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Privacy is about protecting a minority from exactly the kinds of group shaming you have talked about. Minorities are necessary to prevent fragile monocultures of thought. I think the majority viewpoint has enough advantages without needing busybody privileges too.
If anyone wants to read about the history of patents, I found these wiki articles pretty interesting.

Any history of patent nerds out there for a hot take on TFA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Monopolies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Patent_Statute
That’s why it needs to be the CCOR. It’s a cooperative which is perfect.
I thought I had worked at some stupid companies over the years, but as a general rule all of them knew, at least in a broad overview, how the employees felt about the place. Often they even knew what things people disliked, but they didn't want to change these things or somehow found themselves incapable of changing them.

So again, I don't think relying on companies to tell you the things they know their employees don't like about them when they are trying to get you on board will be seen as a winning strategy.
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A way to shrink deep learning models
The issue is most shovels are free and open source, so shovel makers usually end up working for the non tech saas founders.
Can you back that up? HTTPS is a requirement for doing anything securely. It seems like a lazy troll to just dismiss it with no explanation. Similarly, even a cursory amount of research into WebSockets or HTTP/2 will turn up real engineering problems which are solved by those protocols. Can you address any of them?
I'm not sure how to explain it but the most important thing I've learned in over a decade of programming experience is to not use regular expressions for many things they may seem like a regular expression problem.

For example, even something as simple a phone number can have all sorts of weird but valid variants. Be sure you really need to even validate it's format and not just that it's present.

Trying to handle all of those variants via regex expression is doable but a pain. And in practice you as the programmer should not be defining those variants that are valid as it's up to the business itself to define what type of data it considers to be valid for the field.

That said I've also worked for companies with small engineering teams where the goal has always been to be as efficient with development time as possible, as opposed to making a near ideal system. Software has different needs when it's used by a thousand people than when it's used by millions.
I have heard that argument made, but it seems to be a peculiar result of the government classifying private key encryption as a weapon to keep it secret during the cold war.

I think that the founding fathers would have believed people had a right to encryption, but that it was covered by the tenth amendment or first amendment. I believe that at least some of the founding fathers did use codes and invisible inks. I can't imagine any of them would have seen codes as weapons.
The devices just collected bread crumbs of data (for example, GPS points or 1 second samples of the vehicles speed). You need some horse power to process these into higher level objects like trips.

In theory, it could be done on a cellphone, but a ton of extra data is needed inc volumetric models of an engine (to calculate fuel usage accurately). Doing it server side makes it possible to build this in an agile method vs going to every single make/model and getting this right the first time.
Y'all have OR people for optimal bus route planning?
My Nikon D90 still has life in it after 10+ years, but I guess I will have to consider other brands once I'll be in the camera market again.
I think it is a combination of a) People think they have nothing to hide, and b) Nobody is running ads with the later.
We tackle sepsis with OpenShift across our 180ish hospitals.

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So, do the buyers and sellers actually know what they are doing?

The stock market seems to be running on emotions, more than analysis, which, it always seems to be.
thanks for the reply!

i hope this comes across as non-critical feedback, but it'd be really, really nice to put that assign endpoint in some form or fashion in the Mutation documentation. it is completely absent from there, and i don't recall seeing it in the tour of dgraph either.

furthermore, it's absent from the golang client. the documentation states:

> It’s possible to interface with Dgraph directly via gRPC or HTTP. However, if a client library exists for you language, this will be an easier option.

however it looks like i'll need an additional HTTP layer to interface with the /assign endpoint. not a huge deal, but that seems like a big functionality gap with the golang endpoint - would definitely like to see that added in there.

lastly, the /assign endpoint and the bulk loader can only be run with a DGraph Zero instance, which, as far as i can tell, which doesn't run by default with the provided docker image. that's an important detail that's not super duper obvious from the docs, until you start seeing parameters like dgraph-zero, and then realizing that it doesn't come with the quick start docker image.

again, hope this isn't taken personally. thanks for your work on the project!
> No improvements/bug fixes/etc., just a guarantee that whatever sort of phoning-home the hardware was doing before could continue after. With no new sales, so no growth to worry about, seems like it should be pretty easy to predict the total cost to run the thing for the promised duration on a cloud service like AWS.

For devices that are air-gapped the idea may be workable, but not in the form you’ve outlined for internet-connected devices. What happens when a major vulnerability is discovered? Who is liable when a vulnerable device gets exploited in a well-orchestrated breach?

Such a company would eventually be confronted with the reality of lawsuits.
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From a shareholder perspective, insurance "float" is a cheap form of leverage.

1. Take in $100 of premium, and put up $10 of your own money. Use that money to buy $110 of assets.

2. Set up $100 of reserves. Your $110 of assets is now backing $100 of reserves plus $10 of regulatory capital.

3. A year later, your assets are now worth $113, and you owe a claim of $100. Sell the assets, use $100 of proceeds to cover the cost of the claim, and keep the $13 that's left over.

Congratulations - you've earned a 30% annualized return on your $10 investment, despite the fact that you purchased assets yielding ~3% and didn't make an underwriting profit, because you were effectively able to lever up 10:1 at 0% interest.

The catch is, if claims had been ~3% higher than expected you would have broken even, and if they were ~10% higher than expected you'd have lost all your money. If you were a hedge fund instead, you wouldn't have to deal with that risk (or with any of the other aspects of running an insurance company), and you'd have much more flexibility in terms of assets. But you could only lever up maybe 3:1 instead of 10:1, and your cost of debt would be much higher.
So you're definitely right, but one of the reasons I view HN as one of the most valuable places on the internet I frequent is that it's very likely that someone from Clickz will see the comment, and I've done my part to upvote it to the top. I also think it's safe to assume that this is not the only place they'll reach out.

Maybe it's a bit of self-promotion for the hosting company but I sure don't mind if they're willing to support the Cliqz effort.
Private equity firms earn big while risking little of their own money (2017)
Remote interpreting: A technical perspective on recent experiments
It's not comparing it to 'a' week of flu, it's comparing it to the single worst week of flu in the last 7 years. I think it's one useful and relevant data point to see how Covid-19 deaths compare to flu, which of course is far from telling the whole story.

I have no idea what the world is going to do over the next 8 months, or what effect it's going to have. Do you?
If you read the end of the full statement (https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2...)

"If PIR is able to provide additional information that resolves the concerns raised by the Board, PIR remains able to re-submit or initiate a new Change of Control Request."

That's how they concluded, leaving the door open if they can manage to get past this hurdle.
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ISDN was a good boost over a 56k modem too. Not DSL speeds, but bearable. With Opera and its proxy (and its awesome cacheing options) you had a pretty smooth browsing, almost a clone of DSL speed and usability standards.
PCIe Gen 3 is becoming a real problem here. There's only so many lanes you get per socket, it's completely possible today to end up being IO bound just due to PCIe bandwidth, not network speeds or CPU processing power.

For example, this Cascade Lake Xeon has 48 lanes of PCIe gen 3: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/compare.html?pro...

If you give yourself 32 of 48 lanes for networking, that's only 256 gbits of PCIe bandwidth. So each 16x slot is limited to a 100 gbit card.

And that's a 22 core processor. With DPDK, coming up with a application that could process 200 gbit is almost trivial.
How will coronavirus change the way we live?
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Because you can come up with all sorts of rebuttals from certain individuals, like "I don't care if they invade my privacy, they are welcome to look into my bedroom all they want, there is nothing interesting there". We already see a form of that reasoning from people regarding personal data tracking, saying stuff like "i have nothing to hide".

On the other hand, you cannot come up with a similar simplistic argument when someone brings up "think of the children" without giving out some really bad soundbites of yourself. You cannot just say "well, I don't care about children, it wouldn't affect them much anyway" without being represented as a heartless moron by the opposition.

Disclaimer: this is just all for the sake of the argument. I, personally, am very strongly against this "think of the children" bs tactic and am fully in favor of E2E encryption. It is just sad that the "think of the children" argument is so effective solely due to the emotional appeal and how difficult it is to fight against that argument without coming off in poor light.
A Guide to Monads in Haskell
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The alphabet is to distinguish states. But this is the case in thermodynamic entropy as well, that each state is distinguishable. What is important is quantifying the set of possible states.
'Cliques' sounds less sleazy than 'clicks'. Cliqz somehow sounds like the website equivalent of a video porn booth, just in the search industry instead.
Comparing it to the alternative of health professionals doing contact tracing, in addition to the fact that it's vastly better at its job, it would also be a privacy-protecting system.

Say that I have close contact with a co-worker named Joe on a regular basis. I get diagnosed positive. I don't have Joe's phone (it's not all that normal to exchange personal phone numbers with co-workers). So now I'm asking sick time from my manager John and talking with someone performing contact tracing. Now this health professional has to play phone tag to get Joe's number, and John will obviously put 2-and-2 together and know what happened. So will others in the phone tag.
Tesla loses billions after Elon goes on Twitter rant, vows to become homeless
> the idea that someone with a bike == cycling enthusiast

Very common rhetorical technique. Not everyone who does this is calculating; a lot of people just parrot what they hear. But the goal of the messaging is to make marginalize, to make it sound like some tiny group whining about their hobby, which inconveniences "normal" (car driving) people.

Turn it into a game - start talking about the motorist lobby as just another special interest, compare them to some other lobby your conversationalist will find distasteful - guns, animal rights, mountaintop removal, something will push their buttons. If you do it well, the cognitive dissonance is fun to watch.

I don't ride my bike much anymore; have had repeated bad experiences with shithead motorists (live in SF) and just won't risk it anymore. But when I did, I never spent more than $100 on a bike, because it was just going to be stolen within a year.
I'm curious what this might be. I definitely like the sound of an "IDE for music composition," but your landing page gives me almost no idea at all of what it is. Screenshots or video? Or at least some description of what makes this different than all the other iOS apps that advertise "makes music easy! No experience necessary!" To me those are the biggest red flags that something is useless for actual musicians.

As a side note, I take huge issue with "Music is fundamentally unsolvable by AI". That's a ridiculous stance that sounds way too much like "humans have these soul things that are made out of magic and computers can't ever have them."
I like the sound of that. I hear the words "according to someone familiar with X" far too often. Not interested in speculation, hearsay, gossip, scapegoat to promote one's own intentions...Lazy and agenda ridden through and through.
Sign in with Apple also can generate random e-mails:

> For example, if j.appleseed@icloud.com is your Apple ID, your unique, random email address for a given app might look like dpdcnf87nu@privaterelay.appleid.com.

* https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT210425
It’s certainly a massive problem in the UK. Stealing bikes is almost decriminalized by the fact that it’s too minor a crime for the police to take seriously. And there’s a complete lack of secure bike ‘parking’ space.
Agreed: it is amazing to just have these in 3D.

However as someone who doesn't know much about ancient Egypt it would be spectacular to have some kind of annotations or guide to explain what we are seeing.
Sorry, you forgot hypocritical.
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so then, discounting making time itself a causal variable, it seems like using methods that rely on stationary distributions still treat the data, after pre-processing, as i.i.d, rather than predicting values from their correlated history.

I'm interested in methods that don't "subtract" simple "trends" and "seasonality" from the data (which may work for bog-standard templates such as sales data but not what I'm interested in), and rather responds to sequential relationships in the data itself, that exploits exactly the correlations you describe directly.
Wow, it's so tiny!
In-Person vs. Screen-Based Psychoanalysis: Telecommunication and Its Noise
In the very next week, I'll get my 30y old bike getting painted, pedals, breaks replaced and wheels polished.

My company will cover the costs. Not that I couldn't pay for it, but it's a nice gesture to motivate us to use them, just like this French deal.
> what you can tell just by looking at the data is irrelevant

Why? hosting derivative work is illegal, hosting random data (keys) isn't, the distinction between X's data and Y's data is the distinction between liable and not-liable. If you can't tell which is which, then both are innocent under reasonable doubt.

> That is true with basically any encryption scheme

What's isn't true is the ease with which the A can be generated from X given Y. In other encryption schemes, key and data are distinct components - and not just by size.
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I just use chainsaw oil.

1L for $5 and I’ll likely die before I use it up.

And an eBay sourced $3 applicator bottle. Or just re-use another oiler.
In the dawn of time when Cirque [1] launched the glidepoint - the mother of all touchpads - I used touch to click on Linux and OS/2. To give an idea of how long ago this is, the thing was connected to the PC through a 9-pin serial interface, just like the mouse which it was meant to replace. I still have the device, it still works although the plastic shell and the buttons have undergone quite a few repairs.

Touch to click is more or less as old as the idea of a touchpad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirque_Corporation
> One of the absolute biggest reasons that people aren't on their bikes is maintenance

I wish that was the case.

The reason people are not on their bikes is because the roads are scary and we don't have nearly enough dedicated bike infrastructure.

(By "we" I mean the entire world with just a handful of European exceptions.)
Subsidiary.

https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/tilia...

Tilia is to Linden Lab as AWS is to Amazon: offering the identify verification and payment/payout processing core compentencies that were built up for Second Life, to third parties as a new business line.
It's too bad we're gonna have to cancel the game because people think the game's depiction of orcs is racist. All good things come and go.
> The first ARPAnet was immediately useful to almost everyone who had access to it.

As an Ethereum user, I find Ethereum useful. Maybe my experience is not unlike that of the initial ARPAnet users?

While between jobs, I have paid my rent with a blockchain-based loan. I found Ethereum to be a much better creditor than a bank.

I've quickly and inexpensively sent money to friends in other countries.

> yet [cryptocurrency] still only has its original niches [after a decade]

On this point, you are misinformed. There are many niches, services, and new kinds of financial primitives that have emerged on Ethereum over the past few years.
That is nice to hear. When we had issues with the Human Web Proxies - and that did not happen often - you were always quick in helping out. Thanks for the great support through the years!
What an absurd implication. Just because something doesn't end up in a massive file dump on the dark web doesn't somehow mean it's not usable. Quite the opposite its actually too valuable to dump on the dark web.
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There are a lot of jobs with high salaries out there, and
most jobs have sufficient barrier to entry that you have to come to the table with something beyond "I'd like some money please".

I don't know, it just doesn't feel like there's a ton of risk of "non-profit board member" becoming the next gold-rush degree track.
> I can second The Economist. I find that they also have a pro-business/free market stance...

To put it lightly. That stance defines it:

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2019/11/how-econo...
Yeah, that's almost worse. It means Sitesauce is relying on the generosity of their vendor for their business model to work.