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"Datapoly"

For me, the reason they have such power in the marketplace is because they have the historical data on all these users. "Lock-in" can be overcome. Technical capabilities can be bettered by other companies, but when it comes to training sets, it's hard to start late...
Jaguar Land Rover engineering employees do work on the manufacturing line for this reason.
Top 20 AI Influencers to follow in 2018
And the attacks on George Soros?
8% on an 8 year coupon for $1.5B sounds like a heck of a deal for a growth company relative to raising another round. That's just around $2.8B paid back 8 years from now. If the company modestly triples from their current value over 8 years, that's a $1.7B savings.
No you are wrong. Simply you shouldn't manage an auto manufacturer if you have never been in a car for at least a ride. Al least you should know the shape, the noise, the feeling. Otherwise you are just a puppet of the consultants. This guy is supposed to manage the networks security of the olympics! What does networks security means? Probably he thinks that we can change the locks and we are safe again? Or the passwords!! WoW like a movie!
What's the use case for an 8 exabyte virtual file system?
I think Perl and Python were only ever installed by default because there were management utilities (GUI and console) written in them, so they were prerequisites for what was considered a minimal system. RHEL has been pretty good the last few years at paring down the base minimal install to actual essentials. I view getting to the point that Python is not required for a base install an achievement.
There is more optimism about the future of Microsoft than the future of IBM. Evidence: Microsoft's stock price has nearly tripled during the last 5 years, whereas IBM's has dropped almost 40% during the same period.
Consumer grade SD cards are crap. Try some industrial grade.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16776344
$20 for one in a bundle? Why is it so expensive? I get a 4-core 1.3GHz 1GB RAM SBC I can run desktop and all the crypto in the world on, incl. shipping from China for less than the price of a single U2F knob.

I'd pay $2-3 max per piece. Especially since you need more than a few in order not to cause yourself more trouble than this is worth (to someone who already uses random unique passwords and emails for services).
>> If I had to guess, I would say genetics. I mean, its a game about spatial patterns.

What do "spatial patterns" have to do with genetics, in this context?

Anyway, judging from your comment you probably haven't heard of Judit Polgár:

Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time.[1] In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer.

Polgár was born on 23 July 1976 in Budapest, to a Hungarian Jewish family.[10] Polgár and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age.[11] "Geniuses are made, not born," was László's thesis. He and his wife Klára educated their three daughters at home, with chess as the specialist subject.[12] László also taught his three daughters the international language Esperanto. They received resistance from Hungarian authorities as home-schooling was not a "socialist" approach. They also received criticism at the time from some western commentators for depriving the sisters of a normal childhood.

Traditionally, chess had been a male-dominated activity, and women were often seen as weaker players, thus advancing the idea of a Women's World Champion.[13] However, from the beginning, László was against the idea that his daughters had to participate in female-only events. "Women are able to achieve results similar, in fields of intellectual activities, to that of men," he wrote. "Chess is a form of intellectual activity, so this applies to chess. Accordingly, we reject any kind of discrimination in this respect."[14] This put the Polgárs in conflict with the Hungarian Chess Federation of the day, whose policy was for women to play in women-only tournaments. Polgár's older sister, Susan, first fought the bureaucracy by playing in men's tournaments and refusing to play in women's tournaments. Susan Polgár, when she was a 15-year-old International Master, said in 1985 that it was due to this conflict that she had not been awarded the Grandmaster title despite having made the norm eleven times.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r

So, of three women that were purposefully trained from an early age to play chess, two became grandmasters and the other an International Master. Either genetics has nothing to do with it, or the Polgárs are a very special family, genetically speaking. Which is the most likely?
That's a great question! I didn't mean to imply that we absolutely couldn't have used symbols -- the answer is just because he was able to figure it out without them and it was less effort to try without first.

Office and Windows are different teams and units, so one dev on one team typically wouldn't have access to all of the symbol info for the codebase of the other. Setting that up takes some hoop-jumping, so he tried without and ended up figuring things out just fine over a few hours.

What I wanted to demonstrate was that in that moment all he had available was shit, and he still managed to push the castle higher.
It takes repetition: code is a liability. The less code you produce to solve your problem, the better.

OTOH there is a cycle I see everywhere, all the time:

* A first generation of anything is bare-bones, with multiple deficiencies and corners cut, with important parts held together by duct tape.

* A second generation of the same thing tries to fix everything, adds reams of missing features, and ends up being an over-complicated, bloated monster [second system].

* A third generation of the same thing builds on the knowledge gained so far, refines the ideas, throws away all the unneeded parts, and organizes the few necessary parts elegantly and reliably.

(I use indefinite articles before "first", "second", and "third", because each may take much more than one iteration.)

Your hyper-productive developers likely produce the first two varieties. This may still be very useful, if they allow the business to grow. They as well may introduce too many technical problems and operation costs, and thus be detrimental to the business, too.

[second system]: http://wiki.c2.com/?SecondSystemEffect

(Edited: typos.)
True, I would much prefer eMMC at a minimum (or a SATA connector and/or USB3 port that could boot an SSD and take advantage of its speed). I would definitely pay extra for these types of features vs. having to use SD
No. It's a tradition far older than that.
He's the left wing Koch bros.
And smokers still knowingly smoke, causing themselves and others harm. Because of this (and also arguably for revenue) the behaviour of the multinational tobacco companies is regulated by the governments in the countries they operate in.

Regarding what should be regulated, I’d say that assisting genocide should be blocked for a start.
New Pixels now have the hardware built-in so you don't need a separate Yubikey anymore.
Last time I had this happen (probably happened 50+ times in my life) it was in Miami and the guy didn't tell me till he got me to the mall, maybe a 5-10 min drive. I told him if he expected cash only he should've told me when I got in at the hotel and not after I pulled out my card. I hopped out and the guy left his car parked in the valet and started following and shouting at me that I need to pay him for his service through the mall.

No idea how strict Miami is on this stuff but I didn't really have time to dig into regulations and make phone calls 2 hours before a wedding while I've got some asshole shouting at me and being aggressive. I remember joking to myself "great, my phones dead so I can't Lyft, bet I'll have a great cab experience."

That was the last time I ever took a cab.

edit: Seems pervasive; https://www.yelp.com/biz/crown-taxi-miami
A lot of it cultural. The fitness craze (and denial of death) is strong in the USA.

Some of my geriatric relatives are ridiculously healthy, by choice. Two of them were part of this program:

"Are you Fitter than a Pensioner?" [2010]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00txmm3

In response to the obesity & diabetes epidemic, the BBC sent kids to live and train with seniors in the USA. The before and after interviews are quite telling.

Losing to seniors really changed the kid's perceptions of and expectations for aging.
Lisa Su got her BS, MS, and PhD in EE from MIT, so I'm sure she is very knowledgeable on making cpus.
He's Jewish and a billionaire.
Because he funds tons of leftist causes. Sort of like how the Koch Brothers are the left's boogeymen.
Speaking of full disclosure, are "old media" just jealous, or do "new media" not want to be scrutinized, in ways they cannot easily lead people away from, drown out with spam, or even outright delete?

> I agree but full disclosure on how they rely on Facebook may be in order.

They dislike Facebook because it cuts into our margins. That in and of itself doesn't have to make reporting inaccurate.

If anyone writes an article about cancer, should they also make known they have friends that died of cancer? Maybe cancer is getting a really bad rap because everybody who writes about it doesn't like it? Wouldn't research best be done by people who don't find it particularly horrible? And if you wanted to factual information about human traffickers, would you rather ask a detective on a task force dealing with them, a human trafficker, a victim, or a random person who has "no bias"?

It's not like the media always said/wrote mean things about Facebook and Google, is it? When I compare to techy people on the internet, it seems they came way late to all of the parties, and wrote a lot of gloating things, too.

Why the bias about when bias matters, when "old media" criticize "new media"? Wouldn't it make more sense to point out distortions or falsehoods if see any, and then say "that shows this publication/author/article is biased"?

So you want them to admit bias you assume they have. Okay, and then what? You already assume it anyway, so for you nothing would even change. What's the functionality here?

> For instance, could Facebook begin to offer these publishers and/or authors incentive to not publish these things in the future? Either with stick or carrot. Could that influence how and what they publish?

So what is any particular publication supposed to write? Can you give me a concrete example of what to add to this article so that "the reader has a fair chance to assess if the article or authors may have a bias in how they report the story"?

I mean, yes, Facebook could begin to offer things to them or others for that or other things. And yes, that could influence things. That depends on who they are, and what is offered, to do what. and anything "might" have a bias. That's just a given, I don't understand what could be added to every single article that would help here. "when we wrote X, it's actually Y in fact, but we don't like Facebook so we're not saying that"?
I believe the parent is referencing anti-semitism
Since now everyone knows this guy is not using a computer, anyone posing as him must be a fake. I think that should help.
With Ethereum, is creating an economy of scams really something positive?
Thank you so much. This comment is literally a gold mine for me.
It was an unsafe shutdown, meaning I just pulled the plug. But it was at least several seconds after saving it. I've never seen behaviour like this before.
Eight science apps that turn your phone into a laboratory
Intimate portraits that capture London at its most diverse
Really cool!!
he's rich and Jewish (yes, I'm implying antisemitism) and had a major hand in a (legal) monetary speculation that produced a currency crisis in the UK and since then conspiracy theorists of all sorts think he's the mastermind behind the world's economy and all kinds of nefarious plots.
Where is she going to be working now? Or will she spend all of her free time trying to recover from this time at Instagram. It's easy to write stories and say things like this given all the news about social media now.
That's a git clone URL, not a web-facing URL :)
Google is trying to be "the academic company". As a result, it has infiltrated and infested UC Berkeley, Stanford's main competition (Google is a Stanford company).

There is no place in the private sector for wannabe universities. We have real universities for that. Greed and knowledge do not mix.
Apparently his greatest sin is being an humanitarian?
Fast Sorting
Maybe he knows something we don't?

You know what they say, the only truly secure system is one that is powered off.
Skilled investor != Good person
Open mind, wide open throttle: We go to our first NASCAR race
I think their behavior matters more than their market share. As other commenters pointed out, defining market share of an infinite resource is not very useful.

These companies buy potential disruptors at inflated prices. Sometimes they shut the disruptor down to maintain the status quo; sometimes they guide the disruptor to create a new market. In either case, it creates a positive feedback mechanism that increases their influence and further entrenches the parent company in their customers' lives.

As a market (and governed society) we need to decide if this is something that we want or not. It may be too late for pure market pressure to stop this behavior, leaving it to regulators. Or we can decide it's acceptable and let it go for the benefit of the innovations that these companies create.

I don't know if monopoly is the right word for this, but it's something and it does matter.
I see where you're coming from. At the same time, what is the alternative? Is an employee of a company that you don't like condemned for life, forced to serve out their sentence or leave quietly?

It's reasonable for someone to join with good intentions and then later realize that something isn't working. It's also reasonable for that person to speak up once they leave; perhaps they can convince others to not make the same mistake.
Off Topic but does that mean he doesn't consume pornography at all?

Do they still even sell magazines/DVD's and stuff like that in Japan?
Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation
When I think of all the other challenges facing the world, it's hard for me to take adults lamenting something like social media seriously.

Our world is an amazing place offering an unlimited number of a hobbies / activities to engage in. People fall into and out of love with such activities all the time. People also take / leave jobs all the time.

Not a big deal.
QE2 is about as likely to start writing lurid romance novels as she is to write anything approaching that.

The Mountbatten-Windsor-Saxe-Coberg-Gotha-Hanovers have been in the royal family business for 300 years precisely because they are disinclined to have exactly that opinion.

The Price of Wales has stated that he'll stop having public opinions about health food and modern architecture when he accedes...nobody, least of all him, thinks he should have any thoughts at all about the Proper Role of the Monarch in Government, and if it should change.
It would've been perfect for what's going in recent times with Brexit and what not. It was one of the first Brit TV series I got into.
password changed!
Ha this reminds me of Flash websites from the 90s. Looks kind of cool but it's not a practical UI at all.

Much worse than a plain list in terms of usability (and thankfully most web designers seem to have learned that lesson).

Still, nice experiment.
> Linux containers, Kubernetes, artificial intelligence, blockchain...

Bingo!
Yes, in fact you'll find lots of source code out there that will write test.txt.tmp and then close and rename it to test.txt, exactly because this is an issue in all filesystems. From the sounds of it the time window during which RPi is vulnerable is longer than usual. A careful choice of filesystem journaling/integrity flags would probably help.
It's an interesting thought. Does German really have a prayer in this space? Making breakthroughs in this space isn't something just any trained student can do. The best all work for American tech companies... German co's don't believe in paying well. This can be extended to most European nations.
Instagram is the only social network I really like... but I'm worried they're starting to add too much to it.
The cost of the increased infrastructure should be charged during construction and capitalized by the owner. The on-going operational costs by the city should be covered by service rates. Property taxes should go into the general fund to support police, fire, schools
I love this. Everything I've read so far breathes this "made for devs" attitude. I hope that a few years from now in a HN thread that lists successful companies that got "launched" on HN (you know, the Dropboxes and so on), this will be among them---and that the product is still as honest and awesome as it looks right now!
Do you want him to save and pay for college himself? If so, a livable wage doesn't seem too crazy with (US) college tuition.
This is like saying you like Stalin for his pragmatic approach to population control.
If you are in a foreign country and your mobile phone was stolen...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/russia-reverts...

Granted, it's Russian and not American, but I'd be surprised if other intelligence agencies weren't taking similar measures
The Softbank investment might kill Uber, IMO.

Softbank is invested in many cab apps over the world. They already had Uber pull out of at least one country where Softbank also owned a competitors.

Softbank could benefit from being invested in Uber even if they don't make any money off their investment.
Restarting After a Fire
Personally, I find Palantir pretty scummy. I don't see how what they are doing is much different than what China is doing. It's the tech that empowers the modern day police state. They might even be using Palintir there. We can't even find out where it's deployed in the USA. This is the type of tech that we can do without, imho.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-secretive-data-...

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predict...
I'm sure it helps if Putin has a personal antipathy for Soros, but the latter has been a go-to punching bag for conspiratorially minded right wingers for decades - easily predating the modern incarnations of Russian troll farms.
Without the rule of law, you don't end up with large scale factories. Corruption is kind of a sliding scale, but factory workers take infrastructure in a way that oil does not.

That said some African countries are actually doing rather well. Botswana has seen real economic growth ranking in the top in terms of GDP PPP, just ahead of China, and that's without oil.

PS: Africa's population density is also much lower due to war and corruption. Overall, it's 1.216 billion over 11.73 million mi² vs say 1.339 billion in India in 1.269 million mi² so about 10x the population density. China at 1.386 billion over 3.705 million mi² is again 5x Africa
It's pretty neat! Here's how it works:

When you record with a single microphone, you are going to pick up a great deal of background noise. This is because the mic will pic up the person speaking AND the background noise; there's no way to differentiate the two.

With two microphones, we know the following:

1) we know where the microphones are

2) we have a general idea where the persons mouth is, because we know how they hold the phone

Based on that, we have a good idea of how long it should take for the sound to arrive, because the speed of sound is a fixed number.

The first time I ever heard a dual mic phone was when one of my coworkers made a call from the inside of our data center. Typically, he'd have to shout into the phone, because the data center was so noisy, and worst of all, the noise was completely random and broadband. But with dual mics, poof, background noise is gone. It was almost like he was speaking in a quiet room.

Amazon Alexa takes this quite a bit further, and uses something called "beamforming." What beamforming allows you to do is to determine WHERE the person is in the room, based on the arrival times of the sound. It's sort of the inverse of a dual mic setup; in a dual mic setup we can 'clean up' the signal because we know where the person speaking is. In a beamforming arrangement, we can use the arrival times to FIGURE OUT where the person is in the room.

If some security company was clever, they could probably use a beamforming microphone array to train a camera on people in the room.

And keep in mind, Alexa beamforming is two dimensional, but you could go crazy and do a 3D beamforming array if you wanted to! (Alex only knows where you are on a horizontal plane.)