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Catching fake / spamming / abusive users on social media.

People are (rightfully) upset by the amount of spam and harassment happening on platforms like Twitter. Machine learning is a good way to tackle this problem at scale, in an automated way, by training models to spot and auto-moderate bad posts.

Under GDPR, anyone can demand an explanation for why they were marked as spam / abusive. This will allow trolls and spammers to improve their workarounds, by demanding an explanation for why their posts were blocked, then tailoring their later posts to avoid these signifiers. It will also let them impose a tax on platforms that try to block them by flooding them with demands for explanations under GDPR.
That really doesn't feel like it's inherent to Lambda at all. You could say the same thing about EC2.

On top of that, many of AWS's services use standard API's. It's not hard to move away from RDS or Elasticache, you're just using SQL/Redis anyways...

If we're talking about something like SQS, ok, well you can just as easily say you're "locked in" when you use RabbitMQ because there is work involved to not be using RabbitMQ.
The native platforms backed by real money also have lots of official documentation, real GUI builders, high quality debuggers built into their IDE’s and one cardinal way/library to do something. The importance of all this stuff in speeding up things can’t be overstated.
I get that existing case law is different, but I was providing my own interpretation of how I believe the 4th and 5th amendments should apply to a technology that the people who wrote those amendments could not have envisioned. I strongly believe that implementation details shouldn't be legal loopholes that allow law enforcement additional leeway. In this case, location information being stored on Google's servers is an implementation detail that isn't immediately obvious to non-technical people.

> The due process required by the 4th amendment is performed when the court issues a warrant, which they did here

The warrant was to search Google's servers, not the potential suspects' phones. What I'm saying is that I believe this data is logically part of the phone despite the fact that it resides on Google's servers because of the way that Google chose to implement their services. If they want to get a warrant for a specific person's phone because they believe the location information in the phone will prove that the suspect was in the area, that's different. But fishing for suspects using location data feels wrong to me. For one, it is almost guaranteed to also cover innocent people. Unless it's a remote area where only the perpetrator and victim were present, someone innocent will get unnecessarily dragged into the investigation.
You're pushing a pro-Trump propaganda narrative by making a false equivalence between Obama's ethical legal use of data, and Trump's unethical theft of it.
Why go back and forth with those rules, but never talk about the ridiculous "security" rules introduced after 9/11? Most of it is just security theater and cannot prevent a well-planned terrorist attack.

But no one dares touching that topic, apparently.
It's extremely cumbersome and confusing to turn off. At first, it was opt-in. Once would ignore the notifications to turn things on, and eventually things became opt-out. But it's not 100% clear what one is opting out of - the only thing that seems you can really opt out of are ad-related tracking (by 'request' it seems - the ad tech companies get to use the honor system), and personalized recommendations. Well, just because you turn off recommendations doesn't mean they're not already collecting your personalized data - even if you don't use it.

Did I make mistakes in the above paragraph? Probably. But you know what, that's Google's fault, because it sure isn't clear what they aren't and are doing, who can and can't use it, and what I can can't opt out of.

That's the really frustrating part, here. It's purposely obfuscated and changing - similar to Facebook's privacy settings - to keep you on your toes even if you are in the tiny percentage of the population that actually cares. Most won't until something panicky / headliney happens to make them care. I'm kind of glad the EU is making life tough for American tech companies with regards to privacy (even though I work for American tech companies).
Keith Frankish sides with Daniel Dennett on the subject of phenomenal consciousness, so it isn't that surprising.
Number 2 could be a positive spin on not wanting to pay employees more.
I have many apps I can use offline, plus if I need to use my phone it doesn't take long to turn it off airplane mode and have everything reconnect. It's amazing how fast all the notifications come in once you turn off Airplane mode. I don't do that daily, but when I am conscious about battery usage I do. Maybe I just might try doing it more often. I also do it when charging my phone.
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You made a mistake in traffic everyone does that, take responsibility and move on don't put the blame on the people you have upset. Calling someone names does not speak well of your attitude in traffic.
My initial thought was that it would make sense to make yourself as cute as possible if you want humans to leave you alone.
I understand the frustration with profit-making companies in a space where human lives hang in the balance. I would prefer instead of attacking the CEOs of these companies, the entrepreneurial sorts who hang out on these boards start competing companies.

I don't expect them to compete with Pfizer at the start, Martin Shkreli showed how its possible to get into the drug business for relatively small sums. But instead of jacking up the prices, this new class of founder could show how it's possible to drive costs down using better management and less greedy business models.

Bonus points if these startups could release new drugs at OTC prices. My guess is after a few years, founders will start to understand the pressures that guide pharma in a more sympathetic light. What was once seen as wasteful marketing might more charitably seen as cross-subsidy of new drug development.

There's a decent amount of waste in the pharma business, but it's also the closest thing modern society has to a goose that lays golden eggs. Sovaldi is going to transform what it means to live with Hepatitis-C. It's incredibly expensive now, but in a decade when the patents expire, there will be a race to the bottom, price-wise.

If you don't believe this is the kind of problem that can be solved by startups, perhaps we should consider alternative arrangements. E.g. Could Harvard, with its world class science, business, and law departments turn their talents and $30B endowments towards developing new drugs? Maybe, maybe not, but I'd prefer we build up new models for regularly producing wonder drugs before we tear the old one down.
An Open Source Tool to identify EC2 instances running beyond a period of time
If what you're suggesting is that airplane mode prevents you from being tracked, it's not necessarily true; airplane mode leaves certain radios online: http://wonderfulengineering.com/google-tracking-movements-ev...

You can carry a phone inside a Faraday cage, or a phone without those radios. I think this remains consistent with my comment.
Of course I cannot know that more than I can know that any other object doesn't experience qualia -- a chair, say, or a thermostat.
Bono is everywhere these days!
>Google stores location history data for more of its mobile users than you might expect

What do you mean by this?
I'm confused, why is Berlin unlike any other city in Germany in this regard? E.g. what would be different in Frankfurt?
I have just finished up using SAM and it is miles better than trying to wire API Gateway and Lambda together. Setting up an authorizer with cognito took some time to find the right examples and get the swagger right but yes I am a fan of SAM.

While we're on the subject, Cloudformation could definitely use some work too. AWS, please tell me what line the template failed at. We had to use the swagger extensions to integrate cognito and those were failing because of indentation errors, but it just kept complaining about invalid swagger 2.0 definitions. That is just so gross.
Population is not only limited by resources. There are many places where humans reproduce at a rate well below what resources can support.
> it's inconvenient, it's unnecessary, it's overly complex, and it doesn't even provide much real security. People still get hacked, corporations still leak data, the governments of the world continue to spy on our digital emissions. But HTTPS gives everyone a nice fuzzy comfy warm blanket of security to wrap themselves around and forget about the pale reality of life on the internet.

Yes, it's inconvenient, and people will still get hacked, but it's also getting easier to do, it _does_ help, and as Snowden showed, encryption really does help deter governments from spying.

I think it's currently unfair to https websites that non-https websites aren't considered insecure.
It does something that's completely useless since you're already being tracked by other means. By the mechanisms of physics, you can't have untrackable wireless communications. It's not how radiation works.
> But if you're sitting on the tarmac of an airport, there's no reasonable argument for why they cannot de-board people after a two or three hour delay. It fails the reasonableness test.

This kind of thing happens when the plane is in line waiting to get de-iced in a storm. I'm just a layman but I think what can happen is that the off-boarding/on-boarding process will add so much time that it will either delay the de-icing of other planes (if they end up waiting for you) or add extra time to the process such that the anti-ice chemicals lose their effects by take-off time.
> VAT is only paid once by consumers for products, advertising is a company expense that simply shifts the VAT one level down the chain. It doesn't get applied at every level on the supply chain, it gets passed down.

That's one way to look at it. Another way is to see it as a tax paid by each supplier based on how much value that supplier has added to the supply chain - a sort of 'value added' tax, if you will.

> So if Amy's Amazing Tours sells a £100000 tour round London, without any advertising, it generates £20000 VAT paid by Amy.

> If the same tour is sold by Mike, for the same price of a 100k, but with £50000 worth of Google adverts, Mike pays only £10000 VAT with Google paying £10000 too. Still adds up to £20000.

In this example Amy contributes £100k in value, Mike contributes £50k in value and Google contributes £50k in value. Essentially Google has allowed the UK government to collect the same amount of tax even though Mike has produced only half as much value as Amy. Isn't that nice?
If gRPC would have been designed slightly different, they could have had good proxy support AND browser support right from the start.

E.g. it's already based on top of HTTP(/2), and uses normal path for distinguishing methods, which would actually be a good prerequisite to make it work everywhere. But then OTOH it uses barely support HTTP features like trailers, which require very special HTTP libraries and are not universally supported. If the status codes there would have been implemented as just another chunk of the HTTP body, and if some other small changes had been done, we could have had gprc from browsers already a long time ago. I guess that's what grpc-web now tries to fix, but I haven't dug into that in detail.
> If the consequences of letting people off the plane are dire, the airlines will work harder to ensure the situation doesn’t occur in the first place. There is no good reason for passengers to be forced to sit on a grounded plane for hours. If no gates are available, use stairs.

Weather can screw things up...
I have programmed for years with Forth and I really think it was not a wasting of the time for me. I had very interesting Forth-related job, I became more proficient in PL design/compilers-related things because of Forth.

Alas, I don't think that Forth is very relevant today in the professional SW development. But it's still a great teaching tool. I would like to see, for example, a PL design course where first pages would be about META II and Forth implementations.

Modern programmers need more examples of beautiful, miniature software architectures. Tools like Forth are especially interesting, because they show us that even a single developer may do great handcrafted things and he doesn't need to depend on third-party tools, IDEs, frameworks for it. Charles Moore haven't invented Forth from scratch, he "synthesized" it from some really great ideas of 50-60s, like Lisp, B5000, APL etc. Moore took only those parts, which were good components (simple to implement, understand, combine) to build his own independent tool. N. Wirth uses the similiar approach, by the way.

Maybe today we could repeat the same synthesis/minimisation process with some modern ideas/technologies to create a beautiful tool for a modern programmer - lone craftsman. Or maybe the whole "tool-making" (see Whole Earth Catalog etc) movement is just a thing from the past?
I used to run long orienteering events in the south of Sweden and in Denmark. None of them were ever longer than 25km as the birds fly. Comparing the effort those km was for me to the 160km this lady run, I must say I'm very very impressed.
I think the reason is, for the first time in about forty years, neo-liberalism is really under threat. It used to be that neo-liberalism was so dominant as a political creed that it wasn't politics - it was reality. For better or worse, Trump on one side, and Bernie on the other, overturned that. So now, people identify as neo-liberals - while in the past, I imagine, there wouldn't be any point.
Here's commentary on that paper from the first author cited within it:

https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2014/04/violent-straw-men-se...

Only the abstract is available from your link so I couldn't look at the paper's data, but the critique's point is that the relationship between violence and sex ratio is U-shaped, with higher violence noted with both too few men and too many. Furthermore, many of the studies cited in your link were studies of inner-city black neighborhoods in the U.S, which feature both high violence and a large overpopulation of females because all the males are dead and incarcerated. Thrown into a linear relationship that's not actually linear, and they'll conflate the data significantly.

The data on current sex ratios could be read one of two ways: either the theory is wrong, or the theory is predictive, and those countries with an overabundance of young males that are currently stable & at peace will not be at peace for long. There's some recent evidence for the latter hypothesis: of the 5 countries with the highest 15-24 sex ratio, Qatar is in the midst of a diplomatic crisis with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE that may be a prelude to war, and the Maldives just had a coup. I've got friends either living in or with family in China & India that say it's nowhere near as socially stable as is commonly perceived in the West, and that there are a number of social problems that could easily become a powder keg if economic growth dries up.
Searle's argument is that consiousness is not a function of the program (there is no "program" in the human mind), but a function of hardware. Though just how the meat machine that is our brains produces consiousness is very poorly understood, it stand to reason that a computer is so different from it physically that it's no more likely a computer can acheive consoiusness than a stone or a car.
Just because the boy cried wolf last time doesn't mean there isn't an actual wolf this time.

You're comparing the hysteria around Japan to the hysteria around China. If you compare the facts about Japan to the facts about China, you get a completely different picture.

Facts:

1. China is implementing a massive military build.

2. China has started to expand its territory.

3. China has repeatedly hacked the most sensitive US gov departments and industries.

4. China recently had an all powerful dictator rise to power.

5. China has covertly supported North Korean's ICBM program in a proxy war against the US.

6. China has allied itself with Russia against the US.
While I understand your point, and think it's a valid privacy concern, the reasoning about leaking info on all of Google's users doesn't make sense. If I install a security camera in my room, I'm not leaking information about you if it shows you're not here. There was no expectation of the possibility of that in the first place, so no information is leaked. This is only leaking information about the Google users who are reasonably likely to be within the radius where the query is executed. So perhaps a couple thousand users, (so a legit privacy concern) but not all of them.
This article is incorrectly using the current rate of growth of solar, in CONSTANT terms, and not in percentage terms.

Solar panel is growing in percentage rates, as it has been doing so for the last 3 decades. IE, it increases by X% every year. When something doubles every Y years, it quickly overwhelms everything.

Today we are adding 100 gigawatts of solar per year. And in 2-3 years that rate of change is now 200 gigawatts ADDED every year, and then its 400 gigawatts per year.
For those catching up on Tesla news - there's a PR war going on between Tesla Inc. and many hedge funds who are short TSLA stock. As a result, it's tough to tell what's truth and what's imaginary.

Tesla wants people to believe in them in order to continue selling cars to customers (who probably wouldn't buy if they thought the company was going bankrupt) and stock/bonds already issued to investors.

Short sellers want to give people doubt to cause a decrease in stock price in order to benefit from their short position.

Both parties are probably acting in good faith - Tesla wants people to see how good they are and short sellers want people to see how risky they are. But as a result the news is crowded and it's generally hard to know the truth.

Just remember, in the US the Supreme Court has ruled that it's legal for news publications to lie to their readers/viewers.
No, it's that some article titles use all-caps typography and then HN users copy it.

We're going to write a bit of software to convert these, or at least ask submitters to revise them. In the meantime we've edited the title above.
Just remember that the extra sensors are a "bonus": if a human being can successfully drive by just using their two eyes in the driving seat, with perhaps 200° range and a couple of mirrors, then an AI can be trained to do the same.
what is require('Native')?
Why having a bike beats the stock market
I'm from Texas and I'm always referred to as a Texan even in other states in the US. I guess its just a part of being human
Absolutely. I've personally experienced a workplace where the managers preferred hiring from the lesser respected university in the area, because they were able to undercut even more on salaries.
> how a certainly class of people managed to convince all the relevant parties that their work is a hundred times more valuable to the company than that of everyone else

Well, because that is the case.

A line worker in a Pfizer manufacturing plant, can (within reasonable limits) be just about anyone, given necessary training.

The CEO can't be just anyone. Therefore he/she gets paid more.
Searle's original argument doesn't involve a digital computer. What is there in the Chinese Room which experiences the qualia someone who understands Chinese does? There's just a person, who tells you he doesn't, and a printed algorithm, which is just ink on paper. Is there a disembodied consciousness?
Ohhh... My relationship with caffeine has changed.

I will regularly stop and start drinking coffee and tea because after stopping for a week I get a "buzz" again.

Other than the buzz I don't notice the difference unless I drink an outrageous amount of caffeinated drinks.
IIRC from what my senior explained to me few years ago, this has to do with the inward and outward aspect of the Japanese business society and the Japanese language itself. The Japanese honorific is usually used from inward to the outward (e.g. to stranger, customer, partner, etc.)

I think the easiest way to think might be that you won't refer to your sister/brother with honorifics when talking about them with someone.

When you (an outsider) email a company, everyone in the company who replied to the email are considered belonging to the same group, so they should not use honorifics to refer to themselves regardless whether they are CEO or just random employee (even if you call them with honorifics in internal email.)

There's also another small rule regarding this, such as you can say something like "Uchida, the CEO" (CEOの内田) but NOT "CEO Uchida" (内田CEO) because the title in the latter is being used as a suffix, and considered a honorific (equivalent to -san). It's a weird rule.
In the run up to model 3 production Musk mentioned that "the production line is the product" because it was needed to be highly automated to make a great car at a low price.

Clearly getting the production line wrinkles ironed out has been a much bigger challenge than Musk expected but that is typical of almost every thing that Musk as done: Envision a way to make things an order of magnitude better. Work like a bugger (while blowing through a dozen deadlines) to make that happen. Eventually, come out the other side smelling like a genius -- because the original vision had merit and was not just a pipe dream. The model 3 fits this mold.

In terms of finance and cash flow, unlike previous near death experiences with Tesla and SpaceX, now Musk could quite easily sell of a chunk of equity in SpaceX to finance what's yet to be done in debugging the production line if the markets won't oblige. But likely the bigger problem right now is time rather than money before things come right. Most of the upfront production line expenses will have already been spent, now it's a learning curve to make it tick along as expected.
You don't have to be using Maps or an app that obviously uses location for Google to be collecting location related information. I have no idea when they do or don't but I'd bet people would be surprised if they found that the gmail app was relaying their location to Google. On the other hand few wouuld be surprised at all if you told them the maps app was sending their location.
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SOAP was overdesigned and yet somehow still underspecified at the same time. You could implement two different implementations that both followed the specs religiously that could not interop at all.

It's hard to overstate how crappy working with SOAP really was. I think as the industry matures we really will see serialization formats and protocols stabilize, I think we've already seen a bit of it with JSON.
The scientists do indeed know. The scientific consensus is that sea levels will rise by a meter or 2 over the next 200 years, and cause damages measured in the couple trillions of dollars. This is all laid out in the IPCC report. Thats a lower cost than an Iraq war.

That is the scientific consensus of the IPCC, which is the official authority on climate change. And the scientific consensus is that the world is definitely not going to end, nor is it even going to come close. Listen to the science and the scientific consensus!
> Also there is an upper bound on this sort of thing because crews have duty hour limits

This isn't generalizable, but I have a friend who's a flight attendant at Southwest. They only get paid for time when they're literally flying. Getting on/off the plane and up into the sky from the tarmac are unpaid time at work.
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