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I think the biggest issue for elections is that candidates can lie to public without any consequences.
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Fair point. I suppose law does provide some pressure towards better behavior, even if it only very rarely touches the mind or the heart.

Of course, it's only a nudge towards being moral when the law itself is moral, which is obviously not always the case.
Call me old fashioned, but if you don't like the services, just stop using them.

I have a facebook account - I haven't posted there in 5-6 years. What data are they going to harvest from me that would be at all useful or relevant? I guess they can find the fake email address I signed up with 15 years ago if that's useful for them.
The EOS Elephant in the Room
It's sad that ancient civilizations knew the Earth was round, yet we still have that debate in some communities today...
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It would be nice if a language offered resource aware functions like raml.co, then destructors could be enforced as O(1), etc.
This is the kind of stuff that gives epidemiology research a bad name.

Somewhere between 1% and 22 % ( mean 11% ) increased risk of colorectal cancer in selected subpopulations.

In contrast, 50 grams of processed meat a day increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 18%.

Sounds like someone is desperate to get a publication, and managed to slip one past gullible or equally desperate editors.
Sears CEO steps in for bankruptcy financing
1. Part of the inspiration for Colorblindly came from my disappointment with the existing alternatives. I wanted to make something that took advantage of the most recent tools for web development, and more importantly, worked on any page! But kudos to the other devs working on accessibility software, not enough love in this area.

2. Stylus sounds like something to look into, it should be pretty easy to adapt for use with it. Thanks for the tip!
What are you talking about? Everyone knows corporations are owned by tiny white men wearing tuxedos and monocles.
The inside story of how the Foreign Office is failing to prepare for Brexit
Or perhaps something has gone “horribly right.” Now Lockheed gets to sell an additional 17 replacement jets. I would argue that the goal of the MIC isn’t to effectively allocate resources to defend the US (or even to expand US imperialism). It’s to make money for the MIC and keep the system going.
Cute. This was worth researching. Given Wikipedia's description of the Vedic Abhimanyu the 'Sorcerer's Apprentice' analogy may be pushing it a bit, given his status as the reincarnation of the son of moon-god Chandra. But the Sanjiva-Jataka story ends with an interesting maxim:

Befriend a villain, aid him in his need,

And, like that tiger which Sañjīva raised

To life, he straight devours you for your pains.

Which reads like an early version of the line no good deed goes unpunished :)
Facebook should be replaced by a public service providing the same functions.

User would be required to signup with their id card ; and in case they screw up, would be hold accountable. It would allow to purge the network from a lot of shady practices, from users as well as advertisers and the organisation itself.

It makes no sens a private company owns the public sphere and the public discourse.
Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work (2006) [pdf]
I know this must be obvious to everyone else, but:

No, NYTimes is not spamming HN. People are submitting stories from the NYT every day because the NYT is full of great journalism and interesting stories. I've submitted a bunch of them. Sure, it contains a lot of junk, too - doesn't make the good stuff spam.
To be fair, the IPCC reports were (I haven't read the latest one yet) broken into the Science and Political parts.

The Science part was full of error bars and "probably" and "estimated". Generally good science being done by people trying to discover the truth, though there was a noticeable hesitance about publishing any implication that the models might be wrong.

The Political part was full of certainty and unambiguous calls to action in the face of overwhelming evidence that the world was going to hell in a decade.

The media only ever reported on the Political part. The Science part was worth reading to get some perspective.
The wage gap exists outside of California, and California also happens to be the only state in which non-competes are strictly voided by the courts.

Outside the Californian bubble, they're a big problem.
Ask: As a solo developer, how can I keep focused on solving business problems?
Most times, when I'm trying to write functionality into a system, I get distracted by details of implementation which don't really matter to the end user.

I know it's a bit vague, but what are some ways to stay focused on coding valuable features to the end user. Specifically when you're working solo.
This should have (1999) in the title, which is when it was originally published.

> Over the last two decades, The Big List of RPG Plots has been cited, quoted, thanked and excerpted in articles for computer-game design, a book on Hollywood screenwriting, and more than a few pen-and-paper RPGs. I wrote it in 1993 as an article submission for Pyramid magazine (they rejected it). I later tried to shop it to Dragon and Shadis and others (they also rejected it). I became Pyramid's editor in 1998 and decided: nah, that would be lame, to finally "accept" my own rejected article, so instead, it became something I'd offer for free on my own website, the Blue Room, where it debuted in '99 and lives on to this day.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/202670/Big-List-of-RPG-...
Ancient Greeks were able to determine the diameter of the Earth just by solar and shadows observations, so determining an approximate size of the moon is not something that sounds very improbable, while certainly more difficult.
Those instances are being fixed.
The first sentence was "Increasingly, I'm of the mindset that you shouldn't create data you can't destroy;". GDPR enables destruction of that data.
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That is simple ad retargeting and has nothing to do with like buttons!

Many ad platforms offer this feature and it’s fairly simple todo from a technical stand point.

Really the technology that enables it is not even something Facebook built! It’s your freakin browser! If you don’t want to get retargeted, just start using a different one...vote with your browser folks!

I can’t believe I am saying this, but the html web browser is not the ultimate sophistication! There was a world before it and there will be a world after! And what propels this process is users voting with the choice of browser!
For a fascinating account of how the models have been written, get the "read me harry" text file from the climategate leak. It's the notes left by a programmer as he built one of the models we're talking about. Fascinating reading from a programming point of view, but also to see how it fits together with everything else.
You are not supposed to agree on a prior. That's one of the fundamental insights of the Bayesian inference framework. That different people know different things about a given situation, so they initially disagree, and therefore their priors are different. This should not be surprised. People disagree all the time, and the Bayesian framework just formalizes it.

The different people can then go on and do lots of experiments, collect lots of data and update their priors to posteriors. And the guarantee is that as long as each person's prior was not a mathematically weird function, after enough evidence has been collected all these people will have the same posterior function i.e. they will agree [1].

[1] The famous Aumann's agreement theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann%27s_agreement_theorem is a related result that you might like to read about.
I dont think "ancient civilizations" is a fair description. Some of them only, and few compared to the number of civilizations. And even in the ones where it was known, that knowledge was most probably only shared within a small group of scholars.
Nonsense. Look at the trends for enrollment in CS and engineering programs. They clearly follow monetary incentives.
What safari/Firefox block is tracking pixels that the provider of the site has setup on purpose to track his ecommerce conversion funnel!

It has nothing todo with any like buttons!
It says that we look for more in an idea than pure utility, that cleverness and beauty also count. That's a good thing.
The message "35 records processed" isn't a warning, nor should it necessarily go to stderr.
The economy as a whole is a ponzi scheme so the startup economy as a subset, certainly could be.
Doubtful, since the last plane was delivered about 6 years ago and the program has very steep startup costs.
Hmm, I think part of the question is where this debate and consensus should occur. I believe in firmly separating rigorous science from opinion and belief. To me, it follows that scientific research should focus on presenting evidence and leave it to Bayesian individuals to update their beliefs based on this evidence. Similarly I think argument or discussion about priors is not in scope for scientific research (except maybe a bit in the "motivation" subsection). (edit: I see now the top post here on this article also discusses this point.)
What a tedious and uninspired article. This topic has been done to death and the author has proposed nothing new or interesting. All we get is his boring phraseology and puerile stereotypes, and a couple boudoir photos.
No, the secret is doing what you find compelling. Sometimes that's what you enjoy but often it's difficult but worthwhile.
One possible interpretation is that someone simply decided the presentation should keep things simple and avoid confusing people by mentioning more than one brand.

This is a pretty common strategy in communication: pick one main idea you want to get across, and stick to that only. If you throw in everything that you can think of but the kitchen sink, the distraction does more harm than good.

Following that reasoning, Pixel is the brand of those specific phones, so that is the brand you mention on that occasion.
No penalty is not the same thing as a lower penalty. You don't go around saying people got a lower penalty that were never actually prosecuted for something.

You claim the parent is speculating without basis but the parent is asking for an example where a normal penalty is lower than the profit, because that is an extraordinary claim.

If hsbc was able to profit from money laundering while paying they penalty, they would still be doing it. They obviously had no moral barriers to doing it before so why would they stop?
Unclear whether you're joking. OP is charging $5/mo to those 5000 users.
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Human capital flight
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Have a customer to tell you want he wants and then make it happen and give it to him. If he is happy you're done and find someone else to sell it too and if he isn't happy you fix it. Repeat until bill gates pats you on the back. But you better hurry because he is like almost 70 years old now.
Reverse brain drain
Abacus as a bank wasn't guilty of this.

They had some brokers that they fired, before any criminal action had been filed, when a senior manager noted indiscrepancies in the closing process (like writing multiple small checks for down payments and closing costs).
Exactly. This is why (in my view) scientific research should focus on presenting evidence, not on arguing for certain posteriors or priors. The meta-science process then steers Bayesian beliefs correctly and the evidence-gathering process efficiently. (edit: I see now the top post here on this article also discusses this point.)
I'm aware, which is why I specified "primary/signup device" in my original comment.

Is the desktop client a "first class" one? Can I use it exclusively, including for initial signup?

A sibling comment implies the answer is "no", but it's ambiguous, since "linking" could just mean the SMS validation, which, IIUC, need not actually match the phone number on the device [1].

[1] presumably a tablet would work and does not necessarily even have an associated phone number, but that's still not a desktop.
> you have to admit to the possibility that it does not exist

> we are in a situation where there is no direct evidence that it exists. Therefore, it might not.

You are moving the goalposts. No one denies it is possible that none of these dark matter candidates exist.

> not finding something in an experiment _is_ evidence it does not exist

Which "experiment" are you referring to? This is only true if you would expect the experiment to detect such a thing.
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> Evidence for the superiority of guided instruction is explained in the context of our knowledge
of human cognitive architecture, expert–novice differences, and cognitive load. Although un-
guided or minimally guided instructional approaches are very popular and intuitively appeal-
ing, the point is made that these approaches ignore both the structures that constitute human
cognitive architecture and evidence from empirical studies over the past half-century that con-
sistently indicate that minimally guided instruction is less effective and less efficient than in-
structional approaches that place a strong emphasis on guidance of the student learning pro-
cess. The advantage of guidance begins to recede only when learners have sufficiently high
prior knowledge to provide “internal” guidance. Recent developments in instructional research
and instructional design models that support guidance during instruction are briefly described.
These are outliers (as unicorn companies are, in general).
Some kids with a rich parent also don't get an inheritance; the faithful butler gets everything. It's not necessarily true that there is no element of merit.

> There are few things less democratic.

Many of them are important to be that way: like who is permitted to enter your home; who gets to touch you and so on. Should that all be more democratic?

The modern sense of "democracy" refers to concepts like constitutional representation and controlled use of force.

If a mob decides that access to your pockets should be open to everyone, that is not democracy in the modern sense.
Tyler Rogoway is a well known defense journalist and has been covering this stuff for years. He's not just a blogger.
The most something follows the most intuitive way of making one thing, less arbitrarity and change for change itself, it might also be only noise, so the author can claim its a original work just because it uses a different sort of symbols. Byproduct of individuality and ego.

Most people can detect noise and arbitrarity. But if you are making something really original, giving you are being a pioneer into something, in that case you can define the direction of something, where that direction should serve as a guide to things that will follow.

I dont know about others, but my brain tend to be anti-noise (and i fell this pattern in a lot of other people too), because theres too much information for us to consume, that having to handle some people "cheating" to give a apparent originality, can make anyone who feel its the "noisy arbritrary sort of change" that is being presented, to dislike the "noise" almost immediatly.

Technology should be aiming toward zen-budism, less ego and therefore, less disonesty and less noise.
Flow-Based Deep Generative Models
Has functional tetrachromacy actually been confirmed in humans?

If the gene variant breaks the cones, then it's a disorder. If they function fine then it's not a disorder, even if they're different. Why would curing one "cure" the other?
Hi, the author of Inkdrop here.
There're already many Japanese users because I've also wrote blog posts in Japanese.
Here is a Japanese version of this article: https://blog.craftz.dog/how-ive-attracted-the-first-500-paid...

Cheers
The average age of a successful startup founder is 45: https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...
You’re right that passwords aren’t BFd often and that phishing is by far the easiest way.

Regarding other methods: passwords are however, guessed, or stolen. If a hacker can grab the app databases store of passwords, they can preform offline cracking and quickly start getting into accounts that have matching hashes to commonly used passwords. All it takes is a few accounts and you can usually pivot around from there to get some more privileged access.
Pakistan has recently planted 1 billion trees [1]. And the new government has pledged to plant 10 billion more [2]. India has had similar projects in the past few years.

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/pakistan-s-billion-tr...

[2] https://nation.com.pk/03-Sep-2018/10-billion-tree-tsunami-dr...
Can buy BTC on Bitfinex and sell on a real USD exchange. Explaining the premium.
Mahadev's result is excellent by any standard and remarkable for a graduate student. It's both impressively creative and technically novel. But quantum verification has not been solved, and the headline is wrong.

In essence, Mahadev developed a quantum verification protocol that relies on a post-quantum secure cryptosystem. She used an encryption scheme based on the the Learning With Errors (LWE) problem, which is one of the foremost intractability assumptions in post-quantum cryptography research. It's a great idea and a novel approach based on the marriage of two related fields of research.

But the jury is still out on whether or not the LWE is actually post-quantum secure (likewise with other intractability assumptions). It probably is, but there are reasonable and credible arguments against lattice-based problems generally and the LWE family of problems in particular (which is one reason proposals based on isogenies, error correcting codes, hash-based signatures and multivariate polynomials are also under active research).

Mahadev's real achievement is not solving quantum verification - but it's possible this will lead to that result. Rather as a direct result of her work we can now conclude one of the following must be true:

1. the LWE problem is not post-quantum secure, or

2. we can verify quantum computation.

That's a win-win for both the quantum computing and theoretical cryptography research communities.

I have suggested elsewhere that a logical next step in this research is to take Mahadev's framework and "port" it to another theorized post-quantum secure intractability assumption. My reading of Mahadev's paper is that her methodology is probably modular enough to support swapping out the LWE with any other family of post-quantum secure assumptions, not just lattice-based ones. She does highlight a few parameter choices taken from one of Gentry's lattice schemes for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), but I don't think that should pose a significant obstacle to changing the intractability protocol.

This would be very interesting because it might result in nontrivial changes to the speed or efficiency of the quantum verification system. Post-quantum cryptographic systems have different trade-offs depending on their underlying intractability assumptions; I'm interested in whether and how that would surface in quantum verification as well. Another very interesting route for further research is seeing where else cryptographic protocols can be used for creatively solving open problems in verification more generally. But that's already an active area of investigation.
People are not reading the cited article, which proposes lowering the cost of basic needs (such as housing) as the main solution to this problem.
> I wish ISPs provided a “pest control” button that automatically blocks this kind of vermin at the network level.

Many (most?) ISPs are in the pests group.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/03/30/fcc-p...
Young have the freedom to risk, so they do. The most fail, but some survive. Older have less freedom, so fewer risk. Not as many fail, so some survive. We observe some young and some older founders who have survived. What does it tell us? Not much.
See also The Golden Ass[1], the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Ass
I suppose you are allowed to think that, sure. On my part, I promise no black holes. Peace.
“Tallow is not a complete strong anonymity solution.

Tallow makes no attempt to anonymize the content sent through the Tor network. This content may de-anonymize you. For example, logging into GMail via Tor will de-anonymize you, since you are the only person who knows the password to your account!”
This is amazing!

I've built more than a couple of product prototypes equivalent to the size of this app and ended up with the questions "what is the USP other than cheaper pricing? what is your marketing budget?" - And was discouraged to a point where I never did launch the product to acquire paid users. And did launch it for free and has decent number of users. But it is not fun working on a product that does not pay.

This is so fresh and encouraging advice here. Even if it was paying me just half of my freelance pay for a decent period - I would call it a success.
This is an interesting perspective on running a SaaS and pricing it for slower paced growth. On the Inkdrop pricing page, it reads:

>We would like to provide good, quick and warm user support. If we got a lot of users, we won't be able to support them all.

Frankly admitting that they want to pace user growth for better quality service is both brutally honest, and enticing.

I hope more bootstrapped SaaS companies achieve this equilibrium where pricing is premium, growth is paced, and quality is high.
The Hue software philips came out with for computers is a cheap way for people to get into this if they already have a computer, bridge, and some colored lights.
https://www2.meethue.com/en-us/entertainment/hue-sync