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Ah, I moved from finance into software, although I write financial software. Great books, some embellish the truth a bit though, take it as entertainment value. They all provide great insight though! I've been re-reading the big short by Michael Lewis for the movie coming out this month. I recommend that for insight into the 07-08 collapse. It's a really good book
All I can say is that I'm glad to see people exploring the potential of depth cameras + video. I've done some really basic experiments with Kinect and it looks like they're doing similar but such things will only get better with Kinect V2, Intel's RealSense platform, and eventually, purpose-built hardware/software for just this purpose.

I still think the first big "leap" for VR will be when you can set up a few depth/video cams around a room, have software composite the data into a full 3-d/video stream, and send the data over networks. Interactive movies like this are a good first step but when you can do it over networks, you get into the realm of 3d telepresence and little Skype windows on your PC or phone will seem quaint.
Toss Mac in there as well:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-onenote/id78480155...
I've been thinking about this recently and these are my thoughts exactly. It leads to an interesting question. Do I have a competitive advantage as a startup founder growing up poor? Higher stress resistance (can chew a lot), no problem with low personal burn rate, better problem solving (no money for iPod from parents, run little business to get the cash)
Two things which might be useful to him:

Rob napier's article on type erasure: http://robnapier.net/erasure

Alexis Gallagher's talk on PATs and generic constraints: https://youtu.be/XWoNjiSPqI8
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Reference: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Restr...
great book that goes into much more detail about the enigmatic Korolev who pretty much was the iron will behind the entire Soviet space program--even more so than his American counterparts von Braun/Webb etc. http://www.amazon.com/Korolev-Masterminded-Soviet-Drive-Amer...
Do people like us for who we are or for who they think we are?
Arguably if your goal as a software developer is to make as much money as possible and retire as soon as possible, you should probably work on HFT in the lowest-COL area that supports that field (maybe Chicago with a long train commute or something?)

I'm a team lead and make less than an entry level developer at any SF or NYC shop, but I'm willing to bet that I can save more and have more put away for retirement than most as well.
Yes, and that's one more reason not to use OOXML.
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That looks like a rendering problem, we will look into it!
I believe Theory of Speculation also features the first appearance of Brownian motion. Bachelier was extremely far ahead of his time.
You don’t need a mentor, you need constant feedback loops
But... It does matter. I'm personally pretty tired of hearing this "personal responsibility" line. While I agree adults have certain responsibilities, the idea that the cycle of poverty and crime are purely personal responsibility failings on enormous groups of people is not only scientifically wrong, but also terribly laden with consequences.
>Would they?

Yes.

>Wouldn't they blame their bulb first?

No.

>It's like complaining to your PC manufacturer that a program you downloaded doesn't work.

Yes, and people do that all the time.

>Most people would blame the program and look for another one.

Bro, do you even tech support?
Unfortunately SymphonyOS is a one-person project right now and has been for a long time. My focus has been on the codebase and the website which I will admit is crap was put together in one evening. Currently I am in the middle of a complete rewrite of the desktop environment with a new release coming in January. Personally, I would not have submitted it to HN with the website in it's current state but was surprised this morning when a co-worker told me it was on the front page
Have you seen any Linux forum/fan ever, who talks about Windows and BSOD?
Perhaps you could find a volunteer with a little time to just add a list of packages and functions available from the live image to the Web site?

That would help the distro collectors to decide if this is interesting or not.
Podcasting (which is effectively just "radio" with different technological underpinnings) isn't (in most cases) intended solely to convey information efficiently.

Podcasts are presented as entertainment and performance art, in addition to the ones which are also informational. To say something broad like "podcasts aren't for me" seems like you might be missing out on many opportunities to experience creative storytelling based on some negative experiences you have had with the medium.

Is it impossible to imagine audio-only content you might enjoy? Because for whatever interest you might have, there is certainly a podcast serving that niche, whether it be fiction, non-fiction, drama, music, investigative journalism...
What's the "industry" you speak of? This article is suggesting this be used by minimum wage (or below[1]) workers in shops, bars and restaurants. How well do you think your industries norms will be adhered to?

[1] UK tried (is trying?) a "you must work for free in what would be a minimum wage job in a high street shop" scheme. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24742499
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> tl;dr:I believe that the field of data vis would benefit from a clear line between art and design. I believe that we need that boundary to judge both forms according to different criteria and therefore more fairly.

Personally, I consider most data art to be pretty bad art, and furthermore if it doesn't function as a decent data vis, then it is usually also meaningless as art. There's far too much of images being made intentionally confusing to convey the idea that the data is complex, rather than working to simplify. The "art" examples in the article fall into this category, IMO.

Of course, this depends on the image we're talking about, and it depends on what the artist or scientist was trying to achieve, but my own gut reaction is that trying to separate vis from art more carefully isn't something I think would help a lot.

"Design" is the name for the middle ground between form and function, and a good design for a data-vis-art image, or anything else, is usually defined as something that scores highly for both form and function. Personally, I would like to see both data art and data vis evaluated on a design scale by default, unless there are good reasons not to. Good data vis should be aesthetic, and good data art should be meaningful.
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import/export duties.
It would have been nice —having noticed your mindlessness after clicking— that you not mindlessly comment too.

If you work at the sort of place where a "bit of knee" isn't tolerated, I think you need to stop working in the Victorian times.

If you're just worried about the words, "without clothes" is in the title here. That should be enough for anybody infer that there might at least be discussion about nudity.
I think the argument about consciousness is vacuous. Searle admits we might create an AI which acts 100% like a human in every way.

Nothing Searle says stands in the way of creating intelligent or super-intelligent entities. All Searle is saying is those entities won't be conscious.

No can prove this claim today. But more significantly I think it's extremely likely no one will ever prove the claim. Consciousness is a private subjective experience. I think it's likely you simply cannot prove it exists or doesn't exist.

Mankind will create a human-level robots and we'll watch them think and create and love and cry and we'll simply not know what their conscious experience is.

Even if we did prove it one way or the other, the popular opinion would be unaffected.

Some big chunk of people will insist robots are conscious entities who feel pain and have rights. And some big chunk of people will insist they are not conscious.

It might be our final big debate. An abstruse proof is not going to change anyone's mind. Look at how social policies are debated today. Proof is not a factor.
No worries - the only thing I did was slide the time forward by a couple of hours - it was rendering ok before that :-)
Really? Is that a real thing? (I'm a tech recruiter in Chicago) If I recruit someone good I don't expect them to nail the first interview. Sometimes they do and that's great but more often then not it takes some fine tuning. I'm not going to give up on them after one interview.

Half of my job is helping developers with their soft skills. I see tons of guys who can do anything that's asked of them but they just cant interview well. Some people are really bad at telling interviewers what they want to hear, some people are bad at sounding excited about what they have been working on, and some people are really bad at talking to people they dont know.

After first round interviews I sit down with managers and ask specifically why they were a yes or a no. If he tells me it was a technical problem then I get as many specifics so the developer can fill in the gaps for the next interview. If it's a personality thing then I'll work with that developer so they can nail the next interview.

I've had maybe 2 managers ever be sheepish about telling me why a developer was a yes or a no.
The current release available on the website is based on Debian Wheezy and was released in January. A new release, with a completely re-written desktop, based on Ubuntu will be coming out next month.

The wikipedia page is out of date in many places
On the sorry state of filesharing
I wonder what the data protection implications of this are? I presume there are many. You're storing personal information on people, possibly transfering it to another businesses, analysing it and using it to make decisions....
How Meta is this?
The most popular alternative bulb is the GE Link bulb. Roughly the same price as the hue lux bulbs but brighter, and available in more stores (in my experience.)
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That sounds so little. Just having two 50W lightbulbs shining 24x7 would be slightly more than that in a year.
On the printer point, I once bought a 3rd-party cartridge for a Dell laser printer that not only didn't work but actually broke the printer (it stopped recognising all cartridges in that slot).

The first question they asked on the phone was whether I'd used a 3rd-party cartridge. I said yes.

The second question was where I'd like the free replacement printer delivered (now with added WiFi, and a full set of cartridges). Painful for Dell, but I'll buy from them again.
Unlike Dropwizard, it is really intended for an asynchronous model of development. You don't have to worry about pushing the concurrency limits of an OS by starting thousands of threads if your application has a high ratio of callouts (disk, network IO) to computation (CPU), as is common with a lot of microservices. I guess this approach works best if your app's dependencies are convenient for asynchronous calls as well - HTTP, Cassandra, etc.
It's true, but wouldn't you receive extraordinary amount of misplaced calls anyway?

I remember discussing with a website support guy who would get calls about printers not working, screen flickering and claims about some other unrelated websites that he didn't even know existed.

There is of course tweaks that can be made to a product to reduce the amount of support calls, but misplaced blame should be par for the course whatever you do.
Users don't uniformly select ASCII characters but generally we accept 1 char of password length === 8 bits of entropy.
Houston, TX is both very hot and very humid. It can exceed 30C for 4-5 months out of the year and it will be dreadfully humid for much of that time. A/C is virtually required to do anything productive.
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I don't see it as him complaining about the OneDrive requirement per se, but about how that means that since OneDrive doesn't have a Linux client, he's forced to use the web interface, which then forces him to suffer through repeated attempts to try to get him to download OneDrive clients even though platform isn't supported.
The first "smiley face" on ALT-1 is actually the ASCII character SOH "start of heading"; many things that might otherwise accept Unicode will properly filter that out because ASCII control codes are illegal in a wide variety of otherwise-accepting contexts.

But it is a great QA check on any text field, which should either cleanly reject it in some manner [1] XOR accept it and process it "correctly" for whatever that means locally,
but not something in between.

[1]: A lot of Unicode processing nowadays puts in the Unicode replacement character for unknown characters, but for the ASCII control codes I'd say you've often got a solid security case to say "Someone's just trying to screw with the system, we'll just filter it out entirely" for them. Excepting the ones we still use, basically \r \n \t, there's not much reason to keep them. (Think twice about \v "vertical tab" and think three times about letting \b "backspace"s through. Inconsistent behaviors by various layers of code are scary.)
Assuming the participants for both the experimental and control groups are randomly selected (it says they'll be recruiting 1k low-income families for use as the experiment and control), genetics should be pretty effectively ruled out as a variable.
> Amazed, I ask Hotz what it felt like the first time he got the car to work.

>“Dude,” he says, “the first time it worked was this morning.”

I can't tell if this is a joke or unbridled hubris. Either way, self driving cars seem like a new hacker space.
No, we do not. Six is a much better estimate (26 times 2+10 = 62, close to 64), and that's still for a uniformly-random selection, which many passwords are not even close to.
Maybe you legitimately weren't a good fit? I'm not being facetious, but "the SVP was an idiot and made a terrible call despite all the evidence" is possible but not the most likely scenario.

Maybe someone with exactly your skillset and experience was hired, hated it, and quit after 6 months. Maybe one of the other people you interviewed with mentioned an offhand comment you made and it soured the SVP's expectation. Maybe they just got served divorce papers and were shitting on everyone that day?

It's so random that I don't even try to second-guess or deconstruct the non-technical side anymore. It happens or it doesn't.
That's pretty much exactly how it worked, with the piston internal to the cartridge, rather than the weapon http://worldweapon.info/patron-762x415-sp-4
The microconditions are tricky, but yes there is business there. We've done a few proof of concepts using CV + ML/statistics in the area of storm tracking.

Do you have any insight into what the electrical utilities companies are doing these days in terms of weather forecasting?
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Stole it from the Dice ads all over town
Any pointers where we could look? (we are not designers..)
This is wasted effort IMHO. The killer app of Office is Excel and NOTHING has come close to replacing it.

In India, almost all laptop manufacturers give the option of preloaded Ubuntu. Yet people choose to pay for Windows - for either Excel or Photoshop.

I would pay a large sum of money for a compatible spreadsheet. It is well worth doing a startup around.

Everything else - Word or PowerPoint already has reasonable substitutes. Even if it is as simple as a PDF doc.

But there is no substitute for Excel.
I think you're being overzealous. Literally all of one's actions are predicated on the environment one is in, and we live in a society where the less money one has the fewer options one has. Someone with your extreme attitude is just willfully blind to their relationship to the rest of society. I'm not sure what anyone gains out of such a mindset.
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"proprietary centralized system that can block or cut them off for any reason"

Chat and ChatOps aren't going anywhere, and Slack already has a gaggle of nascent competitors, both commercial and OSS.

If you build on Facebook or Twitter and they tell you to pound sand, it's game over. If Slack does the same, you can add support for everyone else - if you haven't already.

You aren't building a "Slack app," you're building a chat app which happens to support the Slack API. Huge difference.
I incorrectly assumed the word coder denotes a male programmer.

The bias is very strong and real.

Anyway, judging from the website, I would say there are only males.
Well, the printers part is kind of wrong - of course it is a printers fault - if it sabotages the cartridges
Why not, I wonder? Xen has supported migration for close to a decade now. I assume they don't use a compatible storage layer?
"As neuroscientists, we believe that nothing could be further from the truth. We know that the developing brain is very malleable. We believe that the differences we reported are largely the result of experience, and have every reason to believe that by changing those experiences—through preventive measures or interventions—we can change children’s trajectories for the better"

That's an awful lot of belief and very little inquiry concerning the genetics behind results as reported.
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That warning means the hue is having trouble talking to that bulb. It may be turned off at the switch, out of range, or removed from service.
I guess ink atlas comes closest to trying to create a canonical atlas in paper of the world.
Is Skype using SIP? I thought they were using their own proprietary protocol?
Actually, you don't even need to use a verb here. 我很酷（Wǒ hěn kù）is enough.
This is probably something you didn't learn yet.
You should think of it as a sort of tarzan-talk: "Me very cool!".
If you use 是, you actually put on emphasis on the sentence. Like: "You're not cool.", "I AM cool!".
Honestly, so what?! We've survived through 30 years of computing with this and somehow the big brands didn't implode. Why do we start compromising future technology due to some minority refusing to understand the basics of how their stuff works?

People calling tech support are a minority of users and do not represent the full market. It's really strange that smart people here are actually proposing making the product worse due to some loud incompetent individuals.
I'm not sure what the interface looks like, but if it's a GUI with icons representing each bulb, and users see it every day or at least any time they want to troubleshoot, they could put a little yellow warning mini-icon inside each non-hue and non-friend bulb icon. It could have a tooltip or something with the "learn more" that reminds the user.
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I've always thought that the Chinese Room proved just the opposite of what Searle thinks it does.

I think of it this way:

I have two rooms: one has a person who doesn't speak Chinese in it, but they have reference and books that allow them to translate incoming papers into Chinese perfectly.

The second room just someone who speaks Chinese, and can translate anything coming in perfectly.

Searle says that AIs are like person in room one: they don't know Chinese.

I would argue that is the wrong way to look at things. A better comparison is that an AI is like the system of room 1, which does know Chinese, and from observation is indistinguishable from the system of room 2. What's going on inside (a human with Chinese reference books vs a human who knows Chinese) doesn't matter, it's just internal processing.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck.

If a machine claims to be conscious, and I can't tell it apart from another conscious being, who am I to say it isn't conscious?
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Many of the concepts we built into Symphony have since become common in major desktop and mobile environments such as fullscreen menus and hot corners. The project started in 2004 when I as a web developer wanted to start playing in the Desktop space and decided to give it a shot with the tools I knew. These days it's a personal side project that I wish I had more time for. I do not have any videos of the new build in action, just the screenshots on the project's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SymphonyOS/ I'll see what I can do about that this weekend when I am back into it. The new build is coming together but I am not trying to convince anyone that this is what they should use. It's a fun personal hobby at least until more developers get involved.
I don't know that this model will work for consumer hardware. Hue isn't marketed as a "dumb" lightbulb, and people aren't going to appreciate paying more for less service than they get with a 100w incandescent.
Thanks but that asset is pretty worthless here.
A list of ridiculous startup ideas I saw one day had "automated processing of confessional secrets" on it. I guess it's no longer ridiculous.
The database only has convicted thieves in their Database, so in theory they've already served their time for their crime. The problems is that they are then put on an apparently un-auditable list maintained by a private company, and discriminated against.
Frank Partnoy's FIASCO, Das' Traders, Guns & Money. Also Victor Niederhoffer's Education of a Speculator.
>I'll certainly learn nothing at all from it.

You can surely learn more by reading lyrics to a song than by listening to it - does that make music a lesser medium than writing?
> Correlation does not imply causation.

https://xkcd.com/552/

"Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'."

The article, incidentally, acknowledges this aspect of things. "The only way to really test that is to move beyond correlational studies and conduct experiments."

> "Its not your fault you dont do anything with your life, its what you were born into" is dumb as hell.

Few make that argument. The more nuanced and accurate version is "it's not shocking people with more obstacles to success fail more frequently".
> 6 on-sites

I don't understand the point of multiple (or very long) interviews. If they can't decide after the first 30 minutes if the candidate is hirarable, they probably won't.

It's an illusion to think that interview environments relate directly to workplace performance. Interviews are mostly useful for the subjective parts than for grilling candidates in hopes of avoiding a bad hire. Going through all the hoops and knowing all the things doesn't make for a good employee. Not unless you're being hired as a robot worked in some factory floor.

Also, unlike what seems to be the general idea elsewhere on this thread, soft skills are very important, I argue even more important than hard skills. If you have any ability to learn (which may be considered a soft skill) you can pick up almost any technology and implement almost any algorithm. Not so if you lack the ability to relate to you coworkers, work effectively as a team, or clearly communicate your ideas.

You can learn tools, but you either have the right attitude or you don't.