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Ex-Apple execs take on Twitch with launch of new social broadcasting platform
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I mean... we are the best of the best of the best, top of the class when it comes to technology and especially creative solutions enabled by technology. We have world-leading machine learning capabilities and hundreds of engineers working around the clock for money that, not that long ago, would have been completely unheard of. We have talent. We have time. We have money. We have passion. We have absolute shitloads of data on everyone, whether they use our platform or not.

We don't need a passport or state-issued ID to determine if someone is a real user. That's the laziest solution any tech company has ever come up with, and it's deliberately lazy.

Facebook and Twitter can already tell if you're a human or not, shit Google lets you just click a button to tell them you're a human and then they determine if they believe you or not. All based on info they already have.

We're the best software engineers the world has ever seen on the cusp of an AI revolution... we don't need your passport. We just don't want to find out the truth, so we make it so hard no one will do it.
All the sciences gradually split off from philosophy: physics, biology, chemistry, sociology, psychology, ..., even theology.

Whenever a subfield of philosophy got to the point that it had sufficiently many interesting theories to occupy several people fulltime, it got its own name (for practical reasons) and, after some time, was considered to be its own.
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Would be cool if there was reason / typescript support.
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I feel like I'm in the minority, but I'm mostly ok with Google. I feel like they are good stewards of my data (encrypting even internal traffic, severe restrictions on who can get access to my data, doing useful things with that data). I believe Facebook has similar policies in place.

I think their biggest sins are just being big. It makes them a larger target (which probably necessitates them taking extreme protections, otherwise they WOULD be taken down). Others that are much more concerning don't get attacked simply because they are smaller. For example Lyft and Uber who have both been found to have all sorts of personally identifiable information available to random employees. Or various ISPs tracking of data flowing through it.

To me, the cost of being google's product, is outweighed by what they provide me with. Search, news, music, assistant functions, "remember this day", "here is your family growing up", e-mail, automation of e-mails into actionable widgets... These things all are powered by Google knowing kind of a lot about me.

I don't know of any alternative to Google for these services, that respects privacy.
Oh that's cool I thought there were special hooks with D3. The native inputs demo seems really compelling especially in a learning environment. I'll definitely play with this and bring it into my next mentoring group meeting. (They'll be so glad to get away from scratch!)

One cool thing that Swift playgrounds let you do is advance program state through loops and other flow-control line-by-line using a slider. I think they have to have cooperation with the compiler/runtime to make this happen. (I'm also not sure how truly useful it is after a few days of learning the basics.)

I suppose you could do something similar with the native inputs but not using native syntax. What I'm thinking would be a massive undertaking I realize - it's cool that this offering generates so many "ooh and what else" ideas.
You can buy horse meat at the supermarket in Switzerland and I think in Italy also if I'm not mistaking.
Three... They were also investing heavily in the Cell architecture, codeveloped with IBM and Toshiba. That one just didn't pan out.
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If you're using Firefox and you want to keep JavaScript enabled but stop auto-playing videos, you can go into about:config and set media.autoplay.enabled to false. I'm not sure if other browsers have a similar switch, but this works in any current version of Firefox. It only affects HTML5 video containers; Flash and Silverlight video containers may still auto-play.
This isn't an argument about whether social media is a net positive. This is about people, and whether Twitter protects its users at risk, or builds a system which just begs for government to request their real names.
> You may want to check the actual definition of Free Software.

That's the definition according to gnu and shouldn't be parroted as the definition. Generally, when people say "free", even with software, they mean price.
People are charging $175/hr for WordPress? This makes me wonder what the hell have I been doing with myself for the past 8 years. My agency charges $50/hr for WordPress devs who know what they're doing. (My email is in my profile!)
Do you think, dear HNers, that it would be possible to make a DIY version of the Minion and the capsules/flowcells?

Many thanks
Not really. That was just Socrates being Socrates and being all humble about his knowledge. Apart from him I don't remember any othe philosopher adopting that stance.
Yep - one of the things Eddie Jordan did right, setting the environment up to really optimise for one condition (top speed). When you have limited resources, focus on the most important thing and then make up for other shortcomings with talent.
Honestly, I associate Atlanta with film/music production more these days and never really tech. Much like Charlotte = banking.
All content received is automagically re-distributed by default, correct? It is similar to BitTorrent in this regard; very different from the more common client/server paradigm.

I will have to do a bit more research to see how the default clients handle caching popular, unrequested content.
What is the use case for this beyond phishing pages?
> For example, it's easy to get mired in writing extra constructors/destructors and virtual hooha just because someone using your class might also use some feature besides the one you used yourself.

I don't think I've ever seen that. (In a library, sure. In application code, no.) If you know it's going to be needed (or you know it's very likely), sure. If not, every place I've worked in added the extra constructors when needed, and only when needed.

Extra destructors? Other than empty destructors, I don't think it's possible to create an "extra" destructor, because each class can only have one. (And, in the case of virtual destructors, adding them is good practice. But that's not "combination of features", it's part of the deal you sign up for when you start using polymorphism. (Though I guess you could describe it as the combination of destructors and polymorphism, which is true, but it's simple enough I have a hard time regarding it as out-of-control complexity explosion.))
> Edit: Also, as a Texan myself, there's no way anything in Texas is going to get HQ2 with our LGBT-hostile state legislature. It's the same reason people are saying that Indianapolis might as well be disqualified due to the Indiana state legislature refusing to pass a hate crimes bill. Given what our legislature tried to pull this year, Amazon isn't going to touch us. And you can bet they'll try again in 2019, and Joe Straus won't be there to stop them.

They are up for election this year and even though it seems likely that the Governor won't change, other seats seem much more competitive.
Nothing fancy here. Just a simple serverless scheduler that generates and sends invoices to clients on your behalf.

If you send recurring invoices that look the same each month except for the date, why not let Lambda, CloudWatch and SES do it for you?
I set up a fake Facebook profile a long time ago as a prank, added everyone at my college as friends, and people I know still say they get notifications about his birthday. And people still reach out to wish him a happy birthday.

I have no idea what credentials I used to create it so I can't delete it, but it still exists (unlike the person it's pretending to be).
We simply complete the forms saying that we applied all the patches and upgrades that were necesary... and pray for the best. /s
America doesn't have a democracy problem--it has a republic problem. Clearly, a republic is failing the people, mostly out of its own design. The founding fathers' ideas may have worked in the ages of slavery, and Jim Crow, where exploitation actually led to great wealth creation, but they do not work now. They work great at keeping the people down, in check, and out of politics, just as the founders designed. Really, the main problem here is that Americans stupidly think that they live in a democracy when this has never been the case. Obviously, America is not a democracy. It's always been a republic and people are now realizing just how oppressive a republic ruled by bribes from the elite is, now that the main concerns are less about oppressing minorities but simply about the survival of the majority, something that is no longer guaranteed. Let's face it, American government isn't about to change soon, so it'd be in our best interest for the people who think we live in a democracy to realize that we don't. After all, if you don't think you have a problem, a solution is impossible.
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To answer your last question - they persist because they can make money.

I understand that recruiters who work directly for the hiring manager/firm provide value by filtering candidates. Unfortunately, jobs often get posted to multiple job sites by multiple secondary recruiters, exacerbating the need for filtering. Candidates can waste time dealing with multiple recruiters for what they think are different positions, only to learn that they are the same spot.

The industry could streamline this problem - and make the experience better for candidates - by eliminating paid referrals from secondary recruiters.
So why are they so overvolted by default?
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True enough. I still find it impressive, though.
Surely the bullet at the top should read "Google and Facebook's impact on our privacy cannot be overstated", not understated!
So...if I'm hearing you...I should take 1984 as a cautionary tale rather than as a set of cultural goals? But everyone seemed so unified in vision, a little shouty, but totaly on the same page.
Im a bit new I've used upwork before but toptal sounds good but I've never used the platform.
Google and Facebook also use your data as input for increasingly sophisticated AI algorithms that put you in a filter bubble — an alternate digital universe that controls what you see in their products, based on what their algorithms think you are most likely to click on.
These echo chambers distort people's reality, creating a myriad of unintended consequences such as increasing societal polarization.

How is this any different from the pre- or sans-Google and Facebook world? People have always lived in bubbles, always been funneled down a particular path by their experiential influences. Without Google or Facebook, if you were a white supremacist, it’s probably because you were influenced by white supremacists and you would continue to surround yourself with them. If you were someone who really strived to expose yourself to different ideas and things outside your bubble, you can arguably do that easier than ever now.

This isn’t really to “exonerate” FB and Big G, but I think it’s worth asking what impact they’ve really had on this basic facet of life.
Oh, absolutely. Despite my negative experiences I in no way endorse avoiding doctors. As noted in my story, doctors at the urgent care clinic saved me from a much worse time (possibly even death).

I'm just saying (with way too many words) that there are reasons other than stoicism or machismo that people avoid going to the doctor. Were I the OP, I too would have not gone to the doctor for seemingly mild symptoms, and would have suffered as he/she did.

Most of us have no good way of knowing which issues are medically treatable and which aren't.
That's interesting; I wonder if it is a regional difference as you mentioned. I'm in Northern California, and I remember 30 years ago people here did view Kaiser as a second-rate option.

It doesn't seem that way today; my friends who are on Kaiser speak very highly of their experience with them.
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We don't need some magical list of figures to know the general distribution.

We have descriptions, from many sources, even before Herodotus, of what this or that country's people looked like. We also have actual depictions of populations in the various hellenistic, then Roman and Byzantine provinces in mosaics and other painted scenes.
These guys are selling data to "advertisers" that are actually trolls trying to subvert our democracy. They specifically target pain points and make things unbearable online for people. They use their data to alter the subliminal landscape. It made everyone at each other's throats.
I think it's childish to consider it ghoulish. Yes, if you only hold one thought in your mind at a time and can't consider complex systems with multiple variables, it might scare you to consider that we spend a lot of money on end-of-life care, and whether that money is being put to good use.

Critical thinking demands that we can hold those thoughts in our minds, understand the economic reality that yes, absolutely, extending a life at 90 years old is actually costing lives elsewhere in the system, but yet despite this realization, after reflecting on the kind of society we want to be[come], we realize it's so much more than just a mathematical optimization problem.

That realization -- that we must do more than just that which optimizes outcomes for everyone as a whole, but also work to optimize individual outcomes even when it costs the whole -- is it not a core philosophical tenant of humanity?! How could the logical steps to such a beautiful and powerful realization be in any way ghoulish!

To your last point, the cost of having no healthcare system at all would be extraordinary -- there's no question that our healthcare even at 20% of GDP is a net positive for society as a whole (that's not to say it can't be improved, but clearly removing it would be an economic catastrophe).

And we're not talking about evaluating the net economic value of providing a given treatment, the context was specifically that of making a claim that smoking is/isn't a net cost to society. The studies intentionally ignored basically half the equation, so in my estimation they flat out lied in claiming that smoking was a net cost, which I'd say is academically fraudulent.
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So are you suggesting that it isn't much, much worse now?
I have to, on a regular basis actually and I'm glad gdb and FPC work well together.
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Just got back from a trip to Brazil and got several tick bites. I'm an epidemiologist, so of course I have the litany of things I'm now exposed to - and the incubation period for all of them sits right on my flight home.

Told my wife that I'm going to feel like crap because of 30+ hours of flying, but if I have a headache that doesn't go away, I need to go to the hospital right now. That was a fun conversation.
I think that Kaiser's poor reputation is primarily driven by their managed healthcare model (which you rightly mention isn't consistent outside of their region). I don't have evidence to support why this is the case, but colloquially it has to do with this fear of losing choice. People would rather select their labs and pharmacies than just "go downstairs and wait for it to be filled." Additionally, they feel like they don't have a choice in PCP when they're just given a list of doctors at their nearest clinic.
The United States tried being a loose federation under the Articles of Confederation. It was a miserable failure, which led to the current Constitution, which was set up with the intention of creating a federal government strong enough to carry out essentially any function necessary to the success of the country. The United States has been a resounding success under the Constitution, growing to become the most powerful and richest nation in the world, and one of the most desirable nations for immigrants.
> When Data-centers decide its time to upgrade from old 1.5V DDR3 machines (or 1.35V "low voltage" LDDR3) to 1.2V DDR4...

So, which data-centers are upgrading from DDR2->DDR3 then? I ask because DDR3 prices are also trending upwards.
Good post! Crossposting my comment from that other crusty news aggregator:

Alternative 1a is to use Alternative 1 with https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype /plug

go-sumtype requires the interface to be sealed (which you're already doing) and one small annotation:

//go-sumtype:decl TheInterfaceName

Then you just run `go-sumtype`

$ go-sumtype $(go list ./... | grep -v vendor)

and it will do exhaustiveness checks in any type switch in which `TheInterfaceName` participates. This will prevent the "For example, during a refactor a handler might be removed but a type that implements the interface is not." failure mode mentioned in the article.
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Bezos also just bought a house in DC.

That's where it will be. The Wall Street Journal once noted that about 70% of corporate HQ moves move it closer to the CEO's place of residence.
Depending on what part of the country/world you're in, there's also a wide variety of tick-borne illnesses with very scary mortality rates if untreated.
>“Accuracy” is not possible if your depict a smaller group then the whole, as any story (regardless of media; visual, text, or otherwise) that focusses on a small number of focal characters to illustrate something about broad society and time period will not accurately represent the composition of the broader society.

You're talking absolutes, which is neither possible, not the point.

If taking any random sample of 3 people in e.g. Roman Britain, you had e.g. in 1/1000 chances of having a black person among them, then showing 3 persons and having 1 be black is not a representative picture. It's that simple.
I think this is a good call. Not to mention public transit and good air connections.

As to your edit, I wonder if this is a Bezos way of not-so-subtly trying to push those type of legislatures to change their tune on that and other issues. Maybe beyond wanting to get a sweet tax break deal, there's a bit of soft power and influence Bezos is trying to bring to bear to tell state legislatures that being adverse to things like people's sexuality, women's health, etc. isn't good for business. Might be reading too much into all that but it's interesting to think about.
Twitter is in a dire situation. As a fun project I wrote a Lua - Torch bot to search for certain tweets and hit like on them based on sentiment analysis.

I realized that API query results were mostly news bots, retweet bots, corporate PR bots, social media aggregator platforms like Buffer, and just plain old spam bots.

How bad was it? After filtering 1,000 tweets per query, I barely found 10-20 real human users. That signal to noise ratio is dismal, and detrimental to the core product experience. Twitter must be forced to maintain this fake high activity to prop up the share price.

BONUS: Guess who else is spamming their post feed: Tumblr. Tumblr didn't allow any adult content or keyword search; since Marissa Mayer took over she seems to have loosened that policy to fluff the numbers. Tumblr today is drowning in porn.
starti, rbreak and ptype sound good even if they've been available as idioms before.
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Philosophy improves critical thinking and reasoning skills but it requires active engagement in philosophical literature and inquiry. I can tell by your understanding of philosophy as "feeling" based that you haven't done this -- and you're missing out on a valuable form of rational inquiry. No it's not scientific. But to sit back, arms-crossed ready to rebuke anything philosophical because it fails to satisfy the criterion of a different discipline is so contrary to a healthy, open-minded, rational way of living.
Facebook's "X years ago today, you posted this ..." has been amazing. I don't usually re-share it but it really brightens my morning or day to see photos of my kids when they were 4-5 years younger, and marvel at how much they've grown.

I mean, I'd still think about that even without FB showing me things, but I would not have managed to build a "here's a flashback!" photo-reminder system. In an age when we take SO MANY PHOTOS (and don't even bother curating them because we don't have time for it), it's nice to have that too.
It’s all material - the offices were quite spacious if a bit low on ceiling height.

If parts of the container walls were redone to allow more circulation it would be a lot more livable.

I also only spent two work weeks at a time, about 10 hours per day, in that setup. I suspect actually living in one would create additional issues with managing moisture, smells and temp.
Thanks for your input. We both recognize it as a problem.
I'm having trouble understanding the follower visualizations. Does the X axis represent her followers in the order they started following her and the Y axis is the date they (the follower) joined Twitter?
When I last checked my google ad profile (and this was a while ago; now it contains a lot less info probably because I opted out of a bunch of stuff), it was full of errors. Google did get my gender right but they put me in the wrong age range and a bunch of interests were out of whack. Good thing this was for ads, rather than a heuristic to ban me.

Best of the best, top of the class is not infallible. It's good enough to sell, because even something as low as 80% accuracy is good enough for things like "Do you want to subscribe to weekly pop tv news", it's not good enough when at the other end you get your account banned.

Google has, on this very site, built up a horrible reputation of using automated processes and having too many users to give those affected by those processes some good recovery. What you're describing is a recipe to replicate that.

99% is not good enough. 99.99% accuracy gets you 0.01% false positives. That's crazy low, right? It's also 100k users when you have 1bn users. Those fancy AI processes are nowhere near that.
I know you're not saying that anonymous social networks are /strictly/ better than verified, but to maybe round this thought out explicitly - I think it's potentially naive to think that governments won't be able to wield social networks even more effectively than "freedom fighters". Whenever they catch up. Arab Spring was round 1, but I feel like round 2+ may have already played out in state actors' favors. Who knows.

Relatedly: if you participate or "observe" any online communities of marginalized people, you may have noticed there are starting to be earnest conversations of whether or not "free speech" is actually more easily wielded to abuse them, than they can use it to have a voice.

Just food for thought. A lot of built-in assumptions are being tested right now.