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Ask HN: NDAs at corporate hackathons. sign or don't sign?
In Europe there are more and more corporate hackathons popping up. Many come with NDAs and require participants to sign them.

Question: do you sign them? why/why not? Is this normal? Is this common in the US?
Yeah the US does not have local loop unbundling. We need to have it, as it's maybe a good way to start fixing the problem.

It did exist in some form after the 1996 Telecommunications Act so it happened somewhat with DSL providers, but the laws were narrow, didn't address other issues that arise as a result of the law, and didn't include cable/fiber/etc
To a degree, I agree it is monkeys being given guns. Guns they can't load, don't know where the trigger is, and are pointed at blank walls. I see great hesitation from all private/corporate users to allow any access to their FR galleries or system by outsiders. Partially it is to cover that they don't know how to use it, using it "never seems to work" (because they don't bother to read the manual, view the videos, or really anything. It's shocking.)

I think we'll get regulation of gallery sharing, which will effectively halt the ability for total surveillance.

Everyone assumes this tech is much better than it actually is. For media, treating it like an end to freedom is good for their click-revenues. But in actuality, FR is a kinda weak sensor that needs to be backed with additional identifying technologies to be practical. Defeating FR is childs' play. Even the very best...
Is there any evidence this will be effective?

Critical thinking, analytical thinking and systems thinking are things that should be taught throughout school, in all classes. Those are general skills. But what exactly is media literacy?

article> More worrisome, contrary to the perception that the fake news epidemic is a conception of malicious online news-bots, there is evidence that suggests the public actually craves fake news.

Well, exactly. There are some people who have trouble figuring out what's true. But in a lot of cases false information spreads simply because people want to believe in it. This is less about critical thinking and more about underlying psychology and sociology.
While teaching media literacy sounds good in theory, in practice it may be helping to radicalize people. The problem is that while the media is often-to-usually wrong, when people try to fact check what they're reading some percentage of them end up surfacing even more dubious information and then go on to literally become nazis.

Danah Boyd gave a good talk on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7FVyQCjNg
They're obviously different things, but that's not the point I was making, now was it?

The point is, what actually delivers value is that the core functionality of whatever you're building can be smarter. The fact that it's driven by AI is irrelevant to the user -- as is the programming language that you select to build the thing, the GUI library you use, etc.
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This is the clonal evolution model of cancer, and is how many solid tumors are comprised and treated. The danger is that the selective advantage for the cancer cell is often by masking itself as a healthy cell to the immune system, which complicates treatments but this interaction can still be targeted (see PD-1).
The ethics of ads, in my opinion, is a question of whether the ends justify the means.

Persuasive ad campaigns are an attack on individual choice. The goal is to convince someone to do something: to buy, to vote, to labor, to behave, etc.

If the attack results in an individual choosing something that benefits them, it may not seem evil. However, the difficulty arises in how one gauges benefit. Can advertising bodies be trusted to or even capable of measuring the outcomes individuals' of choices? Can governments?

I will assert that only individuals can be trusted or even capable of measuring choice outcomes. (Democracy is based on this assertion, otherwise voter's choice wouldn't matter). If this assertions holds, any attack on the individual's capability of gauging choice is an attack on democracy and their liberty.

Democracy is designed to be resilient. Essentially the democratic process is a boosting method for classifying the best choices for a population. [1] (Our forefathers weren't dumb). The citizen's choices just have to be slightly better than random to collectively form a single more reliable choice. If citizens' collective choice accuracy falls below 50% the process begins to fail.

Therefore any advertisement that subverts individual, rational choice is evil.

How would one determine if an advert is subverting rational choice? I don't know, but I wouldn't mind them being purged with impunity.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosting_(machine_learning)
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The point of teaching how things should work, are "meant" to work in the ideal situation is so that when they get to practice civics they recognize those other behaviors as aberrant and bad.
I was at a pretty typical city public school ~>15 years ago. Even then we didn't really have "civics" as it were.

Interesting contrasts we have here, eh? I went to a public HS in a hyper-rural area in the deep south. Law and Government I & II were classes required by juniors and then seniors respectively.

My expectation was that city schools would definitely have these courses, it's interesting to learn in your case they didn't.
Why does your website ask to autoplay sound on firefox?
The point of this article is that it _does work_, no matter how skeptical you are.

I think that's putting it too strongly. It's more like an epidemiology problem, where we know that it is not possible for everyone to be maximally skeptical, so change from the status quo will not be achieved at the individual consumer level.

A few habitual cigarette smokers quit abruptly, with no apparent difficulty or later relapses. A few smokers never quit yet outlive their non-smoking peers. Some people try cigarettes once or twice and never develop the habit. However, despite the existence of individuals who can overcome, endure, or resist the common effects of cigarettes, epidemiological evidence shows that it takes regulation to reduce smoking and its ill effects at an aggregate population level. It's similar with advertising.

Advertising targets populations. It works on populations. It is neither necessary nor proven that it is possible to craft an advertisement so powerful that anyone who sees it will eventually buy the advertised product. Analogizing human brains to unpatched computers, rife with exploitable buffer overflows, confuses more than it clarifies. (As an example, I saw my first Coors beer ad more than 30 years ago. I have yet to buy Coors beer. I don't drink beer. Nor do I drink sodas, so no Coke or Pepsi in my house either.)
Thank you for such a detailed answer. I'm not an expert by any means, have just a random question. Is it possible to transport markers from people who have them to those who don't? I have zero clue what I'm talking about, but this is the first thought came to my mind and I was too curious not to ask.
Is this a bot?

Firstly, I'm not solving anything. I'm explaining why fallback URLs are not equivalent to CDNs.

You don't use a CDN because your site doesn't work, you use it because it's faster.

Secondly, no, doing an occasional speed test, using data you'd be downloading anyway, then selecting an endpoint between speedtests does not increase bandwidth usage by 3x.

Baffled.
QUITE INTERESTING, THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS.
Your first comment is accurate, no one uses turn signals in any of the ones I use on a daily basis either, but that doesn't make them inefficient. In fact I think it keeps everyone on the defensive, and makes them pay more attention before entering.

But as I said in an earlier comment, the reason they kind of suck in the US is we don't seem to do them right.

* A very wide circle (350ft/100m minimum) with 3 lanes

* Each entrance and exit has 2 lanes.

* The outside lane of the circle directly connects the outside entrance with the "first" exit.

* The middle lane of the circle and the inside lane of the entrance allows you to exit at ANY of the exits

* The far inside lane of the circle exits nowhere without a lane change, but allows you to bypass an exit that might be backed up due to traffic.
I guess they only care about video. But for websites multi-CDN means essentially building your own CDN where using other CDNs isn't even a good idea, since they don't provide enough granularity of control to monitor and choose nodes and therefore limit you in what you can achieve in terms of latency and availability. DNS is also your biggest and often the only friend here, learning and deploying it yourself is critical, don't rely on any vendor to do it.
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Fair enough. But you need only look to history for examples to see the ultimate outcome of populism or democracy. It leads either to tyranny or total societal collapse. So I don’t agree with the notion that everyone should vote.
Based on personal experience, I doubt $50k in credit card debt was what was planned for and probably came out of necessity to finish the thing.

Fund-raising takes a lot of mental space on its own which comes at a high premium when you're focused on finishing a product.

Even with $50k at 20%, we're talking about $833 a month in interest, that's not that much to someone who would usually make $100k+ at a job if they fail.

Opportunity cost is the real liability.
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Are you sure your interpretation is correct? You said

> if you tell dentists that they may be administering placebo analgesics to their participants, the participants report significantly higher pain during dental treatment (even though all participants got an active drug)

whereas the study seems to claim

> if you tell dentists that they may be administering an antagonist to their participants, the participants report significantly higher pain during dental treatment (even though all participants got a placebo)

The latter seems much more believable to me.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22C...

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=8UMDAAAAQBAJ&oi=...
I think that could be very beneficial. If it were a built in feature for HTTP (or more broadly level, maybe TCP/IP), it would not only save people the hassle of reinventing the wheel, it would also be easier to ensure it's on by default for all static resources and thus get benefit across the board.

Perhaps it could be done in a flexible, extensible way as well. Create a limited language (no loops or dangerous stuff) to express policy, search order, etc. And design it so the client side doesn't necessarily have carte blanche and the server side can maintain some control if necessary.
I don't drink the sugar or caloric versions, only the diet, but Diet Pepsi taste makes me almost ill. Diet Coke however is fine and I actually like it. The taste difference to me of these 2 are substantial. I don't know about the caloric versions though.
This is definitely something that I would be interested in, however it's one of my pet peeves not being able to know how much something is going to cost "after the trial".

Why waste your time trying something if it's not going to be something you can justify keeping on using.
Perhaps we could implement some kind of basic tests as a requirement for voting. Like a...literacy test...or something. /s

You are not wrong that we need to make changes to get people more engaged with government, but we also need to make it easier for everyone who wants to vote to vote. The forward march of progress in our country has been measured by the number of people who are allowed to vote. If you don't like how "ignorant people" vote, then start pushing for better public education.
Hi e :) that's awesome! Seems like things are going well!
Huge fan! Earlier versions of Designer were buggy, but it's improving. It's still not great at .ai imports though.
>while Pepsi branded ones (excluding Dr Pepper)

Dr Pepper is independent, neither a part of Pepsico or CocaCola Company. Part of their (successful) marketing campaign was making everybody believe that there are only two choices when it comes to soft drink: coke or pepsi. Dr Pepper (and other extinct brands) got left out of the public consciousness this way
"Don't violate the law over our network" is not an unreasonable expectation, and "we will shut off service to people that violate the law using our network" is not an unreasonable penalty. It's hard to imagine any business of any kind taking the position "feel free to violate the law over our network" or deciding that they just won't do anything about it if people do. Imagine a restaurant that could see you operating an illegal handgun market out of the corner booth and just decided that was fine as long as you tipped your server alright.

This is the most softball approach possible, they're giving you nine warnings before they just stop doing business with you, which is quite a bit nicer than them handing out your info specifically to enable the entertainment industry to take you to court for hundreds of thousands of dollars or reporting you to the FBI.
Ironically, Gould's thesis was that the practice of science is politically biased.
Depends on risk profile.

30 with 3 kids and no savings? Yes please, give away some of my profits so VCs can derisk the startup.

20 and living with parents? Bootstrap away, if I fail I will be fine.
I was referring to your founders previous company, not to Engineer.ai, didn't mean to imply there was a connection in the new company.
If you are fortunate enough to live somewhere with a choice of ISPs please vote with your dollars and choose an independent ISP.

Or, start your own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16160394
This might be peripheral, but I use ScreenFlow not only for screen casting, but also surprisingly robust video editing (from blank canvas).
Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of being surprised/delighted by UX?
Some web and mobile apps take UX to the next level by introducing fun and surprising elements to the experience. Things that have no functional impact but that make the product come alive and have personality.

For example Yelp's mobile app refresh: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*hAEq-oz-z4VmtUw1j6eIuA.gif
That's essentially the main idea most people come to. Using a source so you can concentrate on specific ones and not get distracted by solar, cosmic, or terrestrial neutrinos. Or you could just use terrestrial ones. But still, that detector is the hardest part to figure out.
I strongly believe that what you don't want for an AI is for it to make the same mistakes and have the same weaknesses as humans.

For instance, people will never accept that the AI of a car kills by accident, even thought human drivers kill a lot more etc. A system that makes life-or-death decisions but has no liability nor ethics is difficult to accept.

The article talks about expectations - unrealistic expectations even. People expect from AI that it makes clever decisions like humans and "no mistakes" like machines (scare quotes for bugs, failures etc.).

Now, I don't suggest that DL is useless. It is good at what it does, but contrary to what OP suggests, I don't see it as the sole or even main component of an AI system.
Okay, so is it really so difficult to contemplate even the mere possibility that there might be changes to rust that are incompatible with rust 2015, but not with rust 2018.

Because that's what you seem to claim when you're saying that Rust 2018 will be feature-frozen.

> ? isn’t sugar, and also isn’t a breaking change.

? is not a breaking change, but is a new feature. That's the whole point. (also it's syntactic sugar by any definition of that word that I'm familiar with, I'd be interested to hear what your definition is, but it's otherwise besides the point).
Thx. I looked and couldn't find it mentioned per jet.
There is economics beyond that of redhat. Open source can and does exist without profit. Lots of people donate time/energy to projects every day and by doing so create great products that do compete (linux).
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Placebo patients know that they have received a treatment, so that introduces a bias in the reporting of outcomes from the patient, even if the medics are blinded. If you believe you have been treated it is well known that patients report improvements even for illnesses that can be measured not to have improved.

The breaking of blinding and contrary measurements is enough to undermine most claims for placebo.
Multiple IPs on an A record works to some extent, most (many?) browsers will silently retry another ip from the list if some of the IPs don't accept a connection; I don't know if they'll try another IP on timeout though.

But you can't actually expect any ordering to make it through to the client. Your authoritative server may reorder the records, their recursive server may reorder the records, and the client resolution library may also reorder the records. There's actually an RFC advocating reordering records in client libraries; it's fairly misguided, but it exists in the wild. Reordering is also likely to happen in OS dns caches where those are used.
>> "Perhaps an Atheist, dogmatically demanding that we all give up faith, could see harm?"

You've confused atheist with antitheist. The former is a personal lens on the world. The latter is an ideology. I look up at the stars and see balls of incandescent gas and an indifferent cosmos, but that doesn't mean I berate the witches I know for finding significance in their alignment.
Each brush stroke would need to store some image data for this to work.

No, brush strokes would be stored as paths that simply record the input information needed to reproduce what the artist did with her mouse or stylus.

I hear you about the issue of breaking changes though. I think it takes real discipline to develop a format that's adaptable and with the capability to let you migrate files without visible changes. It would take one hell of a test suite though.
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This statement is not even close to true. At a particular point in time, different CDNs can have very different performance even for the same ISP in the same region.
In Sweden RF based movement tracking using passive equipment should be perfectly fine as surveillance laws essentially only cover audio, images, and video. As long as it doesn't identify people, and doesn't violate expectations of privacy, I don't think there are any laws that could be applied.

Fixed cameras here must be placed so that they either don't show any non private property, areas the public is expected to traffic, or that all that might be imaged has given explicit permission.

Outside of this you need a permit, which is awarded rather sparingly, and which also includes the possibility of a mandated inspection of both cameras, control room, and any recorded material.
Regardless of your goals, establishing some family traditions is a nice idea.
Such a course should include memetics and cognitive biases. I have long been pondering what a memetics course for elementary students should look like. I want to inoculate children against marketing, advertising, religion. I don't think that would be politically viable in a lot of places in the world.
What if an "out-of-this-world" thing is a part of the state? You can't observe its internal state, so you can't emulate its functioning, even if it's completely deterministic "in a different dimension". This can be literally compared to having a complex state variable and only being capable of observing its real part, or functions of it that are entirely real. (See quantum mechanics for examples of this.)
Reminds me of when Comcast throttled bittorrent across the board.
I would use the money to learn on the side, then move on to a new company (or create my own!)
What the...? I had no idea about this. I am a subscriber to Alpinist. In fact, I renewed my subscription not too long ago via one of my laptops, which is running Fedora. Thanks for a couple of great things, Marc.
I've been thinking about literacies a while ago and recently put together a proposal for a talk on just this (mostly with regards to 'fake news'):

In order for students to know who and what to trust and not trust on the internet, and develop the ability to spot fake news for themselves, it is crucial that we don't just provide them with the conventional toolkit and heuristics for spotting misleading information like paying close attention to authorship, peer-review, and something's scholarly nature, but instead grow their technical literacy to encompass a functional understanding of how content flagging, search ranking, and content recommendation work in order to h ave a more general and transferable understanding of why fake news can, in fact, be seen as real news to some.
And we should cut cursive handwriting to make room for it. No need to prepare kids for the 20th century when you can already sign documents with emoji.
attack

> take aggressive action against (a place or enemy forces) with weapons or armed force, typically in a battle or war.

>(of a person or animal) act against (someone or something) aggressively in an attempt to injure or kill.

>(of a disease, chemical substance, or insect) act harmfully on.

>criticize or oppose fiercely and publicly.

>begin to deal with (a problem or task) in a determined and vigorous way.

>make an aggressive or forceful attempt to score a goal or point, or gain or exploit an advantage in a game against an opposing team or player.

>an aggressive and violent action against a person or place.

>to set upon or work against forcefully

>to assail with unfriendly or bitter words

>a belligerent or antagonistic action

I'm unable to find a definition of "attack" that fits your use.
Why do the highs and lows of companies that died trail those of new companies by one year until about 2002, then they trailed by 3 years and more recently 2 years?
I'd go a step further and suggest that a curriculum like this should also teach responsible handling of digital content overall, use of technical devices, privacy, and some related topics, a sort of maker space in the classroom if you will.

Mobile devices seem to become the norm for young children on how to interact with software and hardware, and the locked down and consumer-oriented design leaves very little room for tinkering.
For much of the US the situation is something like this:

You have ISP #1, who have relatively modern infrastructure and bandwidth.

You may or may not have ISP #2, who have antiquated infrastructure they don't maintain that delivers bandwidth circa 2005.

You probably also have ISP #3, who use alternate delivery technologies (wimax, satellite, etc) to deliver low bandwidth at exorbitant prices.