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I'm starting to think that the solution is not to reduce fake reviews, but to increase verified accounts who give reviews.

I think in increasing the number of reviews from verified accounts (this account verified to be connected with human of name X), the rest of the anonymous or pseudonymous reviews may be looked at with more scrutiny.

Right now, let's assume that the default for social networks and other places of interaction on the internet is something like 10% verified accounts and 90% unverified. We know that within that 90% unverified, there are many real humans with their real names. So we spend a lot of effort to parse that 90% to find the real humans, the ones pretending to be others, the bots, the anonymous ones, and others. Companies are using ML, individuals like me just guess and try to only accept people that I've met in person and avoid platforms where bots seem to hang. However, with sites like Amazon, I have to hope that Amazon has filtered out the reviews from the fake accounts. Yes, there will be fake reviews from verified accounts, and that seems like another issue, and maybe less prevalent, I'm not sure.

If the percentage of verified accounts flips, from 10% verified / 90% unverified to 90% verified / 10% unverified, I think many of these fake reviews filter themselves out. We would trust that this specific person is saying this, and still leave room for pseudonyms and anonymity, but be more clear that one is using such measures to hide their identity.

How do you think this would impact fake reviews on Amazon? What secondary impacts do you see more verified accounts on Amazon and on other platforms having on discourse? I hope this post wasn't too long, again, I'm new to HN and hope I'm staying within bounds.
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EDIT: Someone said it in the video haha
> I think many people would still rather make $55k in SF than $91k in detroit

And where exactly are you going to live for $55K in the Bay Area? At least in Detroit you don't have to commute that far to live somewhere that's quite nice, and even own a house.
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Anyone with industry knowledge can look at those median salary numbers and instantly tell that the data set is faulty.
Slightly related, Does anyone have a virtual machine image of Ghome-Development environment that I can use straight away. I am on a corporate RHEL 6 machine, so it has been very tough to be able to get the development environment up and running there.

I am not even able to mame changes to gnome-terminator 1XX version because of this.
The Linux kernel for example.
Is Signal reporting any issues?
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If I understand correctly, this feature want on phones as recently as 2016 (San Bernardino). It would have made it impossible for Apple to comply.

I haven't seen anything since that says that this has changed, but I admit I don't pay close attention.
A major discussion of that article is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164244.
I think one of the core differences that informs a lot of the other trade-offs is Rust has minimal runtime (e.g. no garbage collector, works in bare metal environments), whereas Pony (I think) is willing to have a heavier-weight runtime with garbage collection.
Thanks this is actually really useful. Never knew about it
Also, presumably areas of different political affiliation are likely to be farther apart, and people with a long drive home are likely to go home earlier. Perhaps they've corrected for all that in the paper, but it's not out yet.
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I should have also put the link to their site: http://www.10xagentondemand.com/
This is bad. If your metric for best city for software engineers excludes from its top 10 not only SFBA but Seattle, New York, Austin, and Atlanta, your whole piece better be a prolonged and detailed explanation of how you concluded that metric was valid. I love Chicago and think we benefit in a lot of ways from running a tech company (mostly) from here, but there is no way Chicago is a better place to be a software engineer, careerwise, than SFBA.
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I'd like to see the TSA go as much as the next, but they have some job positions I'd call real work. Throwing 80 pound bags on and off conveyor belts, looking forward to ski season when the ski bags hit, opening up suitcases full of things I don't want to see, touch or smell. They have their share of jobs sitting around or standing around looking important, but behind the scenes there is some "real" work going on. Too bad it doesn't accomplish much.
Goodhart's law: A measure ceases to be useful as soon as it becomes an optimization target.

Concentrated benefit and diffuse cost is how a minority can maintain a globally sub-optimal status quo.
You're joking right? A quick googling shows the median price of a home in Detroit as $35k. I don't care how bad you are at budgeting, with $91k/y in Detroit you could buy two homes.

I don't have to google San Francisco to tell you that you'd be lucky to afford to rent with three roommates on $55k in San Francisco.

I get where you're coming from in terms of crime and such, but cost of living is a major part of choosing where to live and on that front there's no question.
I applaud the efforts to increase privacy,reduce data collection and hardened security. Do we really want a SPOF in Cloudflare for this though? A single outage (or AT&T snafu) and many millions of users would be affected.
If you were only earning the median salary, why on earth would you pay the median amount for an apartment? A much better metric would be where is the best place to live, assuming you're making significantly more than the median salary and living in an apartment with below average monthly rent.
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I don't know, when you factor in homeless population and traffic Detroit may have the edge. I would prefer living at least 150 miles from both though
If true, then people are losing focus on what's important. Half of my family is extremely conservative. Half is very liberal. We get along great at family gatherings, because we just agreed that discussing politics is less important than family relationships.

Maybe that will play out over the next couple years, now that the latest political developments seem to have really stretched the boundaries. Perhaps we will collectively decide it just isn't worth it to squabble. If we get super lucky we will realize we are being played, and we'll join together and turn on those who are driving the division.
>Respectfully, the people who told you this were either vastly exaggerating or had zero sense of perspective.

Respectfully, you're wrong. I've been to parts of California where there isn't even safe drinking water... this was in a farming area too. There are plenty of shacks with dirt floors in desert/rural areas of California. You might be in a bubble if you haven't seen it. It's definitely out there.
I used to buy both print and ebook format books from O'Reilly from time to time. I now have a Safari subscription (via my ACM membership), so I've stopped buying computer books almost entirely. Safari isn't perfect, but it's got a lot of books, covering most of the computing-related subjects that I'm interested in. I'd rather have DRM-free PDFs, but Safari is good enough for now.
The "Median Salary" figures are surprising to me for a number of reasons. To isolate Denver specifically (where i live, work and hire routinely) i do not know a single developer who is making < 70/yr.

Perhaps this figure is brought down from the sheer quantity of code school (Galvanize, Turing, General Assembly) grads we have in the city, but even then i find it hard to believe 50% of the se's in Denver are making south of $67/yr.

Edit: I'm dumb. The median salaries are adjusted for cost of living of the city.
San Antonio is interesting. Have only visited. Enjoyed touristy bars on the Riverwalk. But its less than an hour from Austin. And I'm guessing even more affordable.
Simply delete 27 genes from part of chromosome 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_syndrome
The question you're really wanting to ask is "why don't tech companies want to be good corporate citizens?"

It's because of profit. Amazon opposing the per-employee tax that would provide critical city services should help explain exactly where their priorities lie.
They're cost of living adjusted, so 100k in SF is going to be 30k in other places
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I tried to muck around with color film processing once upon a time but I found it to be a PITA exacting process that was pretty much straight follow the recipe.

I totally get trying out B&W processing and printing for the sake of the experience even if I have no personal interest in trying it again. But color doesn't have any appeal whatsoever.
They aren't different languages, they are both French, just with different accents.

There are some expressions (locutions) that differ in France and in Québec, but I don't believe this makes the two mutually incomprehensible.

It's not as if France has one single pure accent that everyone can understand. How about the St Denis accent for example? To say nothing of all these accents.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egrfsn2CU8E.
"The smartphone data included 21 billion “pings” of devices in November 2016, each recording the location of a given smartphone at a specific time. It was provided by SafeGraph, a company that collects location data and other information from partners, including developers of mobile applications."

Well that is certainly interesting. This comes out to 70 pings for every smartphone in November. I am assuming dataset they've got is limited to U.S. only, there is a single cell phone per person, and there are 300 million people in U.S. (both are minor underestimations).

Now I am wondering what other information is available for purchase and how it is used.
Work remotely, live in Budapest like a King.
Now it's time for them to move to Node.

They currently use the JS engine from Firefox 45 (over 2 years old) and are looking to move to 52 (almost 15 months old). Let's not forget that the update before that was from FF25 which was from 2013.

It's past time to port your stuff to N-API and actually allow devs to have access to standard dev tools using standard dev practices.

It would be a great change for Gnome devs too. Rather than spending weeks of dev time trying to shim in the latest SpiderMonkey version and make sure nothing broke, they could rely on N-API being stable, so they can focus instead on updating the JS interface to ES6+.
In the city?
"adjusted that according to cost of living data"
Ok, technically yes, but ocean acidity is a far bigger effect, and that's what the GP was confused about.
Care to tell us which one it is?
If you have a site I want to know if you track me or you include third party code that tracks me, I don't care how you do it , inform me and I will decide if I accept or leave.
Take this piece with a huge grain of salt because it misquotes to exaggerate.

The second statement - "A third of Americans can’t afford food, shelter, and healthcare" - is based on a CFPB survey [1] that scores "how people in the U.S. feel about their financial well-being". The survey finds that a third of Americans, experience "running out, or worrying about running out, of food, not being able to afford medical treatment or a place to live, or having utilities turned off". It's not hard to find enough people who are worrying about not being to afford medical treatment.

The third statement - "Healthcare for a family now costs $28k " - is a misquote. The original report [2] states that "the cost of healthcare for a typical American family of four covered by an average employer-sponsored preferred provider organization (PPO) plan is $28,166". The same report lists that employee contribution is $7,674, and employee out-of-pocket is $4,704. If you want to include the full premium as "cost", then you also need to adjust the median household income to include employee contribution and all sorts of non-wage benefits.

[1] https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/201709_cfpb_fi...

[2] http://us.milliman.com/uploadedFiles/insight/Periodicals/mmi...
IIRC Azure is bigger and growing faster than GCP, so valuing MSFT more highly doesn't seem crazy.
Fair enough - this is essentially my own question above - what pressure can be applied by Russia to Apple
to prevent App Store UK getting updates? If you have a legal dispute in country A does the
prevent all counties getting updates?
This was a much better read on the subject than the original article, IMHO.

These quotes in particular stood out to me.

> Arrangement is everything.

> You are a computational process, reified as an arrangement of electrical impulses in a human brain.

I honestly like how the author makes a stab at God, even if it's loaded.
To be fair, it was a response to my accusation of legitimate exchange for real-world money, which, if any grey-market is involved, is technically not fully legitimate (according to, e.g. Steam).

There's also the argument that, because Steam makes an active effort to resist the grey-market exchnges, that gives them some kind of deniability or "legal protection". I believe that both you and I agree that it does not, at least not in any meanigful sense. I also doubt that was their motivation in the first place, rather than, for example, maximizing their own profit in selling the digital goods themselves.

> Steam isn't directly handing me a dollar for every Steam wallet dollar doesn't mean it is impossible.

I think this is actually the most important point. It's not that grey markets have to be involved to convert digital goods into real money. It's that Steam has legitimized everything but the very last step of converting their in-game currency into real currency (and take a cut along the way, from what I understand from other comments in the thread).

This is espeically true if they permit the exchange of real dollars into Steam dollars and merely prohibit the reverse exchange. There's no claiming "entertainment value only" and being taken seriously.
They're not bogus, they're adjusted for cost of living.
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That'd mean even more of the world relying on a monopolist of ecosystem of V8/Blink.

V8/Blink already runs 70% of browsers and a massive amount of software, don't you think at some point it's enough with giving Google control over everything?
I'm not rationalizing anything. Did I say I was in favor of American policies regarding Iraq? No, I didn't. I'm merely saying that invasion or not, Iraq would be underdeveloped, just as it has been for a very long time. You cannot blame every national failure and misfortune in Iraqi history on America.

Are you capable of staying on topic? Do you actually have an argument? Or are you just going to fling childish insults in lieu of one?
This is a reason to read it out loud. Reading difficulties are going undiagnosed because teachers seldom hear students read, especially past the first couple years. Even in the more advanced tracks (ability levels), many students are unable to smoothly read with proper phrasing.

It really is torture to listen to some people read.
I left Baltimore for Seattle, having left a position that included govt funded research, and with many friends in related positions. The ease of finding, stability, and pay of jobs all seem DRASTICALLY better in Seattle than Baltimore. This is a very subjective comparison, because I was a much more junior dev back then, but even when going for internships/starter jobs, I had far more opportunities in CA/WA/CO than on the east coast (excepting NY, of course). Now, don't take this to mean there isn't a tech job ecosystem, I was able to keep a gainful chain of good employers, but as said, they were by and large much smaller, less stable (not as a pejorative, but when compared to the BigCo's I've worked at since) and paid far less; while each time I switched jobs I felt like I had to _search_ to find the next, whereas in Seattle, I couldn't throw a stone without hitting a mid-to-large tech co. (I'd be lying if I said COL didn't hurt, but the amount one can put away with a good paycheck is _substantial_)

This ended up being a bit of a ramble, but it's one (perhaps relevant) transplant's perception.
It depends on if you're European or American. Europeans pronounce it the right way "Nick-louse Veert", but Americans mangle it into "Nickel's Worth." This is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value.

...Oh, wait -- never mind. I thought you said "Niklaus Wirth".

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth
They also reject the idea of "self" :-)
Just noticed that. makes considerably more sense.
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These are just cities in the USA. Suggest the title be adjusted accordingly to reflect that.
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See also John Martin's 'The Great Day of His Wrath':

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/martin-the-great-day-of-...

There was an exhibition of John Martin's work a few years ago; looking at a computer screen doesn't communicate just how overwhelming some of it was:

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/john...
WWW is dead (GDPR may cause splintered Internet?)
The literal "old school" goal was to indoctrinate kids with a standard background in English literature, a common knowledge, to allow them to better communicate amongst peers of similar backgrounds. The start of this is a grounding in words like Shakespeare. In the past it would have also included the bible.

Someone can read a play and not understand it. That happens. But to understand a work you first have to at least read it. Watching can be a poor substitute, but good luck finding any modern production that performs an entire Shakespeare piece. Most everything on modern stages is heavily edited for time.
DNS over HTTPS uses DNS in the protocol. Does that make it extra-recursive DNS?
If you're a citizen you can vote just by proving you live in the district you want to vote in. The only people being excluded are non-citizens who I don't think should have the same say in local politics as citizens because they can return to their home country if they don't like the effects of the policies they help to enact.
Jeez. That would be faster than protein-and-water-based systems, which up until now are still the faster learners.
As in OpenPGP? Ease of use has to extend beyond software. How much do you trust your friends? Your friend's friends? People in the same city/occupation/age/social class/gender/race/citizenship? PGP has one threshold for transitive trust: three trusted keys trusting another key is good enough for your key to also trust it.

In our capitalist society the easiest way for something to spread is a profit motive. Whoever spends the marketing resources to popularize it will have to recover their costs somehow. A lot of people will not pay for yet another subscription, and marketers will pay a lot to make their company look better.
I have zero tolerance for racism. My family voted for Trump and they say racist things. I don't need that in my life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
One of my high school English teachers really went above and beyond when it came to teaching Shakespear. Took the time to explain everything, showed us movie versions and so much more. Also walked us through a bunch of other pretty complex literary works making hen really easy to digest. It’s a shame he died this last year, we really need more teachers like him. I’ve never seen a class where all the students were truly excited to read Devine Comedy.
I'm not knowledgeable enough to answer authoritatively.

However, buzzwords drive valuations.

Microsoft has a few buzzwords working for it ATM - blockchain, AI, and Cloud, Intelligent cloud.
No, piracy is piracy. In fact, the piracy you talk of isn't even "piracy".
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There is virtually zero chance that I’m not on this list.

Attorneys: if you think that there is a case to be made about civil rights here, and you are looking for a star plaintive, I can imagine no greater joy than ruining the TSA and I would be happy to help.
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This is way too crude and obvious to be an intentionally planted protocol weakness.

Telegram doesn't have reproducible builds, do they? So if they really wanted to fuck people over, all they had to do is to ship a build that uses predictable PRNG. The vast majority of users will use vendor-supplied binaries, so chances are that for any pair of peers you will be able to fully recover all their secrets and eavesdrop on the traffic. You don't even have to be Telegram to do that. In fact, this works against any protocol... unless client binaries are routinely audited and matched against their source, which is never the case with any of the clients. The only example I am aware of was Zimmerman's PGPfone back in mid-90s.

So, yes, I think that you are seeing things that are not there and it's yet another case of stupidity rather than malice on part of Telegram's devs.
they don't state how they do this ranking very explicitly, but it seems to be some combination of number of jobs, median pay, and local cost of living.

there aren't a ton of software jobs within the city, but there are many software companies paying DC salaries within a 30-60 minute commute to the southwest.

the cost of living in baltimore is also quite low, but many of the neighborhoods probably fall short of what your typical SWE would be willing to tolerate.
The subtitle added in parentheses is not in the original title, I added it as a clarification/summary - the phrase is from the article itself. I don't necessarily agree with the article, just curious what others thought of this criticism of GDPR.