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I thought they just removed those VPNs apps from the China AppStore? Apple also blocked LinkedIn in Russian store as it’s banned by the government. But only in Russian.

That’s the key problem here, if what Telegram says is true and they’re blocking Telegram worldwide, it’s really different.
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I love that Primitive Technology is enjoyed by the non-Youtube crowd.
Been there, did that!

I worked in the gaming industry from the early to late 2000s, mostly on big MMOs.

While most people seem to be desperate to get in, I got into the industry by pure accident. I had a particular skill set that these companies needed and I was in the right place at the right time.

There were some enjoyable aspects, such as some of the people I met and the crazy acomplishments that I can list, but when I left that last job I really didn't look back. I started working less hours, being less stressed out, got more respect in my industry, gained employment stability, and started getting paid literally more than double.

I had a job interview with Valve about a year ago now. It was the first time I had interviewed at a gaming company in a long time. It really reminded me why I left.

While I think Valve would have given me some neat technical challenges, and I have to admit that they turned me down before I could do the same, the people I interviewed with seemed miserable. We just didn't click attitude wise. There were very few smiles during the all-day I spent there and it was pretty obvious that people were overworked to the extreme. In one interview set, phone notifications were constantly going off every four or five minutes, and it was pretty obvious that was the norm, not an exception. By the time it was over I was really turned off. I didn't want to join the misery.

I'm at the point in my life where I'm looking for a new adventure and money isn't a big issue anymore. Maybe I'll join a startup, but I'll almost certainly avoid a gaming startup, and I'd advise you to do the same.
Naval's always sounded a bit like a Facebook quote bot to me.

He reiterates common knowledge in less concise ways than normally said while using the persona of a monk.

...Actually, that can sum up a lot of Tech Twitter.
The paper claims NP-completeness AFAICS, so I thought that was what you meant. Sorry if I misunderstood.

There are problems that have approximations that can get arbitrarily close to the optimum. One particularly interesting case IMHO are so-called polynomial approximation schemes. These schemes can be used to create an approximation algorithm for any choice of approximation factor and that algorithm will have a polynomial time complexity, but the polynomial will depend on the actual approximation factor chosen.

I agree that it is an interesting problem to study, especially since it meshes well with my own biases that the efficient market hypothesis is too strong.
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One of the largest shareholders in DB is ... China? https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/02/23/1519404195000/HNA-via...

"..in summary: an opaque Chinese conglomerate says that it is the largest shareholder of Germany’s biggest bank, and has claimed a seat on the board. But the publicly available trail of information ends in Bermuda, obscuring a crucial link in its convoluted chain of ownership, and the parties involved seem reluctant to say anything about it."
In that respect, slide is a bit like shooting JPEG instead of raw.
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that is true, people have always tried to dismantle my "software knowledge" just because I have maintained big projects. i also got a good(not awesome) SO profile, with a lot of questions answered, a few very popular ones.

I see also how they generally try to also get me a lower salary than them. I think those things in the context of a company works well for them. You generally get a lower salary, rarely recognition you deserve(apart from peers which are very dedicated as well). But the big and great idea of capitalism is that you aren't tied to just a company, you work a few years in one, jump to another because somebody really likes your work and keep going. The dynamics of somebody who is good at something is very different from somebody who is average/mediocre and compensate it with a lot of politics. You just can't beat people on their game if you want to do real work.

also I see that in companies people who don't ever contribute to open source and yet think they are great usually side with peers which do the same and try to only do politics in the office, which kind of works.

i sincerely believe that inside a company, it is a bit like high school, people form political alliances and that will be how popular and likely to be promoted to senior management, if they do very well on their assignments(which in case, for most of us, is writing good software), they will just get some grade and maybe a tiny upgrade on their salary and that is all. for people who want to write software for a long time, a good idea is to switch jobs often, try to get a tiny pay raise everytime at least and construct a network of peers who respect your work.
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On Alexa, which is not necessarily a reliable source.

Plus it doesn't count app usage, making it a fairly useless indicator.
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Idiots.

Of course it’s easier to just destroy property and piss people off while pretending to defend a cause rather than actually defend it. I would bet good money none of those people involved has even given a single cent to a charity helping the homeless.
So you are saying HN has taken an active stance against Islam?
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I'm 34 and recently got into YouTube in a really big way - as a consumer, not a content creator. I still have a Facebook account (for event invitations and Messenger, go figure) but don't look at the newsfeed at all and my hours spent on there are dwindling as the content becomes more and more useless.

My few younger relatives who use FB have very basic "token accounts" that they don't actually seem to use.
With ~150 data centres, roll back alone probably took 5-10 minutes. Don't think 17 minutes is that long.
I recall when I worked on projects for free and was more timid. Just for perspective:

First, even though you worked for free, recognize that your work very possibly had great value to this company. Even if you feel you were a beginner or that your code was not well written, very possibly your work was much more valuable than you thought at the time.

Second, based on your description, remember that this is very likely not your fault. So, you shouldn't feel like you're imposing or being unreasonable by insisting on fixing things in a correct fashion that is amicable to everyone.

Third, keep in mind that the academic's company is likely much more eager than you to resolve this issue. As just one example, it sounds like you may still own the copyright to your code. If so, they may want to purchase the copyright from you.

Finally, do not be concerned about talking with an employment lawyer. A lawyer will very likely give you a free consultation. I am sure the business is looking at this from a legal perspective, so it would help you to see it from that perspective too. The lawyer may even accept your case on contingency, where they are only paid if you are. So, I strongly suggest talking with a lawyer soon before talking with the company further.
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All true: Instagram's more popular than ever though! Still the same company, with the same mindset, still selling data!

People talk about deleting their FB account all the time, but would keep there insta. Facebook, the parent company, is far from losing out.
I don't see anything wrong for a company of a particular country helping their military

Sure, it’s fine but let’s call a spade a spade. Will Google update their global T&Cs to say “we are an American company serving American national interests and by using our services you agree to your data being used for that purpose”? Of course they won’t!
> It implies simply that markets are not efficient.

No it implies that efficient market states are an NP complete problem. And that we are likely approximating the optimization of efficiency (of the allocation of resources) using markets. Different approximation algorithms have different properties. Might markets be the best in every possible way, sure, but it's very unlikely given what we know about approximation algorithms. It's like one of the best variants in one way, perhaps that's the best way, but we should figure that sort of thing out. And that's what this paper is laying the ground work for.

> What it definitely says however, is that a government committee could not, in any way, successfully determine the value of all goods and fix prices based on that determination.

In it's editorializing about markets. Which isn't incorrect. But the larger consequences of efficiency being an NP complete problem means that there are many possible algorithms we could use to solve them if they are given equivalent resources. If those equivalent resources are thousands (or millions) of government panels then we should be able to mathematically prove equivalency. That's my point.
> Achievements, Trading cards/Inventory, Browser, Community, Workshop

Doesn't all of that work through embedded web-browser?
helping their military

Do you mean helping in the sence FB helps us socialize and Google helps us search?

Helping without expectation of reward and incentivizing further business?

Not a pro bono work from the looks of it so profit is expected and good place in future competition with other contractors.

Perhaps I am nitpicking but "help" doesn't belong here.
Whether it's a revenue source or not, fb still owns the biometric data and is using it for god knows what (and asking "evidence?" like this comes off as a way of avoiding the point)
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CGP Grey, although he hasn't done anything for a while
Any supplementary thoughts on the fact they are running their attack detection in python? What's the point?
Maybe someone knows something we don't and that's why crypto coin was created in the first place? Just having fun speculating guys.
It is even looser than that, activity profiles and a graph of agents that fit some shakes marker.

They literally don't know who they are killing, only people engaging in certain patterns of behavior.

The whole thing is just a vaguely statistical murder game.
Taking note of the context within which an acronym or abbreviation is used is part of being an informed reader. In this case, one does not even have to go to the link to get a clue as the URL is right here on HN.
You are fast. For me it's more like 2 hours at least. You have a Pakon?
Why does this get downvoted?
> They are OCD. Not only do they need to know the how, but they need to understand why...and they won't stop until they have figured out the why. This helps in many situations from understanding standards, debugging odd bugs, selecting a good stack.

This isn't Obsessive Compulsive Disorder it's being thorough or knowledgable. No need to further the misuse of this term here.
Also, Cloudflare has a huge amount of data centres by now, probably more than any other service. Even Google often underperforms them. Debatable if a few ms make a difference but it can for people living in remote areas where CF has a centre and the next 9.9.9.9/8.8.8.8 is 100ms away.
>We put our faith into them, in the hopes that they would honor their creed, that they would do no evil.

Working for the US military is not doing evil.
That would be somehow sobering.

There is another option: a small bank that does not trade derivates and where people within know the customers not only by an excel sheet [1]. But then again this is impossible to scale. It's still nice to see.

[1] https://translate.google.at/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://...
You're missing the point. This has nothing to do with more drivers entering the market to return the numbers to any artificial "correct" number. If more companies wanted truck drivers more desperately, their pay would go up. Same number of drivers but they'd all earn more as employers compete to get what's available. Or if half of them quit, the pay for the remaining half would go up. Less truck driving would be done and fewer companies would need truck drivers (at the price they now demand).
op forgot the "have rich parents","go to an elite school", "be born in a rich country" and some others similar to these.
Deduplication would save storage space, but won’t do anything for bandwidth; if you redirect users to an existing image they’re still going to download it and you’re still going to use up some bandwidth.
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owned and used that VFC lens for many years.

Variable Field Curvature.

this can't be digitally recreated.

its a really interesting lens and the reason why I may yet fall back into my Kodak habit of yore.

Flash, on the Maxxum/Dynax AF cameras, from the get go, was incredible. Focus distance is critical for flash exposure. Minolta pioneered AF. Thry also played sloppy with a Honeywell patent, when we feared trade deficit to Japan, remember 4GL, 5GL... Originally Japanese manufacturers claimed solidarity. Then Minolta was left standing alone, stood up, and stupidly didn't settle. This was widely attributed to Minoru Tashima, he of Machinery and Industrial OpticAL Tashima. Reality, bad legal gamble lost to international politics. The punitive $100MM fine, hurt MINOLTA horribly, hence erratic pro equipment development.

On the contrary to the above comments assertion, Minolta had mire fast glass than anyone.

Edit, I used professionally almost every single MINOLTA camera and certainly every serious lens, from the SRT102b, to the last pre Sony, all home grown Dynax 7D...

if you're curious, just find a good store with a Sony A99II on display. This is the model that's​going to demonstrate the ability of a camera to be a genuinely delightful experience, above even the A9. If you can afford it, my experience of the A9, I challenge anyone to take a technically bad photo with it. The A99II is a serious machine too, but it caters to a old school crowd and the new models, the reason why they have a all new lens mount, again, is the lenses are designed for use with in camera software correction of distortion and vignetting etc. I personally dislike that change, not that i can criticize the results, but, strikingly demarked by the A9, we have entered the software supremacy era. Its incredible.
with little shops on the ground floor

There's tons of vacant ground floor retail spaces already. In the Amazon and on-demand era, viability is tough if you aren't moving primarily liquor and lottery tickets. Even fast food isn't viable in much of SF (something like 9 McDonald's alone have closed in the last few years... including the longstanding one at 3rd and Townsend).
> What is "evil" about working with the military or developing weapons?

That your work will be used to kill people?

I'm kind of surprised that needs spelling out.
The military's purpose in modern times is not to bring peace, it is to preserve peace. I find it an important distinction, as "bringing" peace sounds like the military's purpose is to force outsiders who may be viewed as unpeaceful to adopt new culture which is viewed as more peaceful. To "preserve" peace implies, at least to me, that the military is focused on the peace of the home population, and may take action elsewhere only in preservation of that home population's peace.

Otherwise you have the crusades.
But as I understand they used the whole sample to determine bins, including validation sets. That alone is a big no-go. I didn't mean that you can't find a proper way to choose bins but there is a lot of potential for errors.

And in the end you want to invest based on the model. Arbitrary bins aren't that helpful if some of them combine desirable and undesirable (e.g. positive and negative) results.
>Also by this logic should we applaud white collar crooks for innovating to commit robbery without physical violence?

All robberies are amoral, but not all warfare are such. Imagine if we could have precision struck Hitler with a laser guided bomb instead of having to carpet bomb Dresden.
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> if Lockheed martin were to start a Gmail, GDocs equivalent tomorrow, would you use their services knowing how closely they work with the military?

Them working closely with the military would not be the reason I would choose not to use their service considering that almost all emails already go through NSA servers.
Wait a minute, if the paper correctly links a theoretical definition of efficiency to the complexity class and indeed shows that markets can be efficient only iff. P=NP, then any future proof that P!=NP falsifies the thesis that markets are efficient. And most experts agree that if we ever get a proof, then it will be a proof of NP!=P.

Knuth is a notable exception, although he has to my knowledge never really vigorously advocated P=NP but merely suggested the possibility that P=NP and that the algorithms to transform NP problems into P problems could be very, very complex but still in P. Seems unlikely, though.
Because people in the EU read their articles and view their adverts, which is presumably how they make a lot of their cash. What are they doing with the data of an unregistered visitor that means they aren't GDPR-compliant?
If they can write a good covering email, have a few github repos, and some other indications that they might be smart/capable. I know from experience that it is easy to get interviews on that basis.

If you're talking about people who have no experience in the sense that they've never written a line of code, then no, obviously not. But professional experience and relevant qualifications are not necessary.

As with any job application, you need to have something going for you. It just doesn't have to be any of those two things.
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I'd argue that the Nikon FM2 is just about as indestructible, though - but I won't argue about the lenses; I have enough old Nikkor optics to know better!
> I’ve added more to my watch later list in the last 6 months than I have in the last 6 years combined.

Me too, in fact the wife and I save videos over the course of the week to cast to the TV on a Friday night over a few glasses of wine. We've even started to get into a few vlogs, which up until very recently we assumed were talentless narcissistic rubbish. Turns out there are at least a few good ones (mainly travel related in our case).
The world runs on violence. It's the fundamental force that keeps things in order. Modern society with all its rules and laws is nothing without enforcement, which is ultimately delivered via a monopoly license granted to the government with its military and police to keep everyone else safe and free.

Being the best at deploying violence is how you defend against the chaos elsewhere. This isn't about "evil corporations" or misguided intentions, it's about human nature and how there will always be someone somewhere willing to cause harm. The only way to defeat them is by being better at it, but with the appropriate judgement to make sure its in proper defense.

AI has already been a part of warfare for decades and the value of anything other than being the best is rapidly diminishing because of the exponential advantage that modern technology produces. You either stay ahead or lose the war before it's ever begun. Given that choice, I would much rather have the strongest military with all available resources and talent rather than worry and hope the rest of the world stays friendly, until the day it isn't.
Microsoft does an awful lot of business with the military

There’s never been any allegations that everyone’s Word and Excel documents are being read by MS, has there? Or that they read every email sent via Outlook and Exchange? Not the same thing at all
No, I don't think building a neural net for image recognition qualifies.

NP problems are essentially problems where the following two properties hold:

1. No better algorithm is known than using brute force -- generating every possible result and checking if it's a valid result.

2. Checking that the given result is valid is doable in polynomial time or better. (This is less critical to understanding, but essentially your `isValidSolution(input, solution)` function needs to take `O(n)`, `O(n^2)`, `O(n^3)`, (etc.) time or better.)

Essentially, a NP problem is a problem where you have to brute force the solution, but it's easy to know when you've found the correct solution.

If P = NP that means that there are no problems where this is true -- it would mean that any problem where it's easy to know if you've found the solution also has an algorithm for finding it more efficiently than brute force.

Your neural network example doesn't apply because training a neural network doesn't require brute forcing the solution space of the neural network weights. That would be crazy. So it's a problem in P.
Honestly, I think that's true for a lot of VCs. They have to sound like they are smart and know the secrets of the industry so that entrepreneurs reach out to them (and many times on extremely skewed terms). But truth be told, a lot of VCs have been incredibly lucky with 1-2 bets they've made.

Just a couple days ago was an article on front page of HN by Sam Altman about how to run a company, whereas he himself has had one failed startup. Softbank exists more or less because of a huuuuge bet on Alibaba which paid off. In the end, I doubt any of these "How to" articles hold up the test of perseverence.

But survivor bias aside, it's still interesting to see how VCs think, and helps gain insight into their inner monologue.
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