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The "different take by a current Amazonian" is amusing

- only work there for 18 months
- technical bar raiser
- engineering leader

If you're one of the chosen ones then Amazon is a great place to work, and its a SDE-driven culture, and if you're on top of that, then life is good.

And the claim that there's no "culling of the herd" is false. Its called top grading. Managers stack rack employees during the annual performance review process and a certain percentage out of any group must be given the lowest reviews and put on "PIPs" (in other words starting the process of firing them).

And I'm a non-anonymous ex-Amazon employee that worked there for 5 years.

The company may not be as bad as the worst examples from the NYT piece, but its far from a good company to work for. Best advice for any current Amazonian is to work there just long enough to get it on your resume and learn stuff, then switch jobs, get more pay and find a better environment.
I think Lojban also subsequently ran some software to produce some kind of similarity score for creating vocabulary similar to the most-spoken languages. For example

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bangu#Etymology

I don't know whether the original Loglan project to do this relied only on human creativity or also on software (and whether Lojban used a human editorial step after the software step).

https://mw.lojban.org/papri/gismu_etymology

http://www.lojban.org/old-style/publications/etymology.html
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For those of you in sfbay, one medical ( https://onemedical.com ) is awesome. For $150/year, you get doctors that read and answer email; the ability to get same day appointments, though not necessarily with your pcp, but with a doctor; online appointment scheduling; and a phlebotomist in the office (at least where I go). It's a huge time savings.
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Is there anything like this site for Java?
Ambiguity and sarcasm can be accomplished using literary devices. You can find a list at literarydevices.net.
>Bruce Schneider (Schneier)

>depreciated protocols (deprecated)

>security-conscience VPNs (security-conscious)

How diligent were SecureW2 when writing their code if they can't be bothered to proofread?
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You're arguing something else: weaponized PR FUD "science." I was talking about the value of peer-reviewed, best known current time advice from respectable scientists and subject matter experts having more of a say in shaping public policy than either money or igorance alone. The times have changed some thankfully past the Cheney years, but the democratic operating system needs some patches to prevent the usurping the public interest.
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Start here. https://projecteuler.net/problem=1

Then projects + github + blog + never giving up.
I have a bunch of Python scripts that run a various intervals (hourly, daily, monthly, etc). I have trouble keeping track of which jobs fail -- unless I notice an email doesn't show up, or a metric is missing. Is Dcron something I would use to keep track of my cron jobs and whether or not they ran successfully?

At this point I don't need my jobs to be distributed, I'm just looking for a way to keep track of them all and visualize characteristics of the job (start time, length, successful, etc). Ideally, I'd have a way to re-run the job within the UI.
Lojban has attempted something related in a very explicit way:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lojban/Attitudinals

I don't know how well it works in a conversation. (They don't allow for any ambiguities at the parsing level, although they say that the cultural scope, meaning, or connotation of a concept can be different for different language users.)
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And http://www.zonnekaart.nl, which links to similar initiatives, such as zonnekaart.nl (gives detailed information about what parts of roofs are useful) and http://www.zonnig.haaglanden.nl (cool color scheme)
Any time two countries sign a treaty they're agreeing to abide by a common set of rules on some particular topic. Countries have been making treaties with each other for about 800 years without destroying the concept of sovereignty. Indeed, if a sovereign power can't enter into binding legal agreements then I would argue it's constitutionally deficient.
Why does the doctor administer the treatment that keeps their patient alive? For at least one dying ten-year-old girl, the answer was "to see the new Pixar movie."

http://www.today.com/id/31448115/ns/today-today_entertainmen...
As a result of growing interest in functional programming, there is a large blanket hatred of OO emerging, particularly from newbies who see the two paradigms as intrinsically opposed, and who have acquired bad tastes from the standard polymorphism/encapsulation/inheritance languages that most people know as OO.

Smalltalk gets swept under the rug as well in the process.
Another corporate and IP attorney here. DannyBee's view is held by many, many attorneys, me included.

(Nit & rant on DannyBee's comment: In the legal context, I wish people would stop using the colloquialism verbal agreement as if it meant only oral agreements and excluded written agreements. The primary meaning of the word verbal is "of, relating to, or consisting of words," from the Latin verbum, word [1]. A non-verbal agreement might be one that is reached, e.g., by sign language; by raised eyebrows and nodded heads, as long-time married couples sometimes do; or by other gestures.)

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verbal
Great results. I thought I would know all my competitors, but I missed at least 30%. I would love to know how you are doing it (so I could try to rival you ...)
Excellent question! We call those "probabilistic Turing machines", and the most interesting complexity classes associated with them are ZPP and BPP.

ZPP contains problems for which the answer is guaranteed to be correct, and the machine halts in expected polynomial time -- the so-called "Las Vegas" algorithms. And then there's BPP, containing algorithms which always run in polynomial time but whose outputs have a constant, bounded probability of being wrong -- the "Monte Carlo" algorithms.

Currently, we know that P ⊆ ZPP ⊆ BPP, but we haven't yet proved whether or not any of those classes are equal to each other. However, there's apparently mounting evidence -- most of which goes over my head -- that in fact P=BPP; in other words, any randomized algorithm can be "derandomized" with the use of a sufficiently strong pseudorandom number generator.
Chicago is midwest in geography and climate only. Someone who grew up in a typical small midwest town would feel as out of place in Chicago as in San Francisco, New York, or Paris.
If the two clocks are stationary with respect to each other, that isn't a problem. Most of Google's servers are on the Earth's surface, so...

(Edit: Yes, different elevations cause a gravitational time dilation difference. For Earth's gravitational field and the elevation difference between different Google servers, I doubt it's an issue at the time resolution that Google needs to maintain.)
Reasonable if the top company's needs with respect to engineers matches yours. Just because someone was what Google wanted (or thought they wanted) does not mean the same is true for you.
Ideally, you could even have console demos "embedded" within the presentation itself, perhaps even multiple consoles in order to show how changing state in one system affects another system.

You would need to set up gotty ahead of time with the specific demos, and embed requests for those iframes in slides or parts of slides.
The problem comes into play when treaties and laws are negotiated in private committees and then foisted upon the general legislative bodies with very little time for debate or review.

Creating opposition takes time and by not allowing that time, the whole process becomes distinctly less democratic.
You say that but...

I have an elderly relative, she drinks Keurig K-Cups because with arthritis she struggles to brew coffee the other way(s). She isn't very tech' literate, and she has us order her more from Amazon every so often (since they're cheaper than retail stores).

I'd love to give her a Keurig button and say "push this and more coffee will arrive two days later." Literally I would have if they sold one (they don't).
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Onion routing is an anonymity mechanism for low-latency communications; there could be other mechanisms that are as good or better for some settings of high-latency communications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix_network
What a time to be alive. Telling someone to mind her own business is considered rude.
What's "very little time"?
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Amazon's WiFi Button is way way better than the ESP8266: it has 1MBit internal flash, 16MBit external flash, a powerful 120MHz microcontroller with tons of peripherals (2 DACs, 3 ADCs, etc), an internal MEMS microphone (!)

The microcontroller on Amazon's button also has a real 1500-page documentation in English, instead of 10-page badly translated Chinese datasheet.
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Heat pump! You can get wall mounted units that work just like an A/C (but in reverse of course.) Efficiencies have gotten pretty good in the last decade. Check out units made by Daiken, Hitachi, Mitsubishi for example. I know they make multi-room versions. You'll need to run the refrigerant lines, but that's usually a much smaller task than adding ducting.
Well there apparently is an "Amazon Elements" button that is pretty generic. Just slap a label on top of it.
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Sure we can because dressed up Cato report clones "addendums" aren't science. Exposing the crap and bias is how to keep it real. Otherwise, inventing new names is passing the buck from critical thinking, awareness and fact-checking. They're the PR problem, not the scientific method. Most of the legit scientific communities needs to get better at/hire PR to trash the crap and the talking head charlatans. Emperors new clothes lingo doesn't remove the jerks that condone personal threats to climate scientists.
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Did try another search with "pdf compress". There are a lot of pages showing up with a "Free Downloads" title. They are all false positives I think. However, there are still mostly relevant pages, some I did not know before...
Ask your insurance company. In sure they'd be happy to buy you one.
Do you feel comfortable discussing your work a bit more? It's not often I see the words "finance" and "positive social value" used in the same sentence.
If you do go for solar just make sure you install it before December 31, 2016 as that's when the 30% Federal tax credit expires (note: this is if you buy, not lease the panels. Leasing does not earn you the 30% credit).
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They really are a good idea IMO. The idea is you put the button next to the garbage bags, detergent, etc. Hey, the detergent just ran out, click, ordered and done. Very convenient and eliminates the problem of forgetting to add <whatever> to the shopping list.
Thanks for the link, it looks very interesting.
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nice.
Reading that, I can't help but wonder how similar a machine-learned eigenface is to an infant-learned one.
http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3273

I wonder if there is some way to simulate the effect of growing up among people of different races on eyewitness identification and test if it matches what this lawyer is saying at
http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=3282
It's not strange for anyone whose read this:

http://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Burr...

A similarly amazing machine that IBM's System/38 learned from a little bit. Somebody posted a link to an emulator but honestly I don't want to dredge through that. Like you said, a modern system that reimplemented its best attributes without the limitations or baggage would be nice.

Mainframes are complex enough that there's rarely projects to implement them but there's lots of work on safer CPU's. See crash-safe.org's early publications for a CPU that combined Burrough's-style checks, Alpha ISA, and functional programming at system level. Given stack preference, you might like these:

http://www.jopdesign.com/

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~jared/ssp-hase-submission.pdf

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pete/acl206/papers/hardin.pdf
Well CueCat was "free" (Although mostly forced on you). Amazon dash is a regular paid product on Amazon. Neither of them can hold you accountable for hacking/repurposing it. However, if someone has a chance that would be CueCat.
Check out Airflow (open source project from airbnb that does all of that very well).
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As a result, DUAL EC DRBG has been incorporated into a range of products, including those from security company RSA, in operating systems such as Microsoft Windows,and in a version of OpenSSL (a tool commonly used to facilitate website encryption). The integration of the standard with operating systems was significant because, by changing the default method by which the operating system encrypted communications traffic, an intelligence agency could decrypt data now encrypted using DUAL EC DRBG.

Dual_EC was never the default in Microsoft Windows, and you'd have to put effort into building a version of OpenSSL that used it. The article is overstating its case here.

Dual_EC was famously the default for some versions of RSA BSAFE, and RSA BSAFE seems to have acknowledged accepting money from the USG to set that default. But BSAFE's licensors used it primarily to mollify RSA's patents, which expired over a decade ago. Lots of vendors that license BSAFE don't use it for anything meaningful. OpenSSL is much, much more popular in closed-source enterprise tools than BSAFE is.
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Now 13 test = 13 dots, and (13 test, 37 assertions) is a reference to "1337"
Yes.

For a different illustration, sure, with the right key, a plaintext of "ATTACK US AT DAWN" will have a ciphertext of "ATTACK US AT DAWN". Which, you know, in isolation, sounds undesirable. But a ciphertext of "ATTACK US AT DAWN" will be equally likely (from an attacker's perspective, who has no advance knowledge of the plaintext content or the key) to correspond to a plaintext of "ATTACK US AT DUSK" or "ABORT US ATTACKS" or "DEFEND UK AT DUSK" or "LAUNCH FAST DRONE".

(In fact, if you could guarantee that the ciphertext was never the plaintext, that would be an undesirable feature, because then if you knew the ciphertext and the encryption method without knowing the key or plaintext, you would learn information about the plaintext -- specifically, that it was not whatever the ciphertext was.)
I'm not sure how I would classify Toy Story 3 under any recycled "kids movie" plots. The ending (the real ending, not the climax, as described in the article) is one of the most poignant moments in film I can recall. Similarly, Wall-E does a good job illustrating the human need for companionship. And the need for purpose within our lives. And at the very shallowest and most obvious level, over-consumption. Pixar often makes very "smart" animated movies, and they generally work at quite a few levels, in my opinion.

> Especially considering as kids movies they cannot explore adult topics and will always be fairly limited in scope.

I disagree. I've seen many masterful "childrens" movies that have done masterful jobs at exploring adult concepts, as long as by "adult" you don't just mean sexuality. While childrens' movies may be constrained on some axis, they are often freer on others. Additionally, there is the chance to speak to people that wouldn't normally go to a movie about some of these adult messages, or to reach them when they aren't expecting it and are less cynical. Who goes to see an animated film about a family of super heroes to see a touching rendition of mid-life crisis?
I am amazed at how awesome the projects page of his website is. I see so many successful people on here, I just... wow..
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Simple answer on the metalevel: It's not clearly stated, because it's self referential. It's not a question by the GP's standards.
"…the service specializes in things like annual checkups, flu shots, and blood tests… not just time-sensitive urgent care issues."

These tasks are generally left to physician assistants and nurse practitioners who are paid on average about half as much as primary care physicians (about 100k vs 200k).

In many states, they can be found practicing in pharmacies and supermarkets and seem to see around a half dozen patients per hour.

I think it will be tough for mobile medical practitioners to beat price/convenience levels of retail nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
There absolutely should be distributed short-form knowledge. Only metadata needs to be exposed in order to find small facts. I don't think there is any need for payment per-datum for such knowledge. This kind of static content is simple to trust as well.

Long-form knowledge, in contrast, still has massive value and many channels exist for distribution and consumption already.

If we base the web of trust on facts combined with people then we can walk the short web and exit at the long-form.

However nobody wants to create a web of trust based on a system that encourages selfies and ephemeral knowledge -- we've tried that. And this is where things get interesting.
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I don't know. I don't want to fully stop pedophiles, as I know that allows for draconian measures which hurt everyone. I know it will happen - always has, always will - but I don't want to automatically make it easier for peds. At least now they have to try hard to be safe, therefore (and I may be completely wrong here) the borderline wannabe pedophile won't go fully fledged, because there would be hurdles. And at the same time I realise that this thinking me that's normal peeps who just want some modicum of privacy also have to jump through hoops, which is why this whole thing is a problem for me.

Also, I think the whole drm analogy doesn't work in this case, though I do see where your coming from.

With my problem, the equivalent would be if adding drm made it automatically easier and safer for pirates, not just crippling legit users...
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> Most of the legit scientific communities needs to get better at/hire PR to trash the crap

We know that these communities are not funded for that. The other side however, is, and only with the mission to introduce the confusion.
You and your spouse should be on the same page regarding what you're doing with your career, full stop.
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I believe that the last time I tried running emacs in my browser, keyboard shortcuts didn't work well. With this they work flawlessly!

It's also perfectly performant on desktop (chrome with os x, air 2013), though still unusably slow on my phone (chrome on original motox).

This may be more of a testament to https://github.com/macton/hterm though! (apparently what gotty is using)
The quote was specifically about the value on resumes. The article was written from the perspective of choosing who to interview in the first place. It may be that your resume was selected because the interviewers were excited to talk about your side projects, but that assumes the interviewers were the ones selecting candidates for interviews.
Sorry, I couldn't get past the "Post tweets" and "read your direct messages" permissions. Why?
> This is part of why deep learning and tensor methods work so well on image classification tasks.

That statement sounds informative. Do you have a good non-specialist's reference?
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Sounds cool, easy, and cheap. Not sure what I would do with it. Here is a tear down: http://mpetroff.net/2015/05/amazon-dash-button-teardown/

I can't find how long the battery lasts and with only one AAA, it might not be that long.
Google's Chromecast can be configured using both of those methods, too.
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I looked (again) at Smalltalk maybe 5 years ago, and concluded that it didn't offer enough over more recent and more familiar OO languages to warrant a switch. So I guess my answer is that it introduced nice ideas, then everybody else stole them, so you no longer need Smalltalk to use them.
> A "Terry Stop" relies on reasonable suspicion.

Which they had, because of the report and his behavior.

> A patdown is permitted to check for weaponry.

Which they tried to do, but then he resisted, which provided them with Probable Cause for any number of things.

This might not have held up in court, but definitely there's no getting out of the ride downtown once you physically resist.

Source: am a lawyer.
This completely aligns with my experience working at Google. I work roughly a 9-5; most of my coworkers do the same. Sometimes I will read e-mail on my phone and triage it, but I never reply. My laptop comes home with me out of habit but very rarely leaves my messenger bag.

Maintaining healthy work-life balance has also been pushed by the company fairly heavily in my time here. Yes, there are workaholics, but in my experience they are not the norm. Moreover, it doesn't seem to give them an edge over those of us who prefer a saner schedule.
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I'm split on GMO, having friends in biotech plant biological sciences. I think there are real fears of dependence on too few crops and unforeseen effects on other organisms. Some other fears may not be borne out. The main objection is that it's gambling with our health and the planet if not done with great care. Perhaps GM can be done limited, done carefully and gradually but I also know that China and Korea will do whatever they want.
> Imagine what we could do just with a version of office where every bit of information was sourced live from a database, where instead of Power Point presentations of status you could throw together a dashboard and send it to everyone in the organization.

The thing is... you can. Not a presentation / PP, but if you want to create a self-updating dashboard, you can do it in Excel. It's not going to be super easy, but you can do pretty much all of it by clicking.

Here's excel with a sheet that comes from sql database. It's trivial to add another sheet with just graphs on it. https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/Connect-to-a-SQL-Se...

But if you want to do a "dashboard proper", you can use the Power BI tool: https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/471664 (which looks super amazing by the way for an office product, is free, and I want to have a reason to actually use it...)

It's strange that they didn't even mention those possibilities in the post. I see how they could try to improve a lot in those approaches however.
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It seems to think my apartment building is a parking lot - there's no heat-map.
In Lojban, sarcasm is denoted with attitudinals such as je'unai, which marks the statement as a logical contradiction, and/or zo'o, to mark it as humour and/or ianai for disbelief.

Certain kinds of ambiguity are quite plausible with Lojban, for example, unlike in English, you don't have to specify that a countable noun is singular or plural if you don't want to. You can, however, easily distinguish between ideas like 'the stereotypical rose is red', 'the majority of roses are red', or 'the roses we are discussing are red', which can get clumsy in English
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Because there's a lot of room in the US.