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I've already seen this happen with commercial spammers in Germany.
For a while I got a ton of really annoying spam, advertising for big name brands, but organized by some spam racket with no way to opt out and registered in some foreign country.

Some Googling led me to the trial of some German woman who was quite notorious among the anti-scammer community for running several spam rackets. People would spend a lot of time figuring out her connections between different font companies, data brokers, and whatnot.

Until one day Googling her name wouldn't give any results at all; Couldn't look up any addresses anymore, couldn't look up company registers with her name anymore, it all just came up blank with a notification on the bottom of the search results, informing me that Google removed some results due to the EU right to be forgotten.

It's very likely this woman is still running a very profitable spamming business with a side-business of selling data caches. Sure, one could argue that it's actually government agencies job to handle something like that, but these agencies also depend on search results, especially with something as obscure as the spam industry.
CPAs have been going down since forever. So yep, no monopoly here, plenty of competition.

People who talk about FB or Google "monopoly" don't understand what a monopoly is.
I do believe they are capturing microphone data because I can't think of any other explanation for the japanese ads (not about japanese stuff but actually written in japanese) I saw when rewatching my old anime DVDs.

I was watching anime in a old TV without any internet connection and at the same time browsing reddit on my laptop. Things like this make me feel no guilt for using ad-blocks.
The full list: https://gitlab.com/rlease/Books

My list lines up with a lot of books that people have recommended here, so I'll try to add a few favorites that haven't been mentioned so far.

Fiction:

1. Ubik - I read a bunch of Philip K. Dick this year, but this was my favorite. It's delightfully mind bending and left me thinking about it long after the book was done.

2. All the Pretty Horses - Beautifully written. McCarthy has an uncanny ability to paint with words.

3. Cannery Row - Short, witty, and full of interesting characters.

Nonfiction:

1. The Idea Factory - A dive into how Bell Labs became such an innovation powerhouse and gives a rounded picture of the figureheads that brought it so much fame.

2. Moonwalking with Einstein - A fun read about a journalist who took researching a memory competition a bit too seriously.

3. Countdown to Zero Day - A fascinating look at the development and deployment of Stuxnet -- the virus built to set Iran's nuclear program back.
Both right and left wing propaganda is strong and coordinated these days. I can't say anything that doesn't toe the line with either side and not have them look at me like I'm an asshole. I've been called both a socialist welfare state supporter and a reactionary corporate feudalist. Which is it folks. The division is worse than it ever was in my lifetime.
In other words, repetition of the same mistakes implies higher probability of copying
> the E2E encryption that is in there is not as well tested

There's an open $200k bounty for years now. Some "expert in the field" (who just happens to work for not one but two competitors -- yes, I'm looking at you, /u/moxie) posted a blog post right afterwards, about a competition not being the same as a proper design / security audit, and that's correct. But I've seen people try and fail over the years: the crypto holds. Moxie and co would have loved to see it fall too much not to have had a stab at it, never mind the bounty, but apparently they failed.

I think the e2e in Telegram is solid. If you're really paranoid about some file in particular, you can always send an encrypted zip or GPG encrypt it -- I'd recommend that anyway, since otherwise your chat's encryption keys (which are in use all the time, thus quite easy to get at) also unlock that sensitive file.

> For non-phone related use I'd go for Wire https://wire.com/en/ encryption wise.

I would recommend Wire.com too. This needs more awareness, since it does everything we've ever wanted, has the protocol everyone seems to support, is open source, works on all popular platforms, etc. Except nobody uses it, so the network effect is not there :(
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That's what I've been doing. I had ~1,800 images to read, machine could only read about 900 so I tossed like $20 at it ($0.02 / image) and it is pretty good accuracy.

MTurk is hit and miss when it comes to workers, some will just click buttons to see if they can get paid, others completely knock it out of the park.

I have another project that I have put about $100 in so far and had decent results (incredibly quickly too!)

Getting my work to "good enough", then tossing the rest on Mturk is much, much cheaper in the long run.
Windows 10 updates are far more disruptive than XP's ever were.
I've commented elsewhere, but I received refunds for HP Touchpad purchases.

HP ceasing to activate Touchpad is a bit of an issue, but at least you can reactivate one by restoring a backup profile, your own or a generic one found online.
For me, the annoyance comes from not being able to tell if the operation has stalled ("Did it just inch forward, or was that just a pulse?"), which decreases the amount of useful information available to me.

I would guess this is done intentionally, to keep impatient people from canceling the operation when they should really just let it run. If that's the case, however, I would argue that the real problem is not providing enough feedback to indicate whether the operation is still proceeding as planned. Ie, whether a long wait is expected at this step or not. I wonder if a progress bar is really the best indicator for this purpose.
Minified javascript isn't really open source either.
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It is also the only industry where people broadcast (and champion) to ability to get a $120K job after a 6-week bootcamp.

I'd say the two are related.
What are you summarizing here exactly, how money was invented? It sounds very neat!
I think the level of stratification is unique to North Korea. They did this with a traditional bureaucracy too. Imagine what they could do with modern tech. Well, that's what China will do...
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This is just protectionism at its finest. You better don’t think that would happen if FB was a french company. The industrial-governmental-complex is stronger in France than anywhere else in the western world.
The equation arguably is different with EVs but one concern I have with used luxury brands like BMW is that out of warranty dealer service can get really expensive in a hurry. Although I'm not sure at this point how good a handle anyone has on the long-term costs of EVs vs. ICEs across manufacturers.
What about Lazarus? Free, open-source, Delphi-like...
It was a preface to that list, as in "if you don't solve this one, don't bother reading the rest of the list." That makes it the most important thing...that's how I read it anyways.
I don’t know either country well, but a quick read suggests Switzerland offers far more to those who have little - social welfare, healthcare, education and support etc. Is it possible that this gets hidden with the PPP? I know GDP per person doesn’t show it either, but seeing the huge difference between the two immediately got me looking for what goes on there.
I don't think STV presents any function that would really prevent gerrymandering. The only thing it might do is allow entry of third parties, but even that's not guaranteed. But a party could still design districts that they'd always have a shot at the second round in every district while other parties don't.

What could potentially help is to have a legislative body not determined by geography, possibly some kind of proportional party system (the downside being you need to make parties a formal part of the system, but they'll always be present anyways), that must ratify redistricting proposals and can challenge currently drawn districts.
Technical debt is also more costly to pay in terms of morale. Slogging through painful refactors for weeks on end can pretty quickly make me start to resent my job and question whether this is a product I want to work on.
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Seriously? Do you mean real table salt (sodium chloride) will do this or just kidding (yes, I have read, watched and played Dune, all of them)? If yes, can potassium chloride do the same?
I was working for a company that got bought by them. Gave us all one of those tests. Also, they gave us 3 days to sign a no-compete or GTFO.
There's really not much difference between the two other than that for someone in TN status unlike someone in H-1B status (1) the intent to apply for a green card should occur after his or her most recent entry to the U.S. and (2) once a green card application is filed, he or she won't be able to travel internationally until he or she receives a temporary travel document called an advance parole.
I would ordinarily just ignore this, but I know you and you've said a sensible thing that one time, so what do you mean by this?
So, just tons of STDs and overpopulation?
> People scraping together a few thousand dollars to buy a beater ICE so they can get to work are not doing TCO analyses

Is that something you’ve studied, or are you just guessing? You don’t think there are people with low incomes who budget aggressively?
Manhattan doesn’t have bad weather at all. It’s pretty well rounded. Some days a little too hot and some days a little too cold but never heat as oppressive as Georgia or cold as frigid as Maine.
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Rich people live in places like New York City, Boston, D.C., Chicago, and Toronto. The weather isn't that big of a deal to most people. Not being close to the mountains or ocean can be kind of a drag.

And as a rule, rich people don't like spending money if they don't have to. Developers are expensive in high cost of living areas and largely don't need to live there in order to do their job. You can pay a developer in Pittsburgh $100k and they'll love you for that salary, whereas you're barely scraping by in other locations.

I also think your critique of the "Midwest" is not fair. Unfortunately the term has come to be associated with states like Nebraska, which are without question boring, flat, farmland, but states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania are full of beautiful areas with quite a bit to do. Additionally, the "Midwest" does not have a high cost of living, unless you mean Chicago itself (which still does not have a high cost of living compared to other actual high cost of living cities) and there are 5 states that border the Great Lakes.
Ugh, I hope not. Python looks too much like Visual Basic.
In the context of the post this is the very first "lesson" the author displays. He then expands on his claim with a bunch of metrics. There is nothing to infer hyperbolicity, no implied sarcasm or joke, and any well-intentioned writer would not waste their reader's time with nonsense masked as a statistic.
Ya. I mean, Trump has far more overt supporters in Zhongguangcun than Silicon Valley. Nothing is off the table for discussion, though you only talk about Chinese politics in smaller groups.
This I think is the most important question in search of a better web architecture. You could say it's the HTML vs LaTeX question. I don't mean the "hard to develop with macros and mountains of documentation and ungraspable errors and imcompatible packages" aspect to LaTeX. But rather the question of introspection. (Think also of bibtex and how to compile a document relying on it)

IMHO both approaches are crap and barely work. I don't actually think HTML supports web searches or semantics very well, and obviously it is painful to develop interactive applications in, as well. Same goes for LaTeX, even though it's coming from the other side.

I think we should have containers instead, with in-band data (somewhere linked in a for-the-web assembly language) and out-of-band metadata (in various formats, to support search engines or other enterprises).. Granted, site providers could play tricks by serving disagreeing data over these channels, but in a way that's possible even now with HTML.
Babylonian Cuneiform.
> taking our data

Hang on. You're GIVING it the data. People want "free" services, so I'm genuinely curious what people actually expect is going to happen when they use WhatsApp. Is it just something provided benevolently? How does WhatsApp make money? Are people really so ignorant to think that they can get a free lunch?

There's an implied quid pro quo -- you use a free service in exchange for providing data used to sell you products from advertisers.

You want to protect your privacy? Stop using so-called "free" services where you are the product.

Why should this even need regulation? People are making a choice to use Facebook/WA when they could be using conventional SMS or iMessage. But they get mad about paying for SMS -- so they trade privacy for "free." That's on the user. Who's supposed to pay for WhatsApp to run? Other than the early days when people paid $1/€1, it's free to users. Who pays for it?

> having employees in our countries

So providing jobs is a bad thing? What's the unemployment rate in France? It's over 10%. It seems like FB/etc. are actually providing a benefit to the country. Those employees also pay taxes, and buy stuff, thus benefiting the economy. You should be glad they have employees in those countries. I'm sure the employees are glad to have a job!

> owning property in our countries

And paying property tax. And making improvements. And attracting further economic development.

> owning critical infrastructure in our countries

?? They don't own the phone companies -- it's people's choice to not use conventional SMS, but conventional SMS and phone lines still exist. WhatsApp is hardly 'critical'. Any nontrivial use of WhatsApp (i.e. by emergency services) is just stupid. That's on the population, not the fault of Facebook and friends.
> it's probably hacked by most of the agencies

umm... citation needed?
Click through to the competitions. My point was that here are current competitions giving you an idea of the state of the art. These are not student competitions or top coder things.

For example the Robust Reading on COCO text:

http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=5
Not really, no. Especially in cities and immediate suburbs, the Midwest has diversity and is welcoming of new people. Maybe you should come to Chicago or Cleveland or Columbus or Milwaukee sometime and see for yourself.
This article is confusing, and sounds confused, but I feel like a lot of problems like this could be solved by Adobe open sourcing the Flash Player. If they did this, we would have a complete, correct view of how each and every feature in the Player was implemented, and a working implementation to compare to.

In the sense that there is so much art locked away in SWF blobs which don't quite work with gnash or shumway. The last patent needed for MP3 decoders will, IIRC, expire at the end of this month, so we can include one of those everywhere too (essential for most SWFs).

Also, it'd be nice to have access to the Shockwave player, boy oh boy, I think just about nobody has tried to reimplement that (probably due in part to XTRAs and other fun). There's still plenty of Shockwave content out there, don't know if anyone here remembers playing the Gorillaz Final Drive gamette, IIRC released to promote 19-2000, or any number of other cool things people were doing with Director.
Use the Eclipse Launcher without uploading to the cloud
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Indeed. Otherwise within 5 years Disney may end-up buying both HBO and Netflix, because those two can't compete without content (especially after Disney pulls Marvel's IP from Netflix, which will wipe out the large majority of Netflix's own successful shows).

And let's not forget who keeps fighting for draconian copyright laws every 20 years -- Disney. I don't think we want Disney to become any larger/more powerful.
Have you ever been denied a flight boarding in the states because your social credit score was too low?
10-30% of their exit will go back to ohio to be reinvested, too. that 10-30% goes a hell of a lot farther out there, where office rent is 1/10th and engineers cost 1/2 as much as bay area.
The key would be some fiber optic enabled always on teleconferencing pipe which connected teams in Silicon Valley to teams in the Midwest. At this point the differential for rents and cost of living between the two locales is high enough that it would far surpass the Verizon Fios/Google Fiber monthly bill.

That said, my bet would be Fresno, Brentwood, Sacramento, Morgan Hill, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Madera. California High Speed Rail is going to be a game changer. Plus even today those locations are on the way to VC vacation destinations (i.e. Yosemite, Tahoe, Monterey) which could then be expensed as business travel. And they are in the same timezone.
> Medrano comes from a Mexican-American family and speaks Spanish, so understanding the Spanish census document was no problem. Handling numbers and data came naturally to him as well, as an economics major. The challenge, as both Medrano and Urton note, seemed to demand a perfect alignment of his skills and interests.

I wonder how many unsolved problems there are out there with this problem. Problems that are solvable, they just lack one mind that can view the issue from the proper perspective.

I suspect that as the breadth of human knowledge increases, this type of problem will become more and more common.
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> I would say fooling your mind is not easy.

Just responding to this: fooling your mind is not hard. Even very rational, skeptical minds engage in self deception all the time. Our minds are so unbelievably malleable. We are all wired to be prone to biases and unexamined schemas. These just look different for rational types.

On the other hand, it is possible to achieve results by not fooling your mind, but simply by reframing one's own thoughts. This is the basis of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which works very well in helping manage negative feedback loops.

Often times our negative emotions are caused by feedback loops, therefore it stands to reason that we need a method to moderate these overactive loops. CBT is one of a few approaches that have been shown to work well for a significant number of people (nothing works 100% of course).

Guy Winch alludes to this in a TED Talk (I think TED talks are oversimplifications, but this one does present some good salient points about emotional hygiene and loneliness which I have found to be helpful in my own life)

https://www.ted.com/talks/guy_winch_the_case_for_emotional_h...
I switched to an iPhone because of this. I may not know everything that's going on behind the scenes with my phone, and I may not be able to tweak the hell out of it, but I do know that Apple's entire business isn't built around using personal info to sell ads. That's reason enough to stick with them if I really care about privacy/invasiveness. I'm sure they're not perfect either, but I just really do not trust Google anymore.
What do you mean by diverse talent?
But you will still be coming to the U.S. to work for the sponsoring H-1B company? If so, then you should be fine even though your employment in India has changed.
Is it okay to enter the US on a B1/B2 visa in order to work on a personal project (that's funded by myself only) for a couple of months, and look for partners/investors?

Thanks for the AMA!
It's appropriate in search, if you use the data as features to improve recall
When you refuse to choose between stalin and hitler, you will have the unique opportunity to be called a nazi and communist at the same time...

strange times!
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Your prof has outdated information.

TOU (Time of Use) rates are becoming more and more common.

In 2019, TOU rates will be the default rate structure for new accounts in California. Many more states are following suite.

Even if they're not the default, tons of places have opt-in TOU structures. EV owners and home storage owners use this a lot.

Some states have even already adopted complicated shit only seen in C&I customers: demand charges. Basically, a portion of your bill will be dependent on your peak demand during a period (ie peak kW, not total kWh).
Interviewing wasn't ruled out. Just all day interviewing.
no access to large water bodies outside of Chicago area

The great state of Michigan would like to have a word with you.

It also has high taxes and cost of living.

Wait a minute, are we still talking about the Midwest of the United States? Because high taxes and COL are the last two things I think of when I think “Midwest”.

But cold, flat, and boring I’ll grant you. I don’t live in Indiana anymore for good reason.
The git CLI is horribly inconsistent.

http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/
> It took over a year of searching in SV for me to find my current job because of it. Why is this the only industry in existence with such an accepted process?

Find some lawyer friends, ask them about the bar exam.

Find some doctor friends, ask them about what it took to become a full doctor.

Etc.

Software Engineers don't have those hoops to jump through. Anyone can call themselves a software engineer (in the US at least, other countries have legal requirements around the title). As a result it's up to the employer to do the weeding out of people who are no good.

Is it fair? Not at all. Is it always necessary? Def not. Does it make sense when software runs the world? Yes.

Ask employers and they'll tell you that over 50% of software engineer applicants can't even write a for loop. We're not talking "serious coding" here, we're talking "count to 5".
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I had the "nobody sees me" philosophy for a while and ended up with a few accidents with drivers not using turn signals, not giving right of way at an intersection, or just running red lights. The worst was crashing into the side of a bus that ran through an intersection and then getting into an argument with the bus driver while I'm bleeding and concussed.

I now bike as if every driver has a mild incentive to hit me if they can so I don't trust turn signals, I run through red lights if it's clear for me, go down one way streets the wrong way to avoid traffic, flip off drivers who tailgate me when they can pass, etc. I'm "that cyclist" but it's what you have to do to survive. Zero accidents or even close calls so far this year.
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