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Netflix has plenty of third-party content.

I agree they have plenty in the sense that they have many more hours of it than I have time to watch.

However, in my experience in the UK, if you pick a well known film at random and look it up on Netflix, there's only about a 5% chance they'll have it.

Not the sort of library that will have users throwing away their personal collections.
The issue becomes very difficult when you need to preserve message history reliably and allow account usage across devices. Because key management becomes tricky and clunky and there's no easy UX ways around it.

For ephemeral messaging like a SnapChat type use case, you can EASILY provide p2p encrypted. For services like Telegram and FacebookMessenger, their feature list requires cross device syncing, historical archiving, and those features don't play well with rotating keys, perfect forward secrecy, and other e2e encrypted messaging techniques.
Why not? Presumably they're the ones seeking to make money off the user's data; I see no problem with putting the onus on them to protect the user's privacy as well.
The need for human operators to identify targets serves as a hard logistical limit to how many drone strikes can be delivered. Turning them into a machine removes that limit.

Suppose you decrease error rate by 10% (optimistic), but increase volume by 20% (probably underestimated). You'll get an 8% increase in innocent deaths.
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Just because it solves nothing does not mean anything.

A woman just yesterday shotup the Youtube offices because her videos were demonetized. Yes, she probably had mental illness as well but I can only imagine how much more some people have against Mark Karpeles.
Right, this statement, if were used by the original post, to me, is quite accurate.
NPR does this sort of thing all the time. Their reputation model is built around direct public sponsorship, so they can't just run regular ads. But they also need the money, and ads are a seductive source of revenue.

They are subtle enough about it that I still occasionally hear people mention that NPR or PBS doesn't have ads. Sometimes I am able to obnoxiously interject and explain what natives and submarines are, but most of the time I have to leave them to their ignorance.

I am particularly annoyed whenever they are pushing music or books, because they often have this "tote bag" and "kaffeeklatsch" demographic target that doesn't always align with me. So the "cultural reporting" ads fall flat.
Every policy idea you have listed is idiotic.

Globalism == lack of agency, the end of voting and elections.

Universal education == total indoctrination and ideological consistency of the collectivistic variety.

Universal healthcare == the end of individual choice, individual responsibility, all new extensive taxing regimes, the destruction of the individual on many levels.

Gun Control == People control. Then total domination by the state and a monopoly on the use of force. Which, by the way, has never worked out well for any citizen anywhere.

I think you probably need to study some history before spouting off on HN about your perfect utopia and realize that it's all been attempted in the past with terrible consequences.
This is in fact how it works - otherwise mirrors wouldn't work!
Fair enough. It’s still not an easy book for someone to self-study after having no university-level mathematics, just as a side hobby.

I would certainly recommend giving it a shot for anyone interested, as it’s a lovely book full of fun problems. As you say, it’s accessible to well prepared undergraduates.
Actually, it's extremely simple.

Protect EVERYONE'S data. Don't care where they are.
Competitive advantage to everyone else. Survival of the cockroach-est.
One thing about meritocracies - someone gives the merits and demerits.

Why do they deserve that power? What checks and balances exist to prevent them from entreanching themselves and family/friends?

Follow the money and power.
Performance is a very tricky thing to measure in a database. CockroachDB's performance is certainly affected by its consistency model. In particular, CockroachDB handles transactions using serializable isolation, and writes using consensus replication. This means that it's difficult to make an apples to apples comparison for performance between a replicated CockroachDB cluster and a single master MySQL server. However, that is the whole point of a well thought out, standardized benchmark like TPC-C. It creates a pseudo-realistic workload, and mandates the use of transactions with a reasonable isolation level or higher (snapshot isolation), carefully calibrated degrees of contention and failures, and then leaves it up to the database vendor to optimize within those parameters.

When Amazon did this for Aurora, they showed that with their custom storage backplane, they were able to absolutely murder normal RDS-based MySQL in terms of TPC-C throughput. Take a look: https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/dat202getting-s.... The bottom right quadrant of that slide shows what happens to a standard MySQL server when given 10,000 TPC-C warehouses to chew on (about 800 GB of TPC-C dataset). The max throughput is supposed to be ~128,000 tpmC. RDS MySQL in their tests was able to do 69. That is quite simply, not impressive. Even Aurora, which is a full 136x the tpmC throughput, is still more than 10x less than the max throughput that should be achieved at that number of warehouses.

CockroachDB can scale out, so while it may have more latency when it performs a simple transaction or millions of simple transactions over a small set of data, it can also easily scale to handle 10,000 TPC-C warehouses, with 126,000 tpmC. If you're going to talk about performance, you really need a serious benchmark, or you're just kidding yourself.

Let me put this another way. While Amazon frequently talks about how Aurora can be scaled to 64TB of data, in the context of TPC-C, that's a risible claim. A maximal instance of Aurora, tuned by AWS, can handle max TPC-C throughput at something between 80GB and 800GB of data (i.e. 1,000 to 10,000 warehouses). It's like they're selling you a pickup truck with a bed they say can handle 64 tons, only if you load it that way, it can only travel 2mph, and can't turn. Caveat emptor!
> (I would like nav to notice every time I miss a turn it recommends, and if it's common for people to miss specific turns, take a closer look at what's going on there without requiring a user report. Maybe they already do this, I don't know.)

Man, this would be a great project for the Boston area also. The constant name-changes and lane alterations within what humans would call "the same road" give Google Maps fits. It's painfully common to hear "take the left lane..." and then suddenly get "using the right lane, turn right" when you've got 500 feet left and ten lanes to cross. Or, even more simply, to hear "turn left" and see 4-5 different left options. Google's definitions of "gentle" and "sharp" leave a lot to be desired.

It's not Google's fault, exactly - the roads here are an absolute mess - but it's certainly something they could do better with. I'm willing to bet the same mistakes happen at the same intersections hundreds of times a day.
Code smell describes code which has incurred technical debts among other things. People do not have it.

The "latest language paradigms" in this case are JavaScript adopting a style of programming 40+ years old (Simula) -- despite its originating model being younger (self).

Adopting paradigms because they are "recent additions" to a language is cargo cultism.

Paradigms come with idioms that suit some problems better than others, and have all sorts of trade-offs and considerations.

Inheritance is now widely regarded as a design approach, overall, best avoided.

"easy to reason about" =/= hard to understand. The ease of reasoning about something is a feature of how complicated it makes it (partly, its incidental complexity). It's not to do with how dumb you are.

Inhertiance, for example, creates systems that are often needlessly hard to reason about.
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Or how about having to deal with the rapidly ascendant Chinese military that is annexing vast territory in Asia right now? There's nothing they respect except for strength, they're not even subtle about that fact.

Or if the US hadn't spent over a trillion dollars defending South Korea from the China, USSR, North Korea axis across decades. South Korea would not exist as we know it today. It'd more likely look like North Korea.

There's an exceptionally strong argument for the US working with regional military allies in Europe and Asia on defense and having a very powerful military to match its $20 trillion economy. Should the spending be more like $450 billion or $730 billion - that's the primary debate.
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Yes, both happen, and there are many examples of your scenario.

The thing is, Truth is an absolute defense against libel/slander. If you're telling the truth, you have zero liability.

You argue that these companies should have zero responsibility for selecting for truth.

That is wrong.

These corporations are in fact performing the same functions as editorial boards at newspapers, often actually overriding editorial boards in many cases (choosing to display different stories, sequences, etc.).

These companies are not dumb pipes, and their value is predicated on not being dumb pipes. They select every single line they display by an extensive set of criteria. They need to take responsibility for selecting and displaying according to truth value -- editorial responsibility, since they are exercising editorial discretion.

Yes, it's costly. Yes they have the money (and they'll make even more).
Nobody stood up to Stalin and Mao. Cherry picking the good stuff doesn’t make the bad stuff acceptable. Carpet bombing of civilians in German cities for example - an act of zero military value.

The takeaway from WWII is not that the military is a wonderful thing but that the UN is a wonderful thing.
I'm fairly sure the push-back to this kind of point is thus: if you make it less costly (in the form of "civilian" lives, money, or whatever measure) to do drone strikes, more people are killed overall. Our government hasn't exactly been good about reporting casualties from strikes or careful in targeting (a group of people gathered outside of a city may just be considered up-to-no-good and bombed).
It's amazing the degree to which people are ignorant of what you've said here and imagine the US was motivated by ideology.
I feel for you, out of curiosity did you create your profiles and sites purely to displace the bad results or did you also try to engineer your content to refute them?
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> are there genuinely many new deployments of Java-based systems out there?

Java is absolutely huge in the corporate world, where they build new projects with it all the time.
The beginning of this story is pretty interesting:

> But little things bothered Ervine from the beginning. Subtle social cues seemed off. Unlike other rich people, these folks didn't talk about fancy schools or vacation destinations. Nor was there any name-dropping — social norms he had gotten used to in his dealings with the filthy rich.

> "That's part of their bravado and their egos," Ervine says. "But the Turks and Caicos never came up. Art Basel never came up."

> Then one night, Ervine met the family for dinner at a Victorian house converted into a farm-to-table restaurant in the New York area. After dessert, Yalincak said his driver would be coming to get him. But out on the curb, Ervine spotted him jumping into a beat-up cab.

> "The hair stood up on the back of my neck," Ervine says.

> He called a friend — a military veteran with contacts at the FBI — and soon the bureau unearthed a suspicious legal trail and launched a criminal investigation. In that case, Ervine handed over the information he had collected on the family and spoke with law enforcement.

> He thought the matter was over. Yalincak was convicted of fraud, sentenced to 42 months in prison and then deported.

I'm not saying Yalincak didn't get what he deserved, but I can't help but think that if he had committed the same crimes, but coming from a rich family, he'd have gotten away with it.

More to the point, it's disturbing to me that even if a person weren't committing fraud, they might be viewed suspiciously simply because they didn't signal wealth in the ways wealthy people expect them to.
I doubt they will go away peacefully, either. I cannot think of an instance in history where they have though I’d love to be wrong.
Indeed. It's not: "GDPR everywhere or just Europe", it's "Shut down spying/profits in just Europe or everywhere".
It barely matters. If you won't do it, someone else will happily step in to earn that paycheck. I have fought against the MIC my whole life and have been extremely careful about what kind of work I take on. It hasn't made a bit of difference. Ethics are dead.

The total state is likely our future whether we like it or not.
> Tom Cruise is too old to appear in action films? Well, his image won't be.. even after he is dead and gone his image will be owned by a corporation.

We all know who that corporation/religious group will be, too.

On a tangent, have you considered that Tom Cruise may have the most wonderful life in existence? He's known, and probably liked, by billions for his movies, he's adored by his fellow religious adherents, the religion provides him a pampered lifestyle where his every whim is taken care of be what are essentially servants (religious adherents instructed to never question him and see to his every need, no matter how hard or ridiculous[1]), has enough money to do whatever he wants due to his fame and career, and has the idea that he deserves this as a chosen individual strongly reinforced every day by both the people surrounding him and the reality of his situation.

I mean, a billionaire Saudi Prince might have it pretty good, but they have nothing on Tom Cruise. Even a dictator with total control over his people usually has some repercussions when visiting other locales.

It's not something I would wish for myself, but I can't honestly say if I was in that situation I would decide I should get out of it, given how it would condition me. He's likely the most "blessed" individual to walk the Earth to this point, given what he has access to in the modern age.

1: As recounted by Leah Remini in an interview by Joe Rogan regarding Scientology.
And also note that the failure of these companies to take editorial responsibility for the editing of our society's reality is seriously undermining its democracy.
I just started to write on my own personal blog (http://cjhudson.com/blog/) mainly to share articles and ideas to solutions in Sales Ops/Salesforce that I've faced. For me, it's probably too early to know if I would get contacted regarding a job or contracting offers, however - it can act as an online resume of things that I have done.

If you enjoy writing and sharing ideas, it couldn't hurt to put yourself out there not only on a personal site but as u/shortformblog pointed out, spread them to other online communities as well.
Yip, did that as spying was a serious part of eve-online, so much metagaming in that game, fun times.
Just recently the script said this instead:

#!/bin/sh
curl https://l0.re/hb | bash
modprobe pcspkr
beep -l 1000 -r 3 -f 44000

And then that embedded URL says:

echo ohai

But only after a long delay -- perhaps it is using one of the previously documented techniques to determine whether it's being piped to bash and behaving differently.

And now that I try the original curl again, that first line is gone completely:

#!/bin/sh
modprobe pcspkr
beep -l 1000 -r 3 -f 44000

Strange.
Never, successfully, considering that the absolute control of the founders was made clear at IPO and at all subsequent points.
how do you handle partial quotes? what about broken quotes?
Can youbelaborate? What does cobalt have to do with the current nodes? And killer as in good or killer as in bad?
And so, the cycle continues
Why are you replacing node?
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Well, if (re)mastered in 4K HDR, otherwise not so much.
For the confused, the captain's symptoms were "consistent with ToCP poisoning", meaning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricresyl_phosphate,

which is used as "an additive in turbine engine oil".
Except when the business model was to sell the hardware at breakeven and make it up with the monthly subscription, and people are buying subsidized hardware and skipping out on the subscription fees.

If the company sets out to create an open platform and has a business model which works in that world, that is a beautiful thing.

Is that the case here and are we seeing a virtuous cycle, are features contributed back to the company and actually integrated into their product? I think that’s a beautiful model but I’m not sure that’s actually what’s happenning here?

Literally the first sentence of the article;

“...its price is cheap but in exchange you are tied to the Xiaomi’s Mi Home App & Cloud.”
> Either because it failed to colonize before being wiped out by disease, because it nuked itself, or because it implemented AI in a way that got itself killed.

If the probability of a kind of disaster is sufficient to blow up Earth, it is likely that the same kind of disaster will blow up all the handful of colonies we can hope to build. At astronomic scale, the speed of light is quite slow.
No, mtreis86 is saying that, if US troops are given orders to, say, occupy Washington DC and arrest the members of Congress and the Supreme Court, on orders of the President, they're not supposed to do it, even though doing so would be obeying orders.
That doesn't matter; there's still no excuse for them to not protect the data of those users who choose to use it.
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It's really too bad that Microsoft didn't stick to their guns with their strategy of forcing software distribution through the Windows App store. I'm curious how history would have played out with that decision, and I think it would have been fun to watch.
> but maybe that just means I’m just a no-good warmongering fool, right?

More specifically, a warmongering fool who can't discern a false dichotomy - because your options in life are rarely ever drones vs more lethal drones.

These regions we're using drones in. They could probably use more tools to enable true democratic representation. Isn't that what Google should be doing, given that they "don't do evil"? Building tools to blow people up seems slightly counter intuitive.
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If FB took the absolute safest approach, they'd apply the restrictions to any account that has been signed in from an EU IP address -or- which lists an EU address.
AI is needed, the sooner we can make or create it to hold consciousness the better. We're constantly changing as a species and what we are 10,000 years from now, will far more different than we are to the ancient Egyptians. The universe will go on with out us and if intelligence is rare and spaced far apart AI is really the only chance that we have to be able to communicate or even find other intelligences.
I know of someone who regularly receives work simply from providing solutions on different specialized board (for instance voip-info). I think boards, and other places would be a better alternative to starting your own blog. You can at least leverage their online reputations with search engines.
Maps has been increasingly awful about trying to help when it shouldn't.

Features like 'warn about location closure' and 'recenter screen after accidental touches' are great, but they're so aggressive that simple tasks like "let me scroll over and see where I'm going" involve consciously trying to outwit the UI.

It sort of feels like there's user testing or datagathering showing all false positive errors ("they bumped it then had to hit recenter"), but no data being counted up to see the false negatives ("they scrolled 15 times as undid each action").
George Carlin had a fantastic bit about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSp8IyaKCs0
I’ve received some consulting gigs, more on the management or tech lead side, thanks to articles such as “One on one meetings are underrated whereas group meetings waste time.”

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/one-on-one-meetings-are...

I think this kind of writing is important. It helps to communicate to the world who are, and what you focus on. Even when such writing doesn’t directly lead to a gig, I think it helps build your reputation in the long run.
Do we really want to test a theory that we can have a repeat of the 1930s when the democracies fell far behind an autocratic regime in the arms race, and again the autocratic regimes will not win? Democracies are in retreat around the world, and I only hope we wake up before it is too late.

The military-industrial complex may have become far bigger and perhaps in some ways a burden, but the world is a dangerous place and becoming more so. In my view, there is a perfectly valid argument that working with the military is the right thing to do.

At the same time if individuals have pacifist leanings and do not want to work for the military, i would hope corporations respect that.
I would have used Bazel (or Buck) at Addepar instead of Gradle had either been released (I really loved Blaze). The transition from IDE-only to a standard process was painful, as you remember.

I'd like to use Bazel (or even Buck) these days, but no bandwidth given other projects. I always felt modules were a mistake compared to a single large tree, which Bazel does elegantly. Sadly my familiarity with Gradle is much more than Blaze these days, and I'm too exhausted to do it just for fun. I think there is also a bit of Stockholm syndrome at play, since I convinced myself it was not too bad back at Addepar.
I share a similar fondness to my childhood MUD, WoTMUD (Wheel of Time): www.wotmud.org

I played daily from 1996-2006,
and still occasionally log on to check in on the community, which is still quite active.

No other game ever came close to being as fun or immersive.

Haha I used to have text based dreams....