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>How do you build a heuristic if not with an algorithm?

I don't know what that means. Perhaps superficially there is some overlap since both run on deterministic hardware, but a heuristic is completely different from an algorithm. Its a technique that can perhaps give you an imperfect answer to the question you're asking. An algorithm describes a method, which, if followed, gives you the answer. Here is an AV heuristic that I made up just now:

-Is it encrypted? +1 point

-Does it contain self modifying/unpacking code? +1 point

-Does it call OS APIs to monitor running programs? +1 point

-Does it run at startup? +1 point

-Does it have no UI? +1 point

-Does it try to punch a hole through NAT? +1 point

-Does its process name contain random strings? +1 point

If you get > 5 points, hash the executable and send the hash/executable for analysis.

>Perhaps the entire AV model employed by Symantec is flawed.

Well, for one, the heuristic isn't the "entire AV model". But what makes you think the entire AV model is flawed? Every major OS uses parts of the AV model.
I don't know about Windows, but on Linux, I would love to have a replacement for the entirety of NSS (and PAM, and other similar parts of the system) that ran in separate daemons rather than by loading shared objects into my process which could arbitrarily corrupt my process if they were buggy (which I have encountered before before).

To achieve that compatibly with existing systems, it would probably need to be able to act as an NSS module itself in order to be compatible with existing clients, and also be able to load NSS modules (hopefully in sandboxed, lower privileged processes) so it could support existing setups transparently, though it would be great to also have a better asynchronous interface so that you don't have to spawn thread or process pools for things like hostname resolution or fetching groups from LDAP.
I depends, if they follow political consultant focus-group research they'll probably just be hitting up the same voters as last time, with the usual safe party topics.

Which is why I believe Trump (and Sanders) was able to hit up a very cynical voter base, and cross typical party lines, by going totally off the mainstream script. Which may have played a big role in why all of the standard projection models missed their mark so badly. While Clinton was the polar opposite. Which also attracted the 'fuck you' votes against Clinton, even from people indifferent to Trump.

As someone totally disinterested in voting I saw appeal in that, although I'm too much of a logic/rational person to toy with stuff like that.

But there's definitely something deeper there, a deep seated dissatisfaction with the entire system and a voter base not being addressed by standard messaging. Sadly, we're all back to ignoring that fact, blaming Nazis and obsessing over the daily Trump gossip, like celebrity Entertainment Tonight.
This is what happens when we try to automate the process of censoring the internet.

MyVintageLife[0], a site that sells "craft items, patterns, books and accessories" from the 1920-70s is banned[1] for "Alcohol".

[0] http://www.myvintagelife.co.uk

[1] https://www.blocked.org.uk/site/http://www.myvintagelife.co....
I use "dumb". Sure, it sounds negative, but when used in context it's easy to understand for anyone that knows about "smart devices".
I've been contacting them a lot lately, and they haven't made me aware of that option. Thanks for letting me know!
I generally agree with all you're saying, but it seems like in this particular situation the driver was using the phone the whole time and therefore her negligence rose to a level of criminality and therefore it should be treated as manslaughter.
Calvanism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism
This is just Shopping Express. On the times they got my order wrong, they just let me keep the wrongly sent item and sent the correct thing. That's how they automate support in this product.
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You are conveniently overlooking the fact that it clearly means he thought it was wrong. Additionally, he thought it was stupid, ineffectual and counterproductive.

Given that the military is an organization that deals death to accomplish its goals, this is the stronger argument to make if you want to change how things get done. Moral people who have a serious commitment to improving things are wise to save their tears and ranting for private moments with people who care about them. Then set that aside, put on their public face and do what works best to move their agenda forward, knowing that no matter what they do, some people will drag their name through the mud.
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The true test of ProseMirror, SlateJS, and all these new augmented text-editors will not be comments, posts or even blog articles.

It will be Wikipages.

A visual editor for a wikipage is the crystallization of the semantic-content conflict as described eloquently by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM

To date, despite a stream of donations and years of development, Wikimedia has failed to develop an editor that is better, by productivity and other lagging metrics, than just editing a text-field:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/25/wikipedia_peasants_...

Increasingly, I believe what we really need is an enhanced markup editor-- where bolded text is bolded text, a quote is automatically highlighted as a quote, but links look like (check this link out)[http://example.com]. The ideal would be to forgo the "drop down to normal text editor" button and have the only & best way to edit be through the new editor.
Looks just like the Freepbx codebase, but that's php https://github.com/FreePBX/core/blob/release/13.0/Core.class...
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Gold's money supply is about $8T, and I think Dollars (not just physical bills) is much bigger-- at least $20T.

I think your math is off. Bitcoin is approaching a $100B market cap, and there are only 21 million bitcoins that will ever be in existence.

To match the dollars $20T total supply (a low end number depending on which money supply number you use it could be a multiple of that) then each bitcoin would be worth about $1M.

To match gold in market cap, would be $380,000 per bitcoin.

Truth is, though, when bitcoin comes into its own, the value of the dollar will drop (well, its true value will be realized) so prices would likely be much higher... assuming bitcoin succeeds and becomes a common world currency.
Have you ever been asked to provide a positive review for a place that you formerly worked at? I have, I suspect this is common.
True enough but the way a company treats its peons is a good insight into how it will treat you and its culture.
Rich people are assholes in my experience. They may have better manners and stuff, but their intentions are evil. A lot of the time, their interests directly conflict with the interests of the middle class.
Operating systems manage IPC/resources and facilitate I/O. This one does the former but as yet depends on another underlying kernel for the latter. It's just a matter of writing the drivers/platform specific code and it can stand on its own. So not that much of a stretch to call it an OS, IMO.
Collision is broader than accident.
Trump got no extra votes, Hillary simply drummed up less support. Voter turnout actually declined signficantly.

"he got fewer votes than Mitt Romney in 2012, fewer votes than John McCain in 2008, and fewer votes than George W. Bush in 2004." This despite the growing US population.

Republican candidate got: 2004 62 million votes, 2008 60.0 million votes, 2012 60.9 million votes, 2016 59.7 million votes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/11/10...

"She got 6 million fewer votes than Barack Obama did in 2012, and nearly 10 million fewer than he did in 2008"
Riding on the sidewalk probably isn't even legal; you might hit a pedestrian.

I know. I do it too, though I keep my speed down to a brisk walking pace unless I'm in an area where I know it's safe to speed up. Laws are laws, though... At least here in Dublin the cars are mostly good about keeping away, even if there aren't many bike trails.
Well, you can calculate exactly how much is circulating on the blockchain, though off chain places like exchanges and the like represent even more volume.

Curious why this statement of fact is being downvoted.
> Some things just don't make sense to me. Why are the default settings for something like Facebook public? Why not friends by default?

They are not, AFAIK. I mean, Facebook keeps nagging me to make my posts private every other week, even though I explicitly want to post publicly.

Facebook was a much nicer place back when they actually were public-by-default. It felt more social. Now it's just a crossover between Twitter and a rolodex.
"You can bring your dog, I think"

This kind of thing is generally a yes/no type of thing.

"There's a parking lot"

Wow, this company is reaching for the stars there!

(Note: I don't know where the company is located, but generally having a parking lot isn't a bragging point.)
I guess the answer depends a lot on your jurisdiction. Here in Germany if they ask you illegal questions you can just lie to them (and you cannot be terminated in retaliation obviously).
The theory is that the incentives to behave properly differ between people who are employed delivering packages full time and those who do it as a gig.
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As long as you don't remove things from the problem in the name of removing them from the solution.

Or, to be less terse, don't say "Well, you shouldn't need to solve that problem!" or "You're holding it wrong!" Reality doesn't give you neat problems which map cleanly to the simple solution, and adding complexity is the only way to solve the problem, as opposed to a dishonestly reduced form of the problem.
glassdoor seems like a great opportunity for fakespot.com to take a crack. They don't have the same types of things they can reference though, since most people probably don't have > 1 reviews on the site for cross-referencing.
They should start with something more basic: customer support department.
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Your attitude is wrong. All software is awesome.
> They usually overlook that software requirements vary greatly and can be quite complex, while the physical requirements of a chair are not going to vary much across chair designs.

I feel as though that's somewhat addressed in the essay:

Yes, I hear you claiming that your project is special and
cannot be made functionally complete because, you know,
circumstances X, Y and Z.

And here's the trick: If it can't be made functionally
complete it's too big. You've tried to bite off a piece
that's bigger than you can swallow. Just get back to the
drawing board and split off a piece that can be made
functionally complete. And that's the component you want
to implement.

Software engineering is an offshoot of systems engineering, which is often described as "managing complexity". I don't think it's at all unreasonable for people to look at the methodologies actual systems engineers use and learn from them. One of those things is decomposition of tasks, what this article is about. If you're making a message queue system, divide it into subsystems that are each more feasible. Your over-the-wire data format protocol is one thing (asn.1, protobufs, etc.), your concurrency library and patterns in your systems are another (go's channels, erlang's processes, libmill from the article), your database is another. Once you have your system decomposed in this fashion you can do each part, and actually finish them, and assemble your complete system by combining them.

Once they're small enough the Unix philosophy applies. Write components that do one thing and do it well, and design them in a way to communicate with each other.
That sentiment is all well and good for technologies like self-driving cars and solar energy and the like, but a non-trivial percentage of extremely intelligent and talented Valley programmers are spending their time and effort figuring out how to most efficiently gather information on folks and how to most efficiently advertise and convince them how to buy shit they don't need. There's a lot of those types here who will bury their heads in the sand and suggest that it's not really that bad that Facebook and Google and the like are siphoning everyone's information and that they don't work on that project anyway so they aren't at fault in any way, shape, or form anyway. Those types are the ones that need to wake up and realize they are doing more harm than good.
> Republicans want to replace the affordable care act.

And that got rejected in congress unsurprisingly, just like all of his more extreme policies which everyone freaked out about (how's that wall coming?).

The latest executive orders will make a difference but a minor one in the long run. The US government's involvement in the healthcare system is still a super expensive mess.

Despite the intense discourse, billions of dollars spent, countless hours of us vs them, the US isn't much different than a year ago. I'm not saying it all doesn't matter but I'm struggling to see the utility in caring in my short life.
I actually did that once.

It was a wordpress site for a company written by some 16 year old intern. Terribly fun. No version management. The main folder had multiple older copies of itself in seemingly random subfolders. It went deep. The CSS was stored partially in CSS files, of which there were 20 (!) loaded from the theme folder, partially in one of the 40+ plugins used (not an exageration). But there was also plenty of CSS in the templates, the database and seemingly random third party servers. The favicon was 20MB large. It used like 4 plugins for “custom fields” all of which had infected large swathes of the database, and all of which did... something. Much like the root folder had nested copies of itself there was something similar going on in there... I simply didn’t bother by the time I understood what the hell was going on. The templates were basically this premium theme of “customized” php, the fun part was that in some page templates it basically rendered a bunch of different pages inside the template (the guy apparently didn’t understand the concept of closing tags, yet somehow made it work. It was incomprehensible.) and then used custom css to hide the pages that shouldn’t be visible. Basically the entire thing was some satanic equillibrium of bugs cancelling eachother out.

It was a work of art.
Unfortunately we're being ignored and it will take something much worse than the Equifax disaster to make the message land. Highly frustrating.
I find it easier to visually match the start and end of the blocks that the brace pair defines. Having said that, my team uses the opening brace on same line style and that's fine too. Since I use an IDE, it doesn't matter much either way because It provides great features like block folding and auto highlighting of a matching brace.

Don't understand why we spend so much time arguing about such low stakes stuff as this.
Number 59 based simply on the amount of Bitcoin owned, or the rate of real world transactions (as opposed to mere speculation) conducted in it? I would argue that the latter is a more valid way to measure a currency, and I seriously doubt Bitcoin would crack the top 100 by that measure. The Bitcoin "economy" is almost entirely made up of currency trading.
I have four kids now, and I learned this automation trick way too late. We helped our older kids with "activities of daily living" longer than we realized we needed to. Now or younger two are doing things on their own years earlier than their older siblings.

We've just generally found that our kids have been ready to do things earlier than we imagined. Each time we've made a transition, we look back and think "why didn't we do that sooner?"
> The legal one :-)

Well, I'm not that interested in what is legal and what is not - I'm more curious about how do we arrive at the conclusions at what is ought to be legal or not.

> It can be legal discrimination eg a fire fighter being abele to lift a certain weight.

I think we can safely say that women, on average, are not as capable at such physical tests as men. And yet, we, as a society, see this kind of indirect discrimination as completely logical and do not see this kind of discrimination as evil.

If we were to derive a general rule from this example, what this rule would look like? And how does this rule differ from other kinds of indirect discrimination that you define as bad?
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Yes, but then they can pull out the ticking time bomb scenario and confuse plausible justification with efficacy.
Oh okay, thanks for clarify and sorry I missed that point. I suppose if Amazon is delivering it's an Amazon problem, eh? :D
If you're designing for yourself, sure, work on the requirements.

If you're designing for the marketplace, the market decides the requirements, and expecting everyone to fall in line behind one thing is a mugg's game.
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Couldn't the same be said about all the other shitty cloud-connected surveillance cameras? Not saying that justifies it, just that this is a bigger problem then just those awful internet of doorbells
Nah, they should start with figuring out how to not kill a project that people want.
YES! finally the 3rd party shipper Amazon uses will be as convenient and efficient as the postal service!
Xi Jinping has more clout than Donald Trump. The world should be wary
Atlassian is experimenting with ProseMirror for their wiki—I think the configurable schema feature goes a long way towards solving this. (Coincidentally, Adrian, who is a contributor to ProseMirror, was one of the people who worked on WikiMedia's editor effort.)
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Were you referring to this [1]? If you s/Friendster/Facebook/ I think it seems very interesting. The information-security-state is already here, we just don't have most of the benefits (those accrue to the advertisers and TLAs).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014
Here's an example: Shimmy Technologies is basing their company on Watson API. They make custom swimsuits using Watson's Speech to Text "recognizeMicrophone" so buyers can say their measurements which then gets converted into CAD files and Shimmy produces the customized clothing from there. http://www.techrepublic.com/article/stop-the-hype-the-real-v...
Of course reckless driving is a bad act. But most accidents aren't the result of reckless driving.

And we don't treat cell phone driving as reckless driving, at least typically not. It's just a 50 dollar fine.

Based on empirical data, maybe we should punish all cell phone drives as reckless like we do drunk drivers. But it makes no sense to single people out only if there was an accident.
The counterpoint being that often "you" are not the customer. The company buying ADs is.

Also many companies are not driven by long term thinking. They are focused on maximizing profits on a quarterly basis which may not be in your interests, even if you ARE the customer.

But I'm still with you for the most part. I don't like when people say a business is "evil". I think of it like a wild animal, like a Bear.

The Bear might be friendly with you, but it is not your friend, it might eat you if it gets hungry. It has its own reasoning. Even if it does eat you, it wasn't because its EVIL. It just doesn't have empathy for humans the way we do. It's a force of nature, and most of the time it just wants to see what's in your trash can and then go away.
SV is now officially the current elite to hate. Recent news stories were all but reasonable, and it's going to get worse. People need a scapegoat so that their anger can be diverted to it, controlled and exploited for money. This scapegoat is now the tech industry.
Yes OEM. The original iPhone 2G had 30-pin connector issues first. It was quite finicky.
You are sure it's that way around? Everybody I know is happy when DHL is used (particularly me as a "Packstation" is nearby) and fears for their newly-acquired property when Hermes is the carrier.
Is it actually the case that it'll work out like that, similar to Bitcoin Cash? Or is it more complicated. Asking for a friend who has some ether...
Ultrasonic? GPS? geolocation using WAN IP of those devices and your device's GPS coordinates. You are in the same vicinity.
Oh, sweet - thanks!
"Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to"

- Richard Branson

https://twitter.com/richardbranson/status/449220072176107520...
I think you could generally classify that sort of role as an "Architect," which is usually a senior/lead engineer who works directly with business analysts/PMs to design the product and also "manage up" to set expectations with the business.
This one is hilarious!!
IMO, finding a job you like is so much about finding a place where you'll be able to tolerate the bad sides. Negative reviews are the best places to find that.

It's a fact of life that there are no perfect jobs, and the difference between happiness and soul crushing is often about how you can deal with the negative sides of your job.
I can weigh in on this since I ordered some kitchen stuff and non-perishable groceries from Walmart last week. I'd looked up the prices on Amazon first and they were inflated by ~50% compared to buying locally (hypothetically if my grocery store carried them), while Walmart had the prices matching what you'd see in stores.

Prime used to be a deal, but now it seems that base prices on anything Prime eligible have had the price jacked up to cover Prime shipping, and are usually available from a "non-prime" seller for $5-10 cheaper.

If you're ordering a Prime eligible item and don't have a membership, it's always a crappy price because the fast shipping fee has been built into it, but you get slow shipping instead. And if you do have a membership, what's that $100/year going toward? Apparently not the shipping, since Prime items are consistently priced higher. I'd speculate it's funding their other ventures like Music and TV instead.

Walmart does free shipping on most orders over $35 (in some cases 2-day), no price inflation, no membership required. And as far as I know, they don't have Amazon's counterfeiting problems. I'll be checking on them in the future before I buy anything else on Amazon.
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> The law is hardly ever consequentialist.

I would actually argue the opposite. The law is almost always consequentalist, it merely has a wider view of the consequences.

Punishing someone for a mistake when they weren't unusually reckless would have negative consequences for society that outweigh the potential benefits of doing so, therefore we don't.
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Were you a BBS guy?

That is how I learned to never give your real identity in an electronic world.
If you can't see what's in front of your car in time to react appropriately, you are going too fast for the current road conditions. Reckless driving is a risk created entirely by the driver, not the cyclist who happens to be in front of the driver at the time.
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People are already dying due to lack of funding. Have a chat with NHS doctor or nurse.
"Tend to be worse" is open for interpretation, but I think energy companies, telco companies, defense companies, finance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and many others would beg to differ.