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Had to shorten the article's original title due to HN restrictions. Hopefully the revised version still makes sense :-)

Article talks about a launch scheduled to happen this week.
can you elaborate on that, i.e. destructive to privacy or financial, or suggest reference material? thx
Suppose you have a Message_Recipients table in your database with the following columns: message_id, recipient_user_id, deleted.

If a particular message has three recipients, then it will have three entries in this table. The 'deleted' column is a boolean that is initially false. But when a recipient deletes their copy, 'deleted' becomes true and the message will be hidden in the UI for that recipient only.

If it's the sender who is deleting the message, then just delete it in the Messages table, and no one else will be able to view it.
Experts propose a new variation of the Spectre attack to recover data from SMM
In all honesty, I'm surprised to find that exercise is not beneficial to something. In seemingly every case, living+exercise > living. I'm sure these researchers were thinking the same when they designed the study.

"Is he in bad shape? Eh, chuck in some exercise, that's gotta help."
Intel has mostly just had issues with a specific design, the core approach of better process = better chips is failing for the first time. If being a 18 months ahead means their chip is 5% faster that's not going to maintain huge margins by default. Without those margins they can't stay 18 months ahead.

Which means they need to compete on design for the first time in decades and I have plenty of doubts they can do so.
The tech industry is badly re-inventing processes that the rest of the world developed decades ago. Other industries have learned to deal with far more complex and serious issues of quality. If there is arrogance in our approach, it's our failure to learn from other industries; lots of people in the tech industry have heard of the Five Whys, but very few have actually read Taiichi Ohno's Workplace Management, W. Edwards Deming's Out Of The Crisis or Walter A. Shewhart's Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product.

I frequently recommend this lecture on the Piper Alpha disaster, a fire on an offshore oil rig that killed 167 men. It eloquently summarises the findings of the Cullen Enquiry, a six month study of exactly why the disaster happened and what could be done to improve safety in the offshore industry. The enquiry found a complex and interconnected set of factors encompassing process, training, culture and design. It is densely packed with lessons that can be applied to our industry, not least of which is the idea of conducting intensive and systematic inquiries into major failures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9h8MKG88_U
Seems like if I were an employer, the way to find the smartest people is look for resumes where the first two years were done at a community college, and then continued on for two years at a state / public college.
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Decisions are made by those who show up.

I agree with your point about reading the signals of which projects are probably the best.

But with great power comes great responsibility. It's entirely possible YOU are the person who makes this project great, just by the Butterfly Effect of getting the documentation good enough that the next person who comes along will be willing to choose this and push a little harder, and so on.

You're not forced. You're not obligated.

But if you show up, you get to make decisions.
10nm isn’t the same across the industry. There are no standards to defining a process node. Please watch Mark Bohr’s presentation on YouTube. The way you make your claims is kind of off-putting because of sheer confidence in your statements without properly understanding the fundamentals.
Yes, the law is the same in Sweden. The local library homepage used to have instructions how to copy CD:s but can't find it any more after the update they did last year. Still legal though, we pay a fixed amount per hard drive or empty cd we buy for this.
Here are a couple of other Markov Chain articles that are worthwhile:

http://setosa.io/ev/markov-chains/

https://towardsdatascience.com/a-zero-math-introduction-to-m...
At first glance I read "prime members" as "prime numbers," which was intriguing but confusing.
Georgia does it right. The Zell Miller & Hope scholarship + cheap cost of living makes university incredibly affordable.

I literally made money while attending Georgia Tech for my engineering degree. 100% of my tuition was paid for by the state
Why would we write a special client ? I can spawn a cli tool and do it for me what I want
CC cash advances are almost as bad as payday lending, why on earth would you pay a fee of 3-5% of the amount borrowed and 18-25% interest that compounds daily starting on the day the advance clears? Just use an ATM and take money out of your checking account..
This is the most under-discussed issue in the loan debate. There are so many schools with dubious programs that fail to place graduates in careers that justify the outlay that have a nearly unlimited access to capital via these loans.
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The USA sounds like a crazy place to me.

They are rich and modern but got guns and expensive health care and education.

Such a crazy mix.

I'm from Germany and never fired let alone held a gun. I don't know anyone who did. Only police.

I paid about 4000€ for my degrees and got all my health costs covered by the public.
I may not have been a financial wizard as a kid, but I managed to figure out going to a private school for a liberal arts degree probably is a bad damn idea. She took out almost $100,000 in student loans to go to a private school. It's hard to have a lot of sympathy for that, when she could have gone to an inexpensive state school for considerably less money.

The fact that her first job paid $20,000/year is telling. At one point she says "what should I do, transfer to a public school" and the answer is holy hell, yes you should. She didn't. I don't think my position is justifying predatory lenders, because it doesn't. But she has to share in the responsibility to a great degree, because she made a decision to go into insane amounts of debt to stay in private school.
Well remember that this record is a proxy of silver refining activity in Spain. I haven't had a chance to read the actual paper, but I don't think this dataset would well capture information regarding the activity of the Eastern Empire's mining/production centers.
I was offered a 25k interest only loan with no securities. It had a 5% interest rate. I'll mention that I have 0 debt, a high 750-850 credit score, and relatively strong income.

Its this kind of stuff that enables the rich to just get richer. I'd assume ppl with 10mil+ of net worth can get way better rates & loan amounts than I.

However you could easily refinance that loan and get a better rate these days.
"Jonathan is _why, he is fine, and he just wants to be left alone."
Most 18 year olds have never had anything more than a minimum wage jobs and now they are supposed to be responsible for making decisions worth more than they've made in their entire life and lasting longer than they've been alive? Where is someone this age supposed to get the experience to make these responsible decisions?

I graduated about $40,000 in debt and it was only then that I realised how difficult it is to pay that back. Up until that point, it's just a number on a piece of paper. I managed to pay it back in about 2 years but I was lucky in that I graduated with Comp Sci which is in demand and got a pretty well paying job in my city for someone with no experience.

And I say lucky because choosing my degree was just based on an interest of mine in high school that I thought would be interesting. It's no different than other people choosing to study what's interesting but in my case, comp sci and programming pays well in the economy while history doesn't.

Student loans are a vicious supply and demand cycle. Students can take out loans to cover school so universities realise they can charge more which in turns leads to students taking out more to cover education.
Previous discussion from a few days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17085538
> I thought she took one of these, though maybe she took just a regular private loan? but those aren't usually referred to as student loans (and will banks actually give those when there are guaranteed ones available?)?

Federally guaranteed loans have limited interest rates and criteria for what schools they can be used at (etc.); private student loans aren't bound by either of those and have been offered largely for that reason.
Our current implementation is similar to this, bit if the sender deletes a message, don't the recipients have a right to retain a message that was sent to them? For their own records I mean. This is what's causing the difficulty. A sender's right to delete the message vs a recipient's right to keep copies of messages sent to them.
What if your software is supposed to work on multiple platforms or be self-contained? It's not targeted for personal use (at least that case is not the priority)
Not to mention AMD's commitment to long term support for their flagship socket, AM4. While Intel might squeeze two generations out of a socket before forcing the market into yet another revision and retooling, AMD seems likely to go four or more generations of Zen processors for their desktop socket.

This may not mean much to the average user buying off the shelf complete PCs and laptops, but for those who want to maximize the lifetime they get out of a custom build, it paints a prettier picture than sticking with Intel and buying a new motherboard every CPU revision or two.
One problem is that she has a lot of debt and a history of missing payments.
Elitists club on the way. Actually from the business perspective that's a smart move.
I'd love to know what are the churn numbers of Amazon Prime program.
The expensive colleges benefit from this practice just as much as the companies issuing the loans.
How is this being implemented? A Whole Foods card tied to Amazon, Amazon Credit Card or an app. In other words how do they know in Whole Foods who has Prime?
I really am more concerned with the threat to call him out. While I may not agree with all his actions this idea that we can strip someone of the anonymity that makes wikipedia great because we don't agree with him is something we should all stand against. if you have to ask why, then it is as simple as understanding that yourself or editors you do like could find themselves silenced because it will bring threats
To me, this seems like a possible case where people are rational agents, but they don't have comprehensive information. Selling a financial instrument that someone can't possibly understand is unethical, and should be illegal. My own rule of thumb is that the higher responsibility goes to the bigger guy.
> Learn to do it yourself.

I use a lot of stretches, my hot-tub, and the side of my pickup bed. The hot-tub has an extended vertical feature that is about 4 inches wide that I can stretch my back over while sliding down it, and it pops almost my entire spine back into place. I use the pickup similarly when traveling.
Native file pickers on Mac and Windows (and maybe KDE via org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser) can be used since 3.20: https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk3-GtkFileChooserN...
The Allies "fixed" Germany. Hitler took all of your guns and all we wanted was a population that was peaceful enough that we wouldn't have to worry about another ground war in Europe -- at least for a long while. It seemed to have worked out.

The mess in education and healthcare in the U.S. is mostly due to different partial solutions being applied by different actors at different times, and at different political levels. Each solution kinda sounded good -- but had flaws. And the feedback loop was glacial. This is quite different than having one party mostly in charge of everything for decades at a time. One wag said the U.S. doesn't have a healthcare system; it has four healthcare systems. (Each with different rules, goals, managers, and so forth, and each acting somewhat at odds with the other)

The education mess, which is just as horrible in my mind if not worse, is a bit simpler. If I had to reduce it all to a blurb, I'd say "One side wanted higher education for all no matter what", "One side didn't care about that, but wanted people who lend money to students to be assured of getting paid back no matter what". Each side had a really good point. I will not debate those here. But combined, we ended up in the worst of both worlds.
Basically it involves promoting synergy and a lot of blue sky thinking.
I didn't mean to say GT has understanding, quite the opposite ;) I meant to use it as an example of how translating without understanding doesn't go too well in many cases.

I think I might have misunderstood your original comment though, as we seem to mostly be on the same side of the issue. That being said, could you expand on this?:

> the seq2seq model doesn't provide understanding, it only learns to encode the general meaning of the sequence

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but "encoding the general meaning" sounds a lot like a form of "understanding", and I wouldn't say seq2seq does any of that. (That's getting pretty philosophical though...)
> So if you're not making money, and you're not established as a business you should be okay.

I've got a shared hosting service where I run WordPress for a blog. As such I have no direct control over the web server, nor what my hosting provider might decide to record of information, nor do I have time to audit what WordPress changes for each update.

Since I'm a programmer by trade, and my blog deals with programming, it's reasonable to assume someone might consider my blog "professional or commercial activity". Maybe I'm saved by some hard criteria defining "professional or commercial activity", but to be frank, it's not worth my time going through the entire GDPR to find that out.

As such I'm not going to take the risk of being in violation and will be shutting down my blog. Instead I'll likely be reverting to posting on Google+ or Facebook, if I bother posting more at all.
For my taste, the article is a bit too high-level to build a meaningful intuition. I think a more complex example would be beneficial.
TL;DR - It's a library that lets you figure out the similarity of two blocks of text.

Looks like it might be useful in things like plagiarism detection, etc.
> He chose to have no choice

I never said that. God’s existence and nature are eternal and outside of spacetime. Neither changes with time.
I am not overly worried and while news sites like to make it out as possible doom and gloom for the existing retailers the key is, they have 463 locations nation wide.

that isn't enough to disrupt but it is enough with a pliant press to make it seem you can. ALDI has 1600+ stores in 35 states and while its expected customers are more limited by means the appeal of ALDI does cover a lot of income levels.
This is just doxxing, again, someone who has made enormous effort in avoiding being doxxed and just wants to be left alone.
How is there not enough competition to provide a good education at a lower price?

It shouldn't be this hard to find a good, affordable education.
You have to get the WF app and scan it at checkout. The app has a 'sign in with your amazon account' button.
This thread is a perfect example of everything wrong with the hn crowd. Yall make me sick.
> Our blameless post-mortem process

Theirs?

Accident investigation agencies such as the AAIB and NTSB have been following "blameless" processes for decades. Find the causes and save lives. Who pressed the button or forgot to connect the oil line is irrelevant compared to the fact that the failure modes were possible.
You sign-in to your Amazon account via the Whole Foods app and scan a barcode at checkout.
Thanks a lot for your feedback! Currently I am working on the high-level definitions of Reinforcement Learning, so that i can build on that to go deeper in the more advanced ones. I'd like to have a series that explains the OpenAI examples :)
Modern libraries double up as community centers, tool libraries, and (sometimes) maker- or hacker-spaces. They're also hella egalitarian. Anyone can walk in and learn, or be entertained, for free.
There was a defcon talk a couple of years ago that covers some of the basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbDAa0syz5A
Well, and Android and iOS and many microcontrollers (well, often a shitty GCC fork in that case but still) and way more platforms (OpenBSD, Minix, HP-UX, Solaris, VxWorks, bare metal) and architectures (Alpha, ARM, AVR, x86, m68k, microblaze, MIPS, PDP-11, Risc-V, SPARC, VMS) than that, not including third party ports in SDKs.

Yeah, I get that with embedded, it's a crapshoot. However it's probably not ridiculous to say that GCC ports to microcontrollers is not terribly uncommon, either.

GCC and Clang certainly are a lot more useful than for just that tiny range you listed. The reality is they probably cover more platforms than any other individual compiler.
Similarly, I wonder if having this would cause people to damage their cars by encouraging them to drive too fast on road surfaces their car can't handle. I've always assumed the bumpy-road tactile feedback was a useful "slow down!" indicator.
Important to remember it was paid for from Georgia lotto proceeds, making it a tax on the poor to pay for middle-class education.

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Hi Xavier, in the discount factor equation, shouldn't the last term of the expansion be gamma^n.Rn instead of gamma^2.Rn? Or am I missing something?
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That house left the barn with SELECT *, which is sensitive to the addition of new columns.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8krkl5/awesome...

https://github.com/benbjohnson/thesecretlivesofdata
I was taught assembly in the Danish equivalent of high school back in the 90ies because we had a project to build a weather station from scratch. I wasn’t sure why it was useful for me until I read these slides and saw the picture of the cat hiding in the grass.

I mean, come on. I get the sentiment of the slides, that our high level code runs on c and assembly and that it’s good to know what lies beneath, but this sentence I just wrote, contain more of an explanation than all of those sixty some slides together.

If you haven’t clicked the link yet, don’t, it’s a complete waste of your time.
I don't think most developers are unhappy about the 30% cut, they are more likely to be unhappy about the "services" they are getting for 30% cut.

App Discovery, Fake Apps, IAP Refund, No Trials, Long Review Times, all of these have been long standing problems and Apple has made little to no improvement in those areas. And it is likely Apple thinks the amount of complain are minor, but if you look at it from a different angle, most of these complaints comes from Apps Developers, not Game Developers. And the vast vast majority of IAP, or App Store Revenue are in fact gaming. Take out gaming and you see how many developers are unhappy with the current situation, especially for Indie developers.
I agree. Plus, I think most people shop at grocery stores based on convenience first, and then everything else. I have a WF that I could easily visit during the week, but it is also so busy that I end up going to a different store that is in my neighborhood.

At some point though, these discounts are going to get deep enough to get me to put up with the WF crowds.
If your phone connects to a Stringray device, it will force it back to older protocols afaik.

Also:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/stingray-security-flaw-cell-ne...
We all do - we just watch very carefully when those laws are being written down.

This is something we are learning in the UK as sweeping powers "necessary to implement Brexit" are getting pushed through Parliament. Only so very principled MPs are preventing really sweeping executive powers being granted - they are referred to as Henry VIII laws to give an idea how retrograde we are getting
Browsers are apps too and your statement is too vague.

Please explain what you’re afraid of.

To me, it sounds like you’re talking about third party apps, and your fear is about third party developers having access to your web accounts. In that case, that makes a bit more sense but then I hope you’re not using any browser extensions as well.
as a non native speaker, I have this issue rather often, hehe.

Prime can mean in German "Primzahl" -> prime number and "Erstklassig" -> first class.
I work for a company that builds boats for many of the same goals in a more traditional form factor. The potential of autonomous marine vehicles is very high, and a very exciting field to be working in. https://www.asvglobal.com/

(If you're interested, we're hiring!)
This is quite a lot of speculation. Why steal dollars when you've been printing them? They show a photo of students at an elite school to make you think you're looking at a hacker boiler room. It's difficult to trust anything the PRK government says, but almost all external reporting is also incredibly suspect. I file these sorts of articles under "entertainment".
Yes, but a keel is also limited right? It's still possible to tip over and - if potentially submerged, not come back up?

But to be honest, I have very little knowledge on this topic, so maybe a keel is all it needs!
I find it hard to feel sorry for her. This is what happens when you only live in the moment. Going to grad school out of the country is exciting. However, doing it without any research on your loans was dangerously impulsive. She didn’t state the reasons, but I would guess it was to impress or stay with friends.

I lost all sympathy when we she decided to live in one of the highest cost of living cities in the world. It is a simple choice. Delay satisfaction or live outside your means. She displayed a consistent pattern of living outside her means. Don’t be surprised when you realize that you’re not rich and these actions have consequences.
> I'm from Germany and never fired let alone held a gun. I don't know anyone who did. Only police.

The German association of shooters has more than a million members and is one of the largest sports associations in Germany[0]. I am also German and shot everything I legally may; not because I am a gun enthusiast but because of occasions - there are plenty.

[0] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher_Schützenbund
The video said everything on it was 100% submersible and saltwater-proof, and then all you need is an air bubble in the "sail" and it will eventually float up with the right side up, no?
Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
This can be generalized to fairly large number of decisions one has to make in life ultimately a person making the decision will have to bear the consequences of their decisions. I think a general theme of people expecting someone else to bear the consequences for their poor decisions is a significant contributing factor to people getting into these situations.
Not always. Again an example from the computing field. All hyperlinks from the article on the Single Unix Specification to the actual texts of the various versions of that Specification were removed by an account named Stesmo in 2017.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Single_UNIX_Speci...
JavaScript SDK to Handle Multiple FB Messenger and Viber
In fact there is only one short paragraph about the UI, and the rest of the article tells about the design, API and possible use cases. Not exactly like curl(1) man page, but also definitely not like what you say.
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