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On the subject of persuading racists/sexists, I found a recent comment on Scott Aaronson's blog to be especially insightful (https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3389#comment-1742322 ). Excerpt follows:

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If 'blatant sexism' is watered down to include discussing different averages, people are going to start reasoning that different averages can't be that bad to discuss, so sexism can't be that bad either.

It’s something of the same principle that was expressed in the post:

"If the elites, the technocrats, the 'Cathedral'-dwellers, were willing to lie to the masses about humans being blank slates—and they obviously were—then why shouldn’t we assume that they also lied to us about healthcare and free trade and guns and climate change and everything else?"

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Elsewhere, I have seen this phrased as "One man's modus ponens is another man's modus tollens." One person asserts A -> B and mentally holds (A), therefore concludes (B). Someone else hears A -> B, mentally holds (~B), therefore concludes (~A).

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If you can accurately model the (~B) -> (~A) inferences that are happening, you have much, much better odds of being able to communicate effectively with these people.
Pretty neat, but how do you get ice to burning man for the swamp cooler?
I haven't been yet, because my habits right now exist around not going to whole foods. They've achieved a willingness for me to try them out again though - probably the next time the Fred Meyer near me is out of english muffins (3rd time in 3 weeks yesterday!) I'll try it out.

Having seen some of the price cuts online it doesn't seem like a whole lot, but if the staples like eggs and veggies/fruit are actually coming down ($3 peaches, $5 eggplants from what I remember) and I can get a week's worth of not-pasta food for under $150 I'd probably switch over.
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Totally agree with you. Unfortunately, I don't have faith the FTC would side with consumers on this. Now, if Stubhub advertised the ticket as being available on a prior page knowing it was sold out...
better yet, a pass code option to show a bare user account without access to the real user data
> Modelling and tracking other cars is a bigger issue, including pedestrians.

Unscented Kalman filters and particle filters are used for that - they are pretty good if you sample environment with >10Hz rate. Most of what you said has been taken car of pretty well, those aren't really hot issues anymore. Also, the thinking these days is that humans (even mediocre) can do a good job driving using eyes only and more robust camera solutions based on deep learning are here. Their problem is inference speed as HW is not fast enough to allow FHD or 4K input feed to be processed realtime, so imagery has to be downscaled significantly, leading to errors. Similarly, tracking other cars only depends on how big supercomputer can you fit into your trunk.
Observation:

> the epitome of filter bubble bias.

> This is delusional.

Delusion definition[1]: an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder.

Note that GP chose to describe "filter bubble bias" which is a neutral observation, whereas P chose to describe GP's idea as "delusional" which carries the connotation of a mental disorder.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion
I think I would prefer the passcode which can be set to a length much larger than 4 digits when travelling or getting anywhere near fed-gov.
I would think every aspect of the battery supply chain would be worth looking at.
I've built some prototypes like this, predating web sockets though. Web sockets are simply an optimization over standard form submission.

The problems of state management are the same though. If your protocol isn't stateless, then you're restricted in how you can manage the server, ie. no live upgrades without breaking all clients.
It's not anti-freedom. It's just pro-ease-of-use and it's easier to guarantee a quality experience when there are less unknowns and less variables to account for. When everyone is using the same device with the same software, it's much easier to guarantee a great experience.
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Historically, Microsoft has made a lot of money from government institutions being locked-in to their software, so that makes perfect sense.
It's meh in that boring, vague and diluted way that logos too often are. The design already feels dated, like something Adobe would create for their software in the 00s.
I think you're suggesting that because Linbeck is associated with a construction firm, he views the property damage as an opportunity, and therefore less of a catastrophe than others would.

I think Linbeck has a good point - Houston did not suffer nearly the level of disaster that New Orleans did. I say this with utmost respect for the individual and cumulative loss in both events! But comparing the amount of the city flooded, the effect on the population, the number of deaths (especially relative to total population), and the ability of the cities to maintain order, services, and support, I think it's pretty clear that while Katrina was a "catastrophe", Harvey wasn't in the same class.

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/547568681/harvey-feel-like-kat...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/hurricane-katrina-harv...
I mean, they do this shit for a reason. I'm not defending them or saying it's okay, but either stop using it (actually stop), or don't. This sanctimonious "look at them prompting me to do the thing they want me to do!", what purpose does it serve?

Yes Facebook is bad. They're an advertising company. Advertising companies are bad. We know this. Saying "How dare they, I can't believe..." is a defense against change.
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> Is FB getting more aggressive because it wants even more or because it is actually losing clicks/logons/attention?

Probably the latter. I only recall getting the clingy email messages when I haven't checked it in a few days.

I've never had a problem with Facebook over-use, but I know people who have. Those notifications are so slimy and akin to waving a drink in front of an alcoholic's face.
> NK knows how to use HTML.

This is a disturbing leap in their technological capabilities. Whats next? Nukes? That would be unthinkable.
Yeah, the problem is they pay their employees living wages.
I recently read about Luminar (https://www.luminartech.com/) and their focus on making affordable, accurate LIDAR tech. Wonder if there are other components like this that need to be optimized and combined to get to L4 and L5
If you look at [the site](http://www.kcna.kp), none of the other names there (even Ri Sol Ju who i think is his wife) are in the tag – so it must be a facet of their content mgmt system
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Yeah, I'm not sure being super racist against black people or telling fat people to kill themselves is really an "important truth" though...
Added the alternative and more realistic version of my analysis in the last part.
More like the Winter of Artificial General Intelligence
Men are an attraction to about half the population of this world.
You can't run a mass maket open platform without security or privacy issues as Users will install things that cause problems.
This is a haunting read, but gripping at the same time. Thank you for posting it.
I know that patent claims are typically much more specific than what the abstract suggests, and I only gave the claims a cursory read, but... surely there is prior art for this? I mean, I'm sure many non-web GUI systems avoid overdraw and at the very least, game rendering engines do, right? At least, I was under the illusion that overdraw was a big deal that at least shader-heavy renderers or old-school 80's/90's tile based renderers?
I'd imagine it is similar to them establishing a branch in the US. The business and the citizens would be governed according to the host countries laws.

The app seems to control door access and it presumably knows email, bank information, possible gps\location data, about its users so I may not be too difficult to ID a perp.

Doubt the police would get involved for small amounts but it likely depends on the precinct.
Out of curiosity, have you ever tried "correcting" bigots? In one of the forums under discussion?
Facebook allows you to tag people who aren't on facebook in photos - so maybe it was using those photos for comparison.
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The US funds political activism in countries including western allies constantly and does much worse in less friendly regimes.

Russia interfering with US elections is a problem for the US but it's a given fact since the dawn of diplomacy and geopolitics.

21 years ago this was on the cover of Time:
http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html

Now everyone is mad because Trump doesn't seem to fit the general agenda of the centrist and left leaning media.

I don't like Trump either but bitching about Russia is hypercritical and also pointless.

If the climate wasn't right Russia wouldn't been able to get Trump 1000 extra votes.
Maybe we should look to how we got to a place where polarizing populist candidates without even the slightest shred of credibility are electable in the first place.
All my jobs were from people I met. Even when they have some interview, I get offered the job before the interview, and the interviews are rigged to let me pass.

I normally get filtered out of phone interviews for some reason, with no technical questions. I do perfectly fine when it's a technical interview. I guess I just don't have an attractive personality.
For what it's worth, PayPal owns Venmo and has so for quite a while.
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This literally happened to me yesterday. I knew the tricks, it didn't matter. It pressured me so hard and made the shopping experience so terrible.
I'm donating my 38th pint / 17th liter of blood this Friday. I phone banked during the election, participate in two local community organizations, etc. So I'm going to have to ask that you take it on good faith that I believe strongly in both individual and organizational contributions.

My question is, what would have happened if the author hadn't stepped up to do dispatch? You would have had people searching blindly street by street, not knowing where they were needed. I am not for one second advocating that neighbors (or strangers) don't step up to help when needed, even at great personal risk.

By all reports the disorganized response ended up working well in difficult circumstances. But when (not if) there is an earthquake in a major city, this level of response is going to cost many lives. You will have a million people in need of food, water, and medical attention. There will be no power (let alone cellular service or Internet needed to run an app). There will be no gasoline because the pipelines will be out of service and a good number of the refineries are near fault lines. And you will have no warning.

We spend a trillion dollars a year on the Defense Department (and before anyone asks, I support that, too) that can, as noted elsewhere, project military force almost anywhere in the world, within hours. It's justifiably marveled at for its capability. Why can't we make it a national goal to get 911 up and running in a disaster zone in our own country within a similar time period?

I used the word heroes to describe the volunteers, your interpretation that I could possibly have been opposed them contributing is uncharitable at best.
Vim can do this

1. Open your script/code in vim editor

2. Enable syntax & set the required color scheme

:syntax on
:colorscheme darkblue

3. Print the file in PS file format

:hardcopy >/tmp/filename.ps

4. Convert the PS file to PDF format

$ ps2pdf /tmp/filename.ps

5. Now you can open filename.pdf
Waymo had <100 situations where they required human involvement in tens of million miles they drove so far. They are probably already safer than human drivers and would likely cause fewer accidents. The issue there is a legal one - who is going to be responsible for a crash? The company that produced the driving software/hardware, or the owner of the car? Or even the passengers in case there will be city-wide car pools one could call when needed?
Once upon a time I had a Dell Streak mobile, carrier locked. Without rooting there was no way to remove the default Facebook app. It would keep asking for you to log in. There was nothing you could do. If you dismissed the login activity it would just respawn within two minutes.
Not necessarily lying or trolling. Persons with a low anxiety threshold may post (and re-post) a single report or rumour, not realizing that they thereby create problems rather than assist.
Ice is one of the two things they sell at Burning Man.

(Officially. In reality there are a few more things that they sell, but the 'only two things' label has stuck).

Edit: Also, you don't need Ice for a swamp cooler. You don't even need cold water. The water temperature doesn't really matter, as the temperature drop comes from the evaporation, not the water temperature.
oO that's so awesome!
They want something they can't afford... that the world can't afford/sustain. In my opinion the source for this want is equal parts marketing and subsidy.

We actually did decent low density non-sprawl until after WWII. Find it at the center of any city that existing before that (and wasn't bulldozed).
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>the mass market does not really care whether a car is gas or electric

Which is why gov'ts need to ban ICE sooner rather than later, to save summers and stave off species suicide.
Its TX, zoning laws don't cover things like building apartments next to fertilizer (explosives) plants or anything else that infringes on peoples right to make a buck.

I live near a TX lake, and full is defined at some level less than the spillway height. So, there are houses that are built above the full line, but below the spillway. Every dozen or so years those houses get flooded when the dam authority prioritizes flooding those houses over flooding the downstream communities.
It happened.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/volunteers-helping-harvey-victi...

The National Guard and Coast Guard are armed and did respond to rescuers being attacked. Not sure if they actually fired back in response, or only forced them to leave.
The alternative was passcodes and Apple's research suggested that people disabled passcodes rather than use anything secure. TouchID was determined to be far more secure than no passcode and having both TouchID and a passcode is secure enough for most users. You can't add devices without both (along with an Apple ID password) and, at that point, you have physical access to the device which negates most security features anyways.
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Got it. That's probably why, in the past, they invented products like the $6 asparagus water: to be able to pay living wages.
In Australia, the banks all built this into their mobile apps. Just transfer to others using phone number.
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I facepalmed when I read that "not going to delete FB because" sentence. How about that thing called e-mail? If keeping someone's e-mail address and firing a message every now and then is too much hassle, then that person was not worth keeping in touch with in the first place.

FB has turned people into needy Rolodex hoarders.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/07/1...

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/12/obama-admin-se...
Thanks for pitching in. Can you talk about the "active map"? Who hosted it, who was able to add or remove a report, etc.?
Interesting and pragmatic. Do you have a reference for this? I'd be interested in reading more.
Allowing side loading of apps would not impact usability in anyway.

Edit: It would massively increase the usability, allowing any apps to be installed, not just Apple approved apps, making the phone more usable to many people. Back in the day I had to buy a dev account just to load an emulator I wanted to use (it was open source) without rooting.
They're obviously not using carbon dating. The ages are too big.

IIRC The half life of carbon 14 is too short to distinguish samples that have been decaying for 50k years from background noise. You have to use other kinds of radiometric dating instead.
Reminder: on Chrome, when a website displays an SSL warning, you can type "badidea" to bypass it.
My understanding of HN votes is that they are supposed to reflect the quality of the contribution to the conversation, not agreement or disagreement.
iOS lets you set a complex password instead of a 4 digit pin (turn off the "simple passcode" setting).
But can ruin your privacy guarantees.
I think so many platforms these days employ so many attention-grabbing techniques, that they wear down people. So now they have to go to the bottom of the barrel, notifying you for things that aren't really notifications -- the fact that you haven't posted in a week, for example.

The content quality is abysmal. People simply do not care to share on Facebook in ways that they have in the past. Their awful algorithm ruined the user value.

I think if they returned to a default chronological sorted news feed, with still sprinkling in ads as they do, they could increase the amount of time people spend on the service, show more ads, and increase revenue all while providing a superior experience. Why they don't return to this level of simplicity that the platform once had is beyond me. Too many engineers and too many PM's pushing for their pet projects, I assume, and you really just end up with an overdeveloped product.
Yes. The fake orange notification is always annoying. Likewise, the new "feature" where infinite scrolling keeps listing the same posts over and over again.

I'm not quite "done with facebook" but I'm getting there.
I see your point, but: That's not an excuse, that's an explanation. It is anti freedom whether that's their end game or not. I don't really care about Apples motives, I care about the product.

Really, Apple is anti Nothing and pro only one thing: money. Everything else is a corollary. Including ease of use, freedom, and privacy. It's just that those things do matter to me (and GP).
No, really.

My eyesight is very crappy and I have spent some asthma related evenings in the emergency room. Assuming I survived infancy, I would not have survived to adulthood and I wouldn't have enjoyed the process.
I think that is what you are suppose to see.
It's certainly crossed my mind, and it'd be great to implement something like that, but the Clojure is just a wrapper around a large and complicated cheminformatics toolkit. Porting the actual rendering library (Java/C++?) would probably be a substantial undertaking.
Off topic, but jesus check out this guys' clients: Exxon, Time, TechCrunch, about.com. He's sitting on a motherload of a portfolio.
"Multi-factor authentication" doesn't make sense unless you're communicating with a server over the network. Biometrics can be copied and faked. Ultimately it's security theater.

Nothing beats a strong password.
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This is not any different from the Paypal Debit card that Paypal (owner of Venmo) offers, no?

BTW, Paypal now offers almost-instant transfers to a debit card account for a 25c fee (I think it was). I did one of these over the weekend and it was done almost faster than I could log into my bank account and check.
"Bows" is not the right claim. Read https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/06/mesosphere-says-its-not-bo...

> The Information, which broke this story earlier this morning, argues that this means that Mesosphere is “bowing” to Kubernetes. That’s something Mesosphere co-founder and CEO Florian Leibert and Mesosphere CMO Peter Guagenti strongly denied when I talked to them earlier today. They both stressed that the idea here is to give Mesosphere’s users — which tend to be large enterprises — more choice. “Our customers tend to be infrastructure and operations professionals at large companies who are serving hundreds or thousands of developers in an organization,” Guagenti said. “For them, the most important thing they provide is freedom of choice.”

Also you posted the same thing yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15207994 I'm not sure why you're very eager to share this somewhat-old-now story.
Give me a $300-$400 Android phone with support for Project Treble and an unlocked bootloader and we're talking. I'll put LineageOS on it: regular security updates, yearly OS updates and no crapware!
Just toggle the setting to make all transactions private. It's in the settings.
Years ago I wrote a Chrome extension to block the news feed [1] so I could keep using it without losing my sanity.

Recently though, I've noticed that Facebook seems to be moving what was once in the news feed to notifications. Now that they've spoiled the feed with useless information - the notifications box is the next exploit.

The cognitive overload from using Facebook is now so high for me that I almost never visit the site. Once a daily user of Facebook, now deleting my account would hardly affect me. If I have a choice, I always prefer to communicate with friends over anything but Facebook.

I believe Facebook's constant neediness will eventually be the demise of the platform. The mindless profit driven motives for constant engagement are harmful not only to its users, but society, and the company itself. I wrote more about this here: https://blog.west.io/2016/11/30/the-birth-and-death-of-faceb....

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
How do you know you're not being MitM'd during step 3?
httprouter is all I need
To communicate with other people on my terms, when I want to communicate.

It's the same reason there are only a few phone numbers that can actually make my phone ring (my wife, the school my children attend, and pager duty (:P))

My device exists for my convenience.
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> A new required field _with a default value_

In what sense is this field required when you attempt to produce a value using the new schema, and everything is fine if you omit the "required" field?

> And, frankly, if you're thinking about database in the singular form then you're not thinking about an environment that really needs a schema evolution policy

We don't have 100s but certainly 10s of databases. But we use a schema evolution policy because we're attempting to use kafka as the system of record for our event log.
Most modern cars can/do use fully synthetic oil, which can last ~10k+ miles.
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> you can also make your argument explicitly anti-jewish by pointing out that israel would be a far less important strategically if the US did not depend on oil as much

Wait a sec, can you explain how this is anti-jewish? As a person of Jewish ethnicity who does not support many actions of the Israeli government, I fail to see how this makes the argument anti-Jewish. I do concede that it might make it more appealing to those with anti-semitic sentiments.
What are the tradeoffs?
growth hacking, bro! </sarcasm>
Please stop using this site primarily for politics and ideology—especially inflammatory tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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How? Sideloaded apps would still be sandboxed.
OT: Hi trevvr, I'm curious to know why cloud is out of the question for you. Is it a matter of security or other? I'm a cloud guy (for lack of a better term) and trying to understand use-cases when cloud is not a sensible option. Thanks in advance for any insight.