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It's interesting, because if The Intercept is to be believed, Beaumont has basically gone rogue, carving out his own little empire, aggressively preventing other internal teams from figuring out what he's doing, and engaging in behaviour that violates internal Google rules and policies, as well as which opening Google to significant reputational risk.

I mean, I'll be the first to admit I have made mistakes in my career, but I can't recall ever making a mistake that got my boss called in to testify before Congress, or that got my company prptested by Amnesty International, or that got hundreds of my colleagues to sign a letter of protest! Managing to do all of those at once is...well, honestly it's sort of impressive, but is raises questions.

If The Intercept is just completely wrong, I'd expect to see a categorical denial; after all it would make Google look a lot better if they can convincingly demonstrate that all of this didn't actually happen. If The Intercept is right, I'd expect to see Beaumont fired; that's what happens when people violate internal rules and cause significant damage to their employer as a result.

Since we've seen neither...I guess the logical assumption is that The Intercept was right about what Beaumont was doing, but he...wasn't rogue? That official Google policy was to subvert official Google policy, and hide things from the internal teams charged with stopping that exact thing? Like...is the CEO really having meetings with the privacy team and telling them to be extra vigilant not to let product teams misuse personal data, and then later that afternoon meeting with Beaumont and telling him to be extra careful not to let the privacy team find out that he's misusing personal data to develop a product?

What a bizarre situation.
It could be worse. At least Bing is still in China, although I don't know any locals who use it.
A friend of mine had a similar issue. Drug-related. No big company would hire him. Hell, my contract with a large company said I couldn't hire him even if I wanted to.

Oddly enough, the way he got around it was to start his own consulting company and hide behind it. Nobody would hire him as an "employee" but they would hire his company without asking about his personal history. Seems like a big loophole but it worked.
That quote echoes Steve Jobs’s comments about tools augmenting human capabilities.

https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/12/21/steve-jobs-bicycle-...
Sure, but not on purpose or because of malintent!

I looked through the bulletpoints and all the ones I read are simple operational mistakes they made which they apologized for.

None of this justifies the current media outcry!
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Looks cool. I did something similar 2 years ago in a job, and found it super helpful. My favorite feature was that I added an autocompletion/intellisense engine to the editor window in the browser, and then could start creating requests by just ctrl+space-ing. This worked by parsing all input in a failure tolerant fashion, determining at which field the cursor is, and loading possible matches from the interface definition.

It's pretty cool to interact with an unknown server API in the same fashion than with an unknown library in an IDE.

What I also added was the ability to export requests that one created in the GUI (e.g. as a cURL command including parameters). That made it pretty ease to create requests in the GUI, and then persist and reuse them in other ways.
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Being able to focus for extended periods is critical to doing great work. Are there any practical tips / habits that work for you to create pockets of focus time?

Cal Newport's book "Deep work" dives into the importance of blocks of focus time: http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/
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70+ points
But 538 was giving predictions for different events each day in the moving "now cast" so there was no arbitrage.
/sarcasm

Maybe not true here, but far common than people care to admit.
Simulation has a number meanings, depending on the field. I tend to loosely think of a simulation as a model with an acceptable level of error, but I am not a mathmatician.
The rights to the book Million Dollar Whale, which describes this story, has already been picked up.
The article seems like an oversimplification of the underlying dispute.

- It’s not necessary or even useful to define an arbitrary “decision boundary” unless you actually have to make a decision. From a Bayesian perspective, a probability stands for itself: 100% means the event is certain to occur, 50% means you have no idea, and numbers in between convey varying levels of certainty. In reality, 538’s predictions are not true Bayesian probabilities because they don’t take epistemic uncertainty into account, but that’s a totally different issue.

- “Wild fluctuations in a prediction” from new information are absolutely a “normal part of forecasting” - sometimes. If I’m planning to flip two coins, the probability of getting two heads is 25%; but once I flip the first coin, the probability changes to either 50% (if I get heads) or 0% (if I get tails). In the case of Comey reopening the investigation, even if the model had included a probability of that happening, it would have been low and thus wouldn’t affect the overall forecast much. But once that low probability became a certainty, you would expect a sudden swing. The real question is whether 538’s predictions are more swingy than they logically should be (particularly earlier on), but again, that’s a different issue.
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Agree.

What Microsoft gain after Windows Phone YouTube app case? Nothing. Google successfully fucked up Microsoft.
Plus, critiacally, that signal is the result of the player messing around with the data. It might do all kinds of stupid processing. You don’t know what quality of decoder they’ve put in the player. I guess there are ways to find out so It’s not a dealbreaker but it’s just another thing that complicates stuff. But overall I’d say that finding a player with really good decoding and capturing the resulting signal is your best option for the scenario I outlined. It wouldn’t make a difference if it took 2 minutes or two hours because the window between getting a movie and mailing it back is way more than two hours.
I’ve ripped a few of my own BR discs, hasn’t been a insurmountable problem.
It occurs to me that the suggestion is actually interesting from an information theoretic standpoint. I understand that Chinese as a language is relatively "telegraphic" to start with. Is there a quantifiable difference with English writing? How much is the language and how much the writing system?
I'm sorry, but almost every peace of information about Dragonfly we have is from the intercept, which has for source people who clearly are very biased against the project. So while we can come up with dozens of rumors that shine it in a very bad light, I'm not sure how fair that is, since we're missing the other half of the story.

With enough selective "facts", I can make almost anything look bad.
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I tried using my native resolution on my MBP Retina and then taking a photo and zooming in. Nope. I could only decipher the ;-)
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If you want a quick and easy way to compress the visual space taken up by text then we have several existing examples to choose from.

The most trivial is omission of vowels, instead relying on context or vowel marks (or some combination). Wrds r srprsngl lgbl wtht vwls. Anotherisomissionofspaces.

Lots of western (and other) scripts have been written these ways in the past. Neither can be said to have evolved to make text easier to write! Including the vowels is more difficult to write and both are more costly because they take up more space, which means larger tablets or more animal skin and ink required.

We settled on including vowels and word spacing to make text more legible, so I'm not sure where the author's claim about latin working the way it does to benefit writing comes from. If the OP wants to claim letters like b/d/p/q, m/n, w/v/u, etc are to the benefit of writers OK but "dotsies" is even worse in lacking distinct shapes.

Humans like symmetry and patterns so it seems far more likely some letters are variations on a pattern or mirror images because it is visually pleasing or easy to stamp new letters out of existing known shapes. If you think about it a/b/c/d/e/g/o/p/q are arguably variations on the same pattern, with g -> j, and j -> i following.
Thank you for your words. That sounds so familiar. You can’t be white because that’s the “problem”. You try to fit in and that’s another problem. On and on. And now of course as an adult you fit into nothing, because so few people get your perspective. And to make the salt in the wound even more painful, society at large seems to rather enjoy mocking whites/refusing to accept their struggle. It feels like the nation at large has joined in with the bullies of the past to keep the pain going.

But thank you. I hope your friend is finding their way in life. I hope you are having a decent time yourself.
You can get HDMI splitters on Amazon that will get rid of HDCP.
Why not consider this a bug, and patch Edge to ignore the hidden/empty div in a context in which it serves no purpose?
Or the trigger could be the inside of the bottle having been exposed to air.
Google is large enough to not be a monolith culture have you considered this
Full series here:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/where-the-r...
I’m sorry that happened. It’s horrible to be a target of the system. It’s doubly painful when no one will believe or appreciate what happened, or even flat out deny it happened. Dissonance is a hell of a drug.
Wow! Those two features will be certainly a good addition to the client! I’ll be adding them to the list
I watched Apple stock for years and it definitely went through periods where it couldn’t get a lucky break to save it’s life despite being the most profitable company.
Like I said, makemkv (which is indeed the idiomatic tool for the job) will never be a reliable way to rip any bluray. For my purposes, it was very important to be able to rip absolutely anything I came across. If you’ve got some Blu-ray’s and want to try it out then fine. It will probably work if they are older movies and were “pressed” long ago. The Blu-ray copy protection scheme also has the quality of making legitimate players obsolete if they were the source of stolen keys. So even a legitimate older player might not be able to read a new Blu-ray.
The forecast still fluctuated way too much to be correct, as can be seen in Taleb's paper, which cites the "forecast" and not the "now cast."
Being well past my likely mid-life point, and having been a user of glasses for the past 40 years, I do not appreciate the font at all.
I think the point is that Malaysia had some bad apples as well so it’s not fair to blame all of Goldman Sachs until it is known how far reaching this matter actually was.
You make it sound like you cracked the disk encryption or lifted keys off your player. Or did you just try out keys you found online?
That's exactly what existing SIEM tools like Splunk [1] have been doing for years. I've been following Chronicle since I heard about their initial project at X and I'm eager to see what their actual product is, but I'll be pretty disappointed if it's just yet another SIEM with yet another "powered by machine learning™" label slapped on.

1: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/cyber-security/advanced-persist...
Turns out you seem to not believe in your own moral values as your are ready to give them up
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You need one find one of those Firewire Sony 200 DVD changers. Used to have on hooked up to my HTPC. Just a standard DVD writer in there.

Maybe you could reach out and borrow one?

From a quick google, it's the VGP-XL1B/VGP-XL1B2/VGP-XL1B3
It's frustrating how easy it was to find criminals.

He should buy actual postage and put a credit card inside. All of a sudden, the police should be interested in felony theft / felony mail fraud.
What secret does Warren Buffett not want anyone to know?
> Practically what this means is that they do not predict a winner or looser but instead report a likelihood

Yes, this is good. It means that you can evaluate their accuracy to a greater degree than % of times correct.

> Further complicating the issue, these predictions are reported as point estimates

They've learned from this, and now show their distribution of results very clearly. However, there's nothing mathematically fraught about reporting a prediction as a point estimate.

> The problem is that models are not perfect replicas of the real world and are, as a matter of fact, always wrong in some way.

...yes? And so what? This is a fully general counterargument to all of science.

> Predictions have two types of uncertainty; aleatory and epistemic.

Don't say things like this with 100% certainty when your source itself says "the validity of this categorization is open to debate", and also when your source is Wikipedia.

> However, as you can see, there is still a noticable variation of 2–5% of actual proportion to predictions. This is a signal of un-addressed epistemic uncertainty. It also means you cannot take one of these forecast probabilities at face value.

Models aren't perfect. Also, 538 is very careful to address their epistemic uncertainty! They also try very hard to not change their models significantly after they publish them, in order to avoid letting their personal biases tinker with the results.

This post goes out of it's way a to avoid mentioning that there are pretty well established ways of measuring the accuracy of predictions, instead using things like "look, it's not quite a line" and "look, the line went up and down before the election".

If you're interested in actually reading about this from a mathematical viewpoint, read Taleb's paper, which has some actually interesting thoughts on why 538's algorithms are too eager, or read Madeka's paper, which includes comparisons of 538 to other people trying to make predictions, and finds that actually, they were better than most other news sources.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.06351.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.02664.pdf
Maybe I'm lacking in morality but I don't understand how serving censored content to people that already live in a society where the content is censored is considered evil.
Author does informative critique of 538. I'm not sure at all that it has anything to do with Silver vs Taleb twitter war though. It's more like premise for expressing author's own thoughts.

However I totally dig what 538 does and appreciate their analysis. I understand that there is a complex underlying model with many parameters taken subjectively. The results of Monte Carlo runs of this model are very interesting to me. The fact that they describe distribution of outcomes and not just a single number is important property of a Monte Carlo model and I would have an issue if that wouldn't provide that info. If I would like to analyze complex event that has lots of moving parts and uncertainties I would also build a model to see what kind of distribution I would get. The fact that somebody published results of their model is quite useful.

The analogy would be European and American weather models - no one say that their results are exact and everybody understand that uncertainty in result comes from inherent uncertainty of initial state as well as shortcuts and approximations each of the model takes. No one says that the results of these models are useless because of that. And everybody finds it valuable if weather forecast predicts rain tomorrow with 40% chance. So I don't see how political prediction is only valuable (by the words of the author) if it comes without probabilities attached to it.
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Agreed. It's easy to be held hostage when you can't ask around to verify what you're hearing. Someone taking this endeavor seriously should work on learning Chinese, or just charge more and manufacture stateside.
I see bandcamp as a store where the fees for the artists are straightforward, the barrier of entry is low, the artists can set the price themselves and the user has format options. I didn't even know it had any real social features.

So to me, the headline chosen here is very misleading.
I'm impressed, If you remove the Kanji from Japanese, my reading speed goes down significantly.

Though, as a native English speaker of course my English (alphabet) reading speed is faster than my Japanese (Hiragana/Katana) speed.

What I do find very interesting though is that given I know all/most of the words in a Chinese dialogue, I have noticed that my Chinese reading speed is close to on-par with my English reading speed. I find Chinese very efficient to read/parse. I think there are many factors that contribute to this such as well defined word roots, similar sized characters, relatively small number of radicals (larger than alphabet of course), very simple/clean grammar.
The more I study, learn, and use Chinese, I really wish Chinese was the international language. It's power and elegance always amazes me. Even more so as I get further into Chinese literature, poetry, culture, humor, etc.

I've studied Japanese/Chinese both for a long time (10-15 years). Nowadays, I use Chinese everyday as that's the language my wife and I use.

As a pure alphabet goes, I really like the Korean implementation. I was able to mostly learn and retain it with only 1-2 hours of study.
Post a link. I'm interested to see how well it worked.
Doesn't Pittsburgh have a google brain office? It's coming, and the only "big break" will be for the people that already own property.
What do you want them to do without people? Spend money on what? Raw materials? They need people to develop IP. And they need somewhere to put those people.
The truly cheap shot here is lumping me in with the utterly unrelated case of Jake Appelbaum, who has had many accusations against him, while I have had zero. False equivalence piled on false claims looks like malice, so no point in arguing.
Kenji Alt has gone into some depth on the tradeoffs between reverse-sear and circulators. There isn't much downside to reverse-sear; you get superior browning (the same quality browning on a circulated steak will give you a grey band), and basically just trade off not having to keep track of time.
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This is an intellectually confused post. It is so unclear and muddled that only a charitable reader would suppose the author understands the mathematical and modeling issues here. I’m surprised the author published it in this form - you don’t want to jump into a controversy like this with such an unclear discussion.

As just one example, the whole digression on a “decision boundary” is conceptually mistaken. Once you report a posterior probability, it’s up to the user to establish a simple real number threshold for placing a bet (if we’re talking about means to put skin in the game). The posterior you just learned holds all information, your only action is to threshold it. That’s the Neyman-Pearson lemma.

If you allow generalizations to interval-valued probability, which might be sensible under these conditions, the situation gets more complicated. But the writer of the post did not mention this.

Another place this came out is his initial discussion of aleatory vs. epistemic uncertainty — this can be done clearly, but here we read:

> Aleatory uncertainty is concerned with the fundamental system (probability of rolling a six on a standard die). Epistemic uncertainty is concerned with the uncertainty of the system (how many sides does a die have? And what is the probability of rolling a six?).

This is just not helpful. He has said “probability of rolling a six” twice.

Source: do UQ in day job.
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I love the ES6 book, crisp and clear

The ui seems considered and polished, works good on mobile for me
I’d use gddrescue - it logs what it’s successfully read, so you can try multiple drives. And there should be some way of reading the dvd / volume title from a script.
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I think insults definitely have utility. They're persuasive tools that cut through cruft...but they're also opinions. It's not a "fact" that someone is being cowardly, for example...that's just an observational opinion. From a certain point of view, someone can seem like a coward and from another point of view they can seem heroic. These are perceptual things...so they're not facts.
More accurate headline -- Amazon, which represents nearly half of all online sales, is being boycotted by two individuals, Steven Shamrock and Laura Klein.

I realize that's not as catchy, and I know there are many on HN who are fed up with Amazon for a number of reasons (especially counterfeit electronics), but damn this article is deceptive and thin.
nice post from 2012, Ron also has a followup on his site. Reality is too offensive for the modern HN crowd though, it's been getting worse and worse here.
It’s not like Musk hasn’t openly stated that the whole purpose of SpaceX is Martian colonisation.

What do they think The Boring Company is really for? And Tesla, and Solar City for that matter.

Perhaps if they aren’t smart enough to connect the dots they aren’t smart enough to be investing in high risk private companies.
Too bad for me. I want use Google search in China,even it is not prefect.
I sincerely think that the spreadsheet is among the most ingenious pieces of software ever developed.

I am just old enough to remember VisiCalc (and clearly remember when Lotus 1-2-3 was new). I remember being impressed by lots of things back then (the word processor, the very first PC flight simulator, text adventures, very early GUIs). But as amazing as all of that was, I really feel like the spreadsheet required more lateral thinking than most of these other things.

Old ledger books were clearly part of the inspiration, but just today I was wondering if computer organization itself had inspired the idea. With high-level languages, you don't get as much of a sense of computing being all about arranging things on a kind of grid. Store this here, store that there, now combine those those things and put them over here . . . The spreadsheet abstracted that not just into a more convenient set of high-level operations, but into a real UI that people could understand. From a design standpoint, it was really a massive quantum leap.

Once in a while someone dreams up something really clever to do with a computer. That was definitely one of those moments.
Qt license is USD 5500 per user per year. For Sketch developer, this should not be an issue. But for some developers who bootstrap the cross-platform application, this might be an issue.

Also, C++ programmer is more expensive.

The cheaper option would be JavaFX. IntelliJ IDEA is one of good cross-platform application examples.
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