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Your point about shovels reminds me of something Alan Kay said about human universals. That is if you want to make a lot of money take one of the top 20 human universals and build a technological amplifier for them.

Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-ab...
Their bread and butter is affairs and investigation of the claims of a lawsuit.
One of thousands of people entering into the highly competitive Indie Games market and hoping that you have the right combination of a desirable game and effective marketing that will get you enough sales that your time spent making the game is justified.

Or in other words, a gambler. Your profit from the game relies on convincing people that your game is fun and worthwhile; two ill defined concepts that vary from person to person.

With a business idea (shovels or middleman) your profit comes from convincing people that your product will help them make more money than they're paying you.
This isn't for cases when you don't trust the recipient. This is for plausible deniability for both of you. If someone is monitoring your email, they will get the link to the content but they won't be able to read it.
Because we are told and must believe despite contradictory evidence that diversity is always and in every way "our strength".

Even though when discussing company hiring practices people switch their rhetoric to proclaim "our culture" is very important and we must keep our company's culture the same, bring on new people slowly as to preserve the culture etc, etc.

Interesting cognitive dissonance.
I agree with your premise, but it is a bit different though. The user directly engages with Facebook (off course, having read terms and conditions etc), but not any of the companies that used to get data. This level of indirection is what is causing the outrage here. There is a distinction, although I would give none of them my data.
This would be great... if taking (and faking) screenshots wasn't possible.
Why do people keep bringing up screenshots as some kind of evidence of something that was said? I can easily go into an email, bring up the source code, edit the email body to have some racist tirade, then screenshot the edited email and use that as “evidence” against a person.
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"in the US" is a misnomer. It all depends on if the cost allocation (e.g. HR is pharma's largest cost) has and is attributed to the US.
>Unfortunately, their PWA "add to homescreen" feature is so bad, it's unusable.

As it relates to audio apps -- not generally.
I can give you a couple insights:

300 hours of video are uploaded to youtube every minute in 2018

A couple of years ago I've seen a Google talk with a youtube admin/engineer. He said that in the beginning they had huge issues because they could not order servers fast enough for the demand. Money seems to never have played a role in those decisions (I can't find the link to the talk anymore).

If a video gets uploaded it will be stored in multiple resolutions and formats. So a video is probably stored as ~20 files which makes the space requirements even more mind boggling.
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I think there's no incentive to do that.

- "I deleted my account 3 months ago, so how come my records still exist on your servers"?

- If a class-action or some other litigation takes place, proof that n+1 people's into was shared is worse than n people's info. If an account is deleted, perhaps less risk.

- If the only non-creepy way of verifying who I am is logging in, and I can't log in anymore, any other option is bad PR for FB, and is subject to abuse.
>That's not how bankruptcy laws work.

Bankruptcy laws should not allow a private entity to go through bankruptcy and continue to operate while discharging its debts. The same should apply to public entities as well. That they may currently allow this is something we need to fix.

If we cannot ensure debts to be met under law, then we should forbid the debts from existing to begin with.
Does the rocket equation still bite to hard if fuel production is outside Earth's gravity well?
I was thinking specifically of changes they made prior to switching from Power chips to Intel chips. They introduced a series of more onerous requirements for developers that made it harder and harder for developers using the leading third-party IDE/compiler from MetroWerks, and the criticism and complaints sounded eerily similar. Then they announced the switch to Intel processors, and it retroactively became clear how much an already-insanely-difficult transition would have been even more difficult if they had continued to support developers not using Xcode. It sucked for developers having to switch, and it sucked even more for MetroWerks, obviously, but in retrospect, it's hard to see it going down any other way.

Apple screws stuff up on a small and medium scale on a regular basis. Monthly, it seems like, and sometimes even more often. But they don't tend to screw up on the big stuff. People disagree with their focus, and that's fine. But I've been following them since the 1980s, and I've come to trust that they'll make good on the big stuff even while they screw up on the small things right and left.

Your mileage may vary.
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Do you mean just the processor? RaptorCS sells Processors + main board bundles.
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How do I get started developing apps for Alexa?
Simple answer: no.

Unless you have some radical new processor design plans up your sleeve, your AI will run on a register machine. RMs can be shown to be equivalent to the Turing machine, the Turing machine cannot decide the halting problem (which your question is an instance of).
If we ever get to 50 or 100 character passwords i don't think passwords will be the norm anymore. Perhaps facial recognition, but i think a better option is on the horizon.
Many companies keep copies of emails received. If the email has sensitive info, it's going to be kept around even if you "delete" it from your inbox. That's what this works around. Now the archived copy will be worthless because it only contains a link to the real content.
The writer makes it seem as if society itself is at risk from being ruined because there are crappy videos on YouTube. I couldn’t care less. It is YouTube’s image that is at risk if anything and to be honest I find it super clever to generate videos like this to earn money. Very out of the box.

YouTube is just a service that is out to make money out of bored and media-addicted people. It isn’t a public service that is being exploited.
It's especially amazing that there's a comment asking what the WHATWG will give up in return if W3C gives this up... as if this is some kind of battle truce.

These people are living in wonderland and need to wake up to the reality that there's already a winner and the war is long over.
That doesn't answer the question of why they shouldn't face counter party risk like everyone else though. Obviously, the government also doesn't know how to plan for the future.
> No one would rely on this to keep actual sensitive info private, since you can just screen shot it.

It's more of a "please don't forward this" feature than a "you can't forward this" feature. It's the same with DRM features in Outlook. It stops people from accidentally leaking information, but it doesn't stop people who intentionally want to leak information.

In an ideal world telling the recipient not to spread this information (either by just asking or some kind of work policy) should be enough but sometimes having a small technical barrier is needed.

Also when information is leaked at a later time it can show intent on the leaker (vs saying something like "oops I fat-fingered the recipients when I forwarded that email to my personal account")
If only some standards group somewhere could mandate that everyone use Qt.
We have ~50k active users in our corporate Slack.
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In my eyes this is clearly not meant as a way to prevent malicious intentional data exfiltration; what it does is force users who want to retain and forward the data to do so in a way that leaves no doubt about their intentions, so that they can be more easily sued.
I feel the same way with reddit. But lately I've been hearing of the term "filter bubble". Social media is showing us exactly what we want and nothing else. We live in it, but have no idea what we're missing. The messages that are pushed to us probably does not paint the whole picture -hence we like it-.

For example I only read HN and tech related sites. I have no idea what's going on in the world outside the world of tech :).

Lately I've been trying to read the printed version of the economist in PDF form, it surprised me that it didn't feel like reading a news site. Everything was structured, well written etc. I can recommend following periodical publications for news, rather than only looking at feeds and visiting sites.
"Draconian" error handling is a term of art in HTML.
You know Slack, VSCode, and Spotify are all built on Electron? Better leave it at that if anything.
Grandfather comment was:

> This is one of the downsides of mobbing, shaming and regulating away outrageous prices. If pharma companies can't charge you in the ballpark of a lifetime's earnings for a one-shot, one-shots will be less compelling to them compared with treatments you have to take twice a day for the rest of your life.

Companies are run by human beings. Ignoring the stuff about "fidiciary duty" (mainly because I think it's highly contentious to infer that it overrides moral choices and partly because that is a highly complex topic in it's own right) - people can make choices that involve making less profit and saving lives. If you're not high enough up the food chain to make these decisions then you can choose to leave your job in protest.

Therefore companies can choose to take the "less compelling" but more moral option. And I can judge them on their choices and so can you. And they can choose to disagree with our judgement. That's how morality works. Shades of grey and difficult choices...

I think in addressing the GP comment I have hopefully addressed yours too. We all make our own moral decisions and we all make our own moral judgements. Just because these processes are complex and reasonable people can disagree doesn't mean that morality is meaningless. It's just means that it's hard.
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> What margin? They are losing upwards of $20,000 per car produced, and as of Q3, it's growing.

Perhaps the 19% "Gross margin total automotive & services and other segment" margin they disclosed on page 51 of their latest 10-K filing?[1] Or the 23% "Gross margin total automotive"?

Taking the smaller number, Tesla made $24,741 per vehicle (and yes, that's the correct sig figs).

> Sure, if you use their non-GAAP gross margin figures...

Tesla hasn't reported non-GAAP figures since 2016.[2] Search the filing yourself: the word "GAAP" appears only eight times, and none of those refer to any non-GAAP accounting.

[1] http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1564590-18-2956&C...

[2] https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/tesla-backs-away-from-n...
Thanks buddy.
Thanks. And i should probably remove those blue 'open' buttons. It confused a lot of people.
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Yes, I totally agree that the problem does not come from teachers. The problem comes from decades of shortsightedness of lawmakers.

I only mentioned teachers because of their response, which is largely irrational. No ones benefits are being taken, the state is just ending a program that is unsustainable.

The private sector did this decades ago.

What happens if the state government goes bankrupt? That is not outside the realm of possibility with the current crisis.
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It is chronically low in the Bay Area.
What a monumental waste of time. Why not just ignore W3C entirely? Seriously, what exactly are they going to do? Publish more?

Sometimes it's better to not be nice and just let reality finish the job. So much effort taken from people who clearly have better things to do...
Depending on the state, I believe it can be. Many states have "stalking" laws preventing just the sort of behavior Facebook engages in as part of their business plan.

In most (or all?) states, PIs are licensed and also have limitations on what they're allowed to do. There is currently no license for Facebook, nor any limits that they recognize.
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> Physical consumer society is turning our biosphere to shit. Digital commodities, on the other hand, are much more lenient on the environment.

But often turns minds of droves of Humans to shit, and turns every moment of idle human thought into raw material....
I think it's mostly the historical record, as decided by the government
Couldn't agree more. Same to be said for Steam, the games service.
Don't blame me, I voted for the other lizard.

If we continue to vote for people without these qualities, our elected officials will continue to lack them.
But what if it uses Widevine and HDCP? /s
I came here to ask the same thing! If all the major browser vendors think one way, then it’s irrelevant how many people disagree with them.
Quoting from _Better angels of our nature_ p119:

”Among economic measures, inequality is generally a better predictor of violence than unemployment. But The Gini coefficient, the standard index of inequality, actually rose in the United States from 1990 to 2000, while crime was fallinh, and it had hit its low point in 1968, when crime was soaring. The problem with invoking inequality to explain changes in violence is that while it correlates with violence across states and countries, it does not correlate with violence over time within a state or country, possibly because the real cause of the differences is not inequality per se but stable features of a state’s governance or culture that affect both inequality and violence. (For example, in unequal societies, poor neighbourhoods are left without police protection and can become zones of violent anarchy.)
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If they did that, they would no longer be an insurance provider, but a pharmaceutical company, and at that point there’s no reason to develop cures when short term mitigations are even more profitable.
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> private military companies...are very effective, for profit, and much less costly than the regular army.

[citation needed] My understanding is that they are more expensive than uniformed soldiers.
Can you elaborate? What specifically about mp3 compression causes the phase information to be lost? Clearly, if you simply take IDCT(DCT(s)) for some signal s, you don't lose phase information, because the DCT is invertible. So are you saying that quantization causes the phase information to be lost? If so, why do binaural recordings still work fine when compressed as mp3s, given that they depend heavily on phase differences between the sounds reaching each ear?
Yes, that's one consideration, but Facebook also has much more data on you than you gave informed consent for. I guess people just haven't realized yet.
"On the recipient’s side, the person was using the existing version of Gmail and received a link to view the confidential email. The recipient had to log into their Google account once again to view the content."

IMO this is an open invitation to phishers.
The toothbrush is meant to remove a growing living substance, namely bacteria. The shotgun cleaner is meant to removal particles.

After a period of time the toothbrush too will become a colony of bacteria. It will then add to the existing problem or at least offer no benefit. This is why you should change them so often.

The shotgun cleaner is not used to remove bacteria primarily and will not suffer the same issue provided the particles/grime can be removed from it.
IMHO XHTML is pretty painful. Even if you say: okay, there is a server-side auto-generated markup tree and we can formally verify what happens. There is now a solution to that and it's called (server-side) React which is basically a (useful) alternative to XSLT. Except that it outputs HTML5.

Even if you argue that the specs are huge. Just compare book sizes about XML, XSLT vs HTML5 and CSS, JS, React. When I actually tried to do some useful work with XSLT (which needs to be mentioned here IMHO), I realized that the - less painful - 2.0 version is hardly implemented by anyone.

Regarding the parsing: X(HT)ML lexing is ridiculously easy, for HTML5 it's slightly more difficult but not tough at all. You just need to keep a list of closing vs self-closing tags. Not talking about building in fault-tolerance, that would be tough, yes, even tougher for XML!

> XHTML was a worthy goal – with it, we wouldn’t have a need to run headless

> Chrome for tests. We could parse the web, and actually use the data.

> OpenGraph tags would never have been necessary. We wouldn’t need to throw

> DNNs at rendered output of a browser just to parse data.

Yes and no. If you use CSS for styling, the answer is no. If you require JS to show the initial show/page, the answer is no as well. But yeah, if you use the whole XML machinery with XSLT and possibly even XPATH, then you would be kind of right. I mean, as long as we properly handle the schemas and dtd's - which almost no parser does AFAIK. So it's true, one can do pretty bad-ass stuff with all the X*. But tooling and library support is not good and has never been. XSLT 1.x is insanely difficult to use and XSLT 2.x hard to fully implement I guess.
> But a new, experienced team member, with zero knowledge in the most used language in the team? Sure, why not?

It really depends on how much time you have to wait for a new hire to ramp up before they are useful. If you need immediate help, then hiring someone who doesn't even have experience with your programming language is a complete non-starter. If, on the other hand, you are hiring for the long term and can afford to pay a ~3-month tax for a good engineer for (hopefully) several years, then you are correct and the ramp-up cost becomes pretty insignificant. But don't make the mistake of thinking that this is an exception to the rule—what languages you know absolutely does matter to any company needing to get work done now.
> FBI Director Christopher Wray recently said that law enforcement agencies are “increasingly unable to access” evidence stored on encrypted devices.

> Wray is not telling the whole truth.

I wish there was some punishment for Government officials for lying to the public. You can be prosecuted for lying to the FBI, so why shouldn't they be prosecuted for lying to you (the voter, who is supposed to have the power in a democracy)
> Most of the web quickly moved to XHTML.

Most of the web didn't move to XHTML.

A lot of people who were interested in being standards compliant moved to XHTML 1.0 Transitional, which was the HTML compatibility subset, but they only ever served it and validated it as HTML, not XHTML, because if you served it as XHTML, one single stray < that someone had forgotten to quote somewhere would break the parsing of the whole page.

The piece written by Hixie was influential because it was a wake up call that the direction the standards bodies were going in was pretty much fruitless, and that there could be a much better way to do it which wouldn't involve breaking compatibility with all of the existing content and would give web developers and users features that they actually wanted.

> As web developers, we should follow the WHATWG and ignore the W3C, because the W3C have lost the political battle for HTML and we need to get our stuff working on browsers, all of whom follow WHATWG. But that's an unfortunately pragmatic approach that shouldn't amount to acceptance.

I fail to see how there is anything unfortunate about this. What about rewriting everything in XHTML 2.0 (https://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-xhtml2-20101216/), and having to be extremely conscious of any possible stray < that could sneak in to a page without being quoted, would have been preferable to:

1. Consistent parsing support for existing content, and content that might have slight problems like stray <, in all browsers

2. Standardization of things that people actually use to build web apps, like XMLHttpRequest and Canvas

3. Consistent handling of encodings between browsers, including encoding sniffing

4. Consistent handling of quirks mode vs. standards mode between browsers

5. Actually having browsers support compatibility with vendor-prefixed versions of features, because some browsers widely used introduced prefixed features that web developers actually started relying upon

And also, have you ever tried getting involved with the WHATWG process? I have, and I find that they are very receptive to intelligent discussion of issues.

What doesn't work well is to insist that you have a problem and that this particular solution must be used to address the problem; because a lot of times, it's easy to come up with some proposed solution but it then turns out that it's either a lot more complex in practice, your proposal does't fit in with the rest of the ecosystem well, or the problem can actually be solve just in tooling on top of HTML without having to change the spec at all and then wait for multiple browser vendors to all independently implement it.
Yeah to be honest, at this point, it seems that the WHATWG members should just declare their withdrawal from W3C entirely, leaving it to die. It doesn't serve any purpose for the HTML standards any more.
No need for that. Transplants already insure a lifelong dependance on pills.
When an ISP blocks certain ports by dropping the SYN packet, the client sees a time out. There is nothing to "time" that can prove it's the ISP dropping it.
I would just lie and say all of my patients were healthy. This may be even more flawed
I looked it up, since I got downvoted (see sibling comment). Since he’s talking about the Gini coeffecient, I’d presume he’s referring to income inequality, although it’s not explicit.
Paypal still sends me someone else's email because they signed up with myemail@gmail.com whereas I signed up with my.email@gmail.com. Apparently there's some way to make an account there where the email is considered secondary and they just never verify it.
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I find this result disgusting.
Or double encryption with one key held by Google on an HSM enforced time-out so the email does self destruct.
In an environment where income and wealth disparity is growing, and birthrates are just at replacement level or lower for those with wealth, wouldn't aggregate demand outstrip goods and services produced?
One thing I find interesting about this is the very cautious wording of the message you get in the "good" case.

'As a result, it doesn't appear your Facebook information was shared with Cambridge Analytica by "This is Your Digital Life".'

They don't say your information wasn't shared with Cambridge Analytica. They don't even say your information "doesn't appear" to have been shared with Cambridge Analytica. They say it doesn't appear to have been shared by this particular route.

Mere caution on general principles? Or do they know or suspect that there may be other means by which Facebook users' data have been shared with Cambridge Analytica?
Encryption doesn't work unless both sides use it.

Apple supporting it won't help apple users one bit, because nobody else uses an actual application to check mails anymore. It's mostly web mail clients everywhere, and they obviously can't use encryption.