skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that it is absolutely possible and that often the amount of new things to learn won't be that much different than if you would stay on high level but move into a completely different business domain.

As some minimum requirements I would say you should have some solid C and C++ knowledge and a good understanding of how computers work in general (what are cpu, memory, etc. doing, what are interrupts, processes/threads/scheduling/synchronization, common bus systems like uart, i2c or spi, ...).

If someone is looking for a very specific/niche skill set, then they most likely won't find a suitable employee. So for me it would totally be ok if someone is not yet an expert in the domain but is very motiviated to learn it and if he doesn't expect to get expert position in the beginning.

From your perspective it might also make sense to make some gradual transition where you still can partly leverage some of your existing skills. E.g. working on embedded devices that are powered by web interfaces (lots of them in the meantime), where you find everything from developing user-space applications which utilize a vast amount of networking down to kernel stuff. Moving directly to deeply embedded stuff (FPGA code, DSP programs, feedback control systems) might make less sense, because you would need more of an EE background for it.

Regarding your question if we directly know someone: Where are you located and how fixed are you on that?
When have they ever been considered innovative? Virtually every successful product has been either copied from or bought outright from another company. The only real exception I can think of is OneNote (which preceded EverNote by 5 years).
More.

From "them."
Ok I'll feed the troll.

I've excitedly watched what Apple has done in the last 10 years (and exclusively use Apple devices in my home, and have convinced many family members to switch).

But as a technologist who likes to see companies with great resources move fast, to me MS has been much more exciting lately as a tech company than Apple.

We are seeing the manifestation of the new Satya Nadella decree, which went from "prop up Windows at any cost" to just "build stuff people like."

We're constantly seeing these kinds of things come out of MS now, and I can't help but see that it must be a really exciting time to be an MS employee right now, judging by the sheer amount of experimentation going on.
I boil it down to a terrible analogy of a framework being like a bad date: "Don't call me, I'll call you."
Plus all the people that need to run Windows in VMs or Bootcamp. And ultimately, what would they gain by switching to ARM? ARM isn't yet better at the types of chips being integrated into MacBooks, let alone iMacs and Mac Pros.
Netflix on holiday is a number one use case for me.
It looks like they are just trying to limit abuse during a rollout. Forcing a "work" or "school" email to try and hold back anonymous signups.

You can pre check an email with their embedded ajax call:

https://flow.microsoft.com/providers/Internal.User/users/use...

If the JSON comes back with "consumerDomain":true, then it won't allow the signup.

They don't seem to be catching all free email services. At the moment, it appears you could sign up for a free Yandex email and get signed up for Flow:

https://flow.microsoft.com/providers/Internal.User/users/som...
Google has a crazy idea for injecting a computer into your eyeball
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NVidia's NVCC has performance & compile time issues with Tensorflow.[1]

NVCC vs GPUCC benchmarks 8% - 250% slower compilation & 3.7% - 51% slower runtimes.[2]

Google use GPUCC internally so weren't optimising for NVCC.

LLVM based GPUCC is the 1st fully open source toolchain for CUDA.

Google announced that the guts of GPUCC will make their way into CLANG.

[1] https://plus.google.com/+VincentVanhoucke/posts/6RQmgqcmx2d
[2] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub45226.html
Nope, that's not how it works. I just had a look to see how it's done and submitted a pull request to update the git cheatsheet - that's a JSON file, and you add a link to the source.

Have a look at the pull request here:

https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/pull/296...
Why This Is Probably the Most Important Acquisition for Facebook
In the short term, yes, but long term, deficits will put an upward pressure on tax revenue, so you'll end up paying more in the end (than you would have if other people paid more taxes).
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I think this is the most worrisome thing from Intel's perspective. Fighting off "good enough" (in both mobile and enterprise/data center).

It always seemed like the hyper-scale vendors' roadmap had to include "And when Intel reaches the end of process scaling, switch to lower-cost commodity vendor CPU" at some point in the future.

ARM x86 partnerships are one source. But resurrecting and improving other ISAs is another.

Of course, this reorg may be Intel putting all their chips into the data center basket to ensure they're always more competitive. Because, hats off to everyone there, they can work chip magic when they have to.
Because doing it in smaller pieces would enable more oversight than doing it in one chunk.

I agree that it is subjective as to how detailed to get at the congressional level, but the person running my arbitrary close air support mission can go to congress and explain how much support they can provide at a certain funding level. Congress can clearly reason about that and base decisions about increasing or decreasing the budget on what sort of capability seems reasonable.

In this case, Congress is mandating maintenance of the aircraft whether the military uses them or not. That's moronic.
Those numbers sounds wildly off to me. I'd be shocked if even 10% of MacBooks are ever used for software development of any kind. They are mostly used for web browsing and Office.
You can't send an action "deal 1000 damage." The client says "shoot in that direction" the server determines what damage, if any, occurs.
Well, that's fine if you just want another search engine, but DDG seems to be trying to be ethical in it's dealings, so I figured they might want to consider how they impact upon others.

If they start tracking me to achieve "feature parity", that's sort of one less feature I can do without!
As first impressions go, the first sentence of OP is pretty bizarre; "For every dollar appropriated to the IRS the public collects more than $4 in taxes."

Missing a couple zeros there? The IRS annual budget is $11.2B and total federal revenue is about $7 trillion.... As far as meaningless stats go that's a factor of 625x, not 4x.

Talk about blowing any credibility from the start!
These new apps are UWP based so a lot of things, such as access to the whole file system, running processes, etc. is not possible as the app is sandboxed.
"My" objections? Alrighty then.
Isn't that the truth. I've written a lot of tools in different languages for clients to interact with SharePoint Online, and the whole "submit your credentials to this central place for all of office online" thing bugs me. But SAML is more "enterprisey" than OAuth, I guess. That's how it seems from my end, anyway, living in an enterprise Microsoft world while running mostly open source tools on Macs and Linux.
Gmail was also originally a traditional webapp - in the early versions Javascript added to the experience, but there were still page transitions when viewing emails and composing new emails.

Opinion time: I miss that version. There's so many bells and whistles on Gmail now that I prefer to use a local mail client to logging in and attempting to work through all the clutter to do basic things like viewing and replying to emails.
I think this nails it. In many ways, Microsoft is playing catch-up with Apple, Google, and Facebook. But they have good momentum right now. I, for one, am happy with the Nadella era.
The companies may have to raise prices on normal services to make up for it.

I haven't seen the profits they're making so I don't know if they're going to have to, but they may.

People often overestimate corporate profits. They hear some company made two billion dollars in profits and start going "ohmygersh what rapacious capitalists", until you notice that they made two billion in profit on fifty-two billion in revenue while employing fifty thousand people. Making two cents of profit on 52 cents of transaction probably doesn't sound quite as bad, and then when you realize that if their costs were merely 4% higher it would have wiped out all their profit (and put the 50,000 employees at risk), and you probably come to a better understanding of the situation. So, what kind of cost increase for the companies is this going to be? I don't know.

Also, I don't mean that "a better understanding of the situation" means that you'll always feel sorry for the big companies, or something; I just mean you'll get a more realistic view of the situation in general, which is good regardless of your goals.

I made the numbers up, but the orders of magnitude are reasonable. There are some very large companies that make more than ~5% profit, but it's actually not a large list; 5% is not that uncommon.
As below, I agree that it is subjective as to what is meddling.

I think setting a budget based on a high level discussion is what Congress is supposed to be doing. The military side can explain what capabilities they can get with a certain budget, Congress can decide if that is a reasonable level of capability and set the budget at the requested level or lower or even higher.
Agree, and I would actually gladly exchange my Android devices by WP ones, given the developer experience. I really don't get where do all those PhDs at Google work, surely not on Android dev tools.

But Microsoft might still win the space of productive tablets, as I am yet to find one as good as the Surface.
That's not what the word "voluntary" actually means.
I think what maybe tripping people here is your use of the word machine learning. Personally, as you're using it is how it should actually be used: applied statistics. However, a lot of people think of machine learning as a collection of algorithms they can use to make predictions about some given dataset. Use sklearn to model.fit(xtrain, ytrain) and model.train(xtest, ytest). I personally blame Coursera and the online courses for this trend.
Aw, they switched from fixed maximum tariffs, to maximum surcharges. This means that now it'll actually be more expensive to use my phone abroad. Currently, the maximum tariffs are lower than the rates charged at home, for me.
It's unfortunate, because the rest of his comment was relatively constructive.
You're assuming a large overlap between top 10% income and top 10% wealth. I'm not able to find great data on this, with most sources just focusing on one or the other. It seems to me though that many of the wealthiest individuals, including those drawing down retirement savings, probably have low W2 income.
wow... the grammar... what on earth did i write...
Or just trying truecrypt once and typing "asdfdlcwgnvldtrobiaedtpaeoaeuodtrn1234567hgr" as the passphrase, leaving the container in your tmp folder. I really hope (and guess) there is more evidence here about the probable contents.
This is a real moral dilemma for me. I served in the military, and the A-10 is simply the best manned aircraft we have for CAS. However, I also hate the defense lobby.

One one hand there's probably a job interest in keeping the A-10 running. Mac Thornberry has taken campaign donations from lots of defense contractors, including some related to the A-10: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/pacs.php?cycle=2016&c...

On the other hand, no other aircraft does what the A-10 does as well, and the Air Force would shut it down if simply given the money in a lump sum with no conditions. The defense contractors associated with the F-35 would love to replace the low-margin A-10 with their newest shiny toy even if it is not as effective.

The fact that this is a debate right now is a sad testament to the power of the defense lobby and poor defense procurement.

They ought to think ahead and refit the A-10 fleet as ground-piloted drones.
"on{X} lets you control and extend the capabilities of your Android phone using a JavaScript API to remotely program it."

Perhaps in the same space, but that's a very specific sub-niche. This new offering looks more like an actual competitor.
"I wouldn't hire you" is the quintessential Hacker News put down and I see it all the time. It's effectively saying "I disagree with you, and I want to make you feel bad by pretending I'm in a position of power over you."

Hilarious, and if a Hacker News bingo exists, it should be the free space.
48 bytes get expanded to 751. Whether you count this as 751 or 48 depends on what you want to compare.

Also, your description implies DH exchanges are zero knowledge exchanges - that there is no way to infer the private key from the public exchange - but that's not true. It is perfectly possible - in fact, in most DH variants a 1-1 transformation - except it is entirely infeasible.
I hope Google buys Yahoo and makes something out of the pieces that are somewhat valuable. Like for example, Yahoo mail is somewhat good and widely used, but can be made a lot better by Google moving that into the Gmail platform.
What I find amazing is that Mayer failed to articulate any real strategy for how Yahoo was going to succeed in the future. To me, that was her only job - get in, and find a way for Yahoo to move forward. Then execute on that strategy (hiring/firing/acquisition/etc).
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>Total service breadth (11) is presently countable on fingers

I tried, but it keeps overflowing the data type.

Edit: There are actually 31 services: http://imgur.com/a/NR7Af
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What part of voluntarily giving up their wealth defies the definition of "voluntary?"
What is the deal with Millennials, the male of the species?
RISC-V seems to be lacking on the software side, e.g. where is the upstream support for Linux, GCC, or llvm? There is support in FreeBSD, but only because one of the FreeBSD committers was able to work on this full time (I've been providing advice to him as I ported FreeBSD to arm64 & have an office next to his).

I also have issues with the fact that many parts of the ISA are optional. A general purpose OS needs some common level of support by the hardware. If it can't rely on some features it makes it difficult to support the different SoCs.
> Since when is generalizing an entire group acceptable?

Do you know what time it is?
The previous cap still applies in cases like yours.
Firstly, I didn't intend to "troll" Microsoft.

Well, I agree with the last sentence. Satya Nadella was the much needed U-turn from the Balmer era. It's just that by the standards Microsoft has set for itself, they've under-performed over the years. I'm talking about major failed experiments like Windows Vista, Lumia (or even the entire Nokia acquisition)
Well you are laundering money (which is likely illegal depending on your reason for doing so), so it'd be unreasonable not to expect there to be some risk. You're just trading off risk from government for risk from mining pool. But if you do the laundering over a series of transactions spread out in time, you are limiting your potential losses. Say you do it in fifty blocks over a week -- if the miner betrays you your maximum loss is 2%. If you don't tell the miner how much you're laundering through them (they'll just know when you are finished), and you give them an acceptable cut (say, 3%), it would be in their vested interest not to betray you because the expected value of more laundering from you is greater than what they could make by eating any one given attempt.

Also, if they are doing laundering as a service, then trust in them is very important, and screwing over one customer at the cost of potentially losing all future customers is not worth it. For instance, let's say I'm selling $5K of Bitcoin. I'm not worried too much that any given exchange is going to screw me over and eat it, because the big exchanges are doing many millions of dollars in business a day, and stand to lose a lot more from a hit to their reputation from stealing from me than they do to gain from eating my money. The only worry is if an entire exchange goes down (a la MtGox), but you can minimize that risk by not keeping money in an exchange.
Tools != goals.

The A-10 is not useful to the modern US military. If congress wants to fund something better great, but as it stands the A-10 is simply wasting Money. It's like congress is funding muskets from the revolutionary war.
The difference is, immigrants didn't cause any economic depressions.
One of the core pillars of adulthood is 'voluntarily doing things you would rather not do in the presence of obligations.'
If you look at my karma and post history you can easily find me.

I don't do trash talk, just tell my opinion as a hard truth and I stand by my opinion.

I learned through my life to stand by what I believe, without gaming up and down votes.

I would express the same opinion at Google IO, if given the opportunity to be there.
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I see this as more of a "you've wasted so much time effort and $ on this argument that we're stepping in" two of you (army, marines) say you want it, one of you wants to replace it with something that can't do it's job as well so we're going best two of three and keeping it.
Is this project related to the book: "Learn to Program with Minecraft: Transform Your World with the Power of Python" ?
http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Program-Minecraft-Transform-Pyth...
I ask because the concept appears to be substantially similar.

re: the approach -- My kids are crazy about Minecraft, and being able to build very simple python programs that modify the world (build block structures, control creatures, etc.) is much more gentle yet engaging than the typical programming 101 tasks.
Ehhh... when over 100% of your company's value is in cashlike financial instruments that it owns, it should be obvious that there's a chance doing nothing will pay better than trying to do something. The size of that chance may not be obvious, but the presence should be.
Renewables accounted for 24.7% of UK power production in 2015 [pdf]
Highly doubt that any corporation would hire her as CEO after Yahoo. I'm not blaming her for the mess it was in when she joined and she did OK, but lots and lots of talented people can be an OK CEO.
What is moronic is the Airforce has spent over a Trillion Dollars on a plane that still does not work, and wants to decommission a proven air system so it divert that money into the failed F35 program, and wants to decommission a proven air system with out having a proven replacement.

That is moronic....
Why is that exactly? I love the A-10, and so does the Army and Marines, it is by far the best CAS weapon we have. The airforce knows more about aircraft and keeping those aircraft in the air than both the army and marines. Unfortunately the A-10 is old, and no one is manufacturing replacement parts for it. So as of right now the air force is happy with AC-130 gunship and the F-15E, F35. I hate the idea of the A-10 going away, and certainly the pilots are the same way. Keeping planes in the air on old parts is a hard thing though.
Rust code is already in Firefox 45 for Mac and Linux, the one you can download right now. Should be in Windows soon. It's just a very, very small amount, but it's a start.
Oh please. She fucked her way to the top by dating Larry Page and getting ridiculous promotions.

As a developer and manager he was absolutely hated by her team members, there are multiple accounts of that.
She was too indecisive, shifted gears too often, and tried to take too many pages from her past employers.

She did everything a good executive should not do. She tried to acquire her way to growth when she couldn't stabilize the core business. She hired consultants to reaffirm things she already knew, and she spent lavishly on silly things. She was a great middle manager who was never going to be a good CEO.
This is probably naive, but is it not the case that mathematical truths, and also mathematical falses, are 'just' the provable implications of your chosen axioms? The search for philosophical truth seems to lead inexorably to the point where you are trying to persuade your peers to accept your definition of words, which perhaps can be rephrased as persuading them to accept your axioms?
How about a merger with Lycos or Excite?
I don't want to sound smug or anything, but why go abroad to watch Netflix?
Customer's pay the wages and costs of business - plurocrats reap the profits.

Socially beneficial plutocrats invest in economies, risking their capital to seek reward. Money hoarded is of no value, an economy is powered by the movement of capital.

Corruption of economies by money to escape ones tax burden is antisocial and ultimately short sighted.

The wealth of nations is a functional, fair economy.

Good goverance should keep markets fair & ensure universal access to Justice.

Weak, corruptible governments are anti capitalist, distorting markets by granting monopolies, tax-fixing & denying judicial remedies to the powerless & poor.
An application written purely in client-side code, but that still requires a server-side component is not "server-less".

A "server-less" app is one that literally has no need for it. Just because you aren't in control of the server-provided resources the app depends on, doesn't make it "server-less".
When a small US destroyer launched a torpedo at Battleship Iowa and Roosevelt
> Unfortunately, it's not free.

What's so unfortunate about it?
There are many other kernels. Hurd is one of them. There's also several free BSD kernels (which were liberated around the same time as Linux was being made). And universities make operating system kernels all the time. Making a kernel is not as big of a deal as creating a fully compatible Unix-like operating system -- which is what the GNU project did.

So I don't agree that "GNU would've gone nowhere". If GNU had a kernel before Linus made Linux, then Linux would've gone nowhere.
Ask HN: What are some ML related projects that can be done in around 6 months?
I something that is original and not a complete copy of someone else's work.
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But a force for what? The FSF is a force for freedom and good. Linus has questionable views on software freedom.
It does, you just have to select them: http://i.imgur.com/begi54h.png (notice orange lines)
Yep. You pretty much answered your question.

Management sometimes has to make crappy decisions. Good management is being transparent even through crappy decisions. Bad management is being opaque through the same crappy decisions.
On Windows: Sysinternals Process Explorer, already mentioned Glasswire and NetBalancer and a bunch of other apps, almost all which aren't very good at all. But Glasswire is very nice.
I do not think there was graphical acceleration for videos back then. It is probably doing well from the SSE2 instructions that Intel's marketing made certain the video player was using for decode. If it were not for that, the Pentium 4 would not have done as well.
Intel has the best documented GPU.
> caused by not knowing the technology/tool well enough.

Yes. But given the average quality of documentation and the fact that the most common advice for how to learn a new technology is just to build something with it, how uncommon is this?
I've said in other threads that Marissa is the highest profile example of this principle.
What would be reasonable is the Air Force pulling its head out its ass and just giving the CAS role back to the Army, since they hate it so much. Seriously, just give the Army the CAS roles, and the Air Force can go zoom around in their shiny supersonic invisible aircraft, and the soldiers and marines on the ground can get the close air support they so need from an organization not doing everything it can to stop giving them that support.