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I mastered in Software Engineering at the University of Twente in The Netherlands, however in the past few years that program has discontinued and I think has been replaced by a program called "Software Technology". I'm so surprised that these kinds of programs are disappearing while the work of Software Engineers has been becoming more and more complicated due to the myriad of external products and services we are supposed to be using (the cloud, containers, container orchestration, version control/continuous integration/deployment/delivery, DevOps, GitHub, unit testing, software for remote pair programming, etc.).

I was lucky enough to be able to attend the LASER Summer School on Software Engineering for Robotics this year, which was a nice experience and I'm really grateful for Bertrand Meyer for organizing it. The LASER Summer School in 2018 will be about cryptocurrencies, so if anyone is interested in that you should certainly check out http://www.laser-foundation.org
> To one of our users (you know who you are!): Fuck you!

I'm a bit out of the loop. What Tweet have Netflix said this in?
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15927132.
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> haven't found a convenient way to export them yet

Click the triangle on the right in the menu bar, and go to Settings. Under "General - General Account Settings" there's a light-grey link that takes you to "Download a copy of your Facebook data". From there you can request an archive of your profile.

It doesn't include all the 'shadow profile' info they keep of you, but it gives you and easy way to download all of your photos at once, easy to import in your photo management app.

EDIT: I've just done a fresh export of my profile, and it seems that sadly the photos don't get exported at full resolution, so this might not be the best option if FB is your primary photo storage at the moment.
Amazon Music just added Cast support and Google never blocked that.

I don't understand your point about proprietary APIs though - will Amazon now also allow Google to replace firmware on FireTV sticks? ;)
Wow, that's one of the best written Wiki articles I've ever read, thank you for the link.
Probably also true in code.
>has identity politics has been shown to be such a loser for republicans?

Pretty much, which is why they didn't really do it. Trump stole from Bernie's playbook - if you take his last few ads as a representative sample - they pushed the class warfare angle pretty hard - starring Lloyd Blankfein, ironically enough.

That played really effectively off Hillary's "business as usual ; government is hard ; I work hard" angle, and was probably responsible for her losing Michigan - not exactly a state that has done well out of the status quo or the trade deals she championed.

>2) since more people voted for Hillary than Trump, is "universal" loathing actually a problem for presidential candidates?

Yes, because the numbers that stayed home in disgust outnumbered both candidates. Voter turnout is what killed Hillary's chances, not "white supremacists" or "fake news" or whatever, and that voter turnout was because she was such a thoroughly loathed individual - which was actually largely her doing.
An Oracle is just a program that movies data onto the blockchain for dapps to use.

The data is an input to a transaction that eventually results in the EVM storing that data into a contracts (dapps) memory (which you pay per byte) that can then be exposed to other dapps.
That's not how evolution works. Evolution does not select individuals, it selects genes.

Let's say that one of these genes kills offspring with probability 25%, but has gene drive so it's present in 100% of offspring. A normal gene doesn't kill offspring, but is only present in 50% of the offspring. The introduced gene will spread rapidly, since it has a 100% x 75% = 75% chance of being in a living offspring, even though it kills, since the ordinary gene only has a 50% x 100% = 50% chance of being in a living offspring.

That's why this is so terrifying. You can introduce a gene into a population that kills off the whole population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive
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Call me cynical, but isn't it far more likely that whoever was running Netflix's twitter account that day made up the statistic trying to be funny?
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Thanks a lot for chiming in.

Sorry to say I'm still confused by what Camlistore does.

Would it be fair to say it's similar to Syncthing[1]?

[1] https://syncthing.net/
Wow this exactly the app I want :) I've been using IA Writer for as long as I can remember as my developer todo app. Having some more developer oriented features in the same format is perfect!
The tweet says "To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?"

So there are 53 users they are directly addressing, and then mocking "You've been damaged mentally by someone in your past."
Fascinating subject. But the article adds nothing to our knowledge about it. Vacuous.
Oh gosh, that is absolutely true. A major change in presentation when the support is dropped to be sure. On the other hand, what was the level of standardization then? Were there not massive inconsistencies across browsers when you got into fine details of implementation doing frames? Especially parent-child -relations among elements/sets/contexts which is an integral concept in definitive DOM - a grand achievement in standardized HTML format.
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That should not be far off with the current viral video market though.

I follow CGPGrey who does 3~7 min videos, and the main use case is a user looking at it when it pops up, and let it fade into the void after that.

Do that for 3M people in roughly 24h, and it’s done. The rest of the life of the video will have minimal financial returns from that point, and the creator can focus on the next viral topic.
"never intended to be archival" – HTML originated as an easy to handle stand-alone documentation standard (as a cut-down version of SGMLguid + links/anchors). The entire point of a documentation standard is backwards compatibility. Especially the just-ignore-what-is-not-implemented policy made this very promising regarding future usage, as long as major structural elements were to be honored. (Compare the drop of framesets, menus and manueitems as primary elements to represent structure and hierarchy, or the drop of major phrase elements conveying meaning and emphasis. Also, referring to the recommendation for substitutes, HTML is now not a stand-alone language anymore, but requires additional CSS.)

Opposed to this, HTML was not intended as presentation layer for fancy web-apps. (There had been better around for this in the Hypertext-world, even then.)
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But isn't that exactly the point? That decision, with Bitcoin, is distributed and decentralized.

We've always been able to decide how to add an element to the end of a (possibly cryptographically secure) chain of blocks.

What separates the two definitions of blockchain in this thread is exactly the distributed and decentralized choosing of the top block.
Who are the students though? I'd assume that parallel computing is mostly interesting for university-grade "aspiring scientists", which is reinforced by the example software (a parallel 2D Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics(SPH) code and a parallel Mandelbrot set race).

Do we assume that 18+ folks are only interested in parallel programming if it's assembled of shiny pipes?
Wow,nostalgia overload as I recall how I used to play Fool’s Errand on my Mac SE as a kid.
Soon more and more people will have access to Facebook & such stuff only, but not the real Internet? It'll get simpler, in the next presidential election in the US, for Trump and Putin to win again, via Facebook propaganda & ads?
Are you saying that it's good to base drug and abortion policies on values even though science indicates that those value based policies do more societal harm than good?

Is it a good policy to harm people as long as you are faithful to some set of values?
The E-3 visa (meant for Australians) doesn't have any work restrictions on spouses. Why isn't the administration targeting those visas/ead if this is indeed about "Hire American and buy American" ?
I am a strong advocate of PII privacy, but this does not demonstrate a privacy violation. Services need to gather data about their user's behaviour, but as long as that collection is done in an anonymized fashion and the behaviour data is not shared with third parties, I am alright with it. Queries like this are easy to do with completely anonymized data, and are actually habitually performed by service providers to understand how users use the service.
When you're an organisation the size of Netflix, it is neither necessary nor desirable for all of your staff to be able to see personal data about your users. Imagine if anyone working at Facebook or Google could just log in and read every user's posts or mail.

Obviously some people will need to be able to access whatever database holds this information for practical reasons, but that access should be restricted to the minimum necessary level and there should be processes and technical measures in place to provide oversight and prevent abuse. This is not only good practice for ethical reasons, it's also a legal requirement in places like the EU. Even the US, not normally known for its strong privacy protections, passed the Video Privacy Protection Act recognising the threat in this area.

The fact that apparently someone at Netflix was just trolling through the data in the first place and then felt the need to share it in a derogatory way implies that Netflix do not have adequate controls in place. Something is wrong here: even if the access itself was to some collective/anonymized data set, anyone with the attitude demonstrated by that tweet probably shouldn't have that level of access. As we've seen from Netflix and others before, sometimes even bulk data sets can lead to individual data subjects being identified where this was not the intention.
To me I thought it was just a joke, but I can see how it'd be taken offensively by others.

As for privacy, I'm not sure it's a big deal. Maybe the watch data that the tweeter (?) used is anonymized?
>it's flaunting how much 'scary data' you have on the users to say that a file has been accessed 56 times when everyones grandma would be fine with a viewcounter on every video.

I think it's a different matter. A viewcounter is seen as a stateless counter, increasing for every view/user but not going beyond that; Netflix's analysis is seen as stateful tracking, one that tracks a user through his consumption of data. Also, the former is content-focused, whereas the latter is arguably user-focused.
Similar situation with Grammarly which bootstrapped for a very long time (9y) and then raised $100M: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/grammarly
>> The problem is that the doomsday scenario of all of congress falling into one clique happened. Politicians all need money to get elected and stay in office. Corporate donors (and influence) is where that money comes from. And this is where I think the problem is. But I also don't think there's any solution to it. Imagine you take all money out of political campaigns. That don't stop already famous individuals from running for office and their advantage in these cases would be monumental.

Many countries such as the UK have legally enforceable limits to the amounts parties can spend on elections. This helps, the UK government is not totally in the packet of big business. The only celebratory I can think of having been elected is Glenda Jackson. Of course big business still owns most of the "popular press".
I see. Not sure what I would use as alternative way of managing my photos though. I don't like using the Photos app on my MacBook as it is too clunky. I'd like to have a single website which is just like the photo albums part of FB minus the whole social network. That would be ideal.
One fun experiment would be for a company to place all it's middle managers on gardening leave. For a year. Give them the same ability to influence as that of a very minority shareholder (i.e. none).

Then see how the bottom line fares. I see three outcomes:

1. Profits are down. Those managers added value after all.
2. Profits about the same. Those managers added nothing.
3. Profits up!! Those managers were dragging them down the whole time. Who knew?

Letting highly paid employees go is, of course, expensive. But in 2 out of those 3 scenarios the company can afford to simply keep them on gardening leave indefinitely.
Its not the code that take 5 minutes to rewrite, its the AWS entry point.
Why shouldn't someone publish their view?
I have the choice of Cox (which did this injected pop-up thing a few years ago, and for the same reason), and getting creative with mobile/satellite providers.

Phone company says that I'm too far for DSL, and they haven't deployed fiber to this area.

It would be nice if I had some kind of actual choice.
This seems highly related to https://www.wdc.com/about-wd/newsroom/press-room/2017-11-28-..., posted here on HN as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15801044.
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I built https://fromscratch.rocks which has a lot of the features, and is free :)
And it's not easy to remove, at least on Android. I can only 'disable'
Ooh that is right up my street, thanks
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I don't quite see it as offensive as that, but perhaps my skin is a bit thicker than most. I think it's easy to see it how you want to see it, so we should be careful of that.
Average westerner, maybe...
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Thanks for posting. From my perspective, seems like an even better checklist, and I'm planning to apply it to a few projects I have in mind.
Do people not Google their potential names or what?
Just semantics.

You can search right now and find programming 'blockchain tutorials', targeting the cryptocurrency community, that go on to describe only linked blocks chained together via some embedded hash of a subset of the previous blocks (meta)data. This is what others in various comments are calling a cryptograpically secured blockchain.

Other tutorials will set up a mempool (pending transactions) or get peers communicating. I've never seen peer discovery or any discussion on chain value (ie height vs accumulated difficulty) for chain selection.
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>How would there be a capitalist incentive not to do these things?
Not sure what a capitalist incentive is, but we have plenty of ways to potentially regulate this. Are you asking about technical feasibility of finding the actors responsible for it?

>Do we really need regulations?
Yes.

>Why do these things happen?
Greed/profit motive.

>Why do people think it is acceptable to pollute?
Greed/profit motive.
Just for clarification: I'm not a smoker. I don't go to restaurants with smoking areas. Noone is forcing me to, either.

I'm surprised that someone who grew up in the 80s near Chicago calls cigarettes cancer-sticks. The Illinoisans I'm familiar don't seem particularly histrionic to me. Guess you've found your place to call home in California.
In college (years ago...mid 2010s) I did a panel data regression analysis about certain types of behavior in the dorms. I conducted an anonymized survey, that asked a bunch of demographic and behavioral questions as well as ones about extra curriculars across several years. I was working on a “willingness to take risk” study. When cleaning the data (I allowed too much human entry in the first iteration of the survey) I could read the demo data and see the other activity responses and make quite confident inferences about who some of the respondents were. This Netflix thing is no surprise to me, unfortunately. I sort of feel like there should be some kind of code of ethics for Data Scientists, or maybe anyone that uses econometrics for making inferences about human behavior.
I agree that the described debating tactic exists (thank you for sharing the explanation), what I find most interesting is the bailey example given isn't that controversial ("cultural knowledge is just as valid as scientific knowledge"). I suppose it depends on the context in which it was used, but I can think of plenty of examples where such a statement would be banal.
Different countries have different priorities. That's the good thing about sovereignty. Don't like your current government's ideas? Replace them at the next election. On the other hand, you don't like the EU's ideas? Um... good luck with that. Just be glad that the EU's been relatively benign so far.
Most cities don't have poles, especially up here in the Northeast (snowstorms and such), so it's not like another cable company can come along and just string another wire to an existing pole.
> removing Soviet regime was not bloodless, that's a bullshit

Can you elaborate?

> Soviet communist regime did not evaporate, these people were still ruling Russia and still are

That's because everybody who was more pro-West got negative reinforcement of every their action and got selected out of politician population.

Basically, each time Russia tried to play friendly, something was gladly taken from it with no compensation.
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Hmm, I feel like that distinction might blur a lot if one considers human society as part of the greater surrounding ecosystem. The focus on short term thinking probably just shows how little we differ from bacteria growing to fill a petri dish.

Climate change and microplastics, in particular, went unnoticed for a long time. Now that we know about them, fossil fuels and plastics are too entrenched in our lifestyles for us to be able to do much. And we still don't know what their ultimate consequences will be, but it's generally assumed it won't be good.

That said, it probably makes more sense to think of modified genomes spreading in terms of invasive species. A relatively small act or change can upset a delicate balance in a very unpredictable way. And once that happens it doesn't matter if you stop. The damage is done and will continue on its own, you'll just have to wait (several human lifespans) for the system to right itself. And hope it doesn't stumble right onto you in the process.
I'm not saying Netflix exposes all personal data to all their staff, and it's very likely that the PR staff have no direct access to this data whatsoever.

Here's likely what happened: DB admin guy runs a query to see who has the highest number of views for any movie last month. Notices that there are a lot of watches for A Christmas Prince. Laughs about it to his officemates, word spreads, and finally the PR department knows about it. Guy in the department thinks it's so funny that he makes a Twitter post about it. Gets past review due to sheer probability.

So yes, it's somewhat weird that they released the anonymized information, but I don't think that it's outright scary.
I think it is meant to benefit US mid-tier tech workers, who are expected to experience less competition and downward wage pressure as the attractiveness (and even feasibility) of work in the US is substantially decreased for couples not consisting of at least one 'superstar' (persons earning well over $100k as an individual, or couples in which both members are earners at the top end of the ability distribution). I guess we'll see if that expectation bears out, of if companies respond by offshoring.
It's not that strange since all countries are well aware that any country that would start a third world war would get annihilated within minutes by the rest of the world.

If World War 3 didn't start during the Cuba Missile Crisis, it's extremely unlikely it would start now, not just because of the increased nuclear arsenals that all participants have accumulated since then but also for very trivial economic reasons.
That's a great country
Exactly, this a storm in a teacup.
>the fact that it looks really cool likely has surprisingly strong effects on student motivation and work/attention levels

This. The first step to teaching anyone anything is to grab their attention. Especially kids/teens.

But I'll admit, the price is too steep. They can definitely do better
What you are saying is correct. It might not offend many, and it surely doesn't offend me, but the #1 rule of PR is that if you have the slightest thought that there's a hidden meaning of your statement, or if someone could conceivably take your statement the wrong way, it will be taken the wrong way, perhaps by thousands.

Example: "Come in for a spa and get a free steak rib at a local restaurant" sounds 100% innocent, but there is a small fraction of a percent chance that someone might think "But what about an offer for me, since I don't eat meat?!" In public relations, probability values get converted to a number of real humans, so PR staff has to be aware of this probability of everything they post (which is always nonzero). That of course doesn't mean it shouldn't be posted, but they shouldn't be surprised when they get 20 negative comments if 100,000 people see their statement. It's a tradeoff considering the gain of making a statement.

Twitter's post easily breaks this rule without much subtlety.
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Everyone is offended these days, it's really become quite ridiculous, I think that sooner or later PC's will be sold with their own safe space.
That's an easy position to take if you are not one of the 53 people in question.
You want to crop a photo over the shoulder of a friend's computer.
You're going to grab the keyboard and do it in a minute in the browser with this, or spend as much time installing gimp on their computer?
It can take a while to get used to the lingo:

Professional person that agrees with you - expert.

Professional person that disagrees with you - shill.

I’m conflicted on this. I do not think the Obama era measures are the be all and end all of net neutrality legislation, but Trump’s blatant pro big business and anticompetitive instincts are always a threat to consumer interests. Whichever way we as individuals decide or lean, it’s always worth listening to both sides of the argument.