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I'd love to do this. I think I might be in a position to do so soon, as I'm setting up some businesses to (cross fingers) generate me some income without the daily stress of staring at the markets.

I'm interested in doing this in the UK, the south if I have to show up somewhere. It would be something that requires a lot of coding and contains a heavy statistical element. A friend of mine got a full time phd where he could basically sit on his computer all day and crunch numbers. His was in biology, so I doubt I have the qualifications, but my background is in Engineering (and economics). I also have considerably more coding experience than he had.

Is there some resource where I can find some likely places to do this?
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I have a washing machine for that :-)
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> "I still carry the fear of speaking up with me. I find myself holding back when I see a problem or afraid to speak up when I have an idea."

This sounds a bit drama-queeny. She manages to seamlessly blend workplace sexism with product failures and other complaints all in a few sentences. To me that sounds like a broad swipe at her employer, the details and truth of which are far from conclusive based on her words alone.

It's not an easy topic to sum up neatly, but sexist allegations often have an unjustified momentum. Joining dots and drawing conclusions about co-worker and manager intent, when often the explanation is quite different.

For example, the first time someone complains about a discrepancy, it may be ignored not because the complainer was a woman, but that it was the first complaint. When others start to complain about the same thing, action is more likely to happen. A woman seeking evidence of sexism in the workplace will ignore the sensible explanation, and hurry to point the finger: "you ignored my complaint because I'm a woman".

Cognitive bias in the workplace is unfortunately the more likely story, less interesting as it may be. I enjoy a good "what did FB do wrong now" article, but I can't swallow this one.
Bitcoin mining is an extremely well-defined task compared to machine learning. It remains to be seen how general these TPUs are in practice - whether they will support the neural network architectures common two years from now.
if you came here without reading the article, all you need to know is that Theranos is fucked.
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I wouldn't say that C is easy to master, but it's not very difficult either.

The problem with C is that even a C master can't necessarily write correct code, because C is a very programmer-unfriendly language, making developers remember to do various actions manually and perform error-prone calculations.

C++ is definitely harder to master (after many years, I can't say I master every corner of the language), but it's much easier to write correct code in C++ and it will be just as fast, run on as many platforms, etc, etc.

C lost this battle a long time ago, it's surviving because of nostalgia, still having good street cred and inertia. The number of domains where one must use C is shrinking and now that we also have Go and Rust this will accelerate. All for the better, really.
FB in my view can pretty much dictate what it wants news wise which doesn't affect me because I don't get my news from once source but I wonder whom the people that sort of the stories are after they are spit out by the algorithm ?
I might be missing the obvious, but I don't see any months in the de-identified dataset you linked?

Your second link also says a limited dataset is considered PHI and can only be shared with third party under certain conditions and with a data use agreement.
From experience, changing databases on a product in flight is not trivial. Even moving our production database from an external vendor to an in-house location (exact same database engine and version) was a decent-size task, and would have been much, much easier with greenfields or a chunk of downtime.
what does "Keeping messages off heap for processes" mean?
And this is why trains are fairly popular in Europe.
Vancouver airport YVR is fantastic. It has a magical calming feel. They used to charge $15 to every passenger before they went through security as an airport improvement fee. I can't believe that now that renovations are done they no longer collect the fee, but it is true.

User pays.

And as an added bonus you can take a train right to downtown in 22 minutes
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> I don't really think so. Who nowadays would want to buy a feature phone when smartphones are so cheap.

Less easy to spy upon you. At least for non-state actors.
Interesting. The security facet of the rules turns it into some kind of HIDS (host intrusion detection system) - I would be curious to see the level of verbosity this get when scaling across hundreds of containers.

From what I get you also need to plug it to your own alerting system by hand.
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Some laptops use over 150 watts, so it would have to be an extremely tiny laptop.
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My mom just got an Echo for Mother's Day. She's always been very apprehensive about government encroaching, so when I explained to her that the microphone was always on, at first she was surprised. Then I explained how could it know she needed something without always being on? Then I explained to her that we already know for a fact that the government records all data over the wire. And since Echo is plugged into the internet, we have to assume it's sending back every way she interacts with it. Now she's a bit more apprehensive about it. I feel like I did my job.
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Workable alternative: Get rid of TSA, remove the screening process. Done. We will be as safe in the air as we are today. Just as many "terrorists" will get on the plane as get on today.
The real problem with TSA is it doesn't actually solve the problem, and it costs money and time. There is no point to it, so get rid of it. The nation will save more money and time, and in the long run more lives.
No, this is an ASIC. It's not general-purpose.
You have a complete image of flight activity in the area as well (see flightradar24). No doubt the plane crashed.
> You can make some assumptions though. If the power consumption was equal, the performance is 10x.

While I agree some performance per unit increase is likely, how does a direct 10x increased based on power savings follow? Less power usage does not mean that the chip can run through more flops in the same amount of time, right?
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You're basically saying 'why would i want something more convenient?'

well... its more convenient!
What is your favourite programming language and motivation for learning it?
That they're used a lot in machine learning? If you're processing video for instance, you might have a 5-dimensional tensor: x, y, color channel, time index and batch index.
Maybe being "passionate" is not a healthy state of mind. The community blabbers so much about passion which is nothing more than an almost uncontrolable emotional state.

Screw passion, I'd rather have discipline and a healthy interest instead.
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Classic web hosting still seems to do this job. In many cases, your data isn't insanely secure, unless you do the work to ensure it is yourself. But it's unlikely to be mined on a large, automated scale.
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12 / 2 = 6

str('66') + str('6') = '666'

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You mean like iMessage?
So no apps (except maps and email) and a tiny display. Got it.
Very interesting observation -- this seems so much more obvious in retrospect given the meticulous mapping of graph to devices outlined in the paper.
It sure wasn't a bad design for Unix Implementation Language (tm)
If there was no security, you could walk into a movie theater with a prebuilt bomb and take out a room full of people. Or walk into a school, or walk into a mall, or onto a train, or walk into... well you get the idea.
We have a few people do that with weapons, but no prebuilt bombs. Yet I can still walk into a theater with no security, but not board a plane.
You are more likely to die in a plane crash due to a maintenance issue than you are to a terrorist bomb.
You're vastly underestimating the computing market. Startups/tech funding are a microscopic part of the industry. There are millions of small businesses and thousands of major corporations that are slowly moving into the cloud which are all new customers for the taking.

AWS has a head start and a great product catalog, Azure has the windows/office/server ecosystem, but Google has been doing scaled computing for a very long time and has contributed to many of the innovations in the industry. Although they're newer with less features, what they do have is more advanced and the Google name carries a lot of weight and reputation.

Most corporations are still focused on just moving over to IaaS with compliance and security first and Google has done a great job building a solid foundation for this which should pay dividends in the future.
Wow, [1] is pretty far out there, what with taking on the worldwide conspiracy to deny him recognition as History's Greatest Genius. Has he at least mellowed out since 2007?
>kill oneself (not with fire)

lol...that's the funniest thing I've read all month.
Why does it change? In my experience most people keep their first cell phone number for their entire lives. Area codes are indicative of nothing, except where you lived in 2005 [1].

[1] https://xkcd.com/1129/
"The block structure of ALGOL 60 induced a stack allocation discipline. It had limited dynamic arrays, but no general heap allocation. The substantially redesigned ALGOL 68 had both heap and stack allocation. It also had something like the modern pointer type, and required garbage collection for the heap. The new language was complex and difficult to implement, and it was never as successful as its predecessor."

-- http://www.memorymanagement.org/mmref/lang.html

Adding runtime bounds checking of automatic storage arrays (i.e. arrays on the stack) is relatively easy in C, at least until the compiler runs into illegal type punning. The real problem in implementing these compiler safeguards comes with crossing translation units, or with heap blocks. There's a reason languages like Rust and Go rely heavily on static linking and stack allocation; it's more difficult or more costly to implement those safeguards when the compiler can't see all the source code, or pointers pass through an opaque layer. Nothing in C precludes automatic bounds checking of all array access, via fat pointers or lookup tables. Fabrice Bellard's Tiny C compiler implemented precise bounds checking for both automatic and dynamic storage-allocated objects a decade before UBSan and ASan. Even deriving an invalid pointer crashed the app at the precise point where it happened. That widely-used C compilers don't do that is a strong hint there are other, real-world constraints in place.

Also, in language like Java it's not uncommon to see people reinventing dynamic heap allocation using char arrays, susceptible to all the same overflow problems. When you see people doing that, that should be a hint that a language like C might work well.

I don't understand all the C hate. Then again, I have no problem employing various languages according to the task, or creating DSLs. I suppose if I was wedded to a single language or to the idea of a single language, C would look much worse to me.
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This is not true. Much carbon is left behind after burning or decomposition.
Congrats on the launch. What about hybrid (ionic/cordova/phonegap) apps? Any chance you'll be adding support via an official plugin?

Firebase has been a popular choice for backend, but now there's no clear way (at least as reflected in the current docs) to take advantage of all the offer (FCM, testing, etc).
Can someone please summarize what this actually means? The article is behind paywall and the title is cryptic.

What does "void" mean ? Less accurate, completely wrong, completely random ? What does Two years refer to ?
The headline is imprecise. The rights to the brand 'Nokia' as relating to phones will be owned by another company 'HMD Global' who have licenced the Nokia patent portfolio as well.
Wow you're naive.
And the question that fascinates me is "where are these primitive forms"? Even if the original forms evolved since, why can't we find at least some "improved" forms that use these more primitive principles than the ones we're accustomed to?

This is a really good question. It is possible that some of these primitive lifeforms still exist (deep underground would be my best guess) but for technical reasons we can’t easily find them.

We have two basic ways of find living microorganisms: 1. We can either grow them in culture, or 2. We can look for genetic markers that can be amplified using techniques like PCR. If these primitive micro-organisms grow slowly (say divide once a year) then we will never find them in culture (we already know the microorganisms that live deep underground grow at this sort of speed). The genetic marker approach requires that the primitive organism have the same genes as all modern organisms (ribosomes normally). If they don’t have these genes then we won’t find them using our current approaches - they could be there and we just miss them.

If I was Bill Gates rich I would spend some of my money sponsoring deep earth microbiologists to look for cells that appear to be maintaining an energy gradient, but which don’t have ribosomes.
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Why is it UB?

Let's say head value is "10" and the memory at "10" is {..., next: "10"}

After the first iteration we will have:

Head: "10"
Next: "10"
Temp: "10"

With "10" pointing to freed memory. But why do we care? We are not dereferencing it, are we?

(I think I am missing something very obvious)
Erm, meant mics not speakers.

Input devices should be clearly and unambiguously disableable, or external.
These days I'd say the ISO standard is the only "book" you need to know everything about C.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf is the most recent draft before the official, purchase-only C11 was published according to http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/standards. I don't know if it's identical, but it should be close, and it's free.
> Gotta love mixing up C with natural language operator precedence ambiguity. :)

Well, then, in that case you shouldn't you reall refer to it as K&&R
And yet, we can't exactly avoid the search by electing not to fly, as TSA sets up its VIPR teams.

Of course there is the whole issue of whether the line of reasoning is correct.
Could you elaborate on this? Apple Pay et. al are "contactless EMV", and Coin very explicitly says that they support it for some banks:

https://support.onlycoin.com/hc/en-us/articles/207353218-Wha...
I think the scale in Adelaide means that they just don't handle the rise and fall in demand well without spending more on staff. That said, I'm sure it could be done better. Maybe get the beagles to man a desk during peak times.
Yes, but only for very small amounts of power, as others have pointed out. A better idea would be to run DC on a select few runs of the existing 14-gauge romex from your breaker box to the rooms they serve. You'd be taking those 110v lines out of service and using them exclusively for DC, but you could pump a lot more power across them than you could across telephone wire. (You still wouldn't be able to run electric heating appliances or big motors or incandescent lights, but pretty much everything else in a modern house would work, modulo the need for switched DC-DC voltage converters.)
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A lot of carbon goes it to making solar panels.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/solar-energy-isnt-...
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Does it do zero copy? Go doesn't support it without a patch/hack.
Also, in the sixteen years since then some of the core Plan 9 ideas like network block devices, union filesystems, user-space/user-managed mount points and other use of namespaces have indeed made it into other OSes.

Perhaps not with the purity that the Plan 9 developers hoped for, but in the end we use computers to get work done.
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Yeah the article points to that, talking about different ways of seeing and describing free will. In the end, the focus of the article isn't on the philosophical concept but it's impact on society and it does a fine job describing three different views: understanding that there is no free will is a disaster; it is just fine, beneficial even if we just explain it properly; and we just redefine it and all is as it was.
Why, we are social animals, whose kids and elders can't survive alone. No surprise that there is appropriate machinery in the brain, or rather that machinery gives rise to what we call empathy, parental care, altruism, family and in-group bonds, etc.

Apart from that, other people are constant source of problems, distraction, annoyance, due to their narcissistic tendencies to assert themselves, to show off, to gain attention, to validate their inflated self-esteem, their extremely annoying primitive and rude attempts to manipulate, use, cheat, take advantage of others, etc. Truly "Hell is other people".

Moreover, they tend to validate everyone according to their artificial, biased socially constructed "norms", which leads to hegemony of mediocrity and much uglier things, like hunweibins and similar cancer-like social formations.

So, the balance is subtle - as long as we are dependent of each other for survival, which reflects each and every clan or tribal societies, we are OK. But since we have forsed to live in too much crowded, overpopulated, highly competitive urban areas of post-infustrialized societies, everything is doomed. The only thing Marx got right is alienation.)

Back to loneliness. Loneliness is a prerequisite for any intellectual or spiritual (which is an ancient word of intelligence) achievement. Less other people - less worries, less distractions, tension, noise, pressure, cruelty, violence. That's why everywhere in the world monasteries has walls and no academics work in Starbucks.

Loneliness should be understood as necessity, like privacy and embraced. Unless you are a brick in the wall, a living cell, a soldier or a drone.
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I don't think bringing out a list of generically outrageous things someone said in the past rises to the level of discourse we're trying for here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11727718 and marked it off-topic.
Technically the TSA is there to protect the nation's transportation system. I've complained to my representatives and I'm told it is there to make us safe.
Sure they may be there to APPEAR to make us safe, and there maybe ulterior motives. But you still have to attack the reason they claim
Lots of insecure butthurt and resentment in this article, and not much substance.
Missed a flight at LAX by two minutes the other week despite showing up almost two hours early. Wasn't going to be enough time to get through security/etc. Very frustrating.

Was just thinking about longer conveyor belts too. The body scanner is rarely a chokepoint. Seems to be either the guy manning the x-ray machine, or people loading/unloading on the conveyor.
Because the standard says even comparing a dangling pointer is UB, which was haberman's point about the standard being non-intuitive.
Spent a few years developing a bot with similar features to Alexa, called LFReD back in 1998. Was possible to carry on a conversation with LFReD via cordless phone, control lights, look up wikipedia articles etc.

Idealabs approach me at one point offering to buy my botsinc.com dom.

Two things killed development. The first was the quality of the speech recognition. 85% accuracy sounds impressive, but in real life, it's terrible, especially combined with background noise. (I had a love bird that would squawk every time i tried to train the recognizer :) The SR has only recently caught up enough to be acceptable (just). The other was the AI. Every 'rule' had to be hand coded. eg: "if SR = 'hello world' then tts 'hello'". I don't think they'll get past that last issue anytime soon, and I believe the Loebner prize is still very safe.
Depends in what you do for the company.

If they just need you to get more work done, you may be right.

But if you got a skill no one else at the company has, they are rather nice to you.
I'd love a feature+camera phone that still had an LTE radio and supported tethering. Maybe I'd also want it to be able to read Hacker News if I don't have a tetherable device nearby.
Not to mention the well documented health issues related to regularly inhaling wood smoke, even in small amounts.
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Way to split hairs. There is a major difference, and you know it.
I think you’re missing the fact that "There are a lot of rules you need to be aware of that are not naturally-occurring results of the fundamentals."
Actually I got that wrong, the number is 29%. The 20% figure applies to those who are aware of fraudulent credit card activity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/05/13...

"Nearly one in two Internet users say privacy and security concerns have now stopped them from doing basic things online — such as posting to social networks, expressing opinions in forums or even buying things from websites, according to a new government survey released Friday.

This chilling effect, pulled out of a survey of 41,000 U.S. households who use the Internet, show the insecurity of the Web is beginning to have consequences that stretch beyond the direct fall-out of an individual losing personal data in breach. The research suggests some consumers are reaching a tipping point where they feel they can no longer trust using the Internet for everyday activities."

More: https://www.ntia.doc.gov/blog/2016/lack-trust-internet-priva...
It wasn't obvious when this dates from, but we'll take your word for it and add 2015 to the title.
20-30amps of DC requires very little copper if it's high-voltage. It's low voltage that requires fat copper, not DC vs. AC.
Actually higher, see my follow-up above.
And they're doing a crap job of it - all they ever try to sell me seems to be something I just already bought.
He said the claim of living carbon neutral was incorrect not immoral.
Walgreens has long been a creepy organization. Their checkout clerks were paid on commission to hawk upsells like vitamins.
>Has he at least mellowed out since 2007?

Yes
This is something that I wish more people would understand. Yes TSA costs money, in the billions (but that is peanuts to the government)
BUT what does standing in line cost the workforce? A lot of travellers are business travellers and they end up working less on the days they travel because of TSA.
Waiting in line has a cost involved, and it is a tremendous one.
And what about the cost to the airlines for missed flights?
And laser mics can be aimed against glass.

Both have to be specifically placed, however. Common devices with location tracking and audio monitoring capabilities already exist. They can be targeted for monitoring, and to the best of my knowledge, are.

Some are actively monitoring activity on an ongoing basis -- e.g., someone's voice-enabled TV sets. I really can't even keep up with all this crap any more.

All of which is moot to the original point: that people can choose whether or not this equipment is in their environment or not. Effectively they cannot.
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