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Hi Anu,

Most probably this might not get a reply but I still wanted to know about this statement -
"During the 2016 Olympics, a Toutiao bot wrote original news coverage, publishing stories on major events more quickly than traditional media outlets. The bot-written articles enjoyed read rates (# of reads and # of impressions) in line with those produced at a slower speed and higher cost by human writers on average."

1. What does writing original news coverage entail? Did the bot put together couple of news source to create an article or do you mean it transcribed the news from the live video feed as it happened?

2. How much of the bot feed works due to high declension? [1]. Because normally bot structure and output tend to make less sense as the sentence structure comes out all wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declension

Additionally, there is quite a lot of focus on getting user to stay on the platform. Not to sound alarmist here but doesn't it mean you are most of the time helping people reinforce their world views? News should be reported as is but then if user engagement is so important news will be written right or left wing just to keep the user on platform.
How did you arrive at this idea? I looked into it and it seems the list has very formal requirements for inclusion and they give the specific reason for inclusion for each chemical https://oehha.ca.gov/chemicals I guess that technically under the law the governor decides the final list but the actual compilation of the list has been delegated to oehha which has created formal requirements for inclusion.

What chemicals do you think have been included without scientific basis?
Personally, whenever I find that I don't have to solve a moral dilemma (or any dilemma) because it's clear-cut either way (one way has all upsides), I tend to be nervous that I'm missing something. Humans are really really good at cognitive dissonance.

I'm not saying I know whether torture works or not, I'm just saying, it's awfully convenient that most people harp on the "it doesn't work" idea, and that means the burden of proof IMO should be much higher to show it doesn't work (assuming your default belief is that it does work, which is most people's default prior).
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I'm sorry but reason isnt taught in college its taught with experience. I know many people who have reason, empathy, and everything else without having to be taught. It's part of your upbringing not taught in college.

I believe most people would benefit from learning the skills they need for a job rather than learning about China because rarely will a tech job require your vast knowledge of Chinese history. They want to know whether or not you can push code that the business needs.

I understand your point and I am not saying that these classes are useless. But at the end of the day colleges are there to produce for jobs and my point being is that if you had more time on tech related classes than classes you don't need then you would most certainly be more ready for a job.

When I went to college there were so many classes I really didnt need. Regardless of if they were "good" for me it was a waste of my time because I didn't care nor need that information. I took classes in sociology, macro and micro economics, accounting 1 and accounting 2 and so on and so on.

Did these classes help me in some way? Yes I would say so but what if I took an extra 5 classes honing skills related to the job I was going to seek after college. Can you really sit here and say that those 5 classes are better off? I don't think so.
Does Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org) fit what you just described?
> It was nevertheless rational from the perspective of a person's political interests to go out and vote, even if they felt confronted, manipulated and taken for granted and any number of other things.

Unless they had no faith in either candidate; either the content of their proposed program, or their actual intention of carrying it out. I don't think that the contempt for voters inspires that faith.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one. It's only logical.

The think about morality is that everyone can have their own, or none at all. Not everyone is bound to value the welfare and freedoms of others as highly as they value their own. And the same goes on the tribal level--not everyone values Them as highly as Us.

You can create any number of moral structures that would allow for torture that still do not allow for indiscriminate violence.
Yep. We have multiple examples of multigenerational communities that regularly live to 100+. Poorly done studies like this one only serve to obscure the truth about what we should be eating for longevity.
> They have neither vision nor plan (other than "strong and stable", whatever that's supposed to mean)

Sounds exactly what my current government (Merkel) is successfully doing for years now.
Ah but what if, by torturing that person, you annoy the aliens who are just about to visit the planet and they decide to wipe out the entire human race and turn the planet to molten slag?

Now you, by "saving" a city, have condemned the entire human race to extinction.
Bitch about them to friends who don't work there.
I used to work in a company with a similar policy. Never got a satisfactory answer, I think there's just lots of FUD around any language feature that looks different than what people are used to.
Can't stress training enough. If your company offers training take advantage of it. If it does not you have to consider if they take your success as a manager seriously, and if you are willing to invest a lot of your own time and energy into bettering yourself while being responsible for other people. I had a bit of training but also was fortunate to have worked for great managers I considered my mentors and found that to be an invaluable resource to fall back on.

It isn't clear exactly what your role entails, but in my opinion it is pretty much impossible to be a great manager and continue in a role as a technical contributor. To me that's more a technical lead than a manager, so if you still like writing code you need to think about that long and hard. Your #1 responsibility is the success of your team and they need to know you are there for them 100%, and not busy buried in code. There are times when you may be able to get your hands dirty but you can be nowhere near the critical path of the project.

You also have to remember you are not only managing your direct reports but who you report to and whomever is relying on your team. In my case, I reported to a VP but I also had to work laterally with other development managers, and in particular project managers that weren't always technical. Just like as an individual contributor you need to maintain a healthy relationship with those you work with directly because you need to balance what they need and want from your team with what your team needs and wants.

That being said, I lasted in management for a little over a year, mostly because the role evolved and due to some changes at the top where I didn't feel I was enabled to be an effective manager. Still, I found the experience invaluable as it gave me more insight into how to better work with people of all stripes. Like any role, technical or otherwise, you have to constantly evaluate what you are getting out of it, if you enjoy it, and if you want to continue bettering yourself in the craft.
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Yes. There's this doorbell (400-1500 USD) that connects via internet to a central host, and then notifies you on your smartphone. Seems sort of a neat idea, but a house lasts several decades - is that startup and its server going to be around that long?

http://www.doorbird.com
> All you have control over is whether or not you hurt the person in front of you.

I tend towards believing that people who bring up the "WHAT IF NOOK BOMB" type scenarios are really just looking for justification that their existing belief in torture is A-OK.
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2.) Do create three separate bank accounts for taking money in, for paying your labor, and for paying bills with a debit card. It’s never fun when a vendor dings your card and accidentally adds an extra zero at the end of a bill and you needed to make payroll.

3.) You are not a Bank, don’t lend money by working first then getting paid, take deposits on phases before you start a phase. If a client has a big project and needs NET terms then use a factoring company to check the credit worthiness of the client and to take over your accounts receivable for your company.
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Do you support IPoAC (IP over Avian Carriers)?
> The more we advance in technology, improve our infrastructure, spread globalization, and bring efficiency to the economic system, the more intensely global corporations focus their strategies on competing to serve the wealthiest and the middle class

A question: is it actually true that these things are correlated? I don't know, but on the surface of it, it's not clear to me that they are.
All the structures you describe are what I what define as living in a moral vacuum...
This was probably the main motivation behind the black sites / Guantanamo / "enhanced interrogation" techniques and the okaying of those (in blatant violation of Geneva conventions, I might add - did the US ever get called to justice for that?) - 5000+ people died in the 9/11 attacks by the instantly dehumanized muslim terrorists, everything is now morally justified to prevent something like that happening again, including enhanced interrogation, sending more people that died in the attacks to die in an eventually pointless war, etc.
There is nothing wrong with that as long as you're aware of what that selection does.

Just like the topic at hand, that kind of requirement is correlated with other characteristics, think young, fresh grad, not married probably, no kids, really wants the job, maybe a bit desperate, doesn't mind expending their free time etc.

In some cases the companies are aware of what they are doing. They know it is not about the take-home test but about picking those types of candidates most of all, and they are ok not selecting the rest. This was my friend's company.

In other cases, companies are not aware of it, they just copy what others are doing or say believe that this testing method is better, so use it strictly for that reason. Which is fine too, it might work for them better. However, they'll still end up selecting certain candidates and not others, but they just don't do it explicitly.
>The DNS caching service that handles the storage of DNS responses automatically restarts when it crashes, and it won’t notify the user of the crash.

Programmer one: "It keeps crashing!"

Programmer two: "Just remove the bit that tells the user it crashed and ship it!"
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Yes, I think it's the challenge of critical mass. There's quite a few twitter-likes around, including decentralized ones (ZeroMe, twister, Sone) but building beyond a set of initial users is difficult.
Devil's advocate regarding cronyism is that they "just need someone good enough" for the job, and on average wealthy people tend to be far better qualified (or have the free time to learn) than trying to filter through the GP for people similarly qualified who don't already have ties to existing businesses (and would thus need higher financial motivation to be pulled away to work on your thing).
> Example of a bad read from Vision Rectangle Detection: https://imgur.com/a/RSpTG

Well, it's technically correct - it did find a rectangle :)
"In actual reality you will never have any certainty about the outcomes of interactions like these. All you have control over is whether or not you hurt the person in front of you."

Errr I think you're "proving too much" so to speak. Having someone in front of you who you know has details about a terrorist plot that could stop it, and you think finding those details is something you can't reason morally about?
By your definition of certainty, you basically can't do anything with any degree of certainty unless its actions are immediate.

Call up an assassin and tell them to murder someone? Well who knows if she'll even go through with it, so that's morally fine.
I would agree and my use of the term University is not necessarily meant to be used in that traditional sense. What I believe is that there should be an alternative to Universities that could focus more on that aspect and present you with a 4 year degree.

I guarantee if you created a tech school that focuses strictly on tech related classes for 4 years compared to a University that you would produce higher quality students than you would from schools that spend half of your college teaching you things that are not directly related to your job.
Trump just tweeted that he wants to pass a law that makes it illegal to get brain cancer from your cell phone.
Interesting how the parent is being downvoted for writing "This reinforces my belief that there is a sincere, rational (whether you agree or not) reasoned motivation for terrorist attacks, at least in some cases".

Those downvotes prove the point.
To restate my point more clearly, the situation was much the same in the US.
The successful people I've talked to who came from poverty would disagree. They all have stories of some specific program that gave them some additional tools to help educate them, inspire them, and give them the ability and drive to lift themselves out of their original situation. Now, these individuals almost universally are putting at least some of their energy back into similar programs to help others. So no, giving out laptops won't magically eliminate poverty... but it might create the person who devises the solution that does.
Hurry! Get in line for the backlash against tech companies playing politics, before it's too late.
Yes these are old links. However, I haven't seen any change in MS's behavior regarding Open Source since.

More recently they build an emulator for running Linux binaries (Bash), which again is closed source [0].

> relationship between Microsoft and Open Source couldn't be more different today than it was then

Please mention some examples of this?

[0] - https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/178
I think you missed the satire in the post. Obviously these warnings couldn't be used in practice since they list exploits that would've been fixed upstream if the companies had found them before release.

One exception might be the vibrator spyware "feature" which was clearly on purpose.

I took it more as a jab at the terrible software practices in this IoT goldrush than a serious proposal to add actual warning labels to their packaging.
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I can achieve 'dark purple' on strips in two to three days without drastic dietary or exercise extremes. This is one of my biggest sticking points with articles that make generalizations about body functions. There are always outlying examples and exceptions.
- DAT is not about decentralization; it's about content integrity

- Beaker is an app framework built on Electron/Chrome because without gorgeous apps you don't get users. But all of the data is stored within DAT, and there's nothing that prevents alternative apps (even textual ones) being built on that data.

- Three sentences into your incoherent rant, I lost the antecedent, but if you think involvement with something like 18F invalidates someone's interest in this kind of tech, then I think you're a Russian troll bot unless you can prove otherwise. QED.

- The authors of Beaker are very well aware of the history and original purposes of the project.

- DAT is not geared for centralized anything. You have no idea what you're talking about. Content-based addressing is the way past the centralized transport networks of today, which masquerade as information networks, and they are the single biggest threat to existing powers that gate/throttle/control the internet. Full stop.
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GREAT article. It definitely reflects the current state of society, and most important, people. Selfishness is the standard, money is our god. We need to open our eyes and start acting, otherwise the results will keep being the same and nothing will change.

Capitalism should be reformed and a new economic system - based on sharing economy, but in the real sense - should arise.
Exactly! If someone pulls off my fingernails one by one, and I know the answer to the question they are asking, I will absolutely divulge the answer... Torture obviously works. It just also creates a lot of false information from people who don't know the answer and will say anything to make the torture stop. But that's much more nuanced and quite different from the refrain we constantly hear that "torture doesn't work."
Yes I do. But I also know that if I commit to something, applying for a visa is an effort that's acceptable. Some years ago, I wanted to go to the US for a while and guess what - I got a visa and made it work.
Any anonymous system is open to abuse, or at the very least to distortion of the truth. People who didn't like a company who left can say whatever they like and are free to stretch the truth, and likewise companies can write their own exaggeratedly positive reviews.

If you want to know what a company is like... go look for yourself?
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I know there are Android builds you can install with mptcp support, but I didn't think it had made it into mainstream android phones, do you have a link?
@mikeash it takes a minimum of 4 or 5 taps and button presses.
That's probably because you don't (yet) have a cause you value higher than your own life. Are you married? Would you give up the location of your wife, knowing she'd be murdered if you told it to your interrogators while they're pulling out your fingernails?
It's where we conveniently ignore the fact that we torture people who we have no reason to suspect know anything.
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Good luck and congrats on getting started!

I'm curious about how you decided your niche and pricing. Did you do market research? Specifically, talking to dog trainers and see if they would be interested and how much they are willing to pay for your services?

As someone who has tried to sell to niche markets like that before I've found many niches are very stingy with cash. Some of them are likely sole proprietors and what you are asking for their website might be an entire week's pay for them.
Yes, good idea. Follow the money, not where others try to point you.

Thinking like that will make you a wise investor.
Hear hear. Meanwhile a lot of people are really reductionist due their lack of critical thinking. "They're evil because of the book they believe in, we should ban that religion!" (as if that will fix all the problems...).

I find the work of Scott Atran in explaining the motivations of Islamic extremists (so we can also reduce/end it) really good: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/15/terror...
You can't change the context of a statement without changing its meaning.
> Personally I'm a bit scared of France and Germany what with recent terrorist attacks and mass immigration

as a french, this is so overblown. You've got much more chance getting shot in the US than in France.

Recent stats give 7800 murders in the US (only by gunshot!) since the beginning of the year, vs 729 overall murders in France:

* https://www.planetoscope.com/Criminalite/1416-meurtres-par-a...

* https://www.planetoscope.com/Criminalite/1201-homicides-comm...
> standards-based protocols

Ok seeing we talking IoT what standard: of the top of my head mqtt, coap, http/rest, soap? Those are just communication protocols. Now we still need to standardize the application data layer jsonschema, swagger/openapi, wsdl? and most of the time the vendor wants to own the application for their benefit. Also the classic xkcd of standards leading to more standards is so true.

As you mentioned the problem lies with the general public, don't care attitude. Hopefully there is enough that will try to educate and help their peers.

But a lot of us is going to learn the hard way how criminals used our iot devices against us to rob us blind and only then change will truly start to take place.
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> This package is sold by weight, not by volume. Packed as full as practicable by modern automatic equipment, it contains full net weight indicated. If it does not appear full when opened, it is because contents have settled during shipping and handling.

Not entirely unreasonable note, but nothing to do with IoT
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The difference is that Merkel's main plan is to keep Germany plodding along more or less the path it's already on while May's goal is to head full speed off the path they're own, into the woods, and hoping that they'll find a new path on the other side.
When you say degree are you specifically referring to an academic certificate? Honestly, real world experience and decades of software engineering trump anything you can get from a university.
> just in case you were tempted to think he was a morally decent human being

He is only practicing what he preaches: he knows you won't convince anyone by confronting them and telling they are human rights violators. They probably see themselves as patriots, and simply don't care.

You might, however, convince them by telling them your method will get them better results, understanding that saving their soul is just a by-product to them.
But it's well known that torture doesn't get people to tell you the actual truth - in which case even if there is a nuclear bomb about to go off, what good does it do to torture the person? Wasn't it the case that there wasn't a single accurate piece of information that came out of the CIA torture regime?

And if you're in the same city as the bomb, whatever you can possibly do to them has a finite timespan and is therefore much more tolerable and resistable.
> It is interesting to note that new technology products are never launched in the poor segment of the market and then gradually adapted to higher-level markets

Inclined to disagree. Plenty of wealthy people see the "market potential" of starting in poorer places (cough Africa) and 'locking up' marketshare.

hell, zuckerberg and others tried pushing through the precedent of zero-rated internet for proprietary services in india and other countries as a way to lock up precedent for when they'd bring the same tech to america. (Not that the latter has needed any help being complacent with zero rating - apparently india beat us on that front)
Not critiquing but more curious, why does Postgres seem to get so much love while MariaDB is mostly ignored on HN?
I don't think it's pedantic to point it out. It is what I meant, but I think it is a very important distinction. I thought GP meant smart phone, but they could have meant a landline as well.
To have a hash of a file, you need the file (or a large portion of the file), especially in the context of antivirus, which searches for very specific files and needs to have a very low false positive and false negative rate. Consequently, they would already have to have the tool (or a large portion of the tool) to find it and retrieve it. A little non-productive, don't you think?

Saying that they "obviously have fingerprints of what they're looking for" is an active attempt to make the events fit a narrative.