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I once managed a Facebook account on behalf of someone else. Normally, you would expect this to confuse Facebook greatly. Instead the opposite happened: Whenever I was logged in as them, Facebook recommended me people that they knew.

This means you can find out who someone knows if (a) they’re not already a Facebook user, and (b) you create a profile for them. Whoopsie.

I kind of want to write a dystopian story about babies being bartered based on their social network rating, which of course is derived from their family history. We’re all reduced to numbers in the end.

hyper-reality: https://vimeo.com/166807261
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Or breath in the dust as the paint degrades in an alarmingly short time.
The electoral college and equal Senate representation acts as a tempering force on said mob.

So rather than tyranny of the majority, now we have tyranny of an arbitrary minority. I fail to see how that improves things.

As others have pointed out, the constitution and the court system are the features that are supposed to counteract tyranny of the majority, not the EC or the Senate. The EC and the Senate aren't there because they make the system better or more democratic, they're there because they were part of the necessary compromises that were made hundreds of years ago to convince all the independent states to band together into the United States.
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It's been a pleasure to work with the past month. Traditionally I've worked with Cordova/Ionic and I feel far more productive than I have before on mobile. I was skeptical of the Dart language but now I've seen it's similarities with C# and really enjoy it. The whole widget model is pretty nice to work with too.

The experience of going from zero to HelloWorld with VSCode was so smooth. The community has done an excellent job with the VSCode extensions. Things like picking/install/starting an emulator is quick and intuitive as opposed to the work it takes to initially get thing Xamarin installed and running.

Hot reloading works well on a device or emulator and is really quick! There isn't support for remote updating (yet) once you've published to a store though. There is a GitHub issues tracking this.

I'm a fan. I hope the community grows around it.
I joined a healthcare startup in 2014 that had a small infrastructure on Azure. Back then AWS weren't signing BAAs and Azure was the only player in town. Being an early startup, the company didn't purchase a support plan from Azure. One day Azure suffered a major outage (may have been storage related) and over an hour later, I reached out to Microsoft for written confirmation that we could forward to customers. Since we didn't have a support plan they flat-out refused to provide any documentation whatsoever about the issue. They wanted $10,000.

Azure - never again. Company moved to AWS within a quarter.
Am I living in a cartoon? Deregulation is a valid and understandable view, one that is an established part of the political landscape. But inventing and allowing new uses for asbestos? This is sort of evil plan belongs in an episode of captain planet.
Maybe I should call it "Against Histrionic Journalism".

To explore your thread of thought a bit, and a bit of my own tangent...

Thinkpieces with actionable advice, advocacy of personal economic virtue, or related personal anecdotes, by their nature of advocating for pragmatically solving your own problems, have very conservative-appearing optics in today's political landscape. As such, they are extremely taboo within the same social circle as that of the article above, and taboo at large in many circles. I wish that such pieces were more popular, because I feel that they could reduce the cynicism of our zeitgeist, which is a leading problem in online media. The optics are too poor, though. And I suppose they don't make for a lot of click-driven ad revenue.

In my reading of the news, in the long run, I want to be able to develop a feeling for how the world is comparatively changing over time, and to plan and make decisions based off of this. Even in the absense of articles that prescriptively tell you things that are good to do, fact-based, comparison-driven reporting of change in the world should not be laden with histrionic shouting.

When we only read this histrionic shouting, perception becomes reality. Cynicism becomes emotional mailaise, and makes the world less dignified. If the book "Enlightenment Now" has even a speck of truth in it, the momentum of the world is a tremendous lot more positive than the zeitgeist feels it to be. The challenge is to change the zeitgeist.
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I mostly spend my days writing Go (previously Python) and when I tried Dart I really liked it. Could basically start coding and be productive without even looking at language documentation (VSCode has a nice Dart plugin which tells you what to do and what not to do).

In my case, I was trying out Dart because of a Flutter (probably majority of people are now looking at Dart because of Flutter) and I found it really fantastic. I love the tooling where you can just use their CLI to build/test the application without complex IDEs like XCode or Android Studio.

If you want to try building a mobile app then definitely go for Flutter+Dart, even if you don't need to support both Android and iOS I think it's just much more easy to start with than alternatives (RN/Swift/Android Java).
Wow, that's insane.
The NYT just hired a full blown racist to their editorial board so I think it's a very apt comparison.
I use Emacs and this is completely anecdotal, but I agree, it feels like vim is the hip editor. I think it started to become hip when Rails gained traction. A lot of screencasts using vim. I guess this was when TM had fallen out of favor or something.

A lot of Elixir devs use vim, as well, and many came from Ruby/Rails.
Nothing. When I'm not at work I don't get paid.
Don't go putting fact checks on this, people's hyper partisanship was coming out.
After moving to Europe I am completely on board with the simplicity of the metric system, however I do prefer the Fahrenheit scale for exactly the reason you described above.

A human will face winter weather conditions from 0-32F which converts to negative values on the Celsius scale (not practical).

On the other end of the spectrum for summer time conditions, there is a wider range of values to ascribe to changes in temperature from 60F-100F or approx 16-38C.
I have been waiting YEARS for someone to bring the idea of 'zoom' into visual programming. I expect it should be a simple solution to the problem many visual programming systems face where any substantial complexity results in an incomprehensible web of components and connections from different conceptual layers of abstraction all presented at once. This is the first I've heard of Luna, but I'm looking forward to experimenting with it when I get home!
Sounds like it's still a brute force method, so my guess would be no. The only bit that he's made easier is capturing the encrypted key in the first place.
What are the people's interests here? Selfishly, I happen to like driving my car. Cheap gasoline is in my interest. What needs to be served to tackle climate change politically is the global greater good. We don't have a great track record with global anything in politics, nor do we have a great track record on serving the greater good, so I don't like those odds.
NYT: "You can't be racist against white people".

There you go.
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It’s been the traditional Republican talking point st least since Reagan that you just “need to pull yourself up by your bootstraps” to get ahead. Even now, there is the mistaken belief of equal opportunity when statistics show that income mobility is not that great. (https://phys.org/news/2017-04-upward-mobility-fallen-sharply...). Republicans have been trying to sell “trickle down economics for thirty years - that if you cut taxes on the rich, not only will help the poor immediately, but when they get rich, it will help them too.

Undocumented migrant labors don’t feel entitled to the “American Dream”, they wouldn’t be waging terror against the GOP.

While Black people and affirmative action is no longer the scape goat for why rural America is suffering, now it’s illegal aliens and unfair trade practices.
I didn't say government. Private media have the freedom to choose their policies. And anyone has the right to self publish, if no private media will have them.

Furthermore, I also disagree with existing censorship of "illegal" stuff by governments. Not just social/political dissent in China, or ankle porn in Saudi Arabia. Also censorship by the United States, such as gambling, piracy, mail-order drugs, and so on.

However, there is arguably a place for government censorship of criminal activity that demonstrably causes harm. For example, child abuse (but not merely sharing of "child porn") or revenge porn, and so on. But not stuff that's racist, sexist, etc but doesn't directly advocate violence.
Sorry, what does that tell me about their morals?
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> Norway doesn't have a network of violent gangs sitting in their prisons.

Is this something that allows them to have a rehabilitative prison system, or something that is caused by having a rehabilitative prison system?
It was moslty disagreeing with this proposition in your argumentation:

> the average citizen at the time did not leave close to shore
> removed access to the sea to people in mainland/central Europe during pre-adulthood, by land-locking families

And as for France, sailors, including pressed ones were from coastal regions.
Good point - until it can distinguish voices, this is potential problem.
People are downvoting because they believe what they've been told for decades from the media and late night lawyers commercials but this is the scientific fact. Non-friable asbestos is not dangerous, and people who don't work with it on a constant basis are not at risk. Those people who work with asbestos over longer periods of time are the ones who are at risk. A handful of exposures to friable asbestos will not give you lung cancer.

This is the same belief/religion with high salt or high fat diets. People have grown up for so long with those beliefs because we have been indoctrinated that when new science comes up that disproves the above, they disbelieve the science.
I think the OP’s point is that if it’s used anywhere, then it’s someone’s job to work with it.
Engineers teach a drone to herd birds away from airports autonomously
The GOP of Nixon days and their stance on the environment then is in no way comparable to the state of the GOP in 2018.
So your argument is, because people get mesothelioma from living near natural deposits of asbestos, we should put more of the stuff in our homes? "What's a little more cancer?"

Your own source material shows just living near asbestos gives you higher risk of cancer. You're trying to argue that we aren't at significant risk without prolonged exposure. Living with asbestos is prolonged exposure. Increasing the amount used in products that we all live around/near will increase the risk and incidence of cancers.
She has been to rehab, and she was able to get drugs & pregnant while there.

I think you are underestimating the power of a heroin addiction and overestimating the effectiveness of rehab in the US, especially for unwilling participants
Vim users do indeed. I still get a bit of ESC pinky, but not nearly as bad as the default layout would cause.
The target markets were too small (or even were shrinking) to justify the investments necessary to keep the architectures going. Keep in mind that all in all only around 10k machines were produced over the technology lifetime (75-92). That's not a large number. Lisp machines started with hand-made CPUs and ended with special micro-processors (TI, Symbolics, ...). The jump to Lisp-supporting newer RISC (or similar) architectures did not happen, because the main sponsors (DARPA, Military, etc.) did no longer saw them as interesting - applications could run on workstations and high-end PCs. Next-gen CPUs were in the making in end 80s / early 90s (Symbolics, Xerox, LMI, SPUR...) but they did not reach the market - money was running out. The whole thing had its last incarnation in commercial emulators: Medley (the Interlisp-D from Xerox) for Intel+SPARC and Open Genera (Symbolics) for DEC Alpha.
I read this as satire commenting on the misguided educational policies that governments tend to adopt.

The other commenters, however, have responded to it in earnest.

I am curious as to the original intent?
Are you here on some kind of political mission? You're not making scientific claims, you're picking single sentences out from a context that backs up the actual scientific claims made the by the actual scientific paper posted by the person you're replying to. Why pretend that we can't click on the same wikipedia link as you and read the paragraphs surrounding the quoted and impressively vague "However, in general..." sentence.

At least, I gotta thank you for pointing out a needlessly vague an slanted statement in wikipedia. It should be removed or amended with the figures that follow elsewhere.
Not exactly. Reagan was a surprisingly nuanced political thinker, whether or not you agree with him. He believed - and in fact observed - that government has an inherent motivation to constantly increase legislation. This, according to Reagan, is partly because legislators who vote for more regulations on a given industry will then benefit from that industry’s lobbying and campaigning efforts. It’s akin to a somewhat benevolent protection racket - play ball, or you might find it even more expensive to do business.

Of course, Reagan flipped that script and made wanton deregulation a “selling point” of the GOP. And now Trump has taken that to the extreme.
I mostly get news from patch [1] as it is generally the only news that applies to me. News on HN sometimes applies to my career field, yet rarely ever applies directly to me.

[1] - https://patch.com/
Sure but how was this better 10 years ago?

"Original anything" (read unique) by definition doesn't go well with the "just go elsewhere" concept. If you can go elsewhere then it's not that original or unique. Time has no bearing on this.

For "mass content" (aggregation or simply independently reporting on the same topic) you have vastly more choice today. And for unique pieces of information, only available in one place, you would have been just as stuck then as you are now. The uniqueness, not the time is what takes the choice out of the equation.
In the same wikipedia article

>A history of asbestos exposure at work is reported in about 70 percent to 80 percent of all cases.

This means in 20 to 30 percent of all cases, health effects occur in subjects who do not have periodic exposure to asbestos at work. 20 to 30 percent is not negligible.
Getting farmers to change their ways will be a huge concerted effort that will change the habits of millions.
Yeah, but it'd be like getting a blood test and trying to interpret it yourself :).

There are so, so many variables - and many engines could be optimized for 'your voice and the things you're going to say right now given cpu/memory, quality of microphone, background noise etc..'

The game of NLP is inherently about dealing with 'noisy channels' (in the academic sense) in which there is kind of a probabilistic guarantee of imperfection. So then it comes down to creating the best products in a given context, which is almost always 'less than optimized' for any individual.

So there's the model size, cpu/ram, quality of signal (microphone, network) just to start.

Optimizing for standard english means probably reducing quality for people with accents. Maybe in a specific context you could go from 80% accuracy to 85% accuracy for 'most of us ' - but then yo go from 60% to 40% for anyone with an accent.

And if you reduce the accepted vocabulary, you can get way better results. Of course, we all might want to say words like 'obvolute' and 'abalienate' every so often.

Kind of thing.

It's really fun from an R&D perspective, but it's a product managers nightmare. Consumer expectations with these technologies are really challenging because of inherent ambiguity in a system, people kind of want perfection. And there are always corner cases where it would seem like things should be say, but they're not - because the word you're saying is common, and you'r saying it 'perfectly clear' ... but little do you know there are 2 or 3 other very rare words that sound 'just like that' ergo ... problems.

From a product perspective, it basically always feels 'broken' which is such a terrible feeling :).

But it can be fun if you like really hard product challenges which have less to do with tech and more to do with pure user experience, expectations, behaviours etc.
The Greek Government would buy the debt, assuming that we're talking about bonds. That's how you run a deficit.
Previous discussion about how a short break in chip fab production has a huge impact:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17686310
> Who is this article actually helping?

Those who cannot afford iPhones and Macs?
It's false to assume AI(and just plain software) won't replace a lot of high-IQ people.

But it's understandable why people on this forum always talk about low/middle skill jobs being automated , when it's just as likely that cognitive jobs will be automated while emotional jobs will still be valuable.
I only shopped with Alexa once because there was a special deal if I did.

What I do find helpful is that Alexa notifies me when my orders are delivered. Often UPS leaves packages at the other end of my long driveway, and near-immediate notification means I go out there and get them before they get lost, stolen, covered in snow, etc.
"they will make sure this will never happen again to me or anyone"

The bit about the account data being lost? Or the bit about not being able to contact a human at google if you're not popular enough on the internet?
The 50% of people who didn't vote basically have said, we don't care to choose. So they got exactly what they voted for.
I work for a Danish city with 60.000 inhabitants, so we're a small team, and because of that we looked into flutter since it seems like an easy way to do mobile for people apt at c-like languages. We even had some internal talks about angularDart and flutter being comparable to react and reactNative.

Our proof of concept wasn't that much of a hit though. Flutter integrates really, really well with Firebase, but being the public sector in Europe, I don't see us using Google cloud anytime soon. Without it we couldn't really get a full stack dart thing running because stuff like aqueduct isn't mature enough, and is really hard to run within Azure. At least if you want to run comparable to other options seeing how application insights even works on Node.

Dart is a nice language, and Flutter is certainly an easy way to do mobile apps, but I don't see us using either, unless they becomes much more popular.
I think part of the reason the trades look attractive is because relatively few people do them. If we had labor-intensive manufacturing then we could add say 100,000 low-skill jobs, but you can't add 100,000 tradespeople as easily without crashing their wages since there's a relatively fixed quantity of trade work that needs to get done.
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> Another problem is energy density as I said. How much solar energy can you harvest from one square kilometer? I am so surprised that people just handwave this basic fundamental limits away and don't realize that we would have to build solar panels on an enormous percentage of planet for it to be able to replace fossil fuels.

What are you talking about? From Elon Musk's TED talk, this is the area of solar panels required to power all of the US.

http://sustainsubstance.org/images/storage/2015-musk-bluesqu...
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Edit: ya know people, you could respond to the specific claims instead of pressing the "I disagree" button.

I pressed the "made a reasonable argument, even if I disagree, and backed it up with some sources" button. More folks would do well to choose that one more often over other choices.
Negative numbers may be less practical in your eyes but they sound more dramatic and thus make complaining about the cold much more satisfying. ;)
Well, it means you have a higher confidence level, which is pretty much just standard induction.

I’d assume people are paying for it who want high quality research.
This story might want a caveat: "If the password doesn't change frequently."

I think most people still don't think of "Key can be brute-forced in a few days of offline processing" as "owned," necessarily.
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The article [1] seems to provide data that disagrees, that the affected escalators have higher failure rates. What do you think is the motivation for these experts providing incorrect information?

1.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-breakdown-of-B...
When did voting security advocates stop raising alarm bells exactly? I think people just stopped listening.
These kinds of "look how weird Japan is!" articles are an unintentional personal attack on an entire country. And the articles always come up more frequently in the software engineering / computer science social scene.

> Though it started slow, his website has roughly 45 ossan rentals a day now, or 10,000 encounters per year

Really? That's it? There are no statistics on the rate of occurrence of this per population, yet this researcher has taken it upon them to tell the whole world that middle-aged men are for rent in Japan.

Someone should research why Americans have an infatuation with a few cultural aspects of Japanese culture. And it's always things like "young people don't want to date!" or "you can buy hentai at vending machines". Anecdotally, some Americans fetishize these aspects of Japanese culture, and I think that skews everyone's perceptions of the country. I think some fraction of Americans want so bad for Japan to be as weird as the anime they watch.

Everyone I've met from Japan seems completely normal in relation to these articles.
There were concerns, there has been several inquiries into it, right after the vote happened. And it's been known for has long as democracy that we shouldn't mechanize voting.

That video is from 2014 well before the 2016 US election was a thing :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

edit : interesting how in the recent comments under this video there's cryptoblockchain enthusiasts who have completely missed the point about lack of trust.
It is exceedingly difficult for general consumers to figure out how to deal with hazards like asbestos and lead in home building materials. I am currently renovating our home and it turned out our floor tile had lead in it (not asbestos too thankfully). There are very few resources available and there are no clear rules on how to deal with the removal of hazardous materials. HUD, EPA, CDC, and state rules are all different.

The best option as a homeowner, legally at least, is to not test anything if you can and do whatever you want! My conspiracy theory is that the real estate industry does not want people to know more about hazardous materials because they just want people to buy more houses.
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