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Can we talk a bit about Google Groups also ? Dear Google, please do something about Google groups... It's just unusable. Everytime I see a Google groups link I just don't click. The contrast is horrible, the padding is making 3/4 of the screen useless, it takes forever to load, when you click on something it's lagging again... And the worst part in all of this is that people are still using it, please do something about it...
It mostly seemed odd to say/imply "My employer treats me like an adult" about permissive WFH, but then turn around and assume that sick days must be carefully tracked. And it seemed like a number of people were talking past each other based on having opposite assumptions about both of these.
Good point! We, for some reason, removed that from about us page and put it under press (http://tenantturner.com/press/). Perhaps we should reverse that.
The author espouses this economic knowledge on his twitter feed:

"Never could have guessed from the name that the Communist Party of China wouldn't be all that interested in having a credible stock market."

That's all you need to know about reading this article.

This entire piece is relatively baseless. It's relatively trivial to say "If trends had continued in a straight line, things would be different, but they didn't, so they aren't."

Also, talking about average household income is a waste of time. Talking about average anything when you are talking about the working class is foolish. The average net worth of a household is five times the median.

The demand for automation slowed precisely because the demand for labor plummeted. That's the exact same thing as saying "The demand for oil plummeted because the cost of relative demand for natural gas plummeted."

Reading this article was a waste of time.
>It's likely too late for panic, everyone is probably owned already

That seems unlikely given that the researcher hasn't publicly released the details of the hack, and he says that "he does not believe that hackers out in the wild are exploiting it".
It may send it to multiple addresses. I know in outlook and in .NET libraries, the semicolon is the delimiter for multiple email addresses.
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I would argue that employees have a larger stake than contractors and vendors. They would also want to do the right thing by the company. The whole idea is to broaden the idea of governance to more stakeholders than just the owners. It would certainly give guys like Carl Icahn pause. On the other hand, perhaps sometimes what he does needs to be done, and this would make it harder. That's why the employees should only have a partial say, but enough of one so that they are a legitimate threat if an activist investor can't muster very much support on the board.
Countries that refuse to listen to others are currently correlated with having technological programs that are far from the leading edge, as well as low GDP, making them basically unable to implement any sort of AI weapon.

We have nothing to worry about. This is the same kind of reasoning many use to exclaim that terrorism is a threat to the United States. Really? http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2014/239418.htm
It's nice of worthless articles when they lie within the first few sentences to make it clear they should be disregarded.

> President Obama has warned that ATMs and airport check-in kiosks are contributing to high unemployment.

No, in the youtube segment linked he merely uses those as examples of jobs disappearing and thus creating an impetus for the government to stay on its toes about changes.
I thought for a long time that Mario was some sort of Alex Kidd rip-off.
Probably untrue for any of the larger sizes of bags. I routinely buy the one pound bags of tortilla chips because they're cheaper, but I have never once consumed the whole thing in one sitting.

It gets even more ridiculous for other foods. Do you eat/drink gallons of milk, whole watermelons, quarts of chicken stock or several pound bags of rice in one sitting?
I still remember how this went.

Connect the dots… la, la, la-la.

http://i.imgur.com/FZrXlee.png
> Reading this article was a waste of time.

Agreed.
Wonder how cost of living will factor into growth in future years...SV, NYC, London, etc. are often just too expensive for early-stage and bootstrapped startups
hey, this is wonderful. it would be great if street painters adopted this to communicate with their audience. i would love to go into a tunnels with cool street paintings and scan these signs and get access to playlists, videos and messages that the painter wants us to visit. these cool triangles could become symbols of an underground movement if promoted in these communities.
It has certainly become better, however that does not matter to much as they gave the best results even before all of that.

There used to be a time where i quite often had to check a few pages back and rephrase the search, These days whatever i search for the thing that i want i generally at the 3 position (1. being an ad. 2. is for some reason most often useless )
Biological and chemical weapons were easy to ban because
their use didn't provide the great powers any relative advantage. In fact Russia continued to have a very active chemical and biological weapons program, including stockpiles. They just never put it to use.
>I wonder how long before games start being developed for server side rendering.

A while ago I was working on a flappy bird clone (as a test bed for the technology) that kind of did this. The app ran locally on the device, however it created a text-based record of all objects and their movements on the screen, and at the conclusion of each game, had the ability to ask you if you wanted to upload a video of the game you just played to YouTube. If you selected yes, the small text record of the game was uploaded to the server, where it was used to create a video of the game as you played it and upload it.

The idea was that if it were super-easy and used almost no mobile bandwidth to upload video of game sessions where people liked their results enough to share, it would go viral. The technology worked well in tests, but then flappy bird popularity kind of died before I released it. Now I'm working on implementing it in another game.
A more complicated method could be to see a hypnotist, but it has the same downsides i.e. they can still see you and hit you.
>I'd imagine most of US civil air defense is just sending up fighter jets.

The US has developed a lot of missiles, including those used to shoot down other missiles. Do you have a reason to believe that their IADS is so dependent on fighters? I'm not particularly well-informed on the issue so I'd be interested to read more.
I'd rather the blame go to the implementers of the policy rather than the executor, because the implementers often have the most power. But yes, I admit you are correct, and I wish it were not this way.
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If you are spoofing content, web fonts already have you covered. Assuming that people even notice the font enough to take it as a security cue.
> Obviously, there is data in the drawing.

I know this, and one can think of it as the numbers encoded in a plain old EAN-13 barcode. But as with these barcodes, the numbers by themselves don't usually have any meaning, they are just the key of a key-value pair. In this case the key-value database is in the Meshtag servers.

Like you said, the "raw numbers" can still be useful for small-scale labeling, but once you are at the point where you're just using the drawing to record a simple ID, it may be just easier to write the ID alphanumerically and have the computer OCR it or even just type it by hand (with a checksum digit, this can be more practical and effective than having to deal with camera scanners - "oh where is that app again/where did I leave my phone again...").
As if we have proofs that humans won't do such a thing? A general AI would be able to reason as well as a human.
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There's nothing wrong with anecdotes on HN. Threads here are conversations, and anecdotes are what conversation is made of.
That gives you insight into the sort of absolute war they were prepared to fight. The world is, in some ways, a better place today.
A teaspoon is basically 5ml, which is around 5 grams. Most Americans have experience measuring foodstuffs with teaspoons, not with scales, and even if they did, it wouldn't be in grams.
Agreed on the first point. Your second doesn't make sense to me, since any situation where using San Francisco is going to give an extra sense of authority, is also a situation where it's already available to use.
Reasonable person: 8 glasses of water keep you healthy.

You: WHY DON'T YOU DRINK 100 LITERS A DAY IF YOU LIKE IT SO MUCH!!
Gut bacteria should be pretty stable inside you if you're not taking antibiotics, so constantly eating probiotics seems like it wouldn't do anything long-term (<- didn't look this up).

Greek yogurt is good for you because it has so much protein, but all the popular brands have added tons of sugar since it became popular - except they call it "evaporated cane syrup" in the ingredients. Hope you're eating plain yogurt.
If this is true, why would you pay the $200 cleaning fee? Also I get the strong sense that there is more to this story, and that we're just getting one side of it. Were you drinking/had you been drinking? Was there an open container? Why do you assume racism is the motive, was there an argument?
The difference is that Google+ seemed to go from a passive mostly private "collecting information about you so we can target ads" mode, to an intrusive "we're applying value judgments to you" and "broadcasting information about you to others" mode. It was just scary to do anything with them without researching the fuck out of every button press (and getting unclear and contradicting answers about what was going to happen).

Lot's of flowery, content-less, lovey-dovey text on their landing pages explaining why you have to do XYZ and what the implications are, that then never were exactly what I understood them to be. It only takes being confused once to stop giving a shit what they are writing and never trusting them again. Whenever I read anything from them now, I always think they are sugar coating some new pain they've decided to inflict.
I know this will soon be patched, but would it be theoretically possible to run a root exploit that would root a phone and install a superuser management app? Root your phone with just a text. That would be an interesting exploit.
This article was very confusing and difficult to read. There seems to be a conflation of workers being replaced 'robots' (Human teller -> ATM) and the process by which humans are simply more productive through augmentation (Manager with paper ledger -> Manager with inventory system).

There are some nasty potential error sources when comparing productivity per country over time because they use different currencies with their own value changes over time. (Probably related to productivity, but lots of other factors)

And my biggest issue was the Wells Fargo twitter chart. Average growth per year is an ok tool, but it's simplistic. It gets really messed up when you consider a 5 year time frame 98-03 and a 10 year 04-14. With the straight averaging method compounded growth/loss gets messed up.
> Obama stealing more and more of those benefits for himself and his crony friends.

Please let's keep political talking points off this site.
I don't know if what you're talking about is software, or a physical invention. Based on the word 'technology' though, I'll assume it's software for a moment. I think the attitude of much of the tech community is that patents shouldn't generally be applied to software in general. Many established companies have agreed to only use patents defensively, and most of the traffic that patents get these days are rebukes against 'patent trolls' who spend time acquiring patents rather than actually delivering value to anyone.

I would encourage you to think about starting a business around your tech, rather than worrying too much about legally defending it. Starting a successful company requires so many good decisions that it's much more defensible than most people think. If you were the first one to think of this idea, you'll also be the first to think of many of the ways it can be used to deliver value.
They make some nice shoes, too.
Pluralsight. $30/month and has tons of videos on all of those topics.
This DQ is pretty famous in the area and is located at a busy intersection in Moorhead.

You can get a decent lunch for around $6 and be totally full, which is hard to do these days. A foot long chili cheese dog, an order of fries and a 20oz drink for $6? Unheard of these days.

With all the fast food places (including DQ Grill and Chill restaurants) starting to reduce their portions while increasing prices, this place hasn't done that yet - a simple reason people keep coming back. In the summer, the lines are long because all the landscapers, lawn crews, and construction guys flock to this place for lunch because you get a ton of food almost nothing.
If the server cannot be trusted, it will extract your encrypted data, since it serves up the code. The server, if compromised/subpoenaed, merely needs to serve you some JavaScript that sends home the encryption key, and your data is no longer just your data.
> And it's reasonably sandboxed in recent Android versions using selinux.

Is it safe to assume that this attack vector is not a concern with Android 5.1? (or later)
Most people have not dealt with federal criminal law. Yes, a good lawyer should be able to help interpret where things truly stand, but that does not absolve prosecutors acting in a coercive fashion to secure convictions.

It's true that a plea deal is not what the prosecution `thought they deserved'. Too often, it's whatever they think that can get the defendant to agree to, and has little connection to justice.

The particulars of the Swartz case were meant to be indicative of the larger problem, and he certainly had access to good legal counsel. Nevertheless, that 6 months quote comes from the prosecutors press release [0]:

> The prosecutors recognized that there was no evidence against Mr. Swartz indicating that he committed his acts for personal financial gain, and they recognized that his conduct – while a violation of the law – did not warrant the severe punishments authorized by Congress and called for by the Sentencing Guidelines in appropriate cases. That is why in the discussions with his counsel about a resolution of the case this office sought an appropriate sentence that matched the alleged conduct – a sentence that we would recommend to the judge of six months in a low security setting. While at the same time, his defense counsel would have been free to recommend a sentence of probation. Ultimately, any sentence imposed would have been up to the judge. At no time did this office ever seek – or ever tell Mr. Swartz’s attorneys that it intended to seek – maximum penalties under the law.

Contrasted with her earlier press release [1].

> AARON SWARTZ, 24, was charged in an indictment with wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer. If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million.

[0]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130117/02090421710/carme...

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20140625220211/http://www.justice...

(Link to archive as the page has since been taken down)

Also bonus reading on the connection to mandatory sentencing laws exacerbating this process:

[2]: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/us/tough-sentences-help-pr...
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Yes, relatively successful. Just because these treaties aren't 100% effective, doesn't mean they lack effect. It is the job of UN weapons inspectors to ensure chemical weapons are not being stockpiled. Stockpiles are harder to hide than the smaller quantities that many labs can produce. As for Syria, as the article you linked to states, they aren't signatories of the treaty banning chemical weapons. However, they aren't exactly out of the gaze of the 'world police', they're at the centre of one of the major conflicts at this moment in time, including involvement from the international community.

As for this idea of AI being harder to control than chemical weapons, if we were just talking about software then fine, but hardware is part of the equation and needs to be manufactured. There are varying levels of sophistication for this hardware, at the crudest level you have something like the drone + gun combo that hit the news in the last couple of weeks, on the more sophisticated end you have complex robotics designed to be more versatile. One end of this scale is available to Joe Public, but is easier to fight against, the other end of this scale is only available to those with deep pockets and could potentially be hard to fight against. Furthermore, in both cases, they are physical objects. Making these physical objects illegal to own and operate is the goal. Do you oppose this?
> Why is this case? Is there something I'm missing?

Labor is a market. It's segmented geographically and by industry, but you can think of it as a single market.

You might be 500% percent as productive as a person with your same abilities was 20 years ago, but so is everyone else. So you're contributing five times as much to your employer's bottom line, but since he's in a demand-constrained market (post-scarcity, pretty much everyone is), he doesn't need 500% percent productivity.

So he hires fewer workers. So the demand for workers goes down. So your skills are worth less.

This trend is going to continue until you have (hyperbole) a single person hitting a single button periodically as the sole employed person in the market. What happens to everyone else? No one knows.
You can also attack the infrastructure and supply lines, same as with regular fighters. A drone only has a limited amount of ammo and fuel.
They only mention offensive weaponry, which is a good thing. Humans aren't fast enough to intercept incoming missiles, even those controlled by humans.

The problem is preventing defensive weaponry from becoming offensive weaponry.
>What makes you suspect that AI complex enough to weigh up decisions on life and death is not complex enough to develop its own self interest?

Because it's fundamentally no different from self-driving cars, which have yet to form labour unions demanding better work conditions.

Nothing in autonomous weaponry comes close to hard AI. It's all decision-making rubrics that are well within the bounds of current technology.
They mostly don't cause insulin spikes. Sugar alcohols in particular are indigestible, so eating too many will make your intestines unhappy with you…

On the other hand, they apparently _heal_ cavities instead of causing them.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1291185
"When a schoolgirl asked Dr Kalam why he did not accept President's post again despite demands from several quarters, he said: "You know you are simply a fantastic girl. Before becoming President, I was involved in teaching. I worked in the political system for five years. The job is over. Now I have come back to teaching and research."
http://specials.rediff.com/news/2007/sep/27slide2.htm

During the Q&A, a girl stood up and took the mic, she can't have been over 10 years old, and she asked him in plain English why he wasn't going to stand for President again when he was loved by every single person in the country. She asked the question that was on the minds of every Indian in the room. His response was measured, balanced and most of all inspirational. He commented that he wanted to return to his passion. That he was a scientist at heart, and that the country was in good hands.

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I also remember an article on The Hindu about this.
> An EITC would more effectively incentivize the poor to work than unconditional basic income.

Maybe, but:

(1) This is an assertion provided without evidence, and
(2) The purpose of the basic income isn't to incentivize poor people to work, anyway, and
(3) Poor people, even before considering EITC or Basic Income, have more than sufficient incentive to work, what they generally lack is opportunity to work with their current skill set, and opportunity to gain the skills needed to work where it is in demand without trading off present necessities.
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>how are those being defined?

The same way they are now. The military's RoE, being a result of a massive bureaucracy, lends itself well to autonomous decision-making. The RoE are still determined by humans.
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> smartphones and the internet simply aren't economic game changers on the same scale as air conditioning

This is the point at which I stopped reading.
Having calories doesn't make something unhealthy. I mean, calories are literally the purpose of eating food!

Just don't eat more than three meals a day there and you'd be good.
Wikipedia isn't a great source to use for a breaking news story. But if you or anyone would suggest a more substantive URL, we can change to that.
Been demoed those solutions by some consultancy firms will have to dig them up.

But still what is the use case?

I mean if i wrote code which is functioning why would i replace it with some one elses code?

Taking in raw code even (especially from) OSS repo's is a huge huge can of worms.

Say you are developing a product if you use an OSS library which is distributed as is you can bundle it with your product under most licenses unless you modify it without having worry about anything.

If you copy paste code form that library into your own code base well than what is it? a copyright violation? derivative work? I can easily bundle OpenSSL with their Apache license and just make a remark about it some where during the installation, i don't have to distribute my software or source code under that license or under any other OSS license.

But if i take the raw source code say their ASN.1 parser and implement it in my own program? what now? I'm not an IP lawyer but I'm pretty sure this either violates the license outright or my software now just became some derivative work which means the terms (or some of them) of the original license now apply.

Even if my software was meant to be OSS it's still an issue maybe i don't want to use Apache or BSD maybe it want GPLv2 or V3 or my own license or what ever.

The other issue that stands out to me is that I already wrote functioning code, it works, it's mine, i know it i understand it i can maintain it, why should i on-board someone elses code that i won't know, won't understand, wont be able to maintain as easily? Where is the benefit in that if I've already written all / most of my code for your similarity score to trigger a suggestion?
This sounds like something people buying/selling websites would like, have you looked at communities like http://www.sitepoint.com and http://www.dnforum.com?
I agree with you that cgroups protect against denial of service attacks, and that the device whitelist provides some additional security (I actually did not know about the latter, so thanks! TIL). Thinking about it, if you exclusively use block devices for storage, this is a lot better than I expected.

But still, this is nowhere from a "a least-privilege container for each VM" as you suggested.

(I'm a heavy libvirt user myself - thank you for your work on it!)
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