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Maybe he's just overtooting his own horn, but CA's CEO claimed differently:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/cambridge-analytica-claimed-...

> In the video posted by Channel 4, Nix is heard saying that the company did much of the work behind Trump's campaign, which resulted in a shocking upset victory over Hillary Clinton in November 2016.

> "We did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting," Nix says on the video. "We ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign, and our data informed all the strategy."
Agreed. While they aren’t directly related the arguments for NN were basically “you don’t get to decide what the internet is for everyone!” when what they really meant is ”oh we’re totally going to do that”

I think it’s interesting seeing these companies be emboldened in their self-censorship of legal things, in terms of guns it’s all directly linked to one nanny state billionaire who finds the entire gun control “movement”. That won’t play well at polls as it does in canned media responses.
Many thanks for the thorough answer! Will read and ask questions if any. We have customers we help quantize the models for their FPGAs and this may be an avenue we could test.
I agree, I don't know how we could objectively measure this but I do not see anyone trying to measure this, just selling hopes that soon the AI will be better then humans.
Being remote requires a lot of self discipline, you have to make sure you focus yourself everyday. I'd say the newer you are to the profession the harder it is to go remote, 4-5 years of experience is probably good since you'll be pretty solid skill wise and know your limits. When you do go remote, there are different routes to take. If you are going with essentially the nomad lifestyle (very worthwhile IMO), make sure you choose a job that you are 100% solid in the skill set needed. e.g. don't stretch yourself to take on a harder role as you will regret it and not get to enjoy the travel. If you are stable and living someplace you plan to be then the math changes and stretching or taking on a harder role is fine.

There are probably a ton of things to share about going remote, but that would be my initial feedback.

context: I have led, participated and been a team member on remote teams for over 10 years now. The teams have spanned the globe literally, right now I am on a team spread across 2 US States and India.
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Remember how it asks you to upload your contact lists? You probably say no, but others say yes and do it. They got this "people you may know" from THOSE people uploading their contact lists. It's kind of weird to call it a "shadow profile" when it's simply connecting those dots.
>what constitutes "enlightenment values"

I think Pinker defines these as science, reason and humanism. Couldn't agree with you more about the importance of criticism. Perhaps the most important feature of the enlightenment was in establishing a tradition of criticism. This is the engine of progress, which, as David Deutsch points out, is kind of the opposite of how most traditions work (they keep things the same).
Is there any difference between that and m.facebook.com? I do use the latter on my phone to avoid installing a Facebook/Messenger app. But its usability is... limited.
I manage a promotion page and unfortunately this page isn't even close to being popular enough to get people to visit it on other channels.

But to me this whole disaster wasn't such a surprise. If this was a revealing moment for the people who often read this site I could only ascribe it to ignorance and naivety. It has been blatantly obvious that Facebook and all the other big internet companies who serve "free" services have been doing this all along.

On the other side, for some people Facebook and others really are essential just like I couldn't do without Whatsapp since everyone here uses it. To me all of this seems like a failure of the law too, people should be protected from these things. Nobody would physically sign a contract without thinking about it and that's the thing we do online all the time.
While fictional, the Canterbury Tales portrays pilgrimages as a kind of extended carnival, where some of society's normal rules are suspended. You can argue that tourism was born out of catering to pilgrims: http://blog.museumoflondon.org.uk/pilgrim-badges-birth-touri...

Of course there are more serious traditions of pilgrimage, but people are people, and for every one with a deep connection to their faith, there are others who will use the excuse of pilgrimage for a break from the routine.
> It doesn't matter who's President.

It absolutely matters when something goes wrong outside our borders.

If, hypothetically speaking, a small NATO country on Russia's border devolves into chaos thanks to, say, a massive power grid failure combined with agitation from Russian nationalists, and Russia then intervenes to "stabilize" the situation, the temperament of the president and coherence of the White House as a whole would make a great deal of difference in how the crisis evolves.

Purely hypothetical, of course.
I think maybe it has, and each of us doesn't notice it when we're younger and we think that we're really arguing about principles. Before Trump Derangement Syndrome (Russia!) there was Obama Derangement Syndrome (Kenya!); before that there was Bush Derangement Syndrome; before that there was Clinton Derangement Syndrome; before that Reagan Derangement Syndrome (Oliver Sacks even included a bit in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat which alleged that there are people with a neurological condition which causes them to detect lies, who couldn't watch Mr. Reagan speak because everything he said was a lie; if true this would have been quite an amazing discovery …), and so on & so forth.

And of course a lot of this wasn't entirely unfounded. Mr. Obama really was the first anti-American president; Mr. Bush really was incompetent; Mr. Clinton really was a perjurer, philanderer, power-abuser & possible rapist; Mr. Reagan really did lie a lot (e.g. Iran-Contra); Mr. Carter really was incompetent; Mr. Nixon really was a crook; Mr. Johnson really was a crook &c. &c. &c.

The fact that we keep on electing compromised, power-hungry people to a position of extreme power is no doubt part of the problem, but even back when the presidency was far weaker you had the partisans of Jefferson & Adams maligning one another with language we would be shocked at today.

The only recent American president I can think of who was mostly decent was probably Gerald Ford, who never ran for the position. Maybe that's the secret.
I think that there are three kinds of people that would support this bill:

A) sincere people for whom 1 victim is too many and any tactic is worth reducing the victim count by any amount

B) people too afraid to be labeled as pro sex trafficking

C) people who want weapons to silence speech and are using A and B

I don’t know how you would go about determining the mix, but I am sure the C group will show their hand soon enough when we see calls for shutting down platforms that were used to support political rivals, after they fail to police user content on their site.
I quick scan through the news search engine finds that almost exclusively right wing sources publish on this.
Be critical about such news articles.
I largely agree with that premise. China's economic data is very clearly partially fake. They infamously have faked unemployment numbers for decades. They hide trillions in shadow debt. I just don't think it's that fake. We may be talking about 10% or 15%. Their astounding economic climb is well correlated in far too many data points to be, eg 50% fake or something similarly outlandish. The amount of oil they're importing, the military spending, the rapid advances in various industries, the general commodity consumption, the exports, electricity consumption & generation, etc.
Interesting, I wonder if they where on, maybe those are just the daytime running lights.
thats probably the facebook pixel or the facebook sdk doing this, not the facebook app
No, I can't do this startup by myself. He's done some great things already getting the company funded and finding me. (Hard words to say.) I left my academic job to experience the thrills and spills of founding+leading, that's something I feel like I've lost that is part of this. I'm striving to keep this real and face all the truths. I don't want to kill this venture, but know what I've felt growing over the past few months. Perhaps it's transient and I need a better focus on the bigger picture. (CTO vs non-technical CEO readings sound like a great move.)
Also from the UK, with a Master's. I have not found this to be the case. The majority of people at my university (Russell group) doing CS also got a masters.
Don't think it's a first amendment issue, but the printing press in question is offering to print everyone else's pamphlets for free, but turns down pamphlets that are not compliant with its liberal agenda. I think it is certainly entitled to do so, but I have seen many, even on HN, denying that the Silicon Valley is progressively becoming hostile to non liberal opinions. This seems to be a good illustration.

And this liberal agenda is not a monopoly of the Silicon Valley either. Citi recently did something similar, announcing that it will cease to make loans or provide payment services to businesses who do not comply with its views on gun control. Which I find more problematic than youtube given the regulatory monopoly and lack of competition in the banking industry.
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Facebook, blacks, browns, gays, single mother families, liberals, Chinese, guns, videogames. Scapegoats is something the US is really good at.
“Combating sex trafficking” is also a euphemism for cracking down on free speech on the internet, privacy, and small competitors to the big two internet firms. In the same week, we’ve also gotten the cloud act, and widely expanded censorship on youtube.

The big two seem to welcome these changes: google lobbied in support of at least some of this, while zuckerberg says he’s ok with expanded regulation of facebook.

Reglatory capture is being used to lock down our industry (and, maybe democracy) before our very eyes.
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"...while slightly missing the fact that society as a whole always has to be the enabler for what they do - even when it appears to be resisting them!"

Anyone care to imagine what the results of the industrial revolution would have been without the Luddites and unionized workers fighting against "progress"? It's hard to think of anything more dystopian than technocrats (or whatever your favorite term for the "special people") given the complete power to shape the future they way they would like.

I have the same kind of ambivalence to the "mistranslation" issue.
> having a bad demographic to advertise to

I don't follow. A full 31% of the US population, most of whom have sufficient disposable income to blow $600-$2000 on a piece of steel and polymer. How is that a bad demographic to advertise to?
People just don't know how to build a website with plain HTML/CSS anymore. Frameworks have dominated the front-end for so long, it's just what you do.
Great, now you can't escape Google's tracking even in the middle of the fucking jungle. Those bastards will triangulate your position from the sound of your footsteps and send BigDog to slice you up.
Yes, this is true for the average American white collar worker at the start of employment, sort of earning fractional vacation hours per hour of work. Service worker - not sure about that - is that the same as zero hours contract employee? Low unemployment has forced companies to start offering paid vacation to employees in fast food restaurants in recent years. Many teachers in public schools famously don't have to work for three months a year, but don't get paid for those three months a year.
They are book burning. If you don’t see that, I don’t know what to tell you.

Almost everything they have removed was 100% legal content that they didn’t like.

IDK about you, but I’ll chose to use sites that want to do their job of hosting, and not my job of choosing what I see/learn.
Or they could legitimately be trying to make the world a better place along with making money. I know, naive right?
Email is decentralized! The web is decentralized, though many platforms built on top of it aren't. And it's not such a stretch for ordinary people to build websites directly - remember Geocities?
The age of monarchs has a strong bias toward those who made it to adulthood. A huge percentage of children died historically of diseases that are mostly prevented by vaccinations today.

And since we're talking 14th century, there was also that Black Death thing that killed about half the population of Europe.
The excerpt doesn't come from a paper -- it comes from the book The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, by Juliet B. Schor: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w... If you want to be snarky, get the details right.

Peasants' work output were calorie-restricted. 11 hours backbreaking were the norm during harvest, but not in the less busier seasons. In the northern countries, snow and lack of sunlight made working impossible for several months per year. Instead, they ate very little food slept through most days.
I should have expanded on this in my post, but I judge the level of difficulty on whether someone's grandmother would be able to upload a video from their iPhone/iPad/Android, for example a cute video of their grandson/granddaughter.

It might be easy for us to upload a torrent, but to most others, it is extremely hard, if not impossible.

The other problem with torrents is that it relies on reseeding. Preservation of content is a problem with torrents.
People who have never started companies undervalue how hard that is. CEO's job is literally using sales and recruiting to get outcome. He closed the funding and recruited you. If you think you can do that, then you should have done it, and you've already screwed up that outcome by touching this.

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I just did the gust survey, it says 100%/0% in my favor. He builds, I do everything else in addition to build, including building v1 by myself. He is also theoretically fungible, like you are. I made him a 50/50 partner for good reasons: the product is worth $0 until its not, and morale/loyalty/not making posts like this is more valuable to my outcome than a larger % of zero. The survey is bullshit.

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I have a great therapist (ex-biglaw) to help me overcome personal psychological barriers. We all face our ego and great leadership stems from overcoming this.
This. Non-nerds don't, as a rule, understand the distinction.

I have had to explain why it is a category error so many times that I have it down to a quick patter now, in a couple of forms - one for quick explanation, one as a socratic QA. The latter seems to work better for people who shout loudly about their Constitutional rights.
Could you share a screenshot please?

I'm very surprised by this. To me the bot that sends me the login tokens does only that. I received this because I subscribed to an official channel named Telegram News where they share this.

If they're sending news thru the login bot to people who aren't subscribed to news, that's not nice behaviour of them in my view.
Why is he not rational? I like his highlighting of hidden risk. It's hard to make rational decisions if you don't have all/enough information and there are plenty recent examples of unbounded optimism ending badly.
That super niche boat is in a fleet of boats that are killing off old businesses that are lagging behind. Sure BMW may be doing great today, but how long until they’re a Borders.

I don’t agree with you, but I did use your golang auth project the other day. Good work! Thanks!
I'm German and I work in Silicon Valley and we get plenty of visitors from the German legislature. One of them always tends to ask me about what it would "to get people like me to come back to Germany". I usually just tell them my approximate salary and ask them if I could earn even half of that as an Engineer in Germany. Usually I don't get an answer.

Other things I often hear:

- "They probably monitor how often you go to the arcade!" (usually followed about how they were in the opposition in the former East)

- "So who usually tells you what to do?" (they don't get self organizing teams or lack of hierarchies)

- "So how many hours a week do you usually work?" (they vastly over-estimate that)

- "This is all nice, but they just want to stay at work longer!" (after I told them my usual hours)

They are all reasonably nice people, but it's somewhat demotivating to see who actually runs Germany and how little they understand about other parts of the world. Maybe the visits help.
yeah I don't think that the definition of censorship has any caveats to it to indicate the actor must be a public entity.
The CLOUD act

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/cloud-act-dangerous-ex...
No it was never this vitriolic or hateful
It was more dire often, but it was also more leisurely during the times it wasn't dire. So now we're eliminated the dire situations, but we've given up the leisurely situations in return for more stuff (and also more safetly, organization, far greater adventures, and other things).
Nothing in the short run, but I think an argument could be made that gerrymandering in the age when digital technology has enabled very precise calculations to be made has engendered a completely dysfunctional political system.

And that completely dysfunctional political system certainly played a role in the last election.
> It's not different at all. It's traveling somewhere afar without objective practical need.

You are looking at this from the perspective of an atheist living in 2018 and not a deeply religious medieval peasant.
I'd disagree and say through the Bush Clinton Bush Obama period it wasn't as bad. I guess the levels of stupid vitriolic and hateful come and go. The world has definitely gone through worse phases as well, see the 1930s for example.
>I am fucking sick and fucking tired of people interfering with the free choice of individuals in any effort to "fix" society and "help" people.

What about seatbelts? Speed limits? Or childproof caps on medicine?
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Programming is not the backbone of primary education and you shouldn't design a education curriculum around a niche subject. Primary education is for teaching literacy, history, and arithmetic not a trade.

But you can certainly teach programming with pencil and paper. Some of the most influential programmers in history of computer science did not do their work on physical computers or used (now) esoteric methods like punch-cards as input. Several of my university CS classes were all pencil and paper, especially midterms and exams.
> I'm not so confident if the code itself will live up to the reputation of the services it provides.

Then don't open source it.

If you are running a business then it should be a financial/business decision. Is there any financial/business reason to open source it?

Weigh the opportunity costs and make the decision.
both of those statements can be true.
Ironically, I was having this same conversation with my fiance this morning. Lately I have been watching/listening (or at least having it playing on a screen on my other computer) Twitch programming channel. I switch between programmers and usually try to find something that is somewhat interesting to me to at least listen to. She asked why and how I could listen to that while working. Not sure why I switched from Spotify to Twitch over the last couple weeks, but I have found myself twice as productive so I am not questioning my choice. Her asking me though made me stop to reflect on that switch.

I am by no means a "great" programmer, but I can write code and would consider myself a good programmer. Like you said, it may not not always be elegant or the most efficient, but it works and gets the job done. My biggest problem is that I hesitate to launch/release because I second guess myself sometimes on the overall quality of the code. I am also hesitant to release open-source code for similar fears/lack of confidence.

Watching Twitch though I see others writing code. Some of them write better code than me, but for the most part the quality of code I see is equivalent to my own. They each have their own style and focus. Some are better commenting code while others write more efficient code. In the end though, 8 out of 10 times I find them writing the exact same code I would have written. Listening to them talk though gives an insight into what they are thinking. What I see/hear though is people who are confident enough to just code regardless of what others think. Sometimes someone in the chat will provide feedback on a better way they could do something or a general observation that provides valuable feedback. This confidence to just code without regard to what others think combined with seeing that many of the coding decisions they make are similar to my own has increased my productivity. Seeing and hearing all this has made me not second guess my coding decisions as much and I find myself writing code much faster.
They also died younger and led miserable lives by today's standards.

The article claims the american worker gets 8 days of vacation annually. 52*2 > 8 last time I checked.

I do believe though that with more automation, workers should be getting more vacation time.
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pants. Is it bad to address this with equity. Our handshake was based on equal equity and standing (I asked for a lot more than 50/50 initially and took the leap-of-faith to join forces), and that the job-titles were secondary... that's not really working out.
Yeah it's pretty naive. Google trying to make the world a better place would actually be illegal and would place the managers in jail for defrauding investors. Google's mission is to make as much money as possible, typical tactics include creating a good corporate image.
And you shouldn't be convinced. Are there any studies that show any sort of educational benefit of 'Swift Playgrounds'?
My Dad, who used to build houses professionally and has been renovating his own house recently in preparation of selling it, told me the other day "Check Youtube before doing anything around the house. There's so much information there, tips, tricks, things I never encountered back in the day."

So yeah, I would imagine they probably do watch some videos on their profession on there, like I watch videos about game design and programming on there sometimes.
I'm not too familiar with ML, do you have to "train" tensorflow as to what audio in the data is "definitely a chainsaw" and which is "definitely a logging truck", etc etc? As in, you should keep doing this every now and then as you get more and more data, at least in the sense of flagging false positives (so as to unlearn that particular sound).
I'm going to share here my friend's insight which I think is applicable.

He said: New startups that have one brilliant individual often fail because these people often think it's all about them.

EDIT: After reading OPs responses on this thread, I have reinforced my previous impression, and in addition I now think OP is dishonest.

OP has made it clear that this is in part about power and thrills, not just equity, and that he was looking to leave the academia in search of such power and thrills.

In other words, when OP shook hands with the CEO already knew that he wasn't happy with 50/50 and CTO title, but at the time he thought that was the most he could get, and now OP thinks he can get more.

Completely dishonest, OP is just considering how to execute the power grab he had planned.
I would enjoy it... but that would be short-lived if the company is worth it... and this is hurting because it is
guns == porn, makes sense to me.