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Here are some good points on this. About how expecting all your needs to be met by one person will lead to dysfunction and how we create organizations to fulfill these needs. The groups the make the most impact are those of sufficient size to fulfill all these needs.

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Totally agree with this.

Good thing I compulsively refresh HN 100x/day, otherwise I might have missed this article.
Interesting, can this be prevented by simply random blurring images first?

The NN should still be able to recognise something partially blurred if trained that way.
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I don't know about that. China is just as bad as the west when it comes to privacy, and they use it to help crush dissent in their citizens.

As for the environment, while they've been taking steps to remedy that, they're still behind the West on this.

I also don't think I agree that democracies are slow to adapt. When there's the political will, democracies can get new laws passed quite quickly. The problem is when people don't care or disagree about what to do.

An "autocracy" like China avoids the problem of disagreement, but only by ignoring all disagreements and following the rulers, whether their decisions are good or bad. Usually bad, judging by the censorship, forced organ harvesting, disappearings of dissidents, etc.

It's easy to try extrapolating China's current growth and think that China will become the world superpower. Except they're still the underdogs, and a lot can still go wrong. They could plateau, like Japan did. Xi Jinping will eventually be too old to rule, and it'll be a coin toss as to whether or not his replacement will be competent. As wages in China rise, companies that outsourced to them could move to cheaper countries. If they suffer a recession, I don't know what will happen, but with a government that loves cracking down on disagreement I don't expect it to be pretty.

China's on a good trajectory, economically speaking. But it's too early to say who will win out in the 21st century.
The intended meaning is exactly what you mention, namely WV possibly being a disappointment to a foreigner coming to the US. In that sense, it's demeaning to West Virginia, and trying to convey sympathy for the students.
> It's the potential to shepherd public opinion on social networks.

And the unique identifiers need to be made public, and publicly verifiable - otherwise you've made it harder for, say, russian politibots - but easier for, say, facebook, who could post all the fake comments they want, and people will be more likely to trust that each commenter is unique and was vetted.

So basically, abolish private communication. I'm not mocking you, in case it sounds like that - I see the same dilemma, and don't know the answer. Personally, I prefer just making sure that the big communication sites are as vigilant as they can be and make it prohibitively annoying to engage in spam-like activities. It's not perfect, but it's the least awful choice (IMO).
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I think you're conflating terms. Exceeding minimum specification != exceeding minimum expectation.

Adding extra things is necessarily exceeding specifications.
Great point . Their support is outstanding, I am getting replies in 30 min on Sunday evening.
Trained ML models could be a reasonable trade secret, after all, its not hard for an engineer that knows about it to spill the beans naturally as he looks for another job. But an ML engineer with the data facebook has, cannot do the same somewhere else.
Make time for each other. Have a date night, even if you are broke and watching a movie on the TV at home. The point is spending time together, not spending money.

Never, ever go to bed mad. Settle it. This is usually followed by makeup sex.

Never tell your spouse to sleep on the couch. If you are so mad that you can't imagine sleeping next to them, grab a blanket and take yourself to the couch. Argue over who gets to declare "No, I'm sleeping on the couch!" (It gets funny at this point and hard to keep a straight face.)

Kiss each other good night every single night, even if you just had a fight. This often initiates makeup sex.

Talk.

Actively look for sexy activities to share, like oil massages.

Shop for naughty lingerie together.

Share your fantasies.

Being a lover in marriage is about trust and intimacy. This requires ongoing efforts at communication. It also requires that you invest time in the relationship. It takes at least 15 hours a week to establish and maintain intimacy. Intimacy is the font of good sex when novelty is no longer your shtick.

Remember that all is fair in love and war and this is love, not war. Make up caring exceptions to the rules you were raised with and to hell with what other people think.

Always fight fair. This is your lover. It undermines the relationship to be nasty to them when you disagree and the price you pay for that often shows up in the bedroom.
Extremely interested; didn’t finish once in the author got into the weeds with sysctl and furl.
i think the insight is that if you count all the other advertising revenue that they book as "cost reductions" instead of standard revenue, then they're making a lot more than $1b per quarter off advertising (or alternatively, the fact that they're making $1bn per quarter is not a new thing)
I felt it was more classist. I personally would enjoy living in West Virginia. Low taxes, cheap land, beautiful wildlife/scenery, access to the Appalachian Trail, etc. I certainly understand why some people would prefer to live in a place like NY, but this idea that if you're not in a wealthy coastal city that life is shit is so tiresome.
A better title might be: "The Perl library Furl is horrible; use something vaguely functional instead if you need to make HTTP/S requests using Perl."

Good tip, if I was using Furl (or even Perl), but utterly unrelated to SQS, and not obviously generalisable to other libraries or languages.
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I think the word "goal" is too strong, here, but it is a valid point.

People change, and in a good marriage, the spouses should absolutely push each other to change in ways that are healthy and positive.

It's simply ridiculous to assume that whomever you're marrying, right now, is the person they will be for the rest of their lives, or that you shouldn't try to influence those changes.

In fact, that goes beyond just marriages... I would hope that, in all of my relationships, be it as friend, brother, husband, or son, I am a positive influence on my loved ones, and that those people are a positive influence on me.
We can't let a few companies own our data. It's feudalism. We need data democracy.
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>The horror stories you hear about "helicopter parenting" in the US mostly come from wealthier exurbs where, for lack of better way to put it, there aren't any real problems... so bored homemakers micro-manage every aspect of their community and worry themselves senseless about silly things.

I think this is true, and I'll add the media keeps turning the crank on neurotic parents by making them think there's a child molester or serial killer waiting around every corner.
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I didn't carefully read every word but a skim didn't seem to answer the question in the headline.

And I'm not interested enough from what I saw to read every word. Something about curl?
> people are more likely to have a decent password already for Gmail/Facebook/whatever

Oh man... do I have news for you.
> It sounds like this project is probably a little too early stage for you then?
> Maybe let people play with it for a couple if years and distill it down a bit. If it still exists maybe try again.

I don't have a problem reading a whitepaper. But there's approx. 12 billion new etherum startups a day. So I just think a little tl;dr would be nice to know if it's something I care about. Because right now I don't know if I should care early stage.
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True. After reading—and identifying with—the article, I had an irresistible urge to go post it on Twitter. Thirty seconds later I realized I was scrolling through my feed and hadn't even done what I had gone there to do! sigh
I agree we should respect people and no mock them for making mistakes that they pay the ultimate price for. It doesn't matter that they're doing it for fun instead of some desperate survival need. Early aviators gave us aeroplanes and balloons by taking foolish risks and many died, but we glorify a few survivors because of their important contributions.

For some reason, many kinds of deaths are protected from mockery by society, but not adventure accidents. Those are fair game and bring out the cruel uncaring side of otherwise seemingly nice people.

If the Darwin awards included death from alcoholism or suicide, any mention of them would be blotted out from the "polite" internet like HN. Somebody will probably complain about me linking mental illness to accident deaths just to enforce the social more that we must not disrespect certain arbitrary groups of people but other groups are fair game.
How so? Google has a 90+ percent market share. Facebook also is in a similar boat. Amazon is every increasing its market share as well. They are doing this not by competing but by leveraging user data to create good enough products. Then use their market share to integrate these products into their existing product line thus resulting in death of startups they are targeting.

Here are some examples:

- Facebook uses its data on social activity to identify trending startups. They even go further and have purchased a VPN provider to spy on traffic so they can identify startups they want to acquire or crush.

- Google uses search data to figure out what types of websites are trending and then simply creates cards that appear on top of their search results so that users never have to leave Google. A lot of websites have lost revenue or simply folded due to the loss of traffic.

- Amazon is no different. The use internal search data to figure out what products are trending and then simply creates Amazon Basic products to kill them.

The issue is they leverage user supplied data and their existing market share to create noncompetitive environments for new incumbents. It's a massive intelligence gathering operation that gives them unfair advantage by allowing them to surveil the vast marketplace and target trending startups in near realtime. Heh, the startups don't even know they are being targeted until it is too late.

They've basically become malicious actors.
Hey, if it works for you, it works for you.

That said, I'm curious to hear what kinds of things you're referring to. Do you have some fictional examples?

My wife and I each have our own best friends, but in my own marriage (14 years... since we all have to publish our credentials ;), if there's something I can't tell me wife, it's something I wouldn't tell anyone, best friends included.

The only obvious exception is if it's something about the marriage itself, but in that case, I'd speak to a friend first only if I needed to work out my own thoughts and emotions before I then talked to my wife. So even in that case, it's more a matter of timing than keeping certain things from her entirely.
There's a few places that specialize in that sort of thing: https://www.fastcompany.com/3064075/hold-the-storefront-how-...
It manages to be demeaning to the Indians, to West Virginia, and to "hillbillies". But yes, there's lots of rural poverty in Appalachia.
The article mostly throws up its metaphorical hands and concludes "maybe, language is hard", which is fair enough. But:

> if your spouse is your best friend, then whom do you complain to your spouse about?

Complaining about your spouse to your friends is a wonderful way to damage your relationship; the unthinking assumption that you should be venting about your spouse is harmful and should be challenged.

> Dr. Bader said that she wished popular magazines would challenge the notion that you shouldn’t get married to change someone. “I think that’s what marriage is about,” she said.

That sounds like horrifying bad advice if taken literally. I hope there was some context that was omitted from the article. People certainly can and do change, and obviously spouses should help encourage each other to change for the better. So sure, marriage is, in part, about change, inasmuch as marriage is a part of life, and life is about change. But to get married in order to change someone? As in "wow, I hate how extroverted this person I'm dating is, I know we'll get married so I can make them introverted"? That's the opposite of a good idea, and warning people off it is a staple of popular magazines, unpopular magazines, relationship counselling, and dating advice because it's a really dumb notion.
I had a different reaction to this article than the other commenters so far. I think it did a very respectful job of describing the incredible effort these guys put in. I had no idea it wasn't just some guys in a lab turning on a switch.

I also come from a different perspective on this article because I actually grew up in Morgantown, WV, where my dad was a professor. Looking at WVU as the middle of nowhere, along with some of the other mentioned comments, is pretty reasonable. And the article seemed to have no bias about the quality of work done be these students and their lab in general. If the right people read these articles it would probably give these guys' career a big boost.
> This comment displays a worrying misunderstanding of web security. Sending passwords (or credit card numbers or other scary stuff) in plaintext over the wire is bad

What are you talking about? Who said anything about plaintext? And no one said anything about sessions either.

If you're submitting to the server in plaintext, then returning in plaintext is no less secure, but you're stupid for not submitting over https which is free.

If you're submitting to the server over https then it's definitely no less secure to return the data.
Why would it be different for Google or Microsoft projects?

I think sidlls was talking about industries where lives are at stake, like aviation , where things move slowely and follow a strict QA process. There you have formally verified systems and the like, but you also have to make tradeoffs like working with a limited subset of C because that is formally verifiable.
I don't know. There must be more factors. How else would you explain the success of companies like Apple, Tesla and Xiaomi. Or for that matter, to a certain extent every luxury product.

Marginal Value, MV(iPhone) ~= MV(crap, and most non-crap, android phones) (granted, this is probably not true for the original iPhone). But except for that one time it is certainly not true. The quality is clearly different, however.

Even more clear is the Tesla case: MV(Roadster) <<< MV(alternatives). It wasn't the best electric car, it wasn't the best car, it wasn't ... however again there was a clear difference in quality.

I would argue most real estate developments are equally examples of this (mostly because laws prevent them on competing on anything other than quality in most inner cities). Trump's whole empire seems an example of it too.

It seems to be entirely possible to achieve success by simply copying a badly executed idea, and doing it better.
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I check websites obsessively, over and over. Same sites.

I'm really wasting my life.

Toying with getting a dumbphone... I think I owe that to my kids.
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In many perfectly healthy, normal marriages, there's a disparity (sometimes significant) in sexual interest/appetite between the spouses that has absolutely nothing to do with their love for each other and everything to do with basic biological, sociological, and psychological differences.

In such a marriage, sexual intimacy actually requires focused effort to maintain. Not "work". That makes it sound transactional in nature. But effort. Like, you have to prioritize it.

To suggest that marriages in which this is necessary are somehow broken is simply unfair. Every marriage is unique and beyond basic expectations of love and decency, it's unreasonable to use ones own experiences as the template by which to judge other people's relationships.
I agree. Economists have always been able to get away with saying their models are better than data. Imagine biologists coming up with a theory of A cellular process but makes silly predictions. The biologist doesn't stand firm with their model and say "ah the cell isn't being optimal here, they are so stupid". Any real scientist would go back and rethink about their model.
I think the difference is that people know when the image messes with their perception. i.e. we see the optical illusion, yes, but we also know it's not real, or incorrect in some way.

A neutral net does not. That's the missing element - neural nets "need to know how to know when they don't know".
Service Workers creep me out, but maybe I'm in the minority. I don't want web pages to be able to execute code if I'm not actually on their page. To be honest, I don't even want most apps to background refresh on my phone.
or perhaps adding random pixel noise to the image before attempting training/recognition to prevent "smoothness" in an area from being a recognized property
It's more likely to be Samsung or Murata or something.
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Western democracies are "slow" because the low-hanging fruits of problems that can be solved fast has long been taken care of.

What remains are never problems with an easy fix. Almost by definition, governments are fine-tuning a system that, by and large, is already the best the world has ever seen. Any change involves trade-offs that need to be taken into account.

To use an analogy: after 20 epochs, you need to be using a drastically lower learning rate for your ML model than when you first started training, or it will fail to converge.

Progress in China isn't so much the effect of autocratic structures, but of starting from a lower baseline. It's really easy to grow the economy when you're dropped into a scenario of almost medieval infrastructure, but a working administration and enough capital. First, you build a road. Then, a school... As the Chinese economy closes the gap to the west, it will start mirroring their problems more and more, as well.
Counterpoint: I do own my data, including my data about the people who visited my website.

Any attempt to claim "ownership" of data by the sole virtue of it collecting information "about you" would necessarily constitute a restriction of the rights of others. And it would fail utterly when you have data that is inherently about multiple people and not about any one of them individually. And assuming you could license data about you (because if you can't then fundamental parts of current society and its structures wouldn't function) then this would change absolutely nothing, as any interaction would come with such a license.

We should, by all means, have strong privacy protections, both technological and (in some very careful cases) legislative. However, framing that as "our data" would lead to unintended consequences. Let's find a framing that works.
It doesn't even appear to be the obvious library to use to access SQS from Perl.

Odd article.
I was molested and raped as a child. I got married at age 19 to another 19 year old with issues as serious as mine, though different. I did a lot of therapy. We did couples counseling. I also had a higher sex drive than him and was unfaithful, which he knew and did not throw in my face.

Sorry if my remarks bother you, but your assumptions are completely out of line. My marriage was neither easy nor a case of good fortune.

So how about if you try to abide by HN guidelines and leave out the condescension, etc.
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A first I thought the daughter had just secretly filmed the phone. But then I saw the full video with her dad running around on a campus and even paying for lunch with the iPhone X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBeD8E2xxck&feature=youtu.be...

Having worked for Apple for 4 years this is just plain stupidity from the fathers side, allowing his daughter to film.
Complaining about your spouse to your friends is a wonderful way to damage your relationship; the unthinking assumption that you should be venting about your spouse is harmful and should be challenged.

Just on this point, I couldn't agree more.

The problem with "venting" is that whomever is listening is almost certainly part of your personal echo chamber. And when dealing with a problem in one's marriage, the last thing people need are mirrors reflecting themselves.

I can't tell you the number of times I've come out of a fight with my wife where, some time later, I realized I was a total ass and needed to apologize for my behaviour.

If I'd "vented" to someone, odds are it would've just hardened my resolve.
I thought a huge part of the problem is mice are not that similar to humans (lots of things have different effects on mice versus humans) but mice are really easy/cheap to test with compared to larger mammals that are a bit closer to humans. We could be missing a lot by not testing stuff in humans that has zero/deleterious effect in mice.
April of last year, I logged out of Facebook. I didn't log back in until the birth of my son.. and only to announce it, share some pics, and get back off. As a result, I missed Facebook's entire reaction to the 2016 US Election.

Recently, I've added Twitter, HN, and a few other sites to my hosts file to block them. A few I check in on once a week or so.

More focus, less noise.

Overall, I think my life (and those immediately around me) are better for it.
I can certainly understand that. Still, patient correction is probably a better way to honour him.
Could you elaborate? The author says it was a software defeat based on detecting simulation conditions. The students rigged up a portable tester which did not trigger these conditions. An official saw a presentation on the paper results and got involved in investigations, which demonstrated that the results were accurate. Where's the missing connection?
I got rid of facebook in 2010. I never looked back, but I needed a little social fix now and again, so I started using instagram. We all know what happened there. It was so perfect. Now it's ad, line of stories, boomerang, boomerang, ad, boomerang, boomerang, ad, line of stories.

I really do like seeing my friends pictures on occasion and I think the multi-picture feature they released was awesome. Stories really made me hate instagram, though. People I follow story the same thing over and over again. It's really frustrating. But I keep looking. Oh god... I keep looking.

I might just get rid of them all.
I completely agree on that part. I wanted to highlight that at least the bigcos should provide consistent and comprehensive documentation for their popular libraries/APIs.
I've been struggling a lot with this lately. The thing is, there are a lot of digital things I _do_ want to accomplish / master / etc, but the feeds are the easier reach, and I go with what's at hand when I am low on energy (or worse, when I'm unhappy with my life).

I have an idea that putting some effort into making the things I _want_ to accomplish (e.g. another MOOC course) more readily accessible might make it easier to form a habit around consuming what I _want_, rather than mental candy.
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