skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to see what's around the corner for this argument.

Sure they can go to congress and push for increased funding or whatever for their top cases. Which gives congress a tangible budget number that could be "saved" by passing a law, but politics/congress doesn't really work this way - spending money benefits the administrating critters, the FBI, and the contractors doing the work.

Furthermore, $1M is essentially a small amount and obviously "worth it" for the major sensational events that they'd use to push through backdoors. So it seems they're actually giving up ground by having to move the argument to the urgency for backdoors in cases that aren't worth $1M.

I can see the argument playing for fiscal-primacy authoritarians who would take this as an example of government waste, but they'd already support government backdoors and I don't see this riling them up enough to be worth it.

It seems like a dead-end for propaganda purposes. What am I missing?

Maybe they're just trying to salt the earth so that their technical success in this case does not hinder them arguing for backdoors next time?
Except the other cases haven't been dropped, and this case was perhaps the one most sympathetic to the government (terror).
I believe you were downvoted because you were factually inaccurate about the presence of scientific studies in medicine especially. Controlled, double-blind, repeatable (from a population standpoint) studies are something medicine is good at. Note that there are counter-examples of medical studies which were poorly conducted, but realize that they are the exception not the rule.
If you can guarantee that non-Agile teams never have deliverables required for Agile teams (and it sounds like such a guarantee is something you strive for), then this seems reasonable. But it seems very fragile if you can't guarantee that condition.

"Do what you feel is best" is the right attitude, so at least it suggests you treat employees as grown-ups. But I would worry how that "do what you feel is best" property could possibly trickle down to subordinates within Agile teams.
When you have optimized your company structure, culture etc for one type of output, it is not easy to do things that are entirely different. It will either deliver a compromised "new" output, or (even worse), compromise the output that is the mainstay of the company.

Google could not just become a wildly profitable Apple-style "hardware first" company overnight (or, arguably, ever).

Conversely, we have all seen Apple struggling to deliver cloud services that are reliable and desirable (beyond their integration into Apple's ecosystem) since the days of iTools and MobileMe..
I can't KNOW it, which is why I said, "By all accounts".
Given that they found no relevant information on his work phone, exactly as experts and reasonable amateurs and common men predicted, how was it "worth it" as he claims? Is it that wasting huge sums of taxpayer money while attacking civil rights and attempting to instantiate a police surveillance state with no privacy is simply "worth it" no matter what, even if pointless?
I'm glad I read the whole article, as it's great to see a lot of familiar faces highlighted in the logo slide towards the end - I'm immensely proud of what we've achieved at Overleaf[1] (although with still a long way to go), and it's great to see Sparrho[2] and Impact Story[3] also included in this piece.

There's a huge amount of innovation happening in science tech right now, and it's amazing how far it's come in just a few years.

For anyone in London interested in new developments in science and publishing tech, were hosting an event on May 10th you're welcome to attend - would love to see new faces there: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/futurepub-7-new-developments-in...

[1] https://www.overleaf.com

[2] https://www.sparrho.com

[3] https://impactstory.org
Yea if monsanto was really concerned, someone(s) will probably die in a plane crash in the next few months.
You need a smart card to access those applications.
Do you operate in a market where a landlord mostly self-manages their own properties as opposed to go through an agency?
There is no indication that it wasn't what had been claimed they could always do, and that's physically clone NAND gates. Remember, the FBI wasn't after data in the first place, they were after a legal precedent.
How many researchers are going to give people the honest truth and say "well the initial effect of 2.5 sigma just vanished after $500k of upgrades, sorry folks". The corresponding backlash will be swift and brutal, and science as a whole will suffer.

Is the world better off because of this? I don't think so. I'm not particularly interested in being part of the crowd-funded, gig-economy version of science.
You should check hotels related search on mobile. Page 1 is ads, scroll to 2nd page and it's Google's own hotel booking module which I would argue is ad as well.
It was worth it for me, absolutely, but I was also fully-funded with a $15k stipend. I'm not sure I could have ever done it without that.
"page-enter" and "page-exit"... those bring me back.
It's a little more complicated than that though. For example, SSE/AVX instructions cause Intel CPUs to (briefly) raise power consumption considerably[1]. In some cases it may be better to avoid vector instructions when optimizing for battery life at the cost of speed.

Also being smart about rendering (particularly for web, poorly written animations can run smoothly but kill battery life) can dramatically affect battery life even without affecting execution speed particularly much. They are separate, though closely related, concepts.

1. See e.g. http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/... p.1 ¶2
Sadly, he's the general exception. Extraction industry is pretty horrible in terms of regulatory capture.
From Uber to Eric Schmidt, tech is closer to the US government than you'd think
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Correct, but the market pull we are seeing is from the mid-sized property management companies.
I'll note here that the email startup Acompli, started in 2013, was acquired in 2014 for $200m. Their product is now Outlook Mobile.

Gmail hasn't had nearly the stifling effect that one might assume!
Interesting, what are some countries that do this? I'm also not sure how a Ph.D. can be conferred without a research component, but that's a US-centric view I'll grant you.
Companies are generally seeking to hire the latter type of engineer; you are required to become one or you don't get (decent) work.

Case in point: http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/download/Recruiting%20Giants.pd...
Because fines provide revenue?
> But I would worry how that "do what you feel is best" property could possibly trickle down to subordinates within Agile teams.

Simple, we don't have subordinates (at least as far as I know). Netflix only hires Sr. devs and then empowers them.
yeah, you're right. my bad.
To me they seem to be a step behind. Maybe they're just too old.
Thank you. So far, we targeted smaller, citizen landlords (few units) but a lot of sign-ups are medium sized (100 to 500 units) property management companies.
The NSA is far more than the credit bureaus of the 19th century. Credit bureaus only monitor your credit. The NSA monitors you entire digital life.
Nothing can go wrong. And if it does: Pivot.
Since when did the FBI care about spending money that they get from taxpayers?
There is no non-PhD pathway into biomed research that leads to career advancement beyond the drone level [1]. If you do get a PhD, there are few jobs, relative to the number of graduates. All in all, I'd advise against it, unless you have a very specific love of the field, and can handle a modest, academic lifestyle in exchange for working very hard at what you do. And for that, the drone-level jobs are perfect for testing the waters: you should get a job in industry first, and if you decide that you love it, get a PhD.

Also, beware the "$TOPIC is expanding rapidly" trap: synthetic biology is merely the buzzword of the moment. When I started, it was computational biology. Later, genomics. The number of opportunities created by these booms has never kept up with the hype waves that preceded them.

[1] There is, however, a pathway for "business" people who enter biomed. But I'm assuming you're not interested in this, and in any case, getting a PhD won't help you with it.
A simple puzzle
A simple puzzle that's not so simple to solve. If you have any doubts about the rules please let me know in the comments.

http://marioqwe.github.io/
HNs favorite government shill getting a little upset? Poor baby, in sure the mods will clean up the mess for you.
Shareholders don't deserve protection like that. I understand that giant corporations are not particularly run by shareholders, but if someone dumps their money into something and doesn't pay attention to it, it's fine to make them feel the consequences of not paying attention.
Submitted twice earlier today:

129 points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11542664

105 points (discussion is here): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11542568
Well, I was paid for the first five years of my PhD... and then I dropped off :)
Patenting life is the problem. Seeds should be free and open source.

Monsanto, Dupont, BASF et. al. seed manufactures exploit a court case started by General Electric when they wanted to patent bacteria to clean up oil spills. The US Patent office didn't allow patents on biological material. GE won this case...and then dropped research on the bacteria because it turned out to be horribly damaging to the environment and pretty useless as a product.

This opened the window for many other countries allowing similar patents. Seeds, which were once open and bread in many universities or by individual communities of farmers, were now a totally for-profit capitalistic institution.

Monsanto is evil. They go after farmers who have their crops infected by Monsanto products due to basic wind and cross-pollination. Once a judge rules the seeds have patented DNA, farmers have to dump all their collected seed supply.

You are spewing the official garbage line nonsense. It has nothing to do with science or the safety of GMO (which is an entirely different issue). It has to do with something that was once commons and community now being closed and for-profit for no damn good reason or benefit.
I know about 40 doctors (wife is a doctor), and only two of them have PhD in addition to their MD.
Still, if Bernie did manage to get elected, that would be a clear message to the SEC that the public supports a more vigorous enforcement policy.

Even if all he does is make Hillary very nervous before losing the primary to her, I would hope that would still get the SEC's attention as well as hers.
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There isn't any great mystery here: it's regulatory capture. It's a well understood public choice problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice

What's interesting to me is that quite smart people would expect the SEC to act otherwise.
Should't juniors be afraid of gaining experience in a mediocre field (to them; say web development) then not being able to switch to another field?
If you wonder what LLDB is [0]...

[0]: http://lldb.llvm.org/
You don't vet your contractors?
I started something similar for Bootstrap 3, but more interactive so you can select different options for each type of element.

https://hanniabu.com/Velcro

Let me know if I should update to Bootstrap 4 and continue development. Feedback is welcome!
I read Dune many years ago and I think I remember reading another book that may have taken place in the same world, but I'm not sure. Why?
Jacquard was neat, my favorites were Vault and Soli though.
It's an informative example of social signalling masquerading as analysis. There's a TED-ish evangelical enthusiasm for drawing analogies between ideas that aren't really analogous, an appeal to authority (science[tm]), some drastic oversimplifications of complex ideas, and a zinger at the end.

But unless you believe that technology is an evolving lifeform that has its own parasitic political agenda - always possible, but hard to support without evidence - the problems of capitalism and technology are about opportunity distribution, not about whether software runs in a loop.

There's no invisible silicon hand at work. It's still all about some people making decisions, and about other people who are excluded from that process.
Yes, many economists aspired to make their studies more similar to physics in the early 20th century, to the point that there were interesting devices such as hydraulic computers made to model macroeconomics. Later in the 20th century, economists became more interested in statistics, and the majority of academic economists appear to remain most interested in using advanced statistics to model and predict behaviour. There are other economists who have based their study on basic assumptions and reasoning.
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> But the biggest reason is simple and terrifying: because it is fun.

This is a great reason to do it. For me, I consider it getting my retirement in at the beginning of my career. I did something for several years just because I wanted to.
Er, what? There are some combined MD–PhD programs, but I'm under the impression the vast majority of MDs do not have PhDs.
You can't block ads with streaming services or other captive audiences. They seen well positioned in this regard.
One point that has not been made here yet: Because you enjoy doing research and teaching more than you would working in a 9-5 office job!

I'm approaching the end of a 4 year PhD and so far do not miss the world of work too much. But ask me again in a year...
The stretching to be honest. I used to meditate, but these days I only really do it I can't fall asleep, or need to fast forward my brain getting over some bad experience I've had. For a productivity boost, I'd definitely go with yoga for more 'bang for your buck' per say; I'm probably on the mat for roughly 5-10 mins, a couple of times a day or more (depending on frustration levels!)

Intense exercise is also good, but it gives a different result than Yoga, seeing as you are pushing yourself to the limit. Yoga is more about calming your body, centering yourself, getting the immune system moving and so on.
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> Improving the sign-up funnel speed on our app by one second resulted in a 11% increase in signups.

I have hard time believing this is the sole reason that caused the increase.
That's absolutely true even excluding the small HFT shops that pay loads of money (> £100k/year). I'd prefer to stay away from them because I want to spend my energy trying to make the world a better place. =)
The finance industry scares me a bit mainly because I consider it to be a high risk job having loads of legacy software and changing that sort of code is scary for many reasons including the amount of undefined/implementation defined behaviours present in languages like C and C++.
Obviously it was not. You could get prescriptions from corrupt doctors without actually seeing them or fulfilling the requirements for those drugs.

Basically you filled a form and they issued a prescription which then affiliated pharmacies filled.
I don't need to store all my shirts! I just need enough room in my closet for an AbstractShirtFactoryBean!
Don't you think you're overreacting just a bit?

You had your resume somewhere it could be "harvested" -- and you're alarmed that a staffing agency found it?

Security basics?

Have you tried calling them? According to this yelp page (http://www.yelp.com.au/biz/mountainview-tech-staffing-los-al...), they're open right now.
>, the majority of time spent is within the system libraries (in most situations). So the language of the driver code (i.e., your stuff) doesn't have much impact on app performance.

Is this really true or is it a perception based on being in whatever respective bubble filter we're in? E.g. if one is an Apple developer for a corporate backoffice, one does CRUD stuff on iOS. But if one is not in that situation, one thinks performance matters.

If we take a look at top paid apps at: http://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/paid-apps/

... one sees a lot of games and some image manipulation apps (facetune, faceswap, video editor, etc). These types of apps require tight loops outside of system libs and performance tuning. I see a few CRUD apps on that list such as HotSchedules and maybe the fitness apps which probably don't need ultratight performance loops.
$10 per click for Google's US search traffic is not outrageous.
Upvoted for the funny Adam Smith reference.
That would be great. I can not use Kit for this exact reason.
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> In STEM, if you don't get a financial offer along with your acceptance letter, then you've actually been politely rejected.

This is important. I thought at the time that I accepted that it was due to the massive budget cuts happening in California, and the UC's were undergoing furloughs.

Oops.
You're not wrong. Philly really does fly under the radar, but they're there. The only "startup" I know with an office in Pittsburgh is Uber.
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The law seems clear to me, tbh. There is a pipeline: writers -> performers -> recorders. In absence of specific contracts, all three groups have to agree in order to enable distribution/reproduction of the final work in its entirety; if one says no, the whole thing is called off. Writers can still re-sell their writing, performers can re-perform it and so on, but the original recording just cannot be released.

(Obviously, in most cases there are actual agreements hammering out various angles, like recorders or performers actually being configured as "work for hire" in order to take them out of the copyright pipeline altogether. But that's another story.)
(Post author here.) Yes, FP16 has been supported in NVIDIA GPUs as a texture format "forever" -- since before it was incorporated into the IEEE 754 standard. Indeed what is new in GP100 is hardware ALU support (and note denormals are full speed, which is even more important for lower precision formats).
I love deleting code, but to do this comfortably I really like to have very high* code coverage.

There is nothing more enjoyable than deleting a big chunk of cruftiness and then watching all the regression tests come back green.

*very high meaning covering all rational execution paths
Yes, they are:
http://www.wordstream.com/articles/most-expensive-keywords
I have a 2013, and I didn't see one either.
Or py2 via # -- coding: utf-8 --
Thanks, now I'm missing the Mission... =/
This is the kind of guy you need for president.
Hi Pieter,

I did a small PoC for my team using zeromq a few years ago. The performance was way above other related systems.

Thank you for your contributions.
>>How is it propaganda if all that you said it's true?

That's a good question as it raises a very important point, namely, the weakness of capitalism. But what I think is this weakness of capitalism can and must be tackled from within the capitalism. Sadly, at this moment, at least in the US we are not seeing any serious efforts being done in this direction.

>>With all your fear mongering ideas of communism...

Time and again, communism and Marxism have demonstrated how vicious these ideas are: e.g. the mass killings and suffering of people in China, Russia. See these [1], [2].

The fear is not baseless, whereas the "free market economy based democracy" has been seen to be the best societal structure ever existed. I don't mean it can't be made better but that improvement can certainly not be brought by turning to Marxism [3].

>>but not everything should be treated "vicious propaganda"

I agree with you to some extent here as not everything should be treated "vicious propaganda". (That's why I upvoted it.)

But it can be seen clearly that communists and Marxists are trying to take advantage of such things by creating "propaganda" items like 99% vs 1%; and trying to sway the public opinion in their favor. This is vicious because they are trying to portrait everyone within the top 1% to be vicious while demanding "free rides" (in the Marxist style) for everyone within the 99%, whereas we can see that only some people at the extreme top are doing somethings wrong. And thus with such propaganda these people are trying to kill the very "free market economy based democracy" itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Marxism
(Post author here.) Curious to hear more details about your workload, because a 5+-year-old Fermi would truly be hard pressed to outperform Maxwell or even a Kepler K40, let alone Pascal.
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I think this is the crux of where I started to disagree with her:

> In fact, only 5% of U.S. High schools even offer the Computer Science AP exam in the first place. As a result, many women...

I don't understand why this affects only women. Or more importantly, affects women (and minorities) more than other groups.

There are social stigmas and the like we could examine, but this particular quote as written reads as a non-sequitur to me.

Edit: Just to clarify, I don't want to belittle the very real disparities we are facing in the tech industry. Also worth noting, I thought she was articulate and I appreciated her sources and statistics.
"The government" is not one organization.
In corn at least, hybrid vigor usually means the 2nd generation crop isn't very good and farmers almost always buy new seed every year. This isn't true for all crops, but for corn, buying new seed was common long before GMOs.

http://passel.unl.edu/pages/informationmodule.php?idinformat...
> The crop produced from open-pollinated seed harvested from a single-cross hybrid will not be as productive as the original single cross.
Next time, just link:

https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.htm...
I block ads because "native" ad producers like Taboola, Outbrain, Revcontent, ... you get the point. These advertising companies like to show NSFW content at the end of news articles at some sites. Therefore I block ads for the same reason I block pornographic sites.

This was pretty liberating because before "native" ads I felt a pang of guilt for blocking ads.

If Google wants to stop ad blockers they should hide sites that use these obnoxious "native" ad networks.
TL;DR;

they are inept and impotent.
A Notable Omission
Thanks, this looks interesting!
> Patenting life is the problem. Seeds should be free and open source.

Why? Developing new biological technology is no different than developing other kinds of technology. It's difficult, expensive, and if you don't give the people that put in the effort and money to do it then it will never get done in the first place.
Are you using the laptop mode tools or tlp? Any packages in particular that you would recommend to reduce power consumption?

BTW, my VM was running Windows and that's probably why it drained my batter so quickly.
Why are doctors corrupt if they just fulfill the need of the clients? The clients know what they need, but having a "big visit" to the doctor would cost more. This is a compromise. The doctor spends less time, charges less but wins on the volume.

If the clients use the medicines legally (e.g. for themselves) and know what they need I don't see a problem.
They could have made seeds sterile.