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And they also don't want to have programmers as vertically integrated employees.

Whoopsie, it looks like we were just well paid peasants all along, instead of being part of the ruling class.
Hah, nice! I did something similar ~20 years ago, but I managed to find a small PC with and on-board RCA connector and hooked it up to a small ~6" CRT TV (I think even black and white). I topped it off with a ring mouse for controlling my music while driving, but I would boot up and open the music player before I started moving.
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How is the opt-in requirement enforced in the API? Some sort of ticket or per-user authorization hash?
> It's worth remembering that "data" as they say stales very quickly. Knowing that you ordered a package two months ago is far less interesting than knowing you're expecting one next week.

Comparatively less, yes, but knowing about all your packages is still very interesting and hugely privacy sensitive.

> You'll still get ads, but they won't be tailored to you.

TBH, all tailoring I've seen is comically bad. Yeah, they can know I bought shoes so they would show me shoe ads for the next three months. As if that's how humans behave - once we're in "shoe heat", we do nothing but buy shoes for three months and the task of the good ad system is to capture when the "shoe heat" starts and capitalize on it. I think if one wrote a comedy show about robots trying to understand human society and getting it hilariously wrong every time, the behavior of ad networks could supply great material for years.

> But the concept of "having your data" in a historical context is meaningless.

No it's not. There's a lot of private things in one's past than can be dug up and (ab)used. Ask any politician who went through an electoral campaign.
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Even when manipulation is used for the benefit of the listener it still isn't great.

In such a case the manipulator is already convinced they are correct and the target's reasoning is going to be faulty or irrelevant. So in principle I would argue it is always better to present the facts clearly to the listener simply because the speaker may in fact be in error, can never be infallible.
IRC, Line makes absolute pots of money off of stickers, merch of the characters they've made for those stickers, and assorted other things. Wish I could find the article I read on that a while back.
Not really, if the amount of disposable income is the deciding factor.
CoSM is nothing but a front for the Grey's to in doctrine some young spunions into their cult.

DYOR.
Sure but it will start to erode its market share as other companies offer similar but free products.

And a mobile messaging company relies on the network effect to stay relevant and popular.
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So should we try to do more or less of it?
> Coinbase is making plenty of money

Coinbase’s volumes have consistently fallen every month since December. January was less than December, February less than January, March less than February, et cetera. They're not in a terrific place, for raising an up round nor selling their business.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-the-biggest-u-s-bitcoin-exc...
I find it useful to ignore the value of consistency when considering people's actions holistically. Otherwise you'll never get anywhere when trying to determine what people really want.

I suggest this if only for practicality sake, as only fanatics are completely consistent with some set of edicts/ethics/beliefs/ So you need to be able to communicate and reason with people who are inconsistent.
Here's an article in English

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2157887/mom...
Because the telephone companies are terrible about security and often highly disorganized internally. They are beyond stupidly susceptible to Social Engineering and any "passcodes" against giving away access do not stand in the face of stupid customers and the need for customer service to satisfy them.

Your number can easily be stolen or redirected to get and sometimes send SMS from/to your number. Your cell phone account is the linchpin for a very extensive identity theft attack.
I just gave it a shot on a pretty simple phrase that came to mind ("rails render") and it came up with multiple Japanese links on the first page (even when I go to settings and change region to US and language to English). It doesn't tell me how many results it found, or suggest any alternate queries until I get to the end of all the infinite scrolling. Also I'm somewhat offended by infinite scrolling. You can turn it off, but it still just does a "load more" instead of pagination.

It seems to get around 50 results for this query. Google returns 7 million. No foreign languages in the first two pages.

I decided to give it another shot. "sort git commits by date" was my query. I was pretty impressed by the formatting of the card it displayed at the top, but it was wrong (other top results seemed good though).

I don't know if this is ready for the switch.
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> To play devil's advocate, probabilistic reasoning (probability theory, stochastic processes, Bayesian reasoning, graphical models, variational inference) might be equally if not more important.

And of course, you're not going to get very far with probability theory and stochastic processes unless you have a mature understanding of analysis and measure theory :)

This comment exchange neatly demonstrates the intrinsic problem. Most of these articles start off much like this one does: by assuming "basic comfortability with linear algebra." That sounds straightforward, but most software engineers don't have it. They haven't needed it, so they haven't retained it even if they learned it in college. It takes a good student a semester in a classroom to achieve that "comfortability", and for most it doesn't come until a second course or after revisiting the material.

If you don't already have it, you can't just use StackExchange to fill in the blanks. The random walk method to learning math doesn't really pan out for advanced material because it all builds on prior definitions. Then people like you make a comment to point out (correctly) that probability theory is just as important for all the machine learning that isn't just numerical optimization. But unless you want to restrict yourself to basic statistics and discrete probability, you're going to have a bad time working on probability without analysis. And analysis is going to a pain without calculus, and so on and so forth.

There are certain things you need to spend a lot of time learning. Engineering and mathematics are both like that. But I think many of these articles do a disservice by implying that you can cut down on the learning time for the math if you have engineering experience. That's really not the case. If you're working in machine learning and you need to know linear algebra (i.e. you can't just let the underlying library handle that for you), you can't just pick and choose what you need. You need to have a robust understanding of the material. There isn't a royal road.

I think it's really great people like the author (who is presumably also the submitter) want to write these kinds of introductions. But at the same time, the author is a research assistant in the Stanford AI Lab. I think it's fair to say he may not have a firm awareness of how far most software engineers are from the prerequisites he outlined. And by extension, I don't think most people know what "comfortability with linear algebra" means if they don't already have it. It's very hard to enumerate your unknown unknowns in this territory.
In my experience, no, you can’t force alternatives on your friends and family, unless it’s an alternative they already have.

No, they won’t install Signal. If that were a real possibility, you would have done it already. So SMS it is. But I wonder, isn’t SMS more expensive than $1 / year? SMS has had outrageously high rates compared with 3G.

In some parts of the world that’s precisely the reason for WhatsApp’s popularity.
Given how little Twilio charges per messsage, this can not be a serious money maker for Whatsapp.
People are generally consistent: it's just that their true beliefs are seldom what they espouse.

As the old saying goes, behind every double standard is an unstated single standard.
Why is this guy shilling so hard for Coinbase? Is there a conflict of interest disclaimer I missed in this post?
> So, instead, you're giving all this work as unpaid homework for your employees.

I literally said that I'm doing it myself. Also, if you're a contractor and don't charge for doing work, that's your problem, not mine - you should adjust your prices.
> The stories by people are all very similar, warranting further investigation. Weird stuff.

The hallucinogenic similarities may be due to a similar chemical reaction to the drug between human brains -- not necessarily a higher entity.

It really is an interesting drug though, and I would agree that it deserves further investigation.
So what's to stop a hijacker persuading the website to take off 2FA or switch you from TOTP to SMS.

Seems just as possible as hijacking your phone.
You're right, but software engineers are divided, selfish and weak. This is a class fight, it can't be won by individuals.
The video lectures of Prof. Gilbert Strang’s linear algebra class at MIT are very good: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-...

He's an amazing teacher and conveys a lot of intuition + makes even complicated ideas look straightforward.
> A quick Google search will reveal hundreds of unanswered support requests, API problems, and some shady internal business practices.

Ugh, please don't blog like this, hyperlinks exist for a reason. Each of the noun phrases composing the object of this sentence could have been a link. What Google tells you today won't be what Google tells you a year from now.
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Also it's not hard to imagine the sort of situation what would make one hesitate to speak frankly on the record about economic prospects for China: living there or doing business with people who live there.
Of course personal responsibility comes into play. But what do you want to do about it? The child already exists and we can't go back in time, so no preventing that. Do we give the child the best opportunity it can get, or somehow use it to punish the parents for their decision making?
> Google, Facebook or Apple etc wouldn't provide much more additional value

That's not true. All three have an enormous power when it comes to promoting certain technologies or companies. If Google starter promoting major cryptocurrencies instead of the silly GooglePay, the adoption would skyrocket. They literally have the power to change the world, and crush (some) fiat currencies.

But they probably wouldn't, their wealth is somewhat dependent on the political favoritism.
I never said "instead of," although I can see in hindsight why it might be seen that way. I should have been more clear.

Wireguard could have used P521 and AES-GCM with similar security, but it would be slower and equally vulnerable.
Trying to determine which one you are doing is hard problem, because, relying on incomplete information. I believe it's best to be internally positive about your own decision making, and let what is not you take over when it does. Sometimes other people know best, sometimes you do. Not everything is as easy to understand as a computer program, math proof, circuit board - anything logical, mechanical in nature, easy to understand, easy to identify gaps in understanding - because, it's a mechanical object. Those things lack consciousness. Being a rational being means having awareness for the difference (at least to me).

Selectivity in who to listen to, depends on trust, which is a hard problem, life can sometimes really beat up on any of us. I don't think it's a good thing to choose to interact with people you have to constantly decide between two binaries - manipulator or guide. That is the business world though, sometimes, unfortunately. Some people can seem like they are just out to get you, but that doesn't make it true.

Tolerance is important, but, emotions sometimes, seem mechanical in nature. At least how I understand my own, internally. Feels like being computer. Socializing in general always seems to be a hard problem. Even harder when there's a bottom line.
> I named Kent State as an example of a US massacre of protestors, in response to a parent saying it doesn’t happen in the US

Tianamen was a massacre, but it was much more than that. If you think these incidents are comparable, you may find reading about them rewarding.
Not sure why this is being downvotes when it describes exactly what is happening. A relentless desire to increase profits at all costs is exactly what is leading to these decisions being made. The scary aspect is how this is spilling over to the political field as well, with corporations lobbying for changes over the past few decades which have all been very very anti-labor.
I think it's amazing the impact Pieter (and others) have had on solopreneurs and bootstrapped startups. He's become a reference point for what's possible when you release quickly (and publicly) and put your project front and centre in social media. Disrupting Agile by replacing weekly release procedures with several per day and broadcasting it all on Twitch. Disrupting customer interviews by talking to people directly on Twitter and getting feedback on features there and then.

Pieter's work is great because he applies everything that everyone says you should do but in the most simple and effective ways.
Your post places Kent State and Tiananmen in equivalent counterpoint without comment. That is a rhetorical device generally used to point out equivalencies.

As such, you are getting blasted, and rightly so.

People are finally becoming tired of the "false equivalency" and the "well, just pointing it out" as these are the tools of the propaganda arms of the Chinese, the Russians, and, yes, the US governments in order to manipulate social media sites and people are striking back when they occur.

I find this a very useful form of social vaccination that has taken far too long to take root.
And if corporate policy demands all personal files live on the network and corporate computer policy sets the home directory there? This is common in enterprise.
Ok, I agree that some MBAs can be full of it but can we already stop this MBA hate on HN? I feel like lots of people here think that if you build something then customers will surely come. I've got a huge surprise for you. You will have to sell your product and some of the MBA's are really great at that. In B2B a single sale can make or break your company when you're low on cash.

You do your job and let them do theirs. You code, talk to users, ship, and iterate. They handle sales, operations, marketing, and maybe fundraising. These other things can be done by a technical founder but they are not fun. There is a reason why some companies hire COOs so that CEOs can focus on their job.

Finally, it's not MBAs who decided to focus on growth at all costs. It's the nature of the game. Either you get to the top or your competitors will do that. So don't hate the player, hate the game.
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Perhaps not quite what you had in mind, but most interesting and well researched.
Why would something that serves such an extremely small niche market ever be “widespread”?

Rather than focusing on what crypto is bad at (nearly everything because trust is useful for 99% of its applications), crypto should focus on the niche where it’s actually good at: large money transfers across international boundaries.
Fusion.js is a javascript framework meant to be run on Node. There's nothing stopping you from calling out to other backends and asp.net if you stand up a Fusion.js frontend Node server.
There is no Python-based version, Abelson and Sussman only produced one SICP based on Lisp.

It is unfortunate that there are other courses by people not associated with Abelson and Sussman that have kept the same name but not the material. It is misleading to refer to these as "SICP" as they lack pretty much everything that made SICP great. SICP works on _multiple_ levels, it is not [just] a book about Lisp or a book about programming. It is this "emergent" quality that it has that makes it a masterpiece.

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> If I can't even keep my phone around to use TOTP, I'm sure as hell not going to keep track of my U2F token.

You effectively can't implement U2F without TOTP, because otherwise when people lose their U2F dongle they'll be locked out of the site. For any given site you should turn on TOTP before activating U2F, but then store the TOTP secret somewhere secure and don't actually use it.
In contrast I'm very happy with long Summer holidays at present. It gives us chance to spend extended periods together as a family and to help our children to follow their own educational goals rather than those dictated by central government. We're planning electronics, modern language learning, weir building, insect hunting, camping, outdoor pursuits, ... none of which they do in school here.
Basic income proposals that stand any chance of being adopted are for it to replace other forms of government provided unearned income (unemployment benefit, old age pension), and are approximately revenue neutral, so those out of work and claiming benefits would receive the same amount, those working or earning private unearned income would on average see their tax bills rise by the same amount as the basic income they would now get,
and those not working and not currently claiming any benefits would receive it, but at the same time there would be savings from simplifications of the benefits system.
I understand that! The point is having a human driver get out and open the door for a passenger, or perform any of these additional services is part of the premium service I alluded to.

Some people will always use the valet even if free parking is available. Those are some of the potential customers I see.
The picture-as-a-story reminds me of the old Brightkite social network. Can you please tell your bosses to rip them off and re-invent it so I can use it again? It's the only social network I have ever loved, and it's been dead for 7 years. It was such a fun community.
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Yeah China either has a situation where they're good at managing it / it is manageable.... or as soon as they can't it will be hyper ugly.
> Does anyone have evidence that Huawei's "hardware has been found with advanced roots" ?

Yes, Huawei's products are known to be compromised [1]. Which shouldn't be surprising, given the founder's PLA roots.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/huawei/
I ask because I have had many challenges with nginx bugs and improvements. Maxim and I have fundamental disagreements about many things. Anything Cloudflare can do to make improvements upstream are appreciated.
Why are they insane?
The guys from the Coding Blocks podcast have a Slack channel where quite a few people interact, though it’s not totally limited to freelancers. I’ve gotten some good feedback and input when I’ve asked questions there, however. And most of the conversation is good.
Attributing the decreased costs of computers to the rise of advertising-based business models is quite a stretch. As far as I can tell, advances in manufacturing technology and the broadening of the market base is what made that possible.

As to Google--I'd pay $500 per year not to have it constantly barrage me with reminders to use Chrome instead of Edge (so it can steal my apparently valuable browsing data). But, 90% of everything is crap. Crap is what the market wants, whether it's pop music or USA Today or advertising-based software. Who am I to argue?