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This is an interesting question. Really, open source and standardization are not competitors. Ideally you'd have both at once; multiple open-source implementations of a standard specification.

That said, there are times when the business model behind an open-source project is ostensibly at odds with standardization. The situation between Docker and CoreOS' app container spec comes to mind. The Docker container spec was defined by the implementation, not the other way around, and CoreOS took that opportunity to define an actual spec (and an implementation). Heated debates erupted.

In the area of cloud orchestration which Kubernetes seems to fill, I think it's still in a "discovery" stage. Early on the Kuberbetes devs said they wanted to focus first on identifying the right abstractions. I imagine standardized specs might come out of it once things stabilize.
Not that when I wrote "less harm than most of the alternatives" I was referring to most of the alternative sources of power, not alternative storage methods.

It would still cause lots of deaths if you did that, it's just that other power generation methods causes lots of death anyway, so in comparison the storage problem for nuclear waste is not nearly as bad as it seems.
How secure are private cameras? I assume that many are IP enabled these days. And I assume that they have default passwords...
I wonder why people don't use archive.is and archive.org to archive things more.
This kind of reminds me of dojo (minus the good build system). It is very much a jack of all trades, master of none. There are too many good libraries out there to tie yourself down to one monolithic framework. Have fun building your dojo project in browserify, webpack, r.js, or any other build system. You miss out on good promise libraries, good UI libraries like React, Polymer, etc. Instead you get a promise library that is not A+ compliant, and the shit that is dijit._Widget. Don't forget you are now tied down to dojo declare's class system (which they are abandoning in dojo2).
I think the real reason is that no matter what crazy machine learning idea you want to implement, you basically just import the data and pass it to a function. Bam. You just trained a convolutional neural net. Calculate the hamming distance? Sure. No idea what that is, but I'll throw it into a random forest with a couple other idea when I'm done, then plot the most important variables. You never really have to learn a new API, which I'm always doing in Python. I don't want to learn a whole new framework: I heard of a thing and I want to see what it does with my data. Python never lets things be as simple as:

from machinelearning import svm
with open('/home/me/programming/data.csv') as f:
data = f.read()

print(svm(data))

That's why R, which is an awful, buggy, and weird language, is so pleasant to use for stats and ML.
The problem with google interviews and tech interviews in general is that it is almost impossible to capture what makes a successful candidate in a couple of mini interviews. They don't even pretend that what you do in the interview is what you will be doing in an actual job there. Most of a developers time is spent in meetings, understanding their problem domain, writing documents, or reviewing other developers documents.
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>If Reddit wants to get some of the amazingly creepy stuff under control, I'm all for it.

But they're not actually doing that, because they're leaving plenty of subreddits that are arguably much worse.
I don't think that applies here at all. Why would people who had a hard time switching be any less visible? I would think they would be a lot more likely to talk about it, like how people are more likely to write a review of a product they hated than one they were content with.
This spoof comment is hilarious. The last 1000 digits of π!
I think the western world suffers from a collective mass delusion. We think that liberal democracy and a (no longer) stable middle-class are "how things are" and it is still easy (but becoming increasingly difficult)to believe "this" was how it always was and how it will always be. The rise of the middle-class began in the early 20th century and peaked in the 1970s and since then we have been sliding back into a feudal order where the 5%, 1%, 0.1% or whatever effectively control all of the wealth and power and the remaining 90%+ owe fealty to their regional feudal overlord.

This is not to say a return to a feudal order is inevitable but various flavors of feudalism served as the west's default social and political structure for thousands of years before democracy made its appearance.

I suspect reality will sink in if or, rather, when, an economic catastrophe precipitates a breakdown in the social and/or political order and the standard of living falls out from underneath the citizens of today's prosperous nations and mass unemployment, hunger, deprivation and violence become tangible and inescapable. If present trends continue we are fucked but, as you mentioned, change for the better (or worse ;p) can manifest itself quickly and unexpectedly.

As for China...it's home to a civilization that's remained more or less intact for over 5,000 years. Something tells me that despite western pundits disingenuously prophesying its imminent collapse China will be around for a while yet. But there like here change can come fast and hard when it's least expected.

The digital revolution (and it is a revolution) has already changed the world in ways that were unimaginable even 15-20 years ago. And this is only the beginning!
Would you mind sharing some more about how your friend monetized his patent? I'm in a somewhat similar situation (except it's a hardware patent, not software) and would love to learn from a success story. Alternatively I can reach you out-of-band (let me know what's your preferred contact method), or you can ping me at bgxvsp at hotmail. Thanks!
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> It puts so much abstraction in between what you see and the underlying reality of command-line tool invocations that it becomes impossible to debug.

That's not the reality. The reality is plugins which are java code - and if you're developing a java program you ought to be capable of debugging java code.

> It also improperly mixes compiling and downloading dependencies into a single tool

"improper" is like "unprofessional" - it's not a real criticism. Having a single command to build is very valuable.
You might be interested to know that the US congress started hearings on the threat that technology posed to workers in the US, in the early 1960's [1], reading their report you will find many of the same themes. I was reading a book about Thomas Watson Jr which also mentioned the government's concern with technology displacing jobs in the late 30's. And yet through out that time unemployment remained low because new jobs were created.

[1] http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED023803.pdf
Which is why I make a point of noting advertising and specifically weighing against them in any relevant purchasing mental calculus. They're definitely helping make a decision, but not in the direction they'd like.
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> "The alternative to ads alongside my content is ads inside my content."

The alternative to ads is no ads.

I keep various ad- and tracker- blockers on because I prefer a world that is not polluted by advertising, and in which privacy is respected.

Advertising versus no content is a false dichotomy, just like advertising versus no sport, or copyright versus no music.

It is this sheer propoganda the systematically prevents us from having a meaningful debate on the subject.

I do see it as a moral issue: I find advertising in all its current forms unethical. If you disagree, please have the courtesy of allowing for an honest discussion instead of spreading FUD about how horrific the world would be without advertising.

Also, the advertising industry is not going to draw the line at "native advertising", regardless. It won't stop until it has plastered the planet with advertising. Only the law and countermeasures have ever limited advertising.

tl;dr: There is already shit all over the house, it's naive to think they will stop at the kitchen.
The West is so inconsistent. It will cheer as Charlie Hebdo mocks the prophet of a quarter of the living people on Earth.

"Free speech!"

But then it will close down forums where some people say mean things about some other people.

"Propriety!" "It's 'curated' or 'managed', not censored!"
/r/fatpeoplehate has been banned, so I'm afraid it's too late for that.
As well, if having financial difficult, someone could request forbearance for up to 12 months and not have to make payments [0].

[0] https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/deferment-forbearan...
How about:

Iterator<String> it = names.iterator();
while (it.hasNext())
{
if (it.next().startsWith("B"))
{
it.remove();
}
}
China's high household savings rate is largely due to the smashing of the iron rice bowl and the increase in income uncertainty. It's a vastly inefficient form of self-insurance driven by the lack of welfare.

Worse, this enormous savings surplus is largely being recycled into enormous infrastructure construction projects which will never show any ROI and apartments which nobody will ever live in.

All that construction does provide a lot of opportunity for graft, though.
> I'm all for them if there are roadworks, but the problem is, is that for 90% of it, there is no damned reason for them!

From my observations (which are limited and unsystematic) some of these 'roadworks' are not roadworks but an excuse to put out an average speed check.

> On top of that, it's hard to stay aware of what speed you should be doing when it goes through: 70, 50, 30, 40, 70, 60, 50, 30, 50 (no lies) every few miles. It's a bloody farce.

This could easily be technologically solved. Why can't the highways agency publish these speedlimits in real time (with a sensible API) and allow our GPS devices (or even our cruise control) to tell us the speed limit.
Give them time. Neither of those subreddits reach /r/all, but FPH did.
> The ad network won't know who you are

You (and the ad networks) seem to be under the mistaken impression that you have some sort of a right to that information. You don't, and acting like a stalker should be treated as such.

As another poster said, you target your ads to the content it is being published next to. Seriously, can you not see the damage you're doing by pushing "surveillance as a business" model? If your hopefully-profitable idea relies on a key aspect basically every single dystopian story ever told (fiction and non-fiction), maybe that's a sign you should find another way?

The alternative, if you want to keep pushing stupid gimmicks like that "coupon" thing, it will just push more and more people into treating the advertising industry (and later, internet commerce in general) as the enemy.
It's spelled Israel, FWIW.
This is not true. People who run full nodes (as a group) have just as much power as miners. If they all run a hard-forked client, then the miners will be happily mining away on their (worthless) chain.
Have fun with your mysoginistic, racist, hateful community.
There is no such thing as an insignificant "quick blog post" when you are the CEO of a $365B company.

And it is unlikely that the goal of the post was to solicit ideas given that it didn't solicit any ideas.
Why do you think you need anything other than the HTTP server logs to find out that number?
Static ads: no problem. Videos or content that moves or flashes I find amazingly distracting. Hence ad blocker type functionality.

I do 'unblock' domains that I trust not to have moving/animated/flashing content. I also use the readability bookmarklet when all else fails.

Am I in a tiny neglected minority here?
I had never heard of voat.co until just now, but their site appears to be down, which is some evidence that they probably are receiving a ton of traffic from somewhere.

Edit: For the record, I don't think voat.co will become more popular than reddit in the way reddit became more popular than digg. The subreddit system is much more resilient than digg's system was. As others have said, I barely noticed that this was occurring.
If you don't live in a major city, a 300 dollar craigslist sofa is nearly a nonexistent thing.
The react world has flow that does the same type checking, for the bundling webpack is now superior, and warning is handled by eslint, and with babel for ES6, and PostCSS for css next I don't think there is a lot of reasons to use the closure tools apart for the components.
I love it!

The target audience is people with prior programming experience. It's important to know the target audience, either as a writer or reviewer.

The tutorial webpage is simple and effective with a gradual progression in concept difficulty.

I hope we have more things like this! Thanks!
Let me clear it up for you:

Say you post an article about the current state of socioeconomic affairs in the EU in /r/askscience. Your submission will be deleted, because /r/askscience's subject is not to host such articles. There is room elsewhere in Reddit for such an article.

This is an example of moderation.
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Over time yes, I agree.

Factual question: What can Stingray collect? Is it 'device number NNN was in my capture range at 095627 on June 11th 2015' and then the local police have to analyse the data over time? Or can they get more precise location information by triangulating with several Stingrays?
Please drop me an email internally. My username is the same as here. This conversation cannot be meaningfully had in a public forum.
OK, apologies for the misquote. Let me apply a patch to replace "yet he called Saletan an idiot for holding this third position" with "yet he called an article idiotic that provided supporting evidence for this position." The gist of my comment still stands.

"He apologized for the series of columns he wrote, and acknowledged that he sourced them poorly"

Are you referring to this article? http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_natur... I read this as him downplaying the certainty of the genetic hypothesis, in order to get the heat off his back. It is pretty obvious he is scared at getting purged: "I don't want this role...You'll have to judge the evidence for yourself." It is not obvious that he changed his mind. And he apologizes for not disclosing Rushton's associations, not for citing Ruston. He doesn't make any claims that Rushton's studies were bad science that should not be cited. Again, sounds like non-apology apology to get the heat off his back. But I can't peer into Saletan's soul so I don't know.

I don't actually think Saletan's article is a great article. I'm lukewarm on how accurate Rushton's stuff is; I think other evidence for the hypothesis that Saletan leaves out is actually more compelling. But I don't think the article is idiotic either.
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(they have to use central servers as a shimmy)

Federated, not central:

The initial sidechain included in Sidechain Elements works on a federated security model; while it’s still peer-to-peer and consensus-based, security for the blockchain is provided by a set of predefined functionaries in an arrangement called a Fed-Peg. A number of academic groups and individual contributors have agreed to run the Sidechain Elements Fed-Peg, including blockchain groups at Stanford, MIT, and Princeton. The sidechain does not include mining or proof-of-work at this point.

https://blockstream.com/2015/06/08/714/
I remember that, do you remember that OKC was only a couple years after Osama bin Laden tried to bomb the World Trade Center and was during a time which Al Qaeda was attacking US-affiliates overseas on a regular basis?
Magic + AI = mandatory upvote. Nice one!
Goodbye ads. We won't miss you.
If you have content, and it is worth it, people may pay for it.
Otherwise, natural selection, survival of the fittest etc.
Excellent move by Apple. They managed to kill Flash, and now Ads.. fantastic!
I would't be >that< cynical. Let's see how this next presidential election turns out. If a democrat comes in and maintains (or at least doesn't entirely decimates) Obama's leftist policies, that will be a bit of a seachange. The last time we had two democrat presidents in a row with full terms was 1857 And while yes, Obama could be doing more to recognize what Technology is doing to Jobs, you have to appreciate that the electorate generally prefers evolution to revolution.
Hasn't this already been invented? With the problem being that most westerners don't like the solution because it looks unfamiliar:

* You install a squat toilet
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I hear a lot of people talk about security but very few people talk about threat models. We need more of this.
8chan was created in October 2013 in response to a group that didn't become active until late 2014? Something doesn't add up here.
Funny...Google Analytics is tracking the site.
Yes, I was interviewed at Google last year. This was basically what happened. Sure, they have your resume, I am not sure if they read it throughly, the interviewer didn't even know my major until I told him at the end of the interview. While, they don't stop inteview and say you made mistake, it's competitive and it's not possible to hire you. But, you know at that moment that you are not getting hired. I guess, they need plenty of reasons to hire a candidate, but just one reason to reject. I am not complaining, it seems to work for Google very well.
It's almost as if The West isn't a monoculture, and contains people who disagree with each other.
Nice gimmick. Good work guys!
> HN users consistently imply this place has better comments than Reddit

That isn't a big surprise, is it? If they thought otherwise, they'd be commenting on Reddit about how HN sucks :)

Reddit and HN have different audiences. I tried both and found HN suits me much better. If it's not your cup of tea, nothing wrong with that too.

Yes, HN story ranking is arcane and I wish there were better tools to track content I like. But it also has a lot of insightful people and great discussions while trying not to devolve into circus.
"On the bright side, if they can figure this out (the solution to automation eating the world), we (advanced post-industrial economies) can benefit from their leadership in this area."

That's a useful remark. I'd previously thought that Japan would come up with a new solution. Their housing bubble popped in 1989 and put Japan into recession. The US hit that problem in 2008. But Japan never came up with a good solution - they had a 20 year recession. What they did do is put money into infrastructure projects, and improve their safety net. So, while there's less forward progress, life for the average Japanese has not become worse.

From the article: "43 percent of Chinese workers already consider themselves to be overeducated for their current positions." Only about half of new Chinese college graduates find jobs that require a college education. As in the US, the education industry has saturated the market for educated people.

China's government has more options than the US does. The government has built over 100 new large cities, for example. Some of them were empty at first, but they're getting better at starting them up. Now they do the construction, finish that, stock and staff the retail stores, start up the transportation system and services, and then, with all the services available and underutilized, get people and businesses to move in. This seems inefficient but turns out to work better than trying to do it in profitable stages. It's a communist system, remember; it doesn't have to make money immediately.

China's government will probably not ignore the problem. The US has a sizable lobby that takes the position that the free market somehow makes the decisions about how things work, how much things cost, and who gets paid how much. China does not have that. It's a directed economy.

There are probably papers being published about what to do about this in China. Anyone know of any good ones?
Just like the best way to promote integration of immigrants to have them live among "natives" and not put them in ghettos. Same principle at work, make them realize that they are not so different and they should both respect each other's.
The Internet will disappear too. So will many, many companies. Many non profits, who make a real difference.
I didn't really mean the post was insignificant, just that it was as low impact as can be for such a giant company.

And I don't agree, one of the company's stated purposes is "incubating urban technologies". They aren't actively asking for any idea out there, but they clearly intend to interact with other startups and inventors at some point, and the only way to make that happen is to get your name out there.

And again, what is the downside? If there isn't any, then "because we wanted to" is a good enough reason.
The ad network is able to serve content natively through the domain of both A and B. That means they can send back a beacon pixel to Site B from Site A's domain, which will let them link the two ids. They only need to do it one time to link up the ids for a pair of domains.
Whoa! ISICP looks really cool! You know, the exercise sections of ISICP remind me a lot of the interactive Clojure exercises at 4Clojure.com. 4Clojure.com has a link to the github repo of the software used to create the site.
Ads should be paid by 1000 views/impressions and be served from the website itself. A pivoted ad network could provide a single Go/Rust binary for website owners. The ad network would scan the website with different IPs to make sure the ads are served to the user and the binary on the website itself sends statistics back to the ad network. Such ads cannot be blocked and would be great for the users privacy. So it would be a win win.
Google, if you have really smart people working for you then make a new problem solving question for each person you interview!
The current interview standards highly promotes memorizing stuff which is pathetic.
I thought they'd added the harassment stuff as a site rule though, presumably that's how they justify pulling subreddits? So admins could now be pulling posts on that basis?
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People won't pay for anything but highly specialized content. First-class integration of ad blockers will eventually just drive down the amount of actual content available; people will put fluff content that is actually an ad or they'll have to go do something else with their time. Maybe this is a good thing or maybe it's a bad thing, but one thing is for sure: people are not going to be taking special action to pay for content that isn't highly specialized.

One potential non-ad route for monetization would be an extension for the browser that opens your bitcoin wallet and sends a tip to a page's creator based on how much of your time was spent on that site that day. That'd be better than ads if we could get widespread adoption, as the site's owners wouldn't feel compelled to make deals with entities that may force them to compromise their content. Maybe Firefox can integrate it to counteract Safari.
Apple's endgame is to kill Master Card