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I would largely agree with others' rankings above, I only find the placement of Google anomalous. I'd go with

Apple > Microsoft >> Amazon >>>> Google == Facebook

The fact that Apple, Microsoft and Amazon run on business models where products are primarily charged for makes a big difference. Then, among them, individual smaller grievances influence levels of trust: MS has a history of security issues with login mechanisms, newer Windows versions collect slightly excessive amounts of telemetry with difficult opt-out, Apple's closed eco systems are user-hostile and anticompetitive, etc. etc. None of them are good companies.

Facebook and Google are on a different level. And products they sell directly are secondary; you are the primary product.

Normally I would be inclined to put Google lower for one reason: Google is everywhere. Facebook is on facebook.com. Yes, there's a large social penalty to avoiding registration, but it's still entirely at your discretion. They keep shadow profiles of you via facial recognition of photos taken of you by other people who have Facebook accounts, but other than that exposure to Facebook is mostly limited by having an account there. Google is only avoidable by cutting yourself off from technological society. They are omnipresent and all powerful. And, while Facebook has a track record of publishing academic research on very creepy experiments they run on their (opted-in) users, Google meanwhile have a strong track of violating the law on collecting data in everyone and everything in the world.

Facebook are terrible, but the blindness to Google's reach is starting to seem scarier tbh.
Maybe it wasn't a "big" power-grab, but the lives of the rural poor have certainly been made worse by all of our egregious drunk driving laws, and the cops and courts dedicated to their zealous persecution.
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>> I do think that men and women are biologically different and, it likely does contribute to a lack of interest in tech from women.

Then there must be a biological difference between women from different cultures that's also contributing, because I've only observed this "lack of interest" in Anglosphere women.

From my experience, for instance, Indian women have no such problem and are in fact strongly represented within the IT profession and I've worked alongside several of them. Women in my country of birth (Greece) have no such problem and about two fifths of the Greek programmers I know are women. In the British universities I studied and the British workplaces I worked in the last few years, on the other hand, women are about a tenth of all programmers I've met.

So because it's a bit absurd for Anglo women to be so specifically genetically programmed to stay out of the IT professions, I'm going to assume it's not a genetic, but a cultural thing going on.

Btw, I've discussed this with a female Indian software engineer I was working with and she explained that in India, working in IT is seen as an office job and so more suited to women. Traditional gender roles, innit.
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This was always going to be the end result of blockchain and cryptocurrency. It was one of the original criticisms of the tech - that "every company would make it's own coin".

Smart Contracts are never going to be as popular because they are neither very smart or the same as regular contracts - and have more overhead and larger vunerability anyhow.
That won't happen in a substantial way until scaling issues are fixed. On Ethereum, there are at least half a dozen projects that tackle different aspects of the problem. The first phase of sharding, for example, should be good for a 100X improvement; there's a published spec, a testnet is on the way, and it can be rolled out without a fork, so there's a good chance it'll happen this year.

Some other chains are working the problem in their own ways, I'm just less familiar with them.
Good find.

Have another one.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098608/Kidnap-attem...

There are plenty of these examples over the years. It is not that it does not happen, it does happen, but it is pretty rare. My point was that you can not simply dismiss all these cases out of hand as fantasy.
As I said, we are talking about different things. I am talking about running binary executables from old platforms and people making new binaries in the old way again, you seem to be talking about porting old source code to new platforms.

The new platforms may use the old languages, but the runtime libraries are not the same. The new platforms have different APIs and functionalities (no threads in TeaVM for instance).

To simplify my point. ActionScript is just a language. Adobe Flash was much more than that. Maybe companies really will find some compelling reason to start using ActionScript again... but Adobe Flash and it's SWFs will still be dead.
What blame game?

SpaceX says their rocket did its job. Northrup Grumman hasn't said sanything.
The same problem can be solved if they just used Ethereum
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Tragic preventable automobile accidents will continue to not be prevented, because over-engineering for one particular criterion is its own kind of tragedy.

In this particular case, there is one thing that stands out to me above all others: the mailboxes were on the opposite side of the road from the houses. The second thing that distressed me was that the cop, after investigating and deciding there was no reasonable suspicion that the driver was criminally culpable, went on to lecture the driver anyway.

The road should have had a high speed limit, with no speed bumps. And there should have been no reason for pedestrians to ever set foot on it. Those mailboxes were on the wrong side of the road, because the postmaster decided that the driver on that rural route should not have to turn around twice or exit their vehicle to service those addresses. That boy died to save $300 in postal employee wages per year.

The homes should have had a gravel frontage road--behind a guardrail, bollards, cable, or Jersey barrier--with the mailboxes on the same side of the main road as the buildings.

And the cop should not have been lecturing anybody. That's the judge's job. No arrest? That means no judge, and no lecture. "Here's the number of the guy we called out to tow your vehicle, and the department's photocopied resource list of local businesses that may be helpful to you today, in the aftermath of your incident. I can give you a ride back into town, where you will have an opportunity to give a written statement for the accident report. Then you can use one of the payphones in the lobby to call somebody."
> A company is a legal vehicle

No, a company is any business organization. Corporations, partnerships, LLCs, etc., are particular legal vehicles, each of which is a kind of company. But a company need not have a particular legal vehicle.
Why? They're using the blockchain for what most people said it was supposed to be used.

I'm actually pleasantly surprised they're moving forward with some innovation and I guess the stock rise reflects that.

OTOH yes, I'm pessimistic they'll actually accomplish something, but who knows? I don't know if the market will discount this soon.
Thank you for the resources.
The idea is that the energy generated makes up for the added cost, so cost of roof - energy savings = less than standard roof.
Fake a failure and use stealth coatings. It has been tried with at least some success, and we wouldn't hear about the really successful ones... http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077830/ns/technology_and_science-...
This is SEC rules for ICOs. ICOs that don't have that limit are a) likely scams or at best b) probably a gigantic legal mess.
Yes, the lack of outside access isn't necessarily a bug, but it can be a development hurdle!
I've known people who worked at Snapchat and told me it was a haven for Visa sponsorship. This isn't a negative but it's possible that turnover will be extremely high once these employees get their visas/greencards.
My understanding, and what I remember from some brief research, is that kidnappings by strangers are incredibly rare. This would mean that the widespread fear we see nowadays is very disproportionate, and likely due to a variety of other social factors and not some actual underlying danger. Can anyone provide a quick corroboration/correction on this?
Proof of Stake (PoS) and Proof of Capacity (PoC) exist and are actually deployed for quite a while now. They don't consume lots of electricity and can be runned on cheap hardware.

I run 2 PoS wallets on one of my computers. It doesn't affect it much, though not all coins are equal (some consume more resources). It just have to stay on.
I'm posting this because there has been a great deal of - hm, what's the opposite of FUD? - shall we say fearlessness, ambivalence, and trust (FAT) in operating system vendors about the performance impact of Meltdown and Spectre.

This fearlessness, ambivalence, and trust is unearned. The performance costs are significant enough that Microsoft is recommending these patches for many, but not all server use cases. The performance impact on high network and disk IO devices in particular will be significant.

I've been very disappointed in the response from operating system vendors which has been misleading. These patches are absolutely necessary for most (if not all) servers, but vendors are downplaying the performance impact which will affect compute budgets going forward for many years.
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Yes they most certainly can and are.
NLTK tutorials are interesting for the absolute basics in Python, e.g. http://www.nltk.org/book/ch01.html. The field has moved into advanced Bayesian and neural methods, but NLTK still has a use in pre-processing and thinking about how to work with text. The first thing to recognize, I think, is to realize how hard many of the language tasks are that people do trivially.
I think the ultimate ideal that humans should strive to is to learn to live without a ruler. If that's impossible then learn to live under the rule of an automaton. I guess what I am trying to say is that we need to move away from our current thinking and consider the possibility of governance without an ultimate authority.
The article itself contradicts the headline. Is CNN really taking a page out of BuzzFeed?

"The Amazon CEO's net worth reached $105.1 billion Monday"

"Gates ... net worth was briefly above $100 billion back in April 1999, when the internet stock bubble helped to inflate the value of his holdings. Adjusted for inflation, $100 billion in 1999 would be worth $148 billion today."
Caloric restriction makes you live longer, but apparently so does exercise. The problem is though that exercise costs calories so you will be consuming more. How to square this contradiction?
Sure, Google's primary business is in advertising, but when we consider security too, Google suddenly looks much better.

So in the question of who do I trust my data with. I will have to pick Google.

Though nowadays with 2 factor authentication, any service should be secure enough against external attacks.
Just add speed cameras and eventually people will stop speeding.
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Nearly all of my (mostly highly educated) friends are entirely indifferent about indefinite copyright: they care less than about network neutrality and don't care that much about that.

Would there really be that much fuss over it?
Your grandma is not going to say the machine is “bricked”. She will say it’s not working.

Bricked is a technical term used by techies, and it has one specific meaning.

Bricked is bricked.
I'll answer your questions directly and then add some explanation, because neither our situation nor our son is anywhere close to normal or typical.

Our son is 15 years old, and he's in his second semester of high school, a year behind.
> what are you most afraid of him doing ... Are you worried about time wasting or porn or social media or what?

The 'advanced', regex based spyware only arrived after he started high school. I've been logging (via a different system) his activities for many years now, so we know what kinds of things he gravitates toward, and it's not porn or social media. In fact, in most contexts, the stuff he looks at online is quite harmless. The key thing is 'wasting time'.

Very briefly, our son is both autistic and also pretty heavily ADHD. He gets 'stuck' on things very, very easily, and he has virtually no innate self motivation to do things academically. Finally, because of the way he is, he currently has no friends, and has historically very, very few friends.

All this adds up to a lot of challenges that would take all day to write down. What he can do on his laptop is heavily locked down most of the time. Basically anything that's currently drawing his attention or anything that's 'fun' isn't available. We're using that as a lever: a lot of that laptop lockdown will be lifted once he is failing none of his classes.

The lockdown on his personal desktop is usually a lot less severe. In fact, right now, since he just started a new semester, nothing is locked down at all.

I can understand that a lot of this might seem rather draconian, and under more typical circumstances it would be. But there's a lot more going on that I don't have time to get into, and would require a whole lot of context.

> now mostly bitter and they ended up becoming obsessed with accessing unfiltered internet

For all of the trails he faces, our son is surprisingly self aware. He understands his own character, weaknesses, strengths and challenges.

Thank you for your earnest inquiry. I would be happy to answer more questions, if any.
This is a solved problem. All interested parties form an independent business entity and assign ownership to that.

All problems related to inter-company collaboration are people and organizational problems not technical problems. Blockchain solves nothing in this space.
The same problem can be solved if they just used a bit of PHP in 1995.

The killer feature is "lawyers armed with DMCA", not the crypto-themed CRUD app.
I'd assume it's just that Boston traffic is so slow that it's impossible to get up to speed enough to kill anybody - all the fast traffic is on expressways like the Mass Pike, which are far safer because of controlled access.

Slow traffic just plain doesn't kill people.

Sprawl and exurb farming country is where fatalities happen. That's where people are driving fast but without the protection that expressways provide. Massachusetts is one of the most urbanized states, and has less of that fatality-prone terrain.
Very serious.
Is this analogy apt or strained: As FDR and Hitler were to Radio, so is Trump to Twitter/Internet? [1]

[1] https://thefifthwave.wordpress.com/2018/01/03/the-schizoid-p...
Linux 4.15 and the appropriate modules protect against the attack.

To test, set CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION=y. That is:

sudo apt-get build-dep linux
sudo apt-get install gcc-6-plugin-dev libelf-dev libncurses5-dev
cd /usr/src
wget https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-4.15-rc7.tar.gz
tar -xvf linux-4.15-rc7.tar.gz
cd linux-4.15-rc7
cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config
make CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION=y deb-pkg
> For this demo, you either need the direct physical map offset (e.g. from demo #2)

as in, demo #2 is a working exploit to get this map
Thanks a lot for your advice.

I was thinking to offer secure cloud development/devops for biopharma startups. Would you see demand there?
Like all disability accomodations, it's useful for people without that disability. Curb cutouts are useful for hand trucks, for instance. But yeah, there's people who simply prefer that sort of environment, and it's also shitty behavior against them.
Proof of Work doesn't determine which view took the most energy to arrive at. What it does is give a self-adjusting brute force cracking problem that takes 10 real-world minutes to perform, regardless of the amount of energy put in. The assumption is that 10 minutes is enough for even the slowest links of the network to get an up-to-view of the world, preventing double-spends or similar issues.
Does it matter to them? It could be they're setting themselves up to be realtors for a land-grab.
Kudos, learned a lot from history to politics.
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RIAA SWAT Raid in Atlanta - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/magazine/18djdrama.t.html

Those are the two biggest ones I can think of, but both are examples of literal deadly force used for copyright violations.
External attacks are only half the story. What about the thousands of employees (especially the SREs) who may or may not be a few clicks away from root access on the machine which contains your email?
Ah yes.

I see there's some extensions there (maximum of 14 days) but this bug would have probably been covered under "As always, we reserve the right to bring deadlines forwards or backwards based on extreme circumstances."

Thanks!
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But they don't happen overnight. I didn't say change wouldn't happen, I said it wasn't likely to happen anytime soon.
Yeah that can work as well. In general, though, I prefer absolutely strict isolation between environments. In our deployments, this goes all the way to having separate GCP Projects for each environment. This has as much to do with kubernetes as it does with all the other cloud resources in each environment that we don't want commingling inside the same GCP project.

Kube also still has some oddities when working with namespaces, especially when using third party tools.
Can somebody explain the value-add of the blockchain portion of this vs just licensing the photo by uploading to a website?
Yeah, good call.

I'm sorry you had to have your dog put down. It's an awful decision. When my parents decided to do that for the dog I grew up with, I really hated them for awhile. I didn't have a dog for a long time after that, but now I have a one year old Shiba, and I dread the day when I'll have to make that decision. Hopefully that won't be for a long time from now.
Until someone names their firstborn Block Chain, we're not there yet. Buroku chan is acceptable too.
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The roof tiles they use are supposedly 'indestructible' and have a longer life than asphalt shingles.

That being said, I'm skeptical of their claim. Not many things are indestructible when a large hailstorm rolls through.
> So the next person this happens to goes to jail?

No, that is not how you build a culture. :)
Yeah, but that wouldn't move their stock price by a single red cent. This is also about profiting from hype. Viewed that way, it's a rip-roaring success. In every other way, it's stupid.
It's facetious (and bad 'journalism') to claim $100B vanished. It was never there to begin with: market cap isn't something you can cash in on. It's merely the result of price multiplied by supply. If you owned a significant portion of all the coins in the world, and tried to sell them all at once, you wouldn't end up with number_of_coins * price, it would (realistically) be a smaller number given the market slippage.
At the risk of a very low value comment...

The fact that this wasn't called KODAKoin seems like a major oversight.
Your biases are showing. There's no reason someone can't place a bet on Ripple's "technology, developer community, ecosystem and the adoption".
> I don't get the value in the ICO.

I'd replace 'the' with 'any'.
Waiting months and years for features that your site or app depends on is unacceptable.

> We have already a pretty good idea of what functionality we need. For example, we can look at what common JavaScript frameworks solve, and think about what we should standardized from that. Nobody did that so far, but we totally could, and should.

And once we have captured those concept, what then? Where do we mine the new concepts, designs, behaviours that will need to be introduced to the spec and implemented by each browser vendor individually?
I'm not a big fan of Elon Musk, but let's not get political.

I do however, want to point out Buffalo .. its troubles with Solar City .. and its troubles with Elon Musk.

Key (non-disputed / non-political points)

- Tesla did not hire local workers, and did not hold up on its end for diversity of work-force
- SolarCity received 750$ million in the Billion to Buffalo at a time it hadn't operated at a profit in over 2 years (I believe)
- Ciminelli, Buffalo's prior largest construction company that built SolarCity was charged with bid rigging / bribery by the Federal Government and it has all but folded up shop.
- Panasonic / Tesla agreement / partnership existed in 2006, yet Cuomo said he brokered this deal (fabrication)

The Riverbend site that SolarCity started has all but been successful in Erie County. That's my 2c, and the above is factual, non-disputed points.

So .. my real question, is why is this not brought to the national level for discussion to what Elon is doing to communities like Buffalo, where I live? That's my question ...
Blockchain might be useful here, sure.

Is that use worth 44% of their stock? Doubtful.
What value does the blockchain actually bring here? Why is this any different from existing methods of licensing images?
I think you're being harshly down-voted without people explaining why.

For a start - this is hardly a remote possibility when we already have proof of concepts like the linked repo.

Secondly - your analogy makes no sense. The only way to make it make sense is add that we also know there is an entire spacefaring group of mercenaries whose entire hobby and/or job is deliberately throwing asteroids in Earths general direction.
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