skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's obvious from that structure that Microsoft realizes they are part of a larger ecosystem and that they aren't a dominant channel.

> if you rely mostly on your own marketing methods, then it should get less

That's usually how it is. You rely on your own website and blog for organic results and Google or Facebook or some other channel (billboards, TV, podcasts, etc.) for paid advertising. Microsoft and other app stores don't really fit into this equation, they're only good for partnership deals and SEO is harder to do in an app store.

Microsoft is just recognizing the reality for customers and realizing that they can possibly make up for it in volume. If I'm saving 10% from this new fee structure, that's more cash that I can re-invest into advertising in outside channels.
It may help if you use a single data source. But we are using more than 2000 data sources and all they distributed/replicated in different data centres across different countries.
With simple logic: If TV is not Healthy, then Facebook is definitely worse as it mixes TV and broadcasts specifically the fake perfect life of people you know.
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Is there a real-world demand for the dictionary difference operator or is it just being proposed for completeness? I'm racking my brain to think of reasons to use it that would be more expressive than simply giving a list of keys to delete.
Back then, it was way less. Today, Google and Facebook surveil you.
With a collection gutter at the bottom, from which your yearly interest will be derived.
I made comment a little further up before I saw this, but there's lossless format that iTunes and Apple devices support called ALAC. You can convert to and from FLAC files with avconv.
Not to mention they never have to deal with the "step one" of giving them a chance. Even if they would find them indispensable if actually hired due to being a 10x performer getting in the door is a challenge when they would rather pay attention to irrelevancies of posture than actual qualifications.

That sort of talent filtering for stupid reasons is very not new - going back at the very least sexist exclusion from fields and Jewish university quota caps (as in maximum number of Jewish scholars) - let alone cases where people with massive potential never had the resources for education.
They'd never agree to delete their shadow profiles though. The thing about facebook is that they have over a billion users and information probably about another billion non-users.
I replied on another thread on this topic where the same question got raised. (TLDR: Not perfect, but definitely a magnitude better).
Your 11 tons is total US emissions (including industrial), spread out across the entire population. Of course the US emits 5x that of Brazil or Egypt, the US produces 5x the output.

Moving into micro houses isn’t going to cut it, you’d need to slash US economic activity to reduce those numbers (an entire new technology).
Bezos, Microsoft bet on a $10T energy fix for the planet
Splinter Cell also has cooldowns in some/most levels (like most stealth games), which is of course an absurd notion. A guard on a military base wouldn't back out of "DEFCON1" after two minutes just because the invader didn't show herself for that long.
Well, I think most people buying a Tesla know it's the Apple of cars. Repairs you can make to an iPhone are pretty limited too, and you certainly don't expect it to be useful in 10 years.

How else are we going to save the environment if we don't switch to cars that are as disposable as smartphones?
Considering how many successful games are released targeting a niche market, there's probably a pretty sizable niche market of 'better than average players' that some studio could take advantage of.

Market size is only half the equation, the other half is the cost to develop the feature. As methods and technology improve, the cost to make a smart AI for a complex game system should decrease. As the cost decreases, you need less of the overall gaming market to make a return. Might just be a matter of time before somebody takes a gamble on a tough AI, has a huge success, and then everyone starts to emulate it.
Money talks, if they paid him enough they could buy his loyalty

Similar parallels exist in many walks of life. Those guarding assets need incentives to be loyal

In a case of a potentially bad actor/blackest hat, you make them an offer they can’t refuse. Take lots of money and stay quiet, or we will unleash our government pit bulls.
> The phone boots into an operating system known as “Switchboard,” which has a no-nonsense black background and is intended for testing different functionalities on the phone.

I think the article confuses the meaning of "dev-fused" hardware, with what OS is actually installed on the phone. When I used to work at Apple, I always understood "dev-fused" to mean a device on which you could install unsigned builds of iOS.

Internally, Apple puts out new builds of iOS daily. The engineers building features on top of iOS need to install these builds, to do their work. A normal iPhone from a store won't take these unsigned builds, hence the need for these dev-fused devices. There are regular builds like what a customer would get, debug builds with lots of logging and debugging checks enabled, and even bare-bones builds like switchboard, for employees who are not UI-disclosed or work in factories. As someone building higher-level iOS features, all my dev-fused devices just ran a normal looking iOS, unlike what the article describes.

> Two people showed Motherboard how to get root access on the phone we used; it was a trivial process that required using the login: “root” and a default password: “alpine.”

Oh boy, that sure brings back memories!
The notion that a "backyard" mechanic cannot repair or modify a Tesla or most anything else is bullshit.

So is the notion they can.

What's truly at stake here is the right to try.
React adds one layer of indirection such that it's spitting out "a description of what to render" rather than "a string of HTML to render" directly.

That means the same code can be used both on the server and client: the description can be used to render to an HTML string, or to create and update client-side DOM nodes.

(React isn't special in this regard anymore, other modern web libraries have taken what still look like old-school templates but stopped using HTML strings as their immediate target.)
I think he's just saying that folks in developing countries get more value of the service (developed countries have much more competition), not that they benefit from tracking more.
Good luck Snigdha - I sincerely hope you are successful with this.

However, I feel more and more now, as Pakistani, the term 'South Asia' is coming to mean 'South Asia minus Pakistan'.

Till not too long ago, it was Indians trying their best to loop in Pakistan into any mutual association but not, it seems India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are leaving no stone unturned trying to disassociate with Pakistan (only exception is the entertainment industry where for some reason, association with Pakistan is more than welcome).

All in all, why am I telling you this? Because you can help us Pakistanis by bringing to highlight via your platform that Pakistan's 'positive' role in South Asia is beyond just music, sufis and food -- we also have worthy Pakistani-origin Business folks, scientists and academics.

Thank you.
Perhaps even that they believe that they have nothing to hide is, itself, a result of a disinformation campaign.
You make a good point and I edited my comment. Thanks.
It's about as far right as the Guardian is far left.
This likely comes with a monthly PMI payment. Correct?
iTunes doesn't support FLAC, but it does support ALAC, whose implementation is also open-source. And it has a neat feature where it can store ALAC on your computer, and automatically transcode to a (much smaller) lossy format when syncing to a mobile device.
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I'm just referring to the statement that "reality is just a complex computer". That's nonsense.
I've had decent success using Xpra.
Are you in law in enforcement by any chance?
Here is how you actually do it. Social Networking would just be sharing of keys. We need open web standards for it:

https://qbix.com/blog/2018/08/28/vision-for-a-new-truly-dece...
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To be fair, it's a nightmare looking at reports that are all clogged up with crashes and whatever from your developers making messes at their desks running non-release code.

Obviously one option is just a dev build flag in your telemetry payload, but I can see the logic in just turning it off altogether.
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This is so cool. I just tested using it with the IMAGE formula in Google Sheets and it works really well:

=IMAGE("https://quickchart.io/chart?c=" & ENCODEURL("{type:'radar',data:{labels:['January','February','March','April', 'May'], datasets:[{label:'Dogs',data:[50,60,70,180,190]},{label:'Cats',data:[100,200,300,400,500]}]}}"), 1)
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They're more than welcome to buy the air rights to the lots between them and the river.
Having a Brexit that is Brexity is entirely the point, no? What is the point of a Brexit that is a bit Brexity?
No, because people generally vastly over-estimate the value of data to advertisers.

Google and Facebook make lots of money because they have near duopoly on online advertising.

They make money by taking a cut of ad impression. Data helps in extracting as much value out of an ad impression by more precise targetting but it's not what makes that business work.

If Facebook or Google gave all that targeting data to me or their advertising clients, that would result in $0 profit and therefore it has $0 value.

Ad network is the business and tracking and demographic data helps to run that business.

Without ad network, all that data is worthless.

As a corollary, Facebook can over-pay a subset of their users to get strategic data. Even if they loose money it makes sense as a sort of insurance (e.g. if VPN data was deciding factor to them purchasing Instagram, it more than paid off for the life time of company).

But you can't sell such data at a price that would make it possible to buy it from people.

Not to mention that your company would be completely villified possibly to the point of attracting attention of Congress.
It's still useful for comparing the C++ parts. Could even be useful for learning how modern UWP XAML compares to classic Win32 approaches in C++.
I was a WP7&8 user as well as developer and yes the whole story left me a bitter taste, especially at the end. I had fun getting phones for free, participating at MS hackhatons, making friends and of course learning to develop mobile apps but it seems every decisions by MS during after Mango have been against the consumer. Also at the time the store took 30% as well...
The "more to it" is covered in the article.

They don't want things 'browsing the web' without you being forced to use MS Edge.
"This gets into the roots of my socialist beliefs"

Regulation is not socialism. And being in favor of regulation or socialism shouldn't mean that you are against intelligent regulations that take into account costs and benefits.
What talk is that? Last time I tried a Civ game, I was underwhelmed. That AI just isn't fun to play against, to me. And the games run too long to play against humans in a reasonable timeframe on normal settings. I'd love to play Civ with competitive AIs.
I don't think you can infer whether something is politically extreme or not off the back of piss poor planning.
If you only remember 25% of the characters, then you have to ask for 75% of the characters to generate the full hash. Asking for 75% of the characters defeats the purported reasons for partial password auth.
It took less time than I imagined to come full-circle.
I agree with the views. Also, this dovetails into how people's nationality becomes a core part of their identity and how this is used by governments to ride the "patriotism" wave — often leading to cold wars and injustice against outsiders. The present “nation-first” campaigns by govts. across the globe is a prime example.
What I understand from machine learning is that the actual learning takes a lot of compute power and learning data. So you can't have and AI that adapts during gameplay. The AI will "just know the optimal move for any given play state.
> Nobody is going to invest the resources into a real AI just for the hardest difficulty modes.

Which is really sad because "hard" difficulties in most games just mean that you have less health and NPCs do more damage or their "cheat factors" are turned to 11. They're still the same stupid NPCs as on "easy", but now they just headshot you behind cover and have zero recoil / perfect accuracy. It's technically difficult but not really fun.

One of the most obvious examples of this is GTA 5 where all NPCs are equally dumb, but "harder NPCs" just mean that they tank huge amounts of damage, while they have very little aim delay and essentially perfect accuracy. Due to various bugs in the game they'll often shoot through walls or even entire buildings: technically hard, but not fun.
You preview content on the web, then capture it locally.

It's not really 'browsing' as you give it one URL and if that URL works you 'capture' it for offline storage.
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Well, but some services composed of microservices turn into a distributed spaghetti monolith though.

They only "naturally decouple" if you draw the lines between units correctly in the first place. And if you are able to do that well, that's the most important step in making any code turn out well regardless of the size of the services and how much of the boundaries are in the same class/repo/process/service. It also correlates with the "tendency to cheat" within a single service.

There ARE real advantages to micro-services, sure. But you trade them against an ability to quickly refactor if it turns out you drew the lines completely wrong initially. Or perhaps you end up with something that becomes very complex that could in fact have been short-circuited and replaced by 5% as much code by looking at the problem from an entirely different angle -- which you never do because of the pattern that has settled in how the micro-services were divided.

(At the end of the day, the code that is simplest to maintain is the one you don't need to run..)

So I maintain that it's a trade-off.

This seems relevant: https://xkcd.com/2044/
If you want a great introduction, check out Andrew Ng's Coursera course:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

This is the same course that was originally called "ML Class" in 2011 when it was offered via Stanford (it, plus the other course called "AI Class" - helped to launch Coursera and Udacity, respectively). It uses Octave as it's development language to teach the concepts.

Octave has as it's "primitives" the concept of the Vector and Matrix; that is, it is a language designed around the concepts of linear algebra. So, you can easily set a variable to the values that make up a vector, set another to say the identity matrix, multiply them together, and it will return a matrix.

But the course is initially taught showing how to do all of this "by hand" (much like this tutorial) - using for-next loops and such; essentially rolling your own matrix calcs. Then, once you know that, you are introduced into how to use the built-in calcs provided by octave, etc.

It is really a great course, and I encourage you to try it. It opened my eyes and mind to a lot of concepts I had been trying to grasp for a while that just didn't click until I took that course in 2011.

Of course, once it did, I was like "that's it? why couldn't I see that?" - such is the nature of learning I guess!

His method of building up from the basics all the way to a neural network using Octave will be a good foundation for further learning or playing with other tools like TensorFlow; I ended up taking a couple of other later MOOCs offered by Udacity (focused mainly on self-driving vehicle concepts), and ML Class (and what I took of AI Class) really helped to prepare me.

It also showed me things I was deficient in (something I need to correct some day). But that's a different story.

Suffice to say, that course will "unveil the magic"; it was really an amazing course that I am glad I took. Oh - and to show you what you can do with what you learn in that course, a fellow student during that time ended up making this (and the course was not even finished when he did it):

https://blog.davidsingleton.org/nnrccar/

Throughout the course, the ALVINN autonomous vehicle was referenced quite often, and it inspired him to recreate it successfully in miniature. It also serves to show just how far computer technology has come - what used to take a van-load of equipment can now be played around with using a device that fits in your pocket!
You can put brickwalled audio on a vinyl record and have it play just fine if you cut it at a lower volume. This negates the reason for mastering it that way in the first place, but it's cheaper than redoing the mastering, and many people buying vinyl only do so for the image. See:

https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Myths_(Vinyl)#My...
Shouldn’t there be a ledger somewhere of transactions tied to those coins?
> Yes, real-time ray tracing, the new feature in these cards, is so bad that it's barely usable — but we're used to that, v2 will be better. I have a lot of sympathy for NVIDIA engineers trying to improve the state of the art, it's never easy.

Can you explain this more? All the tests of RTX in actual games have been very positive and showed significant improvements in visual quality.
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I don't suppose .NET support is on the horizon?
AFAIK, a 12 Mbit/s link on a USB-C connector is still called "USB 2.0 low speed". It won't surprise me if that keeps being the case even after the USB 4 standard.
The problem is that there are confounding factors.

States with regular inspections tend to have more expensive cars, higher wealth, higher traffic density and so on. Those factors are going to drive insurance rates up as well.
Lots of things can be harmful or useful based on how you use it. You can learn many useful things from the internet while there are people looking for child porn and recruiting terrorists. You can use a car to get places quicker or run people over. You can use nuclear power to generate clean electricity or make bombs.

A lot of people including me use Facebook services to stay in touch with my friends and family most of whom live thousands of miles away from me, which I find incredibly useful. People use FB groups to form a community around lesser known causes (like a rare disease or a dying language) and get in touch with people they might never have found otherwise. At the same time, Facebook can be used in harmful ways like you mentioned.

Sure, Facebook can perhaps regulate people using it's services to protect "fragile" people, but don't people deserve the freedom to do whatever they want with their time? Should we also have laws around how long you're allowed to use the internet every day because it's addicting and can be harmful?
> modern vinyl releases sound a lot better than digital

Look, I actually grew up with vinyl and 4-track tape, and audio cassettes. Unlike most folks being all trendy and hip nowadays, I've years of using that stuff.

Analog is shit. It's noisy, has a ton of distortion, and it gets shittier every time you copy it. Oh, and if you just keep it in storage, guess what, it decays just by sitting there (vinyl collects dust and scratches when used, slightly different).

In 2002 I built my DAW (digital audio workstation) and recorded my first tracks in 24 bit digital. Zero noise, zero distortion, no generation loss. It was like alien technology.

Digital is better in every way, by a wide margin. Period.

https://www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/awyy1q/this_pre...

Current mastering practices prevailing in the industry make no difference on this matter. Analog is still garbage. Find digital copies that are mastered properly and you'll be fine.
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He's right. It's possible the facebook brand may have to step into the background to do it, but this decision for tech companies is being forced by governments now.

It makes sense to take an independent stance, as arguably in most markets today, governments need the consent of facebook users more than facebook needs the consent of governments.

I have always been a facebook skeptic, but this post comes at a very crucial time for encryption policy and the role of globalized tech companies. When Barak Obama said in a speech some years ago something to the effect of how we can't have people walking around with swiss bank accounts in their pockets, as far as many countries without sophisticated interception programs are concerned, they have had to live with the equivalent for the last 10 years.

To me, Zuckerberg's post signals that large tech companies are looking at their 5-10 year horizons and placing small bets that they are going to outlast their opposition on encryption. Brexit is going to cost both the UK and Europe their negotiating leverage, and surveillance in the US won't get a popular mandate.

There are obviously immediate product and competitive needs, but I think his post was driven by macro factors like these.
Eh, half the problem is that there are far too many options to maintain

In microsofts case, this is partially self-inflicted, and cultural.
I have this kind of masochistic fantasy of rewriting Notepad directly in a modern language. No new features, an identical port in Scheme or something.
Based on what I've read, the NSA and other white-hat organizations have access to 0-days or have discovered 0-days that can crack these things but they're not released to the public or if they are, they're released years later.
I recently read 'The Idiot', translated by Ignat Avsey (I enjoyed his 'Karamazov Brothers' translation), and it contained a few similar redactions with no notes as to why. I thought it was maybe just a stylistic device.
If you had read the thing, you wouldn't be throwing useless links around. Since you do and thus obviosly didn't read it, why you even consider commenting here?
Thanks ... and sorry for the harsh words :) At least they’ve reached the right audience.

I’ll send you an email these days with a complete set of suggestions.

And keep up! It is very professional how you tackle the various feedbacks on this thread.
So they thought. Turns out it was worth nothing.
First, I don't think moving the price of an OTCBB stock counts.

Second, there is still the issue of accuracy, and that is even mentioned in the BI article. Bloomberg is not going to reward reporters for publishing bullshit, because it hurts the credibility of the terminal as a news source.

Third, while I wasn't in news while I was there I'm not aware of such a policy existing, and can't find anything more recent than that 2013 article.
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