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Lennart Augustsson implemented a JIT for BASIC as an EDSL in Haskell using LLVM.

A blog post he wrote about it: http://augustss.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-basic-not-that-any...

The JIT itself: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/BASIC
Yeah, duh. None of that happens if you turn off Location on your phone. This is all made abundantly clear in the UI and explained with dialogs and warnings.

At what point does this sort of clickbait get dismissed? What's the next headline? GOOGLE STORES YOUR ENTIRE ADDRESS BOOK ?
Do you also show them the part where it says "Significant Locations are encrypted and cannot be read by Apple"? They're local to the device, not sent back to them.
Yes, Hacker News comments should be reserved for vague libertarianism and blockchain hype.
Cool site! I was secretly using this for like a month.. shhh. I noticed how poorly certain coins were doing with development so I got out of those positions and I am very thankful as those coins dropped in value by more than 60%! I may be using it in a weird way but I really have been looking for something like this that will help give me an edge over other without having to search everything myself. Good job with this wonderful site and looking forward to more scoring categories :)
This is absurd. Does Walgreens "cause death" every time someone ODs on Tylenol? Or your local Ford dealer when someone gets in a car accident? Smoking killed 6.6X the number of people drugs did in 2017—do you think we should start arresting everyone who owns a 7/11?
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In Montreal I see a lot of junior developers making quite a bit more money than they would in other companies. I don't know any senior developers in the field though.
Some people do not want to integrate.

I am one of those who will never work for the gov, regardless of the amount of money or consequences, or for companies like google and facebook.

It has caused problem in a previous job, where I just refused to work on something.

Do you think a belief shared by a tiny minority of the population, and that costs you a job, is a mental illness?

Is it a mental illness to fear big brother? Maybe. I could also say I have my preferences.
> An exception to the rule that GPUs require a host is the NVidia Jetson, but this is not a high-end GPU

Well, the host is just on the same die, but it's still there
What is clear to you may not be clear to everyone. It wasn't clear to me, for example, and I understand this stuff much better than the average person.
Huh? The customer ('banks') asked and paid for this functionality. Not the other way around.

You make it sound like software engineers lobbied Bank CTOs to install this under duress
What does the author mean by preferences? The use of the word, to me, would seem to imply that people with depression prefer to feel numb and lose interest in their hobbies; people with OCD prefer to wash their hands until they bleed; etc. I can definitely understand preferences playing a role in some things, like culture bound syndromes, but to say that someone with schizophrenia prefers to hallucinate malicious voices seems bizarre.
I think what causes most people to stumble when learning Turkish is vocabulary - with romance languages and to some extent germanic ones, you can get away with a lot just because of similar word roots. With Turkish, a lot of people have to contend with entirely new words for pretty much everything. The rest is easy.
The second feature you have to disable to limit this tracking is Web And App Activity. This is a bundled feature which means you can't choose the utterly reasonable status "improve my search suggestions but don't use my location". More importantly, the Google Privacy Checkup where you find this setting offers no hint that it involves location monitoring. Here's the text:

"Google is saving your searches and other Google activity. Google is also saving activity such as which apps you use, your Chrome history, and which sites you visit on the web."

I don't see why a reasonable reader would interpret that as building extensive location history. (Well, excluding "because they don't trust Google", which is kind of the point.)
if we follow that standard, bitcoin will be making frontpage every other day
As much as everyone likes to shit on crypto, this is exactly what public programmable blockchains will be used for.
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Keep in mind that among DEFCON attendees there are a lot of paranoids.

I was present, saw a lot of what happened, talked to a lot of Goons about it and there was a lot of misinformation and exaggeration floating around.

Some of the highest profile comments on twitter about this are people acting like they were specifically targeted, which is almost surely not the case. Some of them, for some reason, felt very unsafe. This is also likely untrue. A luxury hotel/resort in a purely-tourism city is one of the safest places you can be, despite recent events.
that's what public gardens should be for :)
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Good. Serves them right for making the layman more likely to associate "crpyto" with get-rich-quick schemes rather than important privacy-protecting technology.
On submission of my email it redirected me to an error page. Can't remember what it said, only that it was an unstyled html page with one line of error text. Just tried again and works now.
Bundling a physical good with a digital one has been done before, so if I understand correctly the only problem here is that the usage of a t-shirt is purely to circumvent the ban from the bank (due to high chargeback rate)...

In that case, and theoretically, bundling the physical good with a digital access right from the start would be perfectly legal right?

It would still be a dodgy way to reduce chargebacks, but assuming no bank ban occurs, it shouldn't be a breach of contract.
Does your standard library have persistent functional thread safe radix trees? Because mine didn't so we had to write it.
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I deal with it mostly by asking myself what "privacy" I'm really concerned about. Let's see... I don't want anyone actually stealing my money. I don't want sensitive security information that can be used to steal my money (ie passwords) falling into unauthorized hands.

But my personal history? My photos? Words I've written? Oh well. If someone wants that stuff, they can probably get it. And the gaping maw of robotic commerce doesn't actually care about me personally, it only cares what it can sell me.

I'm not worried about the police or some authoritarian tyranny on a personal level, on the level where what I say on the internet matters. I worry about it in an impersonal way. When the robot overlords are rounding up the granola-munching people of south Minneapolis for extermination, they won't be checking our internet history first.
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>Imagine the leading social network weren't facebook but vkontakte or weibo and they imposed their own standards on billions of people communicating with each other.

But the difference is that in this case it's "white" and Jewish American Democratic party partisans from Silicon Valley and California.

If it were, say, "white" Christian conservative Republicans from the Southeast of the USA, that would be a problem.

But partisan "liberal" Democrats are, by definition, not "authoritarian" and anyone who opposes them are "fascists."

So, it's ok; in fact, even objecting makes you suspiciously "fascist."
It's a signal. False positives need to be handled in some way. For captcha, they give you a captcha. For payments type stuff it's likely just one of hundreds of signals you can use to build a score that can raise a manual review above a certain threshold.

There is a company or two in this space that do an OK job of it.
What are you talking about? The regulations are real, even if I don't fully understand how exactly the work.

Just because the current 'compliance car' and the Bolt are not the same does not mean its not for many of the same reasons.

They did built the Bolt to be able to comply with regulation EVEN while the Bolt itself is losing money per car.
Both are transactions where resources
are being traded for "goods".

When people own a rack of DVDs, film industry revenue rises when more good films are released, and falls when fewer good films are released - it's not a fixed-sum competition.

When people own a netflix subscription the industry is in a fixed-sum competition. The industry makes $X per subscriber per month, whether the average movie is Citizen Kane or The Emoji Movie.
This whole story is about the name "Location History" aka timeline being confusing as people think it means a location tracking privacy setting while it's actually a Google product name. Can we rename it to "Location History product poorly named"?
Banks have been reocrding you non-stop to use for "voiceprint," under the existing disclaimer and guise of "training purposes," also highly invasive.
MapReduce is filled with algorithms. The core system is basically a merge sort engine (the shuffler). In fact, if you ever wondered about the question "sort 2M integers in 1M RAM", well, that was Jeff asking people if they could understand that shuffle was out-of-core.

Another example is lexicographic range sharding, which uses reservoir sampling to compute optimal tablet key split points by doing a constant-space-and-time heuristic sampling over the keyspace.

I used to think MR was just brute force, but it has many levels of algorithms. Probably too many- at some point it because hard to analyze how the system worked because of the various kinds of hedging and recovery strategies.
I stay sane by believing that as long as I stay active in the tech industry and do my best to constantly push to make things a little better, then I’m doing net good. The worst thing we can do is throw up our hands and admit defeat.

I try not to think about all those engineers out there on the other side, acting in opposition to user privacy, happily writing all this monitoring, tracking, fingerprinting, and profiling software. Many are probably readers here. I hope the paycheck is worth it.
Maybe it'll be for the better, who knows. Languages evolve. I am curious how our pronunciation will sound to generations 100, 200, 500 years ahead.
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Turkey has always been the bridge to the Middle East. I think it would be a big loss to lose that.
The whole thing reminds me of a discussion I had around agile development and then the Cynefin framework came up [1]. At first I was skeptical but over time I realized the value of it.

Anyways, I have the feeling Erdogan thinks that the whole “economy thing” is at most complicated not complex and treats it like that. Good luck with that approach.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework
Plenty of people think investing in dollars is a good idea. Those people generally currently have a currency that is inflating faster than usd
Must be very old, DenseNet-BC is nowhere mentioned...
I don't think the evidence for foam rolling or massage is good for long-term benefits. It feels good and people like it, but I don't think it's associated with long-term relief.
For most of history, once you reached puberty you had a good chance to reach your 60s or 70s. Of course this presupposes no wars or colonization or industrialization or capitalism, all things that are terrible for your health. But life wasn’t as short, deadly and horrible as the stereotype goes.
>And what happens in that 15 minutes?

They can beat off to a free site I guess. Nobody's in that much of a rush. In fact, most pay sites take a few minutes after a CC transaction is made because as the article suggests, their transaction passes through a number of middlemen. Most customers are in fact surprised when they can access a pay site immediately after closing the payment window. Most are happy to wait a few minutes for the email containing their password.

>You do realize the issue is that neither side of a payment fully trusts the other, right?

There are many reputable porn sites and many review websites and communities that support their reputation. The customer cannot be trusted by the website at all, but it is the norm, not the exception for the customer to trust the website.

>Bitcoin is not anonymous

Yes, but for this discussion, it is completely anonymous. Your wife cannot figure out the owner of the porn site's wallet ID. For all she knows, it's a pizza parlor.

>And you are ignoring that crypto is incredibly volatile

You're missing the point. In the day between when the Bitcoin arrives in someone's Coinbase account and when they purchase the subscription, the value is going to change less than 1%. At the end of the day, it's a USD -> USD transfer, just with much much lower overhead than 30-60% as described in the article.
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Defcon used to be better than defcon. It's just what happens to communities sometimes, especially the ones with too much freedom and money.
For anyone looking to get started, I'd strongly recommend getting a trainer over a book. Chances are, especially if you've never done any sort of training, you have no idea how to properly do the basic movements like squats and presses and deadlifts. Especially deadlifts if you're doing this because you have back pain.
Risk analysis at a large firm. I get to see the same slice of (almost) every nation-wide project, on a breadth I would not have imagined.
My impression after reading Graeber's book was that he was probably right in questioning the simple story of a barter economy transitioning into a money economy. But he's way too simplistic in his own narrative. It is hard for me to see how people could start denominating debt in terms of money without at least some limited sense of using money to replace barter.

He also seems to think that this is the foundation of all economic thought and thus he suggests that all of economics is wrong because they have assumed an incorrect origin of money. (I exaggerate, but not by much).
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The easy way around this as a scammer is to have the reference material visible beside the screen. I suspect it's another layer to augment existing verification checks. I do wonder about the false negative rate.
Total 100% nonsense.

Apple's not going to violate the trust of all of its users by iteratively guessing each user's passcodes. Don't be silly.

Apple can't read your data even if they want to and the device itself is programmatically locked after a set number of attempts and wipes itself after several more. Stop spreading FUD.
I applied to this company a year ago. I completed the assignment which took a lot of time, and gave 2 interviews but this sh*t company never responded me back. Please avoid applying at such company who does not care about your time and effort.
The internet, which in many places is supported by government, seems like the approximate digital parallel of a park. What you choose to do at the park is up to you.
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How does an investor invest if he doesn't speculate?
Which government? Worldwide like UN or country level like Peru or some regional / city wide network?

It is probably the one thing no one asked for but could be done. Would probably make more sense in areas with limited freedom as a means to control society.

A non profit would make more sense as they can be seen in a more neutral light.
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It has all been predicted, and when you throw hordes of PhD's at the problem, solutions will come. I think we should heed the more serious warnings about AI too and not be so cavalier.
Why not name the country?
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I can guess why he chose what he did. Ubuntu is still pretty much "the lead" distro for your average Linux Desktop user. Antergos and Tumbleweed are both Rolling distros and likely to be "bleeding edge" as far as any kernel changes, making them more likely to work with the recent AMD hardware.

Clear Linux is the oddball out. Larabel uses it alot in his performance testing articles. The distro is maintained by Intel and they do some specific performance tuning to the kernel to work better with their chips. As a result, it usually edges out in performance on some tests[0]. That's probably why he included it.

[0]https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-li...
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It also seems to me that people are quick to conflate censorship by Facebook with censorship by a state.

It would be a cleaner argument if Facebook merely viewed itself as a platform and a government found the need to restrict it within their boundaries, but Facebook has it's own rather mysterious law that it applies in an arbitrary fashion.
Youtube has content-id which these other sites have no equivalent to.
Ask HN: Who should we hire?
My SaaS business is growing and focus has become a problem. It’s me and a co-founder and we’ve decided to make our first hire.

We posted a Head of Customer Success position and have received over 700 applicants, but only a few stand out.

After reviewing all the applications we’ve somewhat pivoted our thinking. We’re now feeling we need more of a generalist rather than a specialist. Someone that can help in other parts of the business.

Our main need is with customer support. But, there's not enough volume to warrant a full-time dedicated person. Both me and my co-founder do it now, and would likely continue to do so in some capacity.

I’m curious if anyone has run into this dilemma. Who was your first hire?
So +0K is the lowest low, and -0K is the highest high.
I completely agree its exhausting and I think that's by design.

And even given the measures you outlined, if your friend uses FB,Google services you will be exposed to those services via their address book being hoovered up, their photo tagging, their WIFI etc.

I think legislation and regulation is the only thing that's going to provide any meaningful recourse.
I'd be curious what the pipeline of candidates looks like at these top places. You're probably correct that they are being overly critical and rejecting plausible candidates. They may be overestimating their needs, but they are also probably inundated with overconfident chumps.
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How do you spend a free time? How do you refresh your head?
Thst was before the election June election though, done by the central bank. After the election Erdogan took control of the central bank and appointed his son in law to be treasury and finance minister.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-10/erdogan-g...
Could you set up accounts for those clients, send the credentials to the people you demo'd to, and see if they start using the product? After they've used it for 2 weeks, call them again.
I just punched .95^10 (.59) and .95^6 (.73) into Google. I mean they're made up numbers, the point I was trying to get at was that you can do fairly well on these things but you just need to fail one question to fail in total.

But if you do even two interviews your chance at getting one offer jumps to 1-.4^2 thru 1-.3^2 (84-91%).

(Am I out of practice? Did I do that wrong?) -- I tapped out painful on my phone.
just use AT&T, that way only the US gov will be spying on u
> Wall Street wants to trust it's money to miners in China?

No, but it will happily take a commission selling you a Bitcoin or Bitcoin derivative.
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They do it for two reasons:

1. Outrage sells, so they like to cause outrage.

2. Their business model was invalidated by technology 20 years ago and they're still fighting to stay relevant.

If you want to see how they really feel about privacy, just visit their site with an ad blocker and see how many trackers get blocked.
No company that accepts Bitcoin I'm aware of holds cryptocurrency for more than a day. Even my own company cashes out in a matter of hours via BitPay. Of course, they would exchange every day to their USD bank account. This is completely automated at such companies.

See the article for what I mean by middlemen. Stripe/Paypal are not middlemen for adult entertainment companies.
I don't necessarily think so. Why does Linux work better?
Does Linux do some magic stuff? Or is there some bug in the Windows Kernel/Scheduler? If so, then it's not AMD to blame.
All the other answers are great, but I think they're missing the biggest and most important reason: a social network run by any government entity would only run on Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 2, would store your password in plain text, and would run on 15-year-old un-patched IIS on a few Windows XP servers stored in the basement of city hall. And it would probably all be built on top of a deprecated social media Wordpress plugin.
That a rather valid point. In theory the card companies would turn around an say: "No, you where not hacked. 3D Secure is completely safe", but do they really want to bother with that kind of publicity? Most likely not.
What two issues (of the 200 you mentioned) do you expect his council to argue? Why do you anticipate he will win?
Unfortunately, this simplistic behavior modeling ends up being incompatible with autofill and password managers.
> Every demo the clients were blown away because how many problems my software solves for them and saves them thousands. However, no one signed a contract yet every follow up they say next month.

I have no idea whether to tell you to give up or keep going.

If they were really blown away then maybe your product is good and you should keep going. But it sounds like if you want to keep going, you need more leads and more demos. I have zero experience in sales/marketing but I suspect you should be extremely pessimistic and assume some terribly low conversion rate. "Enterprise" sounds like larger businesses? Breaking into this market should be difficult. When I worked for a Fortune 500 company they were extremely reluctant to use any smaller companies as suppliers.

Also, success in career and business is often determined as much by connections/who you know as product/what you know.

Lots of guerilla marketing tactics out there, I'd bet. Start a blog about development challenges or sales challenges, speaking at meetups/conferences, talk to local chamber of commerce about local businesses that could benefit from enterprise SaaS (or offer to speak about your challenges, since you're a local business).
That's great but requires the people I send the link to to a) install Firefox b) install the extension.

I'd prefer something that I can install on my phone browser to redirect me automatically to the non-AMP version, I'll do some digging.
Here's my real question: How often do you solve those kind of whiteboard problems in your daily work? Obviously, you'd never be forced to solve them in 45 minutes while being judged, but how often are you actually solving computer sciency kind of problems in general as opposed to solving more software engineering type of problems?
How about testing on Windows Server? Still the same issues?
Yes, we have a low senior count and are always on the lookout for more.
One interesting use case for FPGAs is where hardware qualification is very expensive, for instance for use in space. If a given FPGA is already space qualified, you just need to load new code onto it and you can skip the expensive qualification step for your new application. You can also consolidate functionality of multiple chips into that one qualified FPGA.