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Re: crypto, it's relatively easy to get into and there seem to be a lot of success stories, so yeah, a lot of people jump into those which boosts the price to bubble proportions. I'm fairly sure we're going to see a crash after new year's, once tax evasion periods have passed.

But when it comes to the stock market, I think there's a lot of people that have gotten on board with that in recent years; at least from my own perspective, regular boring old savings account have gone from 5% or more down to 0.5% or even negative interest in some cases; this is probably due to EU-wide laws to help economic growth in the less economically well-to-do countries, but still.

On the plus side of that equation however, is that mortgage interest rates are still very low. I bought a house this year and fixed the interest for 30 years, I'm sure it's going to go up again soon enough.
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Because it's difficult to objectively measure stress and pleasure between people.
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This one is much better https://www.reddit.com/user/tensorfakes/posts/ (NSFW porn of course)
Depending on the hack, I’ll be using Haskell or C. Why mess with the things in between? (What’s up with everyone nowadays using a misbegotten child of the browser wars as their main language?)

What is it with so many Haskell folks being so full of themselves?
> All this not only takes a huge amount of work, it also punctures the design integrity of your system, making it into a huge mountain of compatibility hacks before you even start on your own new concepts.

One possible approach that doesn't require writing a full compatibility layer is virtualization. Run your new system alongside a mature system like Linux, then rig it up so windows can appear inside whatever new environment you come up with. You do still need to write the code to send events and get pixel buffers, but it seems like much less work overall.
I'll have a "P" please, Bob.

https://youtu.be/7Kes23z_oAw?t=2m1s
The data is for a really arbitrary timespan, why 2000-2014?

It’s clearly missing data, Finland for example had more than two mass shootings during those years.

The numbers look bad because they are bad, they may however be bad for different reasons than I originally suggested.
Because they're already laying the groundwork that it was his fault, not the trigger happy cops.
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> That implies they must find a lot of suckers to sell to. Stock prices are usually driven by analysts who spend their days analyzing companies to predict future performance. Good luck fooling them all.

It actually indicates something a bit different. CEO's optimize for their own compensation with bonuses and similar set by quarterly goals. They optimize for meeting goals over company performance.

Externally, companies work on perception. Analysts have no way of knowing if good R&D is still going on or if sales figures are getting inflated. They operate only on externally-visible information. Hence, CEOs (who expect an average tenure of three years) optimize for externally-visible information on metrics over long-term performance.

They also optimize for graft to the board members (so they can keep their jobs), but that's a whole different story.

The exception seem to be founder-run companies. Founders have an emotional stake, a more significant long-term financial stake, and have not gone through the corrupting process of becoming a CEO. Which of those is dominant? Your guess is as good as mine.
In that case we're talking about a few million jobs because the parts manufacturers, service providers, all applications and application developers using the systems and many others. Fine with me, I was originally pointing out that the number was greater than the 150k the person I responded to was assuming.
This. You’re not serving man by discounting half the population. Period.
Now i suspect that someone will come up with a totally different list - in ten years when you will be finished with this one. (i foreone still didn't get what those monads are all about :-) (nothing to be proud about...)
So all this time being "unable to" tax giants was a lie.
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I really like the twipe straight up from '123' through '.' to ' ' but it feels like an implementation mistake not to consider that action a space after a dot which is supposed to return the keyboard to ABC. Instead it stays on 123.
I hate to be the one to say it, but Apple’s the only company anywhere near the capacity to make a new platform happen.
You will be happy to read this famous post if you haven't yet - log instead of database is a great abstraction!
https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
Yes, the R engine is external. It can be installed on the same machine to improve performance. You'll have to manage R and Postgres separately, but the communication between them can be streamlined (e.g. what is done in PL/R).

This is typically how R-integration is done. The benefit of this is that the R process is isolated from the DB engine process and any issues with the R engine will not cause a major failure with the DB engine. If somebody integrated the R runtime in the same process as Postgres, the R session crashing could lead to entire DB going down as well.

MSSQL's and Oracle's R integration work the same way. They spawn separate R processes and communicate with them.

Note that there's a nuance to "spawn a separate R process." Some pieces of software spawn R using the command line and communicate using temporary directories. Others use JRI, which loads the R library into Java and calls R using API calls.
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It not only can be, but it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApG1XdI-Dd4 there were a few months when JA didn't give any sign and people on /r/wikileaks started asking if he's still alive, then this video was posted. It's fake.
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The hiding of file formats behind the application isn't new, but that doesn't make them go away. Should the app ever die, necessitating a migration, then the file formats will suddenly become painfully relevant again.

We need a universal file format similar to plaintext but has standards-based extensions for storing data in that all applications can extract to. That way software can finally achieve paper's universality.

It's the first step on the road to making information technology truly worthy of the name. The next would be easy-to-use programming platforms. Like Excel or Visual Basic but not shitty.
Plausible deniability doesn't really work in real life though. Very few people are going to give you, or anyone accused of an indiscretion, the benefit of the doubt on the basis that a video might have been faked with AI. That is much less plausible than someone cheating and getting caught.

If you think anyone is going to accept that a video is fake, even if it is, then you're woefully naive.
It could also be used as a convincing tool to dismiss any proof, even legit ones, as fabricated. More or less the equivalent of "Your honor, that picture (of a cop shooting an unarmed civilian) is clearly photoshopped!".

I'm excited about the technology though concerned about possible abuses.
There's a little problem with the scale. All of the ones that you have mentioned in total would be dwarfed by the numbers of USSR + China.
I’m sure they haven’t thought of this yet. Please tell me more.
Also related. You'd never guess it from the name but Human Resource Machine [1] is also a low level programming game.

[1] https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine
Knowing Theresa May it's probably a lot to do with Facebook's refusal to hand over WhatsApp end-to-end encrypted chat logs.

She hates encryption.
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“Can’t avoid death, so might as well die a ridiculously stupid, horrific one at 35 instead of a calm, peaceful one at 80 surrounded by loved ones.”
Haha. That was my first thought too. This is in desperate need of an easter egg where you get to go on a gold run!
At the scale of Google and Facebook, I'm not sure it's possible to individually "know" their customer.
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Consistency has never been one of Reddit's management strengths. They seem to have embraced the reactionary model of moderating the site.
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I came here to say the same thing. If they want to enjoy the benefits of operating in a securely governed nation with mature infrastructure then they can damn well chip in to help pay for it
For the New Year's day, Hacker News gives you porn links.
In several instances being honest has cost me socially. There doesn't seem to be a solution that doesn't ultimately result in rejection. Unless ofcourse you're willing to lie.
Once you've tasted cold-pressed water you won't drink anything else.
They have one at the Compute History Museum, although it’s behind glass. It’s worth going here for everything else they have too - try to go when they have an IBM 1401 demo going.
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> Parc was "effectively non-profit" because of our agreement with Xerox, which also included the ability to publish our results in public writings (this was a constant battle with Xerox).

Parc was "effectively non-profit" because there was no way to collect or monetize reams of user data like there is today. If there had been, either Kay wouldn't have gotten that agreement or Parc would have been much more selective about what constituted "results."

For example: how many companies have solved the talk-to-our-computers-and-our-computers-talk-back problem now?
I'm not sure it's important to debate whether software itself is _good_ or _bad_. It just is; a means to an end. We should of course debate whether the applications we build are good or bad. Many on this site consider Facebook to be bad (I don't really agree). On the other hand most people probably consider software which lands planes, drives cars, ensures accurate accounting, etc. to be good.
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(My 2 cents, I work alone doing mostly professional web apps)

I’ve been coding for around 35 years, and I’m bored. I really am.

The point of developing software (at least in my vision) is to solve problems. But growing old, I like to find solutions « in my head » (or on paper or white board).
And once I found the solution, I lost 100% of my interest in the problem.
And it’s precisely the moment I have to start coding the solution !

So I try different frameworks or different languages to keep the interest on coding.

It’s a bit sad I know, but I like learning new stuff or languages so that’s why I keep going on (and mostly enjoying my job).
I only had 3 or 4 games, they refunded the money. I only rebought 1 game after the incident because there was no alternative and I really wanted it. Now I wont buy anything else through steam, even if there's no other option.
I have seen people in physics and other physical sciences work with statistics. My sense is that the less someone has to worry about "measurement error", the less intuitive statics seems to them.

For example, in some areas of research, once you have the right instrument take measurements, you can just plot the results, and your measurements (or some transformation of them) will show up as a linear function of whatever you manipulated.

But really, I'm not totally sure what you mean, since in any situation where there's uncertainty, it makes sense to me that you'd want to try to capture that uncertainty in your analysis, and that's statistics. Make those analyses more complex (e.g. taking measurements from a field with obvious spatial dependence between measures), and the models become more complex too.
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If you think that companies by introverts are undervalued, a ton of money could be made exploiting this trend.
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It was magical for me.
Since Reddit admins have no natural morality that they have displayed, they will wait until more press gets launched with bad PR for the site. Then they will selectively respond based on what their loudest commenters say.

It seems like they could establish some basic moral rules they prefer and then objectively apply them. But they choose not to for some reason.
From the same article:

> It is usually limited to ingestion of only uncooked fruits or vegetables

I'm actually susceptible to this to some degree during hayfever season too. Unfortunately I can't eat some fresh, raw fruit during that time without getting a very itchy mouth. It's hardly a dealbreaker for a plant-based diet though.
If you think people shouldn't be allowed to say certain things, you need to be going after the people saying those things, not the technology they're using to say it.
The comparison is with an environment where the mouse, windowing and Ethernet were created.

Billions poured into AI have produced some interesting tricks but little that changed the entire world of computing in the way those things have.
Absolutely. I'd be surprised if the NSA and GCHQ who we know already try to use porn and sexual scandals to discredit politicians and other "targets", aren't already using this or at least deep into researching it for their operations.

https://www.washington.edu/news/2017/07/11/lip-syncing-obama...

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25118156

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/gchq-using-online...
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Agreed. If there were far fewer guns, Police wouldn't be assuming a concealed weapon anywhere near as much as they do now.

I think Police training needs to be changed significantly as well though. Training Police to de-escalate situations, and to deal with normal people who are scared, in danger, and unpredictable but not malicious - this is the significant majority.

Police in America seem to act like soldiers, and forget that the people in front of them deserve protection as much as everyone else, not least because they are innocent until proven guilty in a court.
> Can you really not imagine a situation where a cop would reasonably fear for their life? Really?

This is just a blatant straw-man argument. The real issue is whether unreasonable claims that an officer acted out of a fear for his life should effectively be 'get out of jail' cards.
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What does self-completion mean?
It’s possible for retail banks with tens of millions of customers to KYC, I’m sure it’s not an insurmountable problem
Being able to convey the various types of lies is an important part of social interaction. If you can't or won't people dislike you, because you are not giving them the answers they want.
Yes, exactly.

> It isn’t difficult to imagine an amateur programmer running their own algorithm to create a sex tape of someone they want to harass.

If it's trivial to fake a porn video with anyone's face on it, then the burden of proof is on the harasser to demonstrate how this one's real.

Or you can take said video and put some famous people's face on it as a response.

Also, the source video probably existed before and was more or less publicly available, which is proof that the version with your face is the fake one.

(And if you're facing an enemy that has enough ressources to shoot a specially-made porn video just to smite you, you have bigger problems to worry about).
Extrapolating this means companies like Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon in the near future should have the technology and the data to be able to recreate almost anyone's voice and likeness in audio and video. Also I guess fake news will be much more if a problem.
Hope you dont use the Google keyboard provided with your phone.

I find protecting my data from the marketing parasite is a constant compromise with usability.
There's always Ray Dalio's of Bridgewater school of Radical Transparency.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/12/bridgewaters-ray-dalio-the-l...

If you enjoy crying at your desk anyway.
People pretty quickly learn whether or not "blameless retrospectives" are actually blameless. There are a number of examples of corporate culture that is enforced from the top down where being honest is rewarded. The most extreme is probably Bridgewater.
While I don't want to die from a change in the weather while climbing, to take on Mother Nature and lose seems a bit more acceptable than to die because I was stuck in a human traffic jam caused by a dentist from Akron going through a midlife crisis who is using Everest as a coping mechanism. Once upon a time I had climbing the seven summits as a goal but with the way things are on Everest now, I'd never attempt it regardless the quality of my own skills. There are just too many inexperienced climbers and too many ways they can cause harm beyond themselves.
> WhatsApp has also contributed monetarily and with software. You need to know that Facebook only recently bought WhatsApp.

Coming up on almost 4 years now since the WhatsApp acquisition was announced (Feb 2014) and over 3 years since the acquisition closed (Oct 2014). [1] [2]

I wouldn't call either date "recently"

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/19/technology/social/facebook-w...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-28/facebook-...
Ah, but not just any curve will do, will it. You need a lot of "scary looking math" to make your case for where you draw that curve.
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Relevant article: https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-dele...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16035721

It's quite alarming how central a role Facebook plays in global affairs and how it's shaping current events.
Let's say everything written here is accurate, not cherry picked, and fully contextualized.

Even assuming all that, I'm not sure this site could ever convince me it is a 'problem', given the clear purpose of this site is to sell me something to fix that 'problem'.

That said, this infographic is missing a lot of context, and basically any sort of rigorous analysis.
TIS-100 is DRM free, buying it through Steam is self-inflicted DRM, you won't be able to run the game without logging into Steam. Maybe there are some hoops you can jump through to get it to run, but I don't want to. I now have a stand-alone installer that I can run anywhere I want, even without internet, and I obtained it "legally".
> That might work well for your crud day job, but for your own projects, why not learn from the mistakes of others and not your own?

There's value in learning from others, but in general, people learn more quickly from trying things right away.
You could live to be 100, but you're going to die, and be dead for the rest of eternity. What's the difference between 30 and 100 measured against eternity? Both numbers are infinitesimally small. Be afraid of that, cower before it. Go on the internet to call anyone who isn't an idiot. Hide behind an illusory concept of productivity.
As someone with a generally cynical/pessimistic outlook I too, like blunte, want to see something positive in this.

Hopefully, since it can't be stopped, it becomes so routinely used against so many people that everyone stops caring any more if it's real or fake.

It's sad that our attitudes (if not behaviour) towards sex are still so fucked up and judgemental thanks to thousands of years of religious/Victorian/puritanical brainwashing and guilt-tripping.
That's really the issue, isn't it? That nearly all data is at least somewhat noisy. Making inferences from it is just a big blur without a systematic way to handle it.
This is what's being accomplished by one amateur with a little bit of hardware. Imagine what will happen when you have professional services (legal or otherwise) making altered videos of whoever or whatever you want.

Want court evidence of your wife cheating? Fake grainy hidden camera video. Want to discredit a politician? Here he is picking up a male escort and using racial slurs. These sorts of things could be used to start wars.

Sure, deeper analysis might prove that this video isn't real, but that won't stop the immediate public reaction and response. The knee-jerk reaction to what the public sees is the end-goal. I'll bet good money that this technology plays a major role in future elections.
Who are "they"? I was replying to a person postulating that rescue is impossible. My point it's not impossible it's impractical given the resources that would need to be allocated to solving this problem.
I’m not sure about passwords. But I have left clearly explained how my family should use my private keys for my Bitcoin and Ethereum cold wallets.
> Sony's fancy graphics driver can just be a closed-source out-of-tree driver, which would be perfectly compliant with GPL.

This is a loophole with the GPL, not the way it is intended to be used. It is far from clear if this is even legal. The Linux developers are split on the issue, but no one seems to care enough to press charges.
> It takes effort to hit "Forward", select everyone in your address book, and send that email

This was mostly done by computer illiterate grandpas, so I would say it was pretty easy to do.
This is the difference between Research(which Kay excelled at) and Development and Commercialization (which he didn’t). Both are important. The latter requires focus, discipline and deadlines.
That's what I said on the article comment. There's a medium reference of gray honesty. The people not wanting honesty are probably scared about some previous negative event that led them to hide some things.

Society converged onto the idea of different degrees of honesty. Probably for a reason.
That's true right now because video fakes are new and rare. Photoshop fakes have been around for years, and now when there's an apparent nude photo of someone famous, people generally assume it's fake unless there's a particular reason to believe it's real, such as a publicized hack.

On the other hand, video of an intimate partner may have enough behavioral cues so fakes aren't much of an issue, unless the attacker has started with video surveillance of the target.
It's hard to see what that claim exactly means.

There was very interesting and kind of deep interview with Edward Witten recently and he goes unusually philosophical https://www.quantamagazine.org/edward-witten-ponders-the-nat...

>What’s an example of something else we might need?

>Maybe a bulk description of the quantum properties of space-time itself, rather than a holographic boundary description. There hasn’t been much progress in a long time in getting a better bulk description. And I think that might be because the answer is of a different kind than anything we’re used to. That would be my guess.

Interview uses Wheeler's "It from bit" as background.

>I tend to assume that space-time and everything in it are in some sense emergent. By the way, you’ll certainly find that that’s what Wheeler expected in his essay. As you’ll read, he thought the continuum was wrong in both physics and math. He did not think one’s microscopic description of space-time should use a continuum of any kind — neither a continuum of space nor a continuum of time, nor even a continuum of real numbers. On the space and time, I’m sympathetic to that. On the real numbers, I’ve got to plead ignorance or agnosticism. It is something I wonder about, but I’ve tried to imagine what it could mean to not use the continuum of real numbers, and the one logician I tried discussing it with didn’t help me.
Except when Apple forced Jobs to step down in the 90s.
1password has the ability to generate one-time passwords for MFA. It shows up as a type of field in each entry.
That's the whole point of Apple. Vendor lock in.