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I wish I had an answer. It seems to be getting worse or I am just getting old. From where I am standing, management .i.e. "coercion" is considered a stand alone skill. I understand management but I don't buy that it is a standalone skill. Most IT people will not be able to manage a hospital well. I use the word most because I don't want to use the word all and derail this argument. There are off course exceptions, but these are very rare. The number of people who can effectively manage in an industry/business unit they do not understand is less than the number of people currently managing an industry/unit they do not understand. Money, ego, selfishness ... you name it, humna traits get in the way. We all have these one of these traits and we are all affected by these traits.

One of the issues with modern world is that big talkers are rewarded over reserved more knowledgeable people. The more you appear online, the more you talk in meetings and the higher profile you appear the more likely you are to be promoted. It is the way of the world.
I think I liked the old 1969 browsers better than the ones we have today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33
There are some super shady deals here. If you want to be able to show $BLOCKBUSTER, you might have to agree to pay for a minimum of N seats/day of showings of $UTTER_CRAP. If nobody shows up, the studio still gets paid, and of course the stars of $BLOCKBUSTER don't see a cent of that money.
It might just be my opinion, but I find the user experience to be far better now that I can search for food basically directly on Google Maps. Yelp's UI is pretty janky, especially when I always end up just pasting the address I find on Yelp back into Google Maps at the end of the day so I can drive to the place.
While reading the title, I was briefly hoping this would be about the webcomic A Softer World. They bundled their best comics in a book titled The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Ironic, isn’t it - taxpayers money first goes towards funding a major fraction of the research, and then towards “hanging the evil hackers” to ensure the taxpaying public (the evil hackers included) never accesses what they paid for.
Keep in mind Ghostery was bought out by an ad agency. Use alternatives like Privacy Badger (or others, I'm not too clued up on the main players in that plugin space right now).
One thing that makes me always wonder is that Google can get away without proper Customer Service. Usually if that kind of thing happens and an employee refuses to disclose the details, you talk to their manager and so on, and if the company still refuses to restore the service, you get it to the court for illegal termination of the contract. I mean, you can't terminate the contract with another company without explaining why (and no, "you violated the terms but we can't tell you exactly what" is not an explanation.)
There is a prevailing "tech can do no wrong" attitude in the tech community, and it absolutely needs to be challenged hard.
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I had an interesting problem with my gmail account - I had a backup email address and my phone linked to it. Then I needed to reset my gmail password, but I no longer had access to my backup email (was at an organization I left).

So, even though I still had access to my phone and even though I was still logged in to the gmail account, and even though I had many archived emails, I could never log in to it again and had to abandon it. Automated recovery didn't work and of course they wouldn't say why.

Having a backup seems like a trap or catch-22 when it becomes the single point of failure.
Well, the difference is that being a (neo)Nazi is, rightly, illegal in Germany. Being a Communist (or even a Stalinist) is perfectly acceptable, and even encouraged from the top, in Russia.
It gives banks a break.
Did not know that. Seems... Weird. Thanks.
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On my past job I was dealing with something like this and in my opinion source files aren't the best choice for a place to contain such information. To me having a quick reference to an internal documentation is the best: it's just a one line on the screen and when you need to update the information you have a centralized place to do so. If you have programmers that actually give a damn said programmers can learn ins and outs of the domain more easily this way, not to mention that this knowledge can serve non-programmers as well (for example help your support team in solving the issue without engaging the developers of giving your manager visibility into the internals of your work).
As quickly as possible
Except they didn't use Gsuite and this would never happen if they did.
Yeah. I consider Google to be first and foremost very much an ad company. Search is just the vehicle they use to fill their shelves with product, "you" that they're selling to advertisers.
One company doesn't get to unilaterally decide what is 'fair'.
For balance: there is a newer query/index system called Mango in Apache CouchDB 2.0+, that IIRC is internal and doesn't rely on any external view server. It wasn't in 1.7.1, though, so if you're coming from there, it's very much a "switch query APIs to get tolerable performance" situation.
Or you shut it off at a train crossing by accident, a trains is oncoming and you cannot get the car started again? With all your children in the back seats and no time to get them all out?
That's just application. "Do this to all that stuff". Imperative, but possibly parallel.
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That's unlikely to work. You are still putting all your eggs in one basket. This seems to be a variation of the setup this company has/had.

Unless you are using different browser profiles or installations, and IP addresses for each account every single time you use them, it's very easy for Google to see that requests are coming from the same computer. If you were shut down, they would be able to do it as in the example, all accounts closed at once.
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Yes. I’m 100% willing to risk it, because I have a basic knowledge of how regulatory processes in the EU generally work.

The LinkedIn example is excellent, because it lots all the things that you should have already known about and been able to do with personal data.
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A dedicated box would for example handle that traffic at all times and still be cheaper. Dedicated servers are 3x+ cheaper.
Like me opening a business next to Walmart and $100 a month offer to buy, say, $500 Walmart stuff for each user. I'd make up in volume pretty quickly :)

MoviePass would make sense if the major theater chains did it and focused on slow days. If the lights are one, movie playing and theater staff has to be on site, adding additional users would cost next to nothing. Add popcorn and soda purchases and they'd make out like bandits.
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From the point of view of a single cluster or node (ignoring replication for a moment), it just doesn't have any strong notion of transactions. There's no write-ahead log, no rollback, and no situation where you'd be able to operate in a mode equivalent to something like `SERIALIZABLE` on a relational database.
It's pretty obvious Google has moved against the best interests of consumers, by their own admission.

They now insert ads into the top of the search flow, commingling results and ads, something their founders correctly proclaimed in the early days to be fundamentally anti user experience. When faced with mobile (and no right side area to allocate ads), they chose to violate their earliest of principles and decided the money mattered a lot more than providing the best product for the consumer. It's merely one example of many that Google isn't acting in the best interest of the consumer with their search monopoly.

Yelp can be salty and simultaneously Google can be an abusive monopoly.

Sun and Oracle were two of the loudest complainers about Microsoft. It doesn't mean they were wrong, despite their own at times shitty behavior.
SkyNet, you signed up voluntarily.

> and our boss is looking to migrate away from Google

only if it is not too late. 'Don't be evil' was removed from the code of conduct's preface in 2018.

I commented 2 days ago on other thread:

Your kids share their assignments to it, your company uses it for all comms, you use it for private messages, you tell it your secret desires via searches, it knows who you're with at any point of time with android location ... Google Home? My home? SkyNet must be destroyed now.
True, but there should be a strong presumption that if some company wants to spend their money on a product it’s up to consumers to decide if it’s a success or not rather than the courts. If Yelp gets destroyed because Google decides to give away their entire value add for free that’s no more something that’s no more an injustice to Yelp than Android was to Blackberry, Microsoft or Apple.
Yelp is a trash company, lets not forget how they extorted small businesses for years.
> Personally, I don't think Google should be obliged to promote all kind of crappy 2nd rate products out there.

Who is to decide what is a crappy 2nd rate product? To me, Yelp seems to be the superior product since it has more reviews while having no financial benefit from manipulating reviews. Can the same be held true for Google?

> They are the ones who want big price for their theft from millions of hours donated by volunteers.

If it was donated, how was it theft?

> Should Microsoft be prevented from creating better[1] browser and not allowed to complete with Netscape?

They were never prevented from competing, they were prevented from preventing others competing.
It is nothing stupid/spooky. Remember Google develops for mainstream. They are happy. Just enable 2FA all your issues will go away. Oh, try not to use shady VPNs.
The key difference is that Google's customer support sucks. I can't think of any other service where a client with 150 accounts can't get on the phone with a human being and get things sorted out pronto.
Except this story doesn't add up, because Google's customer service for even small companies on Google Apps is pretty good.
Is it right to say that Erlang and Prolog are actually that close as stated at the beginning of the article ?

As far as I am aware Erlang does not run the unification algorithm and it is very different, you can, for instance, assign variables.

I don't think it is right to compare the two as close languages as it is claimed but I would be interested in your opinion
I loved 2 player Lemmings!

Another Amiga game we played a lot which required 2 mice was The Settlers.
> Personally, I don't think Google should be obliged to promote all kind of crappy 2nd rate products out there

1. So you believe anticompetitive practices are okay when you "personally" don't like the competing product.

2. It is not promoting Yelp when it is the organic search algorithm. The point is that they are demoting Yelp in favor of their own evidently inferior product, as their own algorithm would have otherwise ranked their own product lower in the organic setting.

> I hate Yelp. They are greedy bastards who have cornered up huge content entirely contributed by volunteers.

No bias here at all... How is this much different from the endless other free-to-use websites out there?

> Yelp reviews and ratings should be free and in open domain by vary nature of how it was created

So Yelp shouldn't try to build a brand. They should just host all the content and give it away.
Uh, didn't they say they were paying for the service? Sounds like they are using Gsuite...
I wasn't aware of it being British either. It was just something that grew in the backyard of the house I grew up in, in upstate New York.
No, you changing your passwords doesn't mean anything. Quantum computers will be able to break asymmetric encryption, not symmetric ones such as AES.

Researchers are working on cryptographic systems for this, which are based on algorithms that cannot be solved by quantum computers. (Called Post-Quantum Cryptography)

Right now, asymmetric cryp. works on two computationally hard problems (integer factorization and discrete logarithms -- RSA and ElGamal).
This comment is mildly funny. You say it should be up to the consumers to decide the success. But that's not what is being suggested is happening. It's being suggested that one company is trying to hide another. It's like if you have a shop selling something and Big Shop Corp comes along and puts up a bunch of trees and bushes in around your shop so it looks like there is only a forest there and no shop. No one is being stopped from going to that shop, but they are being prevented from knowing about the fact there is a shop and the choice of going to that shop instead of Big Shop Corp.
wow. I didn't know there were a grand total of dozens of millions of journal articles published total worldwide. My guess would have been hundreds of thousands at most. These are journal articles, not high school book reports, right? I'm astounded at the number you quote.

For example there are about 10,000 papers submitted per month to all of arxiv[1] - which is a huge number. That totals 132k per year or so. For there to be "dozens of millions" of journal articles, that would mean arxiv has just 0.83% of them. Given the very low bar to publishing on arXiv I would think if you compared the number of arxiv articles as a percentage of all pubished journal articles, it would be a lot more than 0.83%! So the "dozens of millions" of journal articles is extremely astounding to me.

https://arxiv.org/stats/monthly_submissions
"Cars and light trucks sold in the United States hit a new record for fuel efficiency last year — 23.6 miles per gallon, on average"

This was cars sold in 2012, so only 6 years old. The average light vehicle is almost 12 years old. But according to some reports, the measurements in the US are different, leading to lower MPGs for the same car.
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Gmail (still) supports IMAP, so tools like offlineimap should work just fine.

https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap
Google's results are better than yelps. As soon as that isn't true, I'll download yelp again.
I was not able to find a reputable source for this rumor.
Sorry, but you have to do the work. There's no real point to having every paper revisit the key points of the field that everyone working already knows. The introduction section, when well written, provides starting points for research if you're not completely up to speed.

While cross-domain sharing of insights and knowledge is commendable and important, I'm not sure why it would make sense for review to be outsourced to non-experts in the field, as you describe (even if the paper was "readable" the domain experts would presumably be the most able to evaluate a paper). Maybe one or two reviewers on a panel of many, but otherwise it makes very little sense. All of these suggestions essentially serve to slow down the research process and have benefits for a very small portion of the potential audience.

I think what is more valuable to opening academic research up is greater open education material, besides the traditional models of bachelor->masters->phd->postgrad, and more aggressively written textbooks that work on the cutting edge of the field (with appropriate disclaimers).

Oh, and big disclaimer: tons of papers are badly written. That doesn't affect any of these points.
The creator has been saying it will be released "soon" for years. Pretty sure it flopped.
Is this not the same thing?

https://www.cineworld.co.uk/unlimited

For reference, at my local Cineworld in Greenwich, 17.90 is less than the cost of two adult tickets.
This could still be simpler without losing anything: It's kind of redundant to use ";" at the end of rules that are followed by another rule for the same function. Erlang could just use "." here as well. The parser could still tell that another rule for the same function follows by seeing if another rule for the same function follows ;-)

(Prolog, which influenced this part of Erlang syntax an many others, does it this simpler way. It still sucks if you want to comment out the last line of a clause, or switch the last line of a clause with some other line.)
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Yeah, we don't get to have those kinds of trains here. Maybe 74, and maybe hyperloop one day.
Suggested alternatives? Anyone ever had a similar / bad experience with Microsoft?
The story is it's Google Payments that triggered the shutdown. The friend of the writer would have been the Google Apps user.
He's written an article on this presentation now: https://blog.apnic.net/2018/05/21/what-drives-ipv6-deploymen...
The letter L is used in the JVM bytecode specification to refer to objects (as opposed to primitives or arrays). You'll often see that notation when using jmap or javap.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/html/jvms-4.ht...
Insert sort should also be pretty fast for almost stored list, (and works better for not almost sorted).
What would be the bar for a reputable source here? An official court conviction?
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I don't see them saying that. If they were paying, they'd get support.
I'm curious, how is this different from something like Google Sites? I mean, for a lot of universities, Google Apps for Education is already available. And to create a private community all you need is Google Groups and a Google Site.
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I understood it as if they used GSuite as well. How would 200 independent Google accounts be shut down, if one of them violated the terms. That sounds like an even bigger problem then..
It's not necessary to be innocent to be a legitimate witness to a crime, or victim of a crime.

Sainthood is not a prerequisite to having credibility.

Yelp's bad behavior does not mean they're wrong about Google's bad behavior. If Yelp's bad behavior needs correcting, you're suggesting that Google's behavior needs correcting 100x. These entities are not similar in size or economic power. They are not similar in the scale of detrimental effects they can have on consumers. A local radio monopoly, is not similar to Standard Oil's monopoly in the scale of consequence to society & consumers, despite both being monopolies; one is properly far more concerning than the other.
Reliance on google is dangerous for sure. A couple months ago my startup’s popular Chrome extension was unceremoniously yanked from the Chrome store. It took weeks to get the situation resolved, and even then it was only because I live in Silicon Valley and know people at Google who could ping the Chrome team until it was fixed. In the meantime, our most popular product was sidelined.

We have since ported to Firefox Quantum to be less reliant on Google.

https://medium.com/@BeeLineReader/google-yanked-my-chrome-ex...
Newbie question: is there one context switch per line in the "printf() execution sequence" figure?
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After IntelliJ I prefer NetBeans to be fair. I like JetBrains due to all the IDE's they offer me with consistent capabilities between all of them.
The physical features aren't nearly as important as you might think. Eg there's plenty of ugly actors who are nevertheless very attractive.

Your attitude is pretty good - you're open and eager to improve. Just continue working on yourself!
Well of course, in a way, nobody could be, because software didn’t have the impact on the world then as it does now.
Also a rookie mistake to avoid: the contact email address that you provide your email hosting shouldn’t be the domain hosted on that service. If there is a technical problem with a loss of access to emails and you need to contact them,... ask me how I found out!
The quote is “to lose one is unfortunate, to lose two looks like carelessness.” One person misunderstanding me I can ignore, two in the same way in a short window is definitely a sign I communicated poorly.

Why do you believe there is infinite cat behaviour? Why would they evolve that?

Even if they did, the point of learning is to reduce a probability distribution from “everything is equally likely, from this cat pawing at a toy to pushing a pen in exactly the right way to forge my signature, from hunting for a mouse to mugging an old lady for a voting card and using it to cast a fraudulent vote in her name for the Natural Law Party at the next election” so the probably distribution — your expectations — fits in a finite brain and matches all one has seen (70 million videos only need to be 36 seconds on average to be a lifetime of nothing but cats).

That being the case, all one really needs to do for a ”common sense” understanding of cats is the set of things human are not surprised by cats doing.

As I said before, I don’t like the phrase “common sense” because it’s such a bad model for reality. That being the case, it doesn’t matter what a cat would do when, say, elected governor of a small town — common sense, right or wrong, would say “eat, sleep, meow” or similar. Probably varies by person, given how many complain that “people just don’t have any common sense these days”.

Edit: why do you think it’s hard to train a classifier to recognise cats? Google did that the unnecessarily hard way six years ago, now we have GANs that imagine into existence cat pictures, as a student project to help apply for a PhD: https://ajolicoeur.wordpress.com/cats/
There's quite a few people who would rather privatize as much of that as they could and setup toll roads everywhere, as opposed to funding more projects.
Could you at least submit a diff of whatever you changed ? There are quite some changes planned for the Pathfinder see D13 on code.wildfiregames.com. But it might help any way :) Making a patch (diff file) shouldn't take you more than ten minutes :)
"We have the right to disable your account at anytime, for any reason and without notice" is pretty standard for anything cloud based. IME the business leaders in charge of decisions to move to cloud infrastructure are even less likely to read the terms of service than a general user is.
Yelp is crying sour grapes here.

There are so many ways they could have innovated to stay relevant but has anything changed in years there?

They could have hired professional reviewers. Yelp reviews are notoriously bad.

They could have let you choose what you prefer, example (quality vs quantity) and given you custom ratings or only included reviews from people that share similar tastes.

Following up on the last idea They could have tried to auto cluster reviewers. (people who rated these 5 places as having good taste also liked ...)

the could have scanned menus so you could ask "where can I get a pepperoni pizza at 3am" instead of at best being able to look up "pizza" and figure the rest out yourself.

How about "where can I get a table for 10". How about partner with as many restaurants as possible so I can ask "who's still got a table for 4 for steak and win between 7 and 9pm tonight"

And maybe nothing would save them but I at least for me reviews make sense on Google maps. That yelp couldn't see their audience was going to dry up seems no different than newspaper classifieds and Craigslist. Their quality certainly isn't better so ATM there is zero reason to go there.
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No so much a discovery, but previous AI researchers defined what was important as what their tools were suited for.

But a good counter example is speech. They tried very very hard for many years, with quite limited success. As it turned out, decomposition into semantics via different layers isn't so successful.

http://oxygen.csail.mit.edu/Speech.html [Circa 2001]

As for AGI, there is no supporting basis for the contention that it can only be achieved using semantic approaches, or that ML isn't a productive path.