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Ugh. I didn't realise that Medium had become another paywall.
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The problem isn't so much that fake videos will be used to lie. It's that valid video evidence can be dismissed as Fake News with some credibility. This could be bad for the overall definition of "truth".

Video of the Prime Minister/President taking bribes? Eh, you can't trust these videos these days!
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Depending on your architecture and compiler it could be that everything is 128 bit aligned, so you would had "empty holes" in your memory layout. (For example some dsp's)
I couldn't really even discern what was being depicted
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Coinbase stole $30,000 from me and won't return it.
They listed a new coin (bitcoin cash) without prior announcement. I bought $30,000 worth at $5000 each. It went from $500 to $9000 in a matter of minutes. However, while allowing people to buy the coin at very high prices, they also froze everyone's ability to sell the coin. They only allowed people to sell it on their market again, about 24 hours later, after the coin went down to $1,000.

They say that coinbase engineers knew about the coin being listed beforehand (obviously) and bought a bunch before listing it publicly (an unannounced), then the insiders sold it all for a huge profit.

What lesson did I learn? Coinbase is crooked.

Oh well. Lock 'em up
I was wondering if I would get a comment like this.

With two engineers starting from scratch, we launched a product in three months that was making millions (per month, in profit) by six. When I hear "done a prototype and evaluated the product", I think you operate on a very different kind of timeframe. We needed a customer-facing analytics solution ASAP for the sales that our customers were already making.

This is why Postgres would have been the right choice from the start (mea culpa). It may not be the best solution, but it will be an adequate solution and get you through enough scale that you can worry about the million other holes to backfill. I thought I was being clever with BigQuery; it looked great on paper. Keen has better marketing but really the same problems. Mongo at least I was familiar with going into it, and that solution worked for a couple months, right up until the queries got complicated. Which in retrospect they were always going to.

In a runaway startup you're not going to be an expert in everything, or have time to plan out an optimal solution. Pick technologies that you can be confident will be "good enough for now" and give you time to find the boundaries of your particular problem domain. Postgres is a good axe to start with.
Aye, but are they better than the local-sourced samples in the comments on the PHP manual website? 17 upvotes can't be wrong.
Do bike-sharing services provide data to their host city? To any other companies or partners?
The Case-Shiller Index IS normalized for inflation.

"The indices kept by Standard and Poor are normalized to have a value of 100 in January 2000."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case%E2%80%93Shiller_index
I'm based in SF, and I've taken over 200 rides with Ford GoBike (operated by the same company).

It is awful.

The bikes: big, heavy and ugly. Due to their sheer weight, peddling up the gentlest of hills will make you question your life choices, and consider other, much faster options, like walking, or just gently slithering around the pavement.

Additionally, Motivate's chosen method of bike cleaning - a dude hosing them down - tends to leave the bikes drenched with ice cold water. I suppose the feeling of freeze gnawing at your body does act as a replacement for caffeine for some, but I find it very unwelcoming.

The stations: Sparse, not well maintained, and honestly, an eyesore. They're this giant, lumbering object that takes away precious public resources, and is only available for Motivate's usage. You also constantly have to plan around them -- is there one next to where I want to go? Is it almost full?

E-Bike deployment: what a joke. They are rarely available, and even you've spotted one of these precious unicorns, you'll often by greeted by a beaming red dot, indicating that the bike is unwell, likely due to the battery giving up in the middle of day.

Other than that, the app spams you with ads, many of which are strangely enough for buying an e-bike. I thought this company is about bike sharing??
I think the general public is learning how to be sceptical, albeit slowly. It used to be the case that merely being published counted as authority (I remember reading about UFO abductions and thinking "this is a real book! There must be some truth to it!" In my defence I was eight years old) but the internet is forcing everyone to be less naive.

That being said, movements like the anti-vaxxers and the flat-Earthers are testament to people's ability to believe whatever the hell they want.
> I think that package management has no place in a desktop OS

Why? Is this from a developer or an end-user perspective? From an end-user perspective, why does it matter?

For any sufficiently complicated application, most developers are going to rely on existing libraries and other components. So either you have a centralised way of managing this (i.e. a package manager) or you have every app with its own packaged (and thus potentially duplicated) dependencies and hope that every developer pushes out a new version whenever there's a security vulnerability in one of the dependent components. Whatever the drawbacks of package managers, that seems like the only sustainable model if you remotely care about security.
A related article that I enjoyed: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/05/devastating-c...
Most buildings have to have affordances for people in wheelchairs and robots can use those. Hopefully in the future there will be standard robot/elevator interfaces but in the meantime we can make due - I spent a lot of time at my last job integrating elevators with our delivery robots.
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Sure it is, NEWP only allows for C style unsafely on UNSAFE blocks, clearly tagged by the system administrator as allowed for execution.

So not only is lack of safety expressed on the type system, something that C doesn't have, it also allows someone explicitly stating it is ok to risk its execution.
Let's see....

Hawaii - gorgeous weather, beautiful music/people, great Japanese food, tradewinds

Phuket - cheap thai food, things for men to do, beautiful temples

Bali - cheap massages, villas, beautiful temples

Hainan - tons of rude Chinese tourists who spit everywhere, high humidity, unsanitary food, pollution, surveillance cameras watching your every move, best not to offend a communist party member while you're out and about, lack of traditional architectures, and ugly tall buildings. But wait, I can now maybe get on facebook! that makes all the difference!
http://archive.is/y8rpY

:)
Next month I'll be going on a weeklong backpacking+camping trip. I don't believe in the notion that modern camping is "roughing" it (tents and shoes and cooking gear are essential tech). So on that note, I'd love to have a low-cost solar-rechargable "pack mule" robot that could carry more gear. (I'll survive without it, of course, but it would be nice.) Wheels on a robot wouldn't work where I'm going, but legs would.
The concept of financial custody goes back hundreds of years (although I realize most HN readers have probably never heard of it); it doesn't make sense to abandon that terminology over a short-lived political crisis.
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Those tests have gotten easier. In fact, the SAT folks specifically made it easier because they were losing market share. Too many people were taking the ACT instead, so the SAT went back to their old format and then made it easer.

https://www.fairtest.org/sat-losing-marketshare-act-testopti...
I'm aware of the script for apt, actually, precisely because I needed to do this once. That's a hack though, apt clearly wasn't built with the idea that anyone might ever want to do something with packages other than install them on their local system.

It's fine that Haiku's goals and mine don't align, really it is. I'm just not going to go out of my way to use it because I don't feel it offers advantages that outweigh the disadvantages.
Is the world running out of sand?
HFT helps tighten spreads for smaller investors, and also itself benefits from the tighter spreads.

But, to the extent that you believe the argument that HFT is essentially front-running, then HFT gets the tight spreads and better pricing.
Gotta admit, I never thought I'd hear someone try to spin including an offline easter egg as "being evil".

I guess you probably also think that Windows 95 was downright diabolical for including not just one, but several games that can be played instead of doing homework.
Derek Lowe, of Things I Won't Work With fame, has an interesting post on the subject too: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/06/22/alz...
US intelligence doesn't enjoy a reputation for trustworthiness, to put it mildly. But if people can just go online, upload a video and get back a "hilarious" deepfake, that's an irrefutable demonstration that video-meddling is easy and widely-available, isn't it? They can literally see for themselves how accessible the faking tech is.
Who does one complain to? I just dropped it. Called them to cancel the card, and cut it up.
Next step: Coinbase gives discount of custody service fees - or even pays the deposit maker a fee (a.k.a interest) if it is allowed to lend coins forward while coins are within custody (a.k.a fractional reserve banking).
They reminded me very much of the artwork that accompanied 17776: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
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Based on a quick look at Wikipedia for GSM, it sounds like some efforts have been made towards breaking the encryption: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM

I'd be willing to bet that national governments have done even more work on that problem.
I have my gmail signature set to an ascii art 'ruler', so I know where column 75/80 are while I'm writing, and then I delete it when I'm done (and I do manual line breaks and if necessary manual rewrap of paragraphs)... Clunky but it works.
I'm sure there's many things they could call it though, that would have more positive overtones. From a branding/marketing perspective.

Edit: For example, why not call it Coinbase Custodian? Totally different connotation, and better name IMHO.
I recommend news.gmane.org but you'll need an NNTP client like Thunderbird to access it.
Fair enough, but can you imagine a CoC that suffices in any situation? You will have situations where someone is acting out and at the same time you didn't think of it in your CoC and you will still be able to identify the behaviour as unacceptable, in most cases rather quickly.

So if I say "well actually..." on your conference I might get escorted out even if nobody took offense, but if I race around on my skates and make people uncomfortable because they are afraid I might run into them, that's fine because it doesn't really fall under any point mentioned in your CoC?

That's obviously nonsense. Just don't be a dick. And if you are, be a dick somewhere else.
> Note that it says "happens to" immediately follow, not "is guaranteed to" immediately follow.

I read that more as "happens to be placed" by the programmer (as a conscious decision), not including mere happenstance. In other words, this refers to arrays and struct fields.
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> Running with two feet through a forest is pretty easy for us.

Easy for a twelve year old who has practicing motor skills for their entire life. And who would still be spastic on some assembly lines
> What lesson did I learn?

"Gambling is dangerous"?
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No, i’m talking about the fact that bitcoin is literally property according to the government.

Also profit != property.
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This is not great advice against the current backdrop of fascism ascending. We should be seeking evidence to build fact-based narratives and actively downplaying emotional attempts to derail searches for facts. Fascists hate facts. Books are like their kryptonite.
Sadly, no mention of microglia as a possible cause. I can't explain it myself, but someone who was close to me was researching this extensively and was often frustrated by the over-focus on amyloid.
> other states can't do anything about it

I'm a New Yorker. If a South Dakota company markets a loan to me, they're in New York's jurisdiction.

The contract may specify Delaware law. But I think states can write consumer protections to override such clauses.
Christ... It's not a "brand extension" (whatever that means); it's a blog post intended for the general public, not researchers. If you want research, look at the journal archives.
I never had to moderate a community, but I that chronology makes perfect sense to me. I guess it is what it is then.
In any particular collision, a helmeted brain is more protected than a non-helmeted brain, although because of factors like risk compensation and the effect of overall cycling frequency on road safety that is completely beside the point.

Of course adults should be free to choose for themselves what risks they are willing to take. The relevant populations are at so much lower risk for any number of misfortunes than their ancestors that helmet fans' pearl-clutching on their behalf is completely misplaced. But this too is beside the point.

Try reading my two sentences again, this time without your "conspiracy everywhere" glasses. The following propositions, which comprise the entirety of that post, are all literally true: "cycling doesn't require helmets", "helmet laws reduce cycling", "those who write helmet laws know that helmet laws reduce cycling". Every study of the effect of helmet laws shows that they reduce cycling. There might be some dangerously uninformed people writing cycling regulations, but most will have seen the relevant studies.
Oh, I see. Yes, for sure. That'd be the active learning framework [1]. I get the feeling it's not very popular because it inserts a human in the process. Many machine learning people are rather allergic to anything that a) introduces "human bias" to the learning process and b) reduces the potential for end-to-end automation.

The article you quoted above is a good example. It's main claim is that an evaluation function was learned without knowledge of rules or hand-crafted features, i.e. explicit human participation.

It's a political issue, really. And a silly one- there are domains where very useful background knowledge is available; physics, language, mathematics, etc. There's no reason not to use it.

In chess, for example, it might be possible to learn a decent set of rules just by carefuly choosing the examples to feed to the learner. Or, indeed, evaluating the learning so-far, therefore acting as an all-knowing Oracle.

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[1] Well, strictly speaking active learning is where the system asks the user for examples/ counterexamples, but there's different options and what you suggest would fit in there.
A single grade serves at least three purposes:

- To give students feedback about their progress

- To competitively rank students knowledge

- To competitively rank students organizational/bureaucratic hoop jumping skills

To conflate these three things is incompetence to the highest degree. Whoever invented this system, and everyone who has ever gone along with it should be deeply ashamed.

Of course, this is an oversimplification - there are many more confounding variables packed into a single stupid grade than just these three. I really can't overstate how stupid this system is. It's not even a system.
That's the thing though, people do run close to the edge. These loans arose from opportunity, and the opportunity arose from societal conditions and psychological compulsion. Just like people who procrastinate on their papers, there are people who put off paying bills, having a savings account, and doing timely repairs. These seem like different orders of magnitude in comparison, yet the kind of thinking behind it is not that different. Add having less money into the mix, and the life consequences of these decisions really take off.

As for societal conditions, almost everyone needs loans for something at some point, but taking out a small-time loan at a high interest rate is almost always a terrible option. Usually when there is a terrible option on the table with other less-terrible options, people don't choose the terrible one unless they really have to (or have absolutely no clue what they are doing). A rich person buying a BMW isn't going to take out a 300% loan on the car because they have other options and it's a literal waste of money for them. However, a poor person who's 1998 Toyota Camry broke down and needs to get the most bare-minimum used car to keep their only job has to suck it up and pay the 300% loan because they have no other options. By the time it's all said and done, the poor person paid a lot more relative to the cost of the item they bought even though the total amount may be less.
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I wouldn't say so, just efficiency. The cost of booking for laziness isn't free. While it can potentially pay dividends when you're able to avoid evaluation altogether, it isn't free.
No, boneheaded impolite dick is fine dude.
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They have a link to a study of the major internet routes in the US and the name of the PDF is 'tubes_final.pdf'

That made me laugh.

"Long-haul fiber-optic cabling. Red squares mark where cables connect in nodes, many in major population centers. University of Wisconsin and ACM SIGCOMM, 2015. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~pb/tubes_final.pdf "
maybe by posting this he is doing (2.) :)
The point about partial programs is a particularly strong one, especially when it comes to test-driven development. Being able to write a test for a method or function before that method or function even exists may seem like a small thing, or even pointless ... but that flow and rhythm of "write the test, make it pass, refactor" is so strong and natural (once you've grown accustomed to it) that having to break that flow for brand new methods feels quite disruptive.
Very nice post, I’m eagerly waiting for the next parts.
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But that means you have to check your app; hopefully your phone isn't dead. Also, some days you might need to travel farther to find a bike.

I realize there are also advantages to dockless (you don't have to walk the last bit when near your destination and maybe the bike is nearer to you when you start.)

These are just some ways in which using a dock are more convenient.
Playing the long game! Very good.
AMD has basically always been behind Intel in process, so they couldn’t count on that to get them to the top, they had to do something else.

Intel has always been on top so they had less incentive to prepare for that. As Ben thompson said in his article Intel just assumed they could keep going without running into process shrink problems of the magnitude they have.
This comment from two months ago (when Carl Kasell died) was very interesting:

it is not for want of trying. Eli Lily bet the farm and lost, and they aren’t alone.
At this point, we’re beginning to think previously unthinkable thoughts like “what if the hypothesis the last 20 years of research was based on (beta amyloid plaques)is just totally wrong”.

we’ve made drugs that reduce plaques. they don’t ameliorate the disease.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16863945
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No they're not[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...