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tl;dr: His mistake: longer sentences didn’t reduce crime as much as expected because criminals aren’t good at thinking about the future; criminal types have problems forecasting and they have difficulty regulating their emotions and controlling their impulses.
They will never be able to move Heroku of AWS. Their customers depend on being on the same cloud as other service providers
Pretty sure higher education in Norway is also cheap/free for non-prisoners.
I'd imagine it's more time constrains - maybe he's still doing bespoke work. Also, Beijing and Mumbai could be quite valuable clients.
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Where do you see that it's causing issues for Heroku in eu-west-1? I have a lot of dynos in that region and I don't see any issues
Ask HN: How do you manage and structure a team?
Here's a question to managers and startup and founders out there, but first a bit of context on my situation:

We are a small team that has recently created. As such, we've been given a fair amount of control over how the team are structured. This involves everything from how we work, how we progress in our careers and how much we are paid. While this is a really nice position to be in, it raises a number of concerns.

In an ideal world, I believe that a flat structure would be best. We are all technical people, working on a series of short (months in length) projects that tend to be self contained. There is no immediate need of a hierarchy. But in this case, how do you define “progression”?, both how people are paid, and their “title” within the group.

To get around this, the obvious answer is a well defined “hierarchy”. Progression and pay are well defined ahead of time and everyone knows how it works. The problem is that we have only just been created, and as such the variance of the pay within the group is big. Initially this isn't an issue – we all agreed to be here for the amount we are paid, but over time it can become an issue: without well defined progression, this issue of separate pay will become an issue and half the group will leave.

Another problem (and a separate one, one that we will also need to address) is that judging the direct merit of each others work is hard. Mostly because the work is a spectrum between “core” work, that is required, and “new features” which can bring in a large profit (or fail), and disentangling the two is hard.

There has to be somewhere in between these two position. And we can't be the first to find ourselves in this position, and I'd like to here from others who have been here:
- What worked well?
- What worked badly?
- What would you have done differently?
For those curious, this is the guide:

https://github.com/drduh/OS-X-Yosemite-Security-and-Privacy-...

and it's very good.
I've got a better solution. All engine exhaust pipes should end in the cabine of vehicle. That will make car-owners spend money on filters, instead of letting the environment take the burden.
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Right. There's an obvious community around bitcoin. If this guy doesn't understand why that community exists, then why would his opinion be relevant...
Desire to protect ones intellectual property is still a thing which leads to dukkha.
No one is forcing anyone to whitelist the site and view the DRM'd content. The site is simply offering an explicit choice to the user: go away or play by our rules. Whether or not serving the ads in the first place is morally correct simply does not matter—the price for admission could change to require the user's car, their livelihood, their life, and the premise is the same. There's an explicit acknowledgement of the cost and a conscious choice by the user.

An apt analogy would be a magazine on a table with a sign denoting the price. Without FuckAdBlock, the sign reads "Price: ___". Taking the magazine and not paying anything isn't immoral, it just shows you value yourself above others (nothing wrong with that). With FuckAdBlock, the sign now reads "Price: Your kidney". By taking the magazine and not paying, you're quite literally stealing, regardless of the price now on the sign.
> Imagine you had to start paying to view content on all your favourite websites.

> Would you give up on the internet completely or happily stump up for good journalism and entertainment?

I used to read a lot of books, but the Web is constantly available and mostly free. Very low barrier to start reading something, and little consequence to stopping something.

So I suppose I'd go back to reading books.

I already subscribe to NYT online, been thinking about The Economist. There might be room in there for one more subscription to something. Maybe two. But I really can't see myself subscribing to anything more focused than general news, since I don't visit anything focused at any regular rate now, while it's free.
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Indeed. I'm volunteering at that exhibit and it is really well presented.
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The software assigns any sufficiently long user input to one of the 16 gestures.

In contrast, human-to-human communication consider much (most?) of the space of possible speech acts to be gibberish.

In other words, the software never gives up on trying to classify a user-input sequence no matter how wacky it is.
Like it's said in the article, it's not a solution but something that "hide" the real issue.

You can be against nuclear power, it has huge drawback in the long term, but it has a lot of effect in the short/mid term. Hopefully we'll find a way to recycle nuclear waste or a more cleaner energy.

But in the meantime I don't see any advantage to search for a way to clean air while we still producing lot of pollution...
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I am comparing it with OS/2 2.x not NT.
While not the largest project, TodoMVC was written just for that:

http://todomvc.com/examples/angularjs/#/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghouse
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Outstanding post, especially the supplement info from others. Most of the opportunities I've seen in DS also have emphasized engineering over science. (Maybe that's due to my job history.)

I've also wondered what fraction of DS employers use Hadoop but not enough data to warrant it. Certainly the DJIA giant pharma where I work doesn't.
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Interesting situation. I really hate this kind of writing though because I wish it would just start with "I lost my ipod touch and now some guy is using it to post pictures on my timeline" instead of being mysterious and trying to build suspense.

Maybe I'm too impatient.
I've said this before elsewhere, but one concern with cases like this is that it means sex offender registries are becoming more and more useless.

When people end up having to register because of 'stupid' crimes like this - either they stand the chance of being persecuted as a sexual offender for the rest of their lives. Or the registry itself becomes increasingly useless as we start to assume people are there for peeing in the wrong place.
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Some ideas here:

https://www.madewithangular.com/

https://github.com/gianarb/awesome-angularjs
It's also obviously not true with even the tiniest amount of research. If you want to buy something online anonymously, then you use Bitcoin. There's the value.
Thou shalt not kill....
Call me when there's a Docker for DNA applications. All those cells are expensive overhead.
Surely you see the difference between just taking other people's money vs requiring everyone above a certain means to pay into the social contract that brings order to chaos and keeps us from Darwinian anarchy?
I feel we should be more productive and focus on finding a way for the owner to get a message to the monk instead of debating copyright...
Still doesn't do anything. I'll investigate further and create an issue on Github.
If you aren't paying, you are the product.
You're already paying for the jails. If you want to pay less for the jails, provide free college in jail. If you don't want taxes on the other hand, you have no prisoners to worry about educating anyway, as you have no jails. Or for that matter, schools, hospitals, army, police, paved roads, or stable currency.
The economics professor stated As money, Bitcoin is terrible – a deeply deflationary currency that’s within a bubble. I'd like to expand on this a bit.

The deflation issue is complex. It's hard to imagine a stable situation where money has a fixed supply. The simplest steady state one can imagine is constant economic growth r, which is also the real interest rate. If we further assume a constant velocity of money (so the total value of all money is a fixed percentage of GDP), then any currency where the total supply of currency was fixed, would have a deflation rate equal to the real interest rate. Therefore holding currency or zero interest bonds would be equivalent. But money has some transaction value that makes it more valuable than zero interest bonds, so this situation could not be an equilibrium.

Most economists think that in practice there is no way to have a stable currency except by forcing inflation by printing money (which in the current implementation is injected into the economy by buying bonds). I don't think it is possible to create an inflationary currency except through central banks. So I really think that bitcoin faces long term problems.
Right, but note you can't even split it, if you are thinking of linear circuits. Precision necessarily means how your signal compared to the thermal noise floor. It is possible to show can't compose 8-bit precision linear units to get a >8-bit precision value. What happens is actually the opposite, if the noise of the units are uncorrelated noise will propagate and increase to the tune of sqrt(number of operations). Avoiding error propagation is another advantage of digital operations.

The reason NNs don't exhibit strong error propagation is because of the non-linearities between linear layers that perform operations analogous to threshold/majority voting or the like, which have error correction properties.
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"There's also a 1¢ recognizer, which supposedly improves on the $1 recognizer in every way, yet for some reason isn't valued as highly...."
Classification problems in a medical domain. It literally took me 30 minutes to install madlib and run logistic regression on a table. It then probably took me a few more days to do some analysis, try out various algorithms and productionize the predictor.
It's super off-topic to talk about this here. :/
I checked it on mobile too, but it looks the same as on desktop.
It has a tagline similar to statuspage or slack:
"The fully transactional, cloud-ready, distributed database."

To gain some insights into our differences, here is my thought process:

I agree that description is quite fuzzy, but to me it clarifies it's a database, not just a proxy. It suggests ACID properties by saying transactional and the cloud ready part hints scalability to me.

Then you would think "Oh, not again, another DB", so it continues with the "Why Datomic?" heading.

Afterwards the 1st link is "Read the Rationale", which explains everything everything about the software quite concisely. It's a database though, so don't expect to understand it a few seconds.

Being said that, the video on the 1st page gives a very solid explanation in its first 40seconds...

Thanks for the examples; now I understand what were you thinking.
Those tag lines are really well done, but I think they had an easier job since they were describing a lot simpler services.
> http://deity.gov.in/...

Deity?
In addition to those, there's PC relative loads from a literal pool. This is what you end up using 9 times out of ten to load a full register rather than filling it in piecemeal with immediates.
And this is why mpg is such a bad unit! 10 mpg sounds like a LOT, but in reality its only 0.3 litre per 100km. At the same time going from 30 to 40 mpg is over 2 litres.

MPG is a unit designed to CONFUSE.
the comments are amazing!!!
>Have you ever tried indexing the web?

There most likely is some system of visualization that would let a person get a very good intuition about the web.
> "Ad blocking is a threat to the whole advertising industry," says David Frew, senior programmes manager for the Internet Advertising Bureau trade body.

And cars were a threat to the whole horsing industry. Figure something out and move on.

EDIT:

> In his view, publishers and content producers will have to have a "hard conversation" with consumers and persuade them not to use ad blockers.

I'm listening, but I've heard nothing so far that persuades me.

> "When you visit a site with an ad blocker on there should be no option where you can get the content for free."

I'm waiting, and look forward to the resultant lack of whining from publishers. I only look because you let me. And, probably, because you haven't yet bribed Congress to make blocking illegal.
Interesting; have you had issues loading any popular websites?
Just now I was able to restart the applications manually, after which functionality was restored. Apps did not resume automatically.
Most of it was, some bits where salvaged (I think, I followed it at the time) at huge cost and then they built a newer version which sorta works.

In any base £20bn over 10 years seems like quite a lot on an initial budget of 2.4bn over 3.
You can use iCloud to send messages to your devices, it should be easy enough: http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/18/send-a-message-to-an-iphone-i...
For beginning structures, and if you're comfortable with java/spring, jhipster sets up working angular apps (consuming web service backends) with what they believe are best practices.

https://jhipster.github.io
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I'm selling my developer account with a ton of apps! I will also include all the source codes! My account makes up to $1000 (that's without doing any work) every months plus the advertising money from the apps! I have a lot of apps online including flashlights, barcode scanner, flappy game, file explorer, root checker and a youtube downloader that is the number 1 youtube downloader on the Amazon Play Store!
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2. All source codes for apps (Eclipse projects)
3. My startapp and admob advertising accounts
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You need both.

The biggest issue I take with good coders lead by non-technical managers is they invariably convince managment they need to rewrite everything in the flavour of the month or architect in requirements so they can use technologies they're interested in.

Inevitably, these guys are now qualified with a whole new bunch of tools, so they move on and hopping about the industry writing a whole bunch of software that relies on a datastore that doesn't actually save data consistently, for example.
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Take a look at the Ionic framework source:

https://github.com/driftyco/ionic
You'll likely learn a great deal at either place, and we could indeed debate the merits of lessons learned at each place. But the body of knowledge learned at each is so different - there's so little overlap. Minus the social stigma, being processed through both institutions likely results in a very rounded worldly education. Knowing that some individuals have indeed done this, what is their perspective?
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Because taxes affect an entire market. It's not like there's other properties you can rent next door that aren't subject to rising property taxes.

However, a stupid landlord buying a Ferrari and raising your rent to cover it doesn't affect an entire market. You just move someplace else with a less stupid landlord and lower rent.
I think the solution might be something along the lines of spotify for web content. There are probably 100+ sites out there that occasionally produce content good enough that I'd pay for it, and I'd probably be happy to pay $10/month to access the content, but I'm certainly not paying $10/month to each site.
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Software bug caused downtime vs infrastructure / hardware availability uptime to me are a different guarantee. I am pretty sure someone did something recently to DynamoDB.
The other reports suffer from the same problem -- they're focused on whether paperwork was filled out correctly. That's not what killed the project. To the extent these reports are read, I think they lead people to focus on the wrong things.

I think the IG reports would be much better if they just did the following: interview the engineers who worked on the original version. Ask them what the problems were. Then, interview the engineers (from both the "tech surge" and the contractors) who lived through the process of getting the site working. Ask them what changed. Write those things down.
There are various forms of intelligence, most of which have a better chance of being excelled by AI. If reading inputs and detecting patterns in inputs to make sense of the world is what brain does, then AI can beat us hands down. Just the fact that it can hold huge amount of data in "working memory" and work as long as it takes to find patterns in it, it can find more patterns (read scientific discoveries) than any human ever aspired to find. If amplified human intelligence is still decentralized, portable, miniaturized device connected to our brain to enhance its abilities, there is no way it can compete with giant supercomputers running AI.
Interesting, but then how do you explain that rectified linear operations between layers work better than sigmoids?
According to your logic, ReLU should have worse error propagating quality than squashing functions?
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The article (absurd as it is) not only overlooks all the engineering constraints in the integration of man and machine, but also focuses only on bigger and better, completely missing the alternate worlds that may arise. To modify the brain (and our sensors) will surely change the way we think, our emotions, and invite a totally different world view. How might that restructure our social dynamics, especially after the need for competition for limited resources abates or ends entirely?

Also, the article completely misses the implications of the intermediate stages of man with machine, or Intelligence Augmentation (the real interpretation of IA). This is a much more immediate and plausible phase of the transition, and is already upon us in several ways. I recommend John Markoff's new book for more on the topic.

There are many demerits to the article, especially given the wealth of more interesting alternative paths ahead.
I haven't gotten a clue but why do we need accounting firm in this day and age? Aren't those already automated?
Go to twitter, they are not on AWS.
Good choice, but let the crash begin!
Funnily enough, I must have dropped the certificate for bing somehow. It hasn't affected any popular sites yet though.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10240001
Great step! I wonder how it translate into action:

1. Lack of degree will not be a filter, but you need to be genius if you don't have it.

2. Lack of degree is a setback, but still can get through.

3. Just consider skills, interview/internship performance.
You are comparing a culture thats been in this game for almost a century with two countries who only experienced this kind of growth for a couple of decades.

I think it's pretty obvious what my point is and I think you know it to.

But in case you don't.

The Indians and the Chinese will change this behavior over time. In fact I wouldn't even be surprised if you could already see this change in those who benefitted most from Chinese and Indian growth vs. those who aren't already benefitting.

They are after all humans.
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But what about the example with uniform distribution? How can we get confidence interval in this case with bootstrap?
No, he's not, because George is interviewing Anissimov:

> Looking to learn more about this, I contacted futurist Michael Anissimov, a blogger at Accelerating Future and a co-organizer of the Singularity Summit. He’s given this subject considerable thought — and warns that we need to be just as wary of IA as we are AI.

Notice the bolding of questions and then responses throughout the bulk of the article.

(Incidentally, Anissimov was perma-banned from Twitter the other day, apparently. That takes some doing if you're not gushing about ISIS.)
I've thought about the likelihood of subscription aggregators recently, in the context of the ad blocking wars.

I think there will come an evolution beyond that. Eventually writers and other content workers will come to work for the larger aggregators themselves. The aggregators will become the publishers.
Never read Chew, but Starve has many parallels with this story: https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/starve
I'm going to reply to your question below here since HN is preventing a reply (anti-flaming/long threads I guess).

Be careful with jumping to conclusions: I never even cited ReLUs or Sigmoids in my post! I don't have any opinion on which non-linearity is better, I only know both are dramatic non-linearities. My claims were about linear circuits. You should use whatever nonlinear element works best in your Neural Network, of course (and I've heard ReLUs have good advantages).
Boom! This is big.
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Maybe we need the government doing fewer huge, complicated projects?
The title for the HN submission is currently very misleading.

HN headline: "Ernst and Young Drops Degree Requirement for Recruitment"

THE headline: "Ernst and Young drops degree classification threshold for graduate recruitment"

The meaning is very different: the first suggests you no longer need to have a degree at all; the second merely suggests you no longer need to have done well in your degree.

Also worth noting is that Ernst and Young already had a 'EY School Leaver Programme' (5 year training programme for people direct from school).
Companies like them and Deloitte still offer traditional auditing and accounting services, but their cash cow is mostly in IT contracting for government and Fortune 500-type companies.
Of course he does because he probably gets kickbacks for selling TM
> For that matter, due to the Central Limit Theorem, neither do analytic approximations like a t-test for comparing different group means.

Actually, it doesn't. You need a confidence interval, and central limit theorem doesn't give you a confidence interval. It just says that the distribution is close enough to normal at some point. In some cases, it might take a very large n before it become close to normal.
You did; there is nothing wrong - but it's a choice. I.e. your site being down is your fault ultimately, not AWS's - you choose AWS (instead of many other choices OR making something with multiple, etc).

Blaming it upstream is hiding passing the buck on your decision.
The big consultancies don't really give a crap what you studied or what skills you have, they just want your intelligence and self-discipline. Now they're dropping the assumption that not having a degree means you're not smart. Nothing more, and nothing less.

(Everything I've ever heard about these consultancies suggest they are very bad places to work, if anyone's tempted)
My bet is on an uploaded mind as the singularity. A human intelligence boosted by computational resources.
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> The entire point of the bootstrap is that it does not require the either the original or the sampling distribution to be normal

What I wanted to say that you can just blindly apply bootstrap for every distribution. You should carefully check applicability conditions, before using it, or you could easily get nonsensical results.