines in AdWord spending (unless I missed it).

There have been some pretty big signals, the most significant of which has been the pricing of Google phones, tablets, chromebooks, etc.

Google found that simply selling high margin consumer electronics was a better investment than growing the user base and delivering a subsidized top-tier experience.

Thus Adwords faltering has left the door open for Apple to take over some of Google's former strongholds.

The cost of commodity storage tech and mature open source infrastructure means that Google's free cloud products compete mainly on the basis of features. Google's early lead and infrastructure advantage is no longer much of a factor, and Google's recent attempts at product have been (in my opinion) weak compared to Apple and even Microsoft.

The problem with Adwords is that pagerank-driven ad units end up being purchased only by the companies willing to blindly pay the most for the ads.

Since there are better ROI options out there, only the stupidest (or richest, thus already best-known and tolerant of the lowest yield) companies are the ones buying Adwords ads. Since Google has departed from its original low profile ads and moved into a dark pattern where sponsored content is commingled with actual results, this means that the quality of Google's content (when viewed simply as content) is declining.

Another big signal was YouTube Red. The ads got so bad that the only way Google could avoid destroying the platform was to bifurcate it, allowing the ads-present version to sell all the inventory to the poorest people who can't pay $10/month to stop the annoyance.

There are two kinds of marketers, those who need to care about ROI, and those who are expected to spend a percentage of their budget on the top few ad options. Google is now catering mainly to the second group, mainly because the second group is larger and cares little about ROI.
There actually was an unofficial Snap client for Windows Phone for a time. I thought it was pretty good to be honest.
Not based on what the article says. If the factory never would have been built in the first place, the taxes never would have been paid.

Before: 0 jobs, $0 taxes (factory doesn't exist)

After: 13,000 jobs, $100M taxes (down from $300M if no tax concessions were given, as per article)

The incentives would cost the state about $200 million a year but Foxconn's payroll in Wisconsin could reach $700 million a year, Walker's office said.

Also the $3B is the cost over a decade, not in a single year.
A "list of common passwords" isn't the guidance though - it's a list of passwords exposed in previous breaches. That list can be huge, and only practical to check with some efficient lookup mechanism.
>It's a made up phrase

Could you give any examples of phrases that exist but weren't made up?
It does not need to be open source. Just save the plug-in along with your legacy browser and legacy OS and run it all on an emulator. Making it open source is an excuse to allow people to continue flash development in some way.
Eh, not at all.
Edge is Microsoft's primary browser. One of the selling points of a browser is security. From their perspective it makes total sense to make sure it's secure.
You can tune the bloom filter to have whatever false positive rate you think would be acceptable.
I think RSS is a closer analogy than email, but anyway... it could be argued those rules don't really exist today.

Good snaps get stored and shared forever, everyone knows to screenshot dumb posts on FB, and there are plenty of twitter archival tools. Youtube's DRM and takedowns work OK against film pirates, but it's still easy to find many movies and redistributed personal content online.

Though I'd be curious what fraction of those instances are someone speaking without thinking, or accidentally sharing to a broader audience... the former seems PEBKAC and the latter is a solvable UX issue.
The security issues with Flash are due to it being closed-source. Make it open-source and a lot of the problems that lead it to being EOLed will be solved.
Tri Alpha has been running at relatively low temperature, about 10 million degrees, while they figured out how to make their plasma stable. They achieved that in 2015 with their older reactor.

According to their model, the plasma should get more stable at higher temperature. They just finished a new reactor they'll use to test that. It'll hit temperatures closer to 100 million degrees.

If they're right about plasma stability, they'll be ready to attempt net power with a full-scale demo reactor. Since they're using boron fuel they'll need to get the temperature to about three billion degrees, but they say pumping in more heating is relatively easy.

(Source for all that: I saw one of the Tri Alpha people speak at an MIT Solve conference the other year.)

So the 50% improvement isn't a make-or-break thing, but I'm sure it'll help. In general, being able to run simulations in hours instead of months will probably help a lot.
Interesting viewpoint. I disagree in that I don't believe pain and suffering are the same thing. A lot of philosophy that's been top of mind for me recently suggests we can experience pain without choosing to suffer. Suffering is avoidable but pain is necessary and arguably desirable. However that's a nuanced issue, and you were probably just treating them as semantically equivalent out of convenience/habit.
I can't see any compelling reason to use UWP. Functionality is limited, runs only on Win 10, Windows 10 mobile is dead. Why would you use it over WPF, Winforms or going straight to a web app?
A month ago I was trying to migrate some tests from phantomjs to chrome headless. The big blockers I ran into were that chromedriver automation has certain functionality that only works with a special chrome extension that it installs- but headless chrome doesn't support extensions.

There's work being done to fix this, but it's still in progress, last I checked. Until then, resizing windows, taking screenshots and a handful of other things simply don't work.
I wonder if this is computable from a contour map of the earth, assuming optimal atmospheric conditions.
From a Reuters article: "In 2013, Foxconn said it would invest $30 million and hire 500 workers for a new factory in Pennsylvania, but that facility was never completed." So I wouldn't hold my breath.
Ok don't take that as an impact but tech does not live in a bubble. The cotton gin was a contributor to the civil war. It made cotton processing much easier and more cotton was grown which required more slaves. Which inflamed the debate between the ones that wanted slavery and those that did not.

So from my view it not only aided the war once it started. But it was also a contributor to its beginning.

But whatever I say you'll find fault. You'll focus on the small details. I'm a techie too and I sometimes find myself arguing the smallest detail whether it has consequences or not. It's that type of attention to detail that keeps us employed when we need to make sure things are working.

The bottom line is that you think tech is great while I think it's great but we have to be careful with it's development and use.

All I can say is that it's worth being careful where we step.
It is an old truism that it is the cover-up that gets you. I.e. when we look at scandals, the thing that people generally get in trouble for was part of the cover up rather than the original scandal.

Given that this is common knowledge, why do cover-ups keep happening? Theory (A): the failed cover-ups we hear about are only a tiny fraction of the successful ones, so on average it is rational to try and cover things up. (B) cover-ups are not rational on average, but some bias in human psychology makes people do it anyway.

I am inclined to believe both, even though they contradict each other. I am also working on a (C) involving multiple parties drawing each other into the cover up in such a way that the person who takes the fall is not the principal who started the trouble.
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Yeah, I don't get it either. As far as I'm concerned Snap is one of the most interesting startups recently because they started with as a software company that managed to actually make a Good consumer hardware item that I wear everyday. I love my Spectacles, I wasn't even a snapchat user before they released, but they are a slick device.
The Tweet I cited links to an article that goes into detail on this point. A third of babies born will not have their births registered.
Interesting, I'm not sure how the list was created, it seems to be missing entries such as the one mentioned in that March 2015 comment at the end of the post.
The incredible 'vein maps' of the world that reveal rivers
thank you for taking the time to write that, was very in depth and put things into perspective
Agreed. Thanks for the suggestion @billconan.
I love Insta stories. It's an immersive way to see what your friends are up to. Just sit back and tap/swipe, takes 30 seconds, pretty passive.
How come they won't open?
One theory I've seen bandied about related to GPU drivers is that it's harder for your competitors to notice you're infringing on their patents if you don't ship your source code.
Therefore, you could consider the "need" for this to happen in the first place, a "late-stage" flaw of capitalism.

I think you agree with the OP?
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I make folders with topics and some folders inside them, for example: Design > Tools, Programming > Reads, etc. I name them as short as possible, and no more than one folder inside. Also, I use Pocket. But Pocket doesn't work for me when it comes for saving bookmarks, because when I save too much, it's painful to see that I have too much to read.
... which means that if of two parties only one understand UTF-8, they have to speak ASCII. ASCII being a subset of UTF-8 does not provide and benefit in that regard, just as IPv4 addresses being a subset of IPv6 addresses wouldn't.
I've come to feel that a Windows 10 machine is more secure than an OSX machine, all else being equal.
Very useful explanation. Thank you.
> If the factory never would have been built in the first place, the taxes never would have been paid.

That does not make the incentives any difference than a cash payment in exchange for building the factory.

> The incentives would cost the state about $200 million a year but Foxconn's payroll in Wisconsin could reach $700 million a year, Walker's office said

The relationship between “would” and “could” in that sentence is quite important.
> Friend, you are dangerously naive.

Tell it to me when I start drinking that colored sugar water. Since I stopped doing it 15 years ago, the thought of it still disgusts me. Maybe I need to give it more time to work...

> Santa Claus is a Coke Ad

For you, maybe. Most people have no idea about that, admittedly fascinating, bit of trivia. The article is called "Things You Never Knew" - and for a reason. It's hard for an ad to work if nobody has any idea what it is advertising. Ah, but of course - it's "subconscious", so all normal laws of the universe are suspended and magic is real.
Foxconn building factory in Wisconsin
FYI - AWS Lambda cold start times are also in the seconds [1]. I'm assuming Azure functions has the same limitation. After all, code has to be retrieved from storage over the network, environment set-up, and eventually, code needs to be run. This is a limitation of physics rather than software.

[1] - https://serverless.com/blog/keep-your-lambdas-warm/
>"This is a great day for American workers and manufacturers and everyone who believes in the concept and the label 'Made in the USA,' " said an ebullient President Donald Trump at the White House announcement."

Why is this great for American manufacturers exactly? I'm guessing Trump doesn't know that Foxconn is a Taiwanese company? That sounds about right.
To be fair even in a first world system it's a good idea to filter drinking water again before consuming it. A countertop filtration system is much less expensive than one month of OP's bottled water. $80-200 for the initial setup, $30 every six months to replace the filters... cheaper than $60/mo, probably produces cleaner water in most cases.
It's a typical prisoners' dilemma failure. The states ought to band together and pledge not to give out these tax breaks. Since they're all deciding independently, the incentive to defect and offer a tax break is high.
But Amazon still sells books...

The MtGox pivot from trading cards to Bitcoin was pretty dramatic.
We would need a very particular set of conditions for embryonic editing to be justifiable under a medical dogma that aims to "do no harm." Both parents would need to carry a large common set of recessive deleterious alleles, as this would make embryonic selection of non-carriers very difficult. Then we would need the editing system to be so reliable as to not introduce off-target mutations. In a preimplantation setting, we can't easily observe if non-desired mutations have been introduced in some cells, as this would require sequencing every cell in the developing embryo. Serious disease introduced through chimeric errors in the editing process would be a real possibility, and there is no feasible way we could guard against this result using sequencing as it would require destruction of the embryo.

A more realistic scenario would be to develop a human embryonic stem cell culture that has been edited as desired and then implant this into a developing blastocyst at a point at which it would take over the and develop into the fetus. This is done with mice and there is no reason it wouldn't work for humans. I think that most people would find this much more abhorrent than directly editing the germline. However, it would be much safer for the engineered proband and would not require a "perfect" editing system that we do not have.
Amazon stores and ships products on behalf of third party sellers under their FBA program, but Amazon isn't listed as the seller in this circumstance.

The SOLD part of "Shipped and sold by Amazon" is just as important as the SHIPPED part when shopping.
This looks great. It's a smart way to use the encapsulation offered by components in a sensible way for error handling.
>to the point that many of the findings in that field have spun off into their own areas of research, from their original pursuit of the origins of life.

That sounds fascinating. Can you give some examples?
Exercise, practice discipline, socialize, and "eat food, not too much, mostly plants."
This is pretty much it. Since Facebook controls the ENTIRE stack where the serve ads they can almost completely eliminate spam.
WebRTC uses (UDP encapsulated) SCTP.
I definitely agree with the salary inflation. Here's another interesting contrast between them given that.

Twitter has roughly twice as many employees, versus what Facebook had at a comparable monthly active user count. It's costing them something in the neighborhood of $200 million per year to keep those employees.

Twitter's organization size was built up on the assumption of a much larger userbase that never materialized. Then their leadership chose not to adjust to the new reality (until perhaps recently, as they seem to be finally focusing on costs).
Too many unknown unknowns here.

When mankind first started to burn fossil fuels nobody anticipated that it would impact climate on a planetary scale. This is an idea that needs much more study before we rush into it.
Please don't violate the guidelines like this (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14854672 and marked it off-topic.
If you included skyscrapers I bet you'd have the same list no changes. Most of these mountains are > 2km tall.
Your link says 13,000. But even at that it's ~ 230K per job created.
as I understand it, that cash is not sitting in actual bills under mattresses, it's sitting in bank accounts of some sort or other (could be short-term notes perhaps and still qualify as 'cash'). Those banks in turn invest those funds (in loans, etc) to other people and businesses. So the money isn't completely taken out of the economy - it stays in the system and is put to work (by other people). So I'm not sure how it's an actual problem for the economy.
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Another IBM stuff up... anyone remember the Australian Census screw up? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-25/ibm-to-pay-over-$30m-i...
> Given that this is common knowledge, why do cover-ups keep happening?

Because the cover-ups work, and only happen when the people involved are deeply involved in the original scandal in a way which would get them in more trouble if it came out than their involvement in the cover up would. The fact that often their role in the cover up does get them in trouble doesn't change that the cover-up is usually successful, even in those cases, at preventing their role in encouraging (or more) the original wrongdoing from coming to light.
I am so insanely excited for the potential of this technology. There are many ethical questions here, but the potential benefits far outweigh the downsides. In the near future, we can detect and eliminate genetic disorders, ensuring no child has to suffer from these defects any longer. Long term, this gives us a tool to take control of our own evolution in a way never before possible.

Couldn't be more excited for what's possible.
I also wrote asyncio event loop, based on tokio-rs, using this binding. So it is possible to write complex python extensions in Rust.

https://github.com/PyO3/tokio
> PDF with embedded multimedia files

That a larger can of worms than flash itself.
This makes me sad. I wish it was the case that the top companies have produced the most productivity/useful goods, not a messaging site with advertise that people use at their off times.
Good point... but how would you describe it? It's not exactly lay-press, but it's still a secondary source. It's written for an educated audience, but not necessarily in this field.

What would you call them in this case? Science press?

Still - not enough room in an article like this for too many details.
OSS lags behind in the UX category because we frankly just don't have UX designers in abundance. Then tend to follow the other UI/US designers.
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I can't resist... Reminds me of the Beacons of Minas Tirith from Return of the King, probably my favorite sequence in the entire trilogy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWz51CiG2nA
Well it was refuted by people in biotech, who have a considerable stake in that field.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608073/gene-editing-compa...

I thought the original authors had a rebuttal, but I can't seem to find it.
> Last example of three is impossible with IPv4/6 dichotomy, and is most important for backward compatibility here - yes, "old" IP holder needs to upgrade their software too[1], but they don't need to get a new IP address, and as a result you don't end up with two isolated "Internets", a.k.a. dual-stack.

1. What would be a scenario where hosts using this mechanism could communicate where neither IPv4 nor IPv6 would work?

2. How do new internet participants get addresses under your scheme, if it only expands the number of addresses in existing allocations?
waiting an extra 3 or 4 seconds for your wifi to come up means very little. there are 28,800 seconds in an 8 hr work day.
I don't see the problem here... those are good tools and Perl have those tools power in the core language++ Good stuff if you ask me.
Great overview. Clarifai is certainly extremely impressive.

Do you play the tablas? My wife and I studied sitar but our instrument was destroyed by the movers in our latest relocation to Shenzhen :( The tabla teacher where we studied was able to play a very complex taal while chewing betel nut and rolling his eyes back in their sockets, immediately switch to a pitch, bend and time-perfect rendition of 'pink panther' melody, then switch back to a very complex taal without skipping a beat. Brilliant to see.
Had this question from my girlfriend earlier. I told her about pissing contests. A literal one, where boys are at the urinal seeing who can pee the highest. That's a guy thing because, well, anatomy right? Now throw a girl into that scenario. The pissing contest would simply not happen. That's removing a testosterone-driven (competitive), masculine thing for the sake of gender equality. Is that a good thing, or bad? Must men rid themselves of their competitive nature before women are able to feel equal?
CRISPR is coming. I seriously think with CRISPR we could see several trillion dollar companies. From cancer and aids cures to fundamentally altering what it means to be human, this is all within the near grasp of CRISPR ( if what i've been reading is to be believed ).
>>My 5yo son has been playing Minetest for a number of months now and loves it.

Thanks! This is the type of actionable anecdata that I can use. I wasn't sure if it was too early to introduce my children to Mine[craft|test] at such an early age, but glad to hear that it's encouraging discourse and inquiry.
As an Apple customer, I get the impression that Ive and his design teams time is better spent designing products rather than this building.

Sure, spend billions in it, they have the money, but this article and others suggest people from Apple spent a LOT of time on the building at every stage instead of mostly leaving it up to building professionals like most other buildings are done.
No conclusive proof? No proof at all.

Go and listen to James Tour and his video on the problems of just getting the right pre-life chemical synthesis to occur. He is a organic chemist (one of the top in the world) and he talks about each of the incompatible processes between each step.

I would be more inclined to take his word for it than a biologist (of any stripe). Abiogenesis seems to be the least likely scenario in the formation of life (as in close to 0 as to make no difference) irrespective of the amount of time that is allocated.
I can see the psychological angle: "Why fess up to it today when I can do it tomorrow?". Delaying the pain until someone realizes the window in which they could have made it public is now over and they have to continue covering it up.
Big star from me.

I never understood the hate flash got, sure it was abused by ads but to this date I have never seen the same level of animated and vibrant websites that were around in its peak.

Everything is the same old bootstrapped template now, its pretty boring.
My entire point wasn't that Silverlight was/wasn't open sourced... it was that the underlying structure was FAR closer to what I thought was a good package structure, compared to .SWF
UDP over IPv4 and IPv6 has source IP and source Port in header. This can be used for sticky routing through Load Balancers.
I'm confused about the comparison between cost per job and cost per job year. Presumably this (the Wisconsin deal) would be the better deal as the jobs presumably last more than one year?
I would think unlimited access to high definition porn in any variety for completely free would be more responsible for lowered sperm count than chemical exposure.
Region specific. Good luck for flights in Asia/Australia/Pacific.
and some sites cough Advancial cough will show you all the answers to your secret questions in plain text once you log in
I would be very interested to read an academic paper that made this point. 200 years is a blink of an eye in almost any vertebrate's evolutionary time.

Also, to support your claim, one would need evidence that the child mortality of the past reflected genetic unfitness (as opposed to poverty or the unavailability of antibiotics).
>A cellular carrier has no way to provide that feedback.

There's definitely no way they could write a simple app to provide this info, and it would be crazy for them to white-list it so it didn't count against bandwidth usage :)