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It's possible that Thiel knew something deeper about the state of the nation through Palantir. However, I seriously doubt that Palantir secretly worked on the data that Kogan sold to CA years after he collected it, as this Wylie guy alleges. He has presented no evidence, and Palantir flatly denies it. I think he has seen the media run with his previous claims, and thinks that nobody will call BS on him now.

I have started wondering what could be driving this guy to make what at first seemed like believable allegations, that now seem more and more wild. I have been unable to find any current employer for him. My suspicion is that he is out of work and thought the attention from this would get him hired somewhere, not realizing that nobody - even the most liberal of firms - will hire him because he has proven, in the most public of ways, that he can't be trusted to not disclose confidential information.

According to [1], he is a dyslexic high school dropout with ADHD who sued his elementary school because he was bullied and "...he describes himself as the gay Canadian vegan who somehow ended up creating "Steve Bannon's psychological warfare mindf--k tool." That is certainly a grandiose claim, but there seems to be no evidence that this tool even worked, and in fact there is some evidence to the contrary [2]. It appears that campaigns hired CA not because its data analysis techniques were helpful, but because doing so was a prerequisite for obtaining campaign contributions from the Mercer family [3].

So, we have an out of work programmer with social issues who has no degree and can't be trusted, whose most famous work apparently didn't work at all (according to its customers), and whose biggest asset is that the media will take everything he says as fact. My guess is that Wylie's claims will get even more bizarre as he and his stories quickly disappear from the headlines with no work forthcoming.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/christopher-w...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/cambridge-analytica-facebook-...

[3] https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/975756418128187393
Of course I can. We did two rounds of interviews with pro users, all done by UX/UI experts. Who then wrote a number of functional specs (see gui.gimp.org). We implemented all specs that were completed, some specs weren't completed, unfortunately, and there's always more work to do in that regard.
I just read the sub-thread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16691774 onwards and started nodding in agreement at the fine arguments therein. But then sanity hit me in the face like a damp glacier and I remembered the 9 lines of code in question.

Please anyone who's ever programmed anything; take a step back and tell me this is sane. Tell me there's not a billion cases like this out there waiting for a lawyer to unearth them.

However persuasive the step by step logic seems, it's the same step by step that paves the road to hell. If logic, reason and law bring us to this point then it's logic, reason and law that need to be carefully reexamined.
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Loading was really really slow for some reason. I'm in SF, could that have anything to do with it?
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Is whistling allowed? :)
> Clean-room reverse engineering is only useful in a world where APIs aren't copyrightable.

I disagree. However, I am not aware of any caselaw on this point. It is an interesting logical twist you have added, but I fail to see how it must be that way in view of the fact that copyright explicitly allows clean-room type reverse engineering.
Note that this is separate from the other front page post about Google Cloud TTS powered by WaveNet. That's a product, while this is exciting new research (which will hopefully become part of a product).
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Actually, you’re wrong. Att sells an iPhone that is not compatible with CDMA networks. Trust me bud, I’ve done all the research. Apple sells their devices with the ability to use any of the 4 carriers.
I use an metal MicroSD card holder, Nano-SIMs fit pretty snugly:

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Exactly. As someone who did use Photoshop professionally for years, I got used to Gimp's quirks in like a few days, but hit the performance wall right after that. Pretty much nothing I did in Photoshop is possible in Gimp due to performance issues.
Ah, I see this is for Lyft employees, and not Lyft drivers which I assumed. It makes sense that Lyft would have much more data regarding sexism or racism affecting their employees than they would sexism or racism affecting drivers.
The Poisson distribution assumes equal probability of events occurring. That seems to me to be an oversimplification, given that AV performance varies over time as changes are made, and also given that terrain / environment plays a huge factor here, whether looking at one particular vehicle or comparing to vehicles across companies (and drivers in general). Since AV performance will hopefully be improved when an accident occurs, we also cannot meet the assumption of independence between events. Although if AVs are simply temporarily stopped after an accident, that also breaks the independence assumption as we'd have a time period of zero accidents.

The bigger problem though is what you are doing with your confidence interval. A CI is a statement about replication. A 95% confidence level means that in 100 replications of the experiment using similar data, 5 of the generated CIs -- which will all have different endpoints -- will _not_ contain the population parameter, although IIRC this math is more complicated in practice, meaning that the error rate is actually higher. As such, if you generate a CI and multiply the endpoints by some constant, that's a complete violation of what is being expressed: there is vastly more data with 100m driving miles than 3m miles, which will cause the CI to shrink and the estimate of the parameter to become more accurate. There is absolutely no basis for multiplying the endpoints of a CI!

Ultimately, given that the size of the sample has an effect on CI width, you need to conduct an appropriate statistical test to compare the estimated parameters between the 1 in 3m deaths for Uber and whatever data generated the 1.18 in 100m deaths for sober drivers. There's a lot more that needs to be taken into account here than what a simple Poisson test can do.

For an analysis of how AVs with various safety levels perform in terms of lives saved over time, I recommend https://www.rand.org/blog/articles/2017/11/why-waiting-for-p...

Edit: Note the default values of the T and r parameters when you run poisson.test(1, conf.level = 0.95), and also that the p-value of the one-sample exact test you performed is 1. Also, since this is an exact test, the rate of rejecting true null hypotheses at 0.95 is 0.05, but given my reservations about the use of a Poisson distribution here, I don't think that using an exact Poisson test is appropriate.
There is no way a serious mainstream news outlet can publish news based on rumors from a single person that has a personal financial interest in spreading false news or exaggerated rumors.

If they do it for free then they are giving away their credibility. And if they take thousands of dollars for a piece like this - then they are selling their credibility. I don’t know which would be worse.
I have no idea what you wrote, but as somebody who grew through decades of bakeji and '?', I love how modern systems are finally mature enough to deal smoothly with non-ASCII languages.
The United States considered itself a more enlightened country than the Europeans, that's why it was founded. Still, the Open Door Policy wasn't born out of a desire to end colonialism so much as strategy. The US wanted markets in China where the Europeans already had control. It didn't want to be squeezed out and so played balance of powers.
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>but the decision to make the two most influential women white is a problematic and poor choice.

Oh my goodness, please stop. I like seeing white people on screen too. I like seeing men on screen in important roles.

I do get it; make your movie with female leads-- I will watch it. I don't care as long as the characters are believable and have a positive impact on my experience of the film. Make your movie with female [insert race] leads, and I will watch it. But please stop telling everyone that white lead characters are a "wrong" choice.
An interesting argument. However, the Oracle Google case is not about derivative works. Google admitted to copying.
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I just picked up Grim Dawn last weekend and I've really been enjoying it. :)
Fair enough. _Most_ things said about GIMP in this thread are complete and utter made-up bullshit that won't stand fact-checking. How about that? Better? :)
Is there any API for generating speech that sounds like Google Now's assistant? The quality of that is much, much better than this new service.
This already exists [1], although I'm not sure how accurate it is.

[1]: https://www.midomi.com/
"This is probably an ignorant rant" Correct. I researched the engagement numbers: http://growthrock.co/social-media-statistics/

HN folks always hate on email, but compared to other channels (social in particular) the engagement is insane. Insane. 15% quoted by the guy in a thread above for example is unheard of on Twitter/FB.

And compared to paid social/paid search it's SO much cheaper once the list is built.
I'd believe anything that Salon had to say on the matter of identity politics, if their editorial stance couldn't be clearly summed up as "white men are bad" [1].

Here are a few of the choice articles they've published:

* White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends on it [2]

* Mass shooters: Part of a larger epidemic of white male rage [3]

* Is male fragility to blame for Charlottesville violence? [4]

If racial identity or gender identity are such an important facets of life, it was only a matter of time before people started strongly identifying and collectivising openly as "white" or "male". When you start a dialogue with "you have too much privilege and you can't talk on certain topics" you are closing discussions before they begin and are fracturing groups so they can collectivise based on more important line such as "class" or "wealth"... which is probably the intended goal of those fanning the flames identity politics to begin with.

[1] https://www.salon.com/topic/white_men
[2] https://www.salon.com/2015/12/22/white_men_must_be_stopped_t...
[3] https://www.salon.com/2018/03/07/mass-shooters-part-of-a-lar...
[4] https://www.salon.com/2017/08/18/is-male-fragility-to-blame-...
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>"What was wrong with this piece? I thought it was well-researched and, speaking as someone with little knowledge of digital advertising, pretty fascinating."

Indeed it was just under 3,500 words, the journalist also conducted two separate interviews with the main subject Mr Gryn. And those interview took place in both Berlin and Santa Monica, CA. That would be considerable effort to put forth for both journalist and publisher for "click bait."
> You cannot use multiple cores directly from the same Node program unless you drop down to C++.

Well, someone has to drop down to C++, but it doesn't have to be me (node webworker-threads). This is the same as in most languages.

> you cannot use multiple cores directly from the same Node program unless you drop down to C++.

As I said in my comment, threading is primarily a runtime thing, not a language thing. There are javascript runtimes (napa.js, node webworker-threads, nexusjs, browsers) that have threading (even by your restrictive definition that doesn't include threads layered onto child processes like the npm package 'threads' does), just as there are runtimes for e.g. java that do not (and the bulk of the threading support in most other language runtimes is also written in C++ so it seems churlish of you to complain about that in javascript runtimes). Most languages do not need significant changes to their syntax or keywords to support multithreading.

Maybe you're comparing node.js specifically (where I think that for a long time there was a belief among the leads that letting the OS manage processes was a better approach - it's been interesting to watch this same argument play out in the rust community) with something like Go which has pleasant primitives for concurrency built in as part of the language. If you are, then to some extent I agree with you - something like goroutines might be really nice in javascript and is arguably better than what the js community has, but I also stand by my runtime/language distinction. Goroutines are not OS threads. You can run go programs with GOMAXPROCS set to 1 without changing the language at all.
Regulating driverless cars demands testing the “smarts” of the systems
$700/month ($175/week, $20-$35/day) is a lot less than Uber costs for a daily commuter + weekend activity.
I think everyone thinks that. We just cannot all agree on who to trust and since we cannot agree it turns into an argument over who gets to make the decision of who can or cannot have them. Which will never end.
Yes, we all have obligations. What is your point?
Yeah, never really been a fan.
Please save the "once the list built" <--- see, that's the catch. It's not the catch, it's not that hard to build the list (compared to making paid channels work from an ROI perspective). And in particular for ecommerce (topic of stripe article) just having a simple checkbox for anyone checking out to opt in is more or less free. Mailchimp costs compared to ad costs are also super cheap.
Shazam has that feature years ago. You could hum a tune and it'd try to find it. I don't recall it being that good.

My memory might be failing me though. There was another competitor to shazam with an orange soundcloud like logo that also has song id. It could've been that app.

Edit: It was soundhound and it supports humming
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> If the safety promise of self-driving is delivered, car seats will become unnecessary.

If the total rate of accidents with self driving cars is so low that adults don't need seat belts and airbags, that might be true.

I don't think anyone projects that to be the near-term result of self-driving cars being mixed with human-driven cars on the road.
What I think is happening is people are identifying machiavellian actions. Chinese actions aren't 'bad' per se- they are self-interested though- and often in a zero-sum context.

The US, despite many deplorable actions by its government over the years, consistently also supported good government initiatives, development initiatives, and generally bi-lateral open markets.

This has allowed well run countries access to a large export base with minimal barriers- hence the rise of countries like S. Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and Germany post WWII, all of which could have been foreclosed by the hyperpower of the US if it so wished.

China is completely strategic in leveraging its money and industrial base into more military and political power. It has no problem in leveraging corrupt governments like Venezuela to secure more strategic influence, much like the US did during the Cold War, which at least had the goal and virtue of halting the spread of totalitarian Communism.

If a nation is going to act completely self-interested, rather than contribute to the greater good and trust that growing the market ensures more for everyone, it then behooves other countries to act in defense of their self interest in return and potentially act in a coordinated manner to constrain that power.

The US, despite its errors, delivers value to its partners. S. Korea, Japan, Germany have all directly benefitted from sheltering in the embrace of American military might. And as the Philippines has shown, the US is more than willing to withdraw from any country (other than Cuba, for historic reasons) that wants it gone.
Just wanted to mention that your usage of `sql_query` is exactly how it's meant to be used, and exactly where I would reach for it. Great article!
In my travels in the EU, I've never had to even lift a finger. It all worked smoothly and reliable. When I stepped off the plane on the other side I got a text letting me know I was in roaming mode and could talk/use data from my current plan. When I returned I got a text saying "welcome back, I hope you had a good trip".

Oh, and this is not a premium plan or anything. I pay 7.9EUR for unlimited calls and texts, and 1GB of data.
Indeed. Do things like this happen often?
Ask HN: What are some good guides for non-techies to avoid Google/Facebook?
In light of the Facebook 'revelation', many less technically-inclined friends have asked how to avoid giving data to Facebook and Google.

Is there a good guide that tells non-technical people how to use Firefox with ublock, provides alternatives to Gmaps/gmail (that don't require complex setups), how to protect their smartphone from Google surveillance, etc.?
Some of my customer VMs are Windows 7 - Veeam proxies for example. I also take backups quite seriously. Yes this is all a bit manual in some cases.

(Nearly) All of them are on the end of an IPSEC VPN that I can get at from home via the office web proxy and another VPN or via magic. Some of them have 192.168.0/24 or 192.168.1.0/24 - those are on the end of OpenVPN. I wrote this: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/OpenVPN_NAT_subnets_with_s... . You have no idea what networking is about until you've had to do that sort of nonsense a few times 8)

I don't have the luxury of one WSUS to manage, we have loads of the bloody things. Some customers have pretty skilled local IT depts, some have somewhat vocal users that accuse you of resetting their passwords after spending hours doing way more than they have paid for and would not understand what you are on about in the first place. I love them all equally as any parent would ...

When I get bored of watching Windows Update I run apt update && apt upgrade && reboot on a few machines and keep a weather eye on the monitoring system. When I get really bored, I run up yaourt on my laptop or my office PC. When I've got a newly installed Win system or two to patch, I fire up a few emerge -Uvh --deep --newuse --keep-going @world sessions (I'm not really joking here) or run up genkernel.

Yes, there is the default state designed by .... bbzzzzrrt .... soz, lost it, and then there is reality. Could I also remind you that there is rather more to patching than WSUS:

* Firmware - Dell, HPE and Co have had to do rather a lot of work here and had to start again in Jan when Intel dropped the ball
* Hypervisors - I generally see VMware - that's a lot of patching and don't forget that some of them were buggered, so need excluding.
* VM vHardware versions - yep, all those little lovelies have their own hardware types to worry about
* "My fooking factory runs 24x7 - what are you going to do about it?" .... "Yes but you didn't go for the full cluster version sign I'll see what I can do" ...

You think I'm odd! No mate, my little company are well aware of automation and use it where we can but we are pragmatic and have to deal with a lot of reality.

We could of course bind our customers to our iron will and enforce our policy and stuff. They would not work on weekends or other odd hours. They would not insist on doing things their way and they absolutely would pay us on time - they generally do 8)
I've been doing that for a while. Also hiding every single suggested post to the extent that Facebook occasionally blocks me for "abusing" that feature.
Probably it makes sense because it is the most used lang in the world. Everybody has a interpreter on their computers. Also there are more people to buy the book.
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That's a good argument to make... eventually, perhaps when our kids have kids.
>I was referring to Modern Apple, post-2016 Apple

The difference is Apple prints money. And Foxconn is arguably the best there has ever been when it comes to manufacturing.

Tesla burns money.

The only similarity is their cult leaders.
I think we have to deprogram scarcity mindsets, too. Establishing an upper bound of minimally necessary judgment based on what is sustainable and meets the needs of all involved over an agreed upon time might be useful, too. NVC is founded on assumptions of abundance of resources for life. I'm not sure what research there is on the validity of the claim, but I have found adopting the belief biases my mind toward seeing ways to accomplish my goals with available resources or uncommon ways to get my hands on what I need.

This reminds me of this article about using landfills for raw materials.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180323090958.h...
Given the numbers these people are facing, I’d be a “gambler” too.
don't forget to stock all the kids' toys in those cars.
SoundHound. I never had success with the humming feature though.
Considering it's one person, it might as well be individual.
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I've always thought of it in terms of asymmetric risk – something Thiel seems to have a preternatural intuition for. In other words, what he stood to gain with a Trump win far outweighed what he stood to lose with a Trump loss. Most business leaders were throwing in with Clinton. If Thiel had done the same, and Clinton won, he'd be one voice in a crowded field. By being one of the few to publicly back Trump, he all but guaranteed a prime seat at the table. This is exactly what played out post-election, with Thiel ushering in tech leaders in the lobby of Trump Tower.

Had Trump lost, Thiel would have probably diminished his standing with the Clinton administration significantly. But, due to the crowded field, it would have been a small standing to begin with.

And here's the crux: Thiel has held controversial opinions for a while. He probably figured his association with Trump wouldn't really move the dial on his likability much, and he seems to enjoy being contrarian anyway.

So, anyway, there's my theory. Risk asymmetry. A lot to gain in the event of a Trump win, little to lose in the event of a Trump loss.
Are _you_ paying attention (your tone is absolutely horrible, by the way)? I'm saying that I doubt the project's priorities are in line with those of its users.

Are you sure that performance is a problem for most users? I have talked to people about GIMP before, and it came out 0 times, while usability was the problem that forced most people to install Photoshop or go back to Windows.

In the past 3 days, I've opened pretty big illustrations (about 20,000px* 8000px) on a i35 thinker (mobile phone processor), and I had absolutely no problem opening them, scrolling around, etc.

Doing basic operations like moving, cropping, and resizing layers was so cumbersome that after 3 days I gave up and installed Photoshop 7.
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