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In my experience, it turned out to be a very safe 6%. You can scale this up to any amount you wish - If you want to invest, say $1,000 total, you can choose to break it up into $25 per borrower and have 40 separate Notes. See, the whole point is, it's up to you: you may dial in exactly the amount of risk you want.
Tomahawk.
Does 'The Lab vs Hub wars' read like a J. R. R. Tolkien book title for other people too?
If there is such a thing as the Illuminati, that is bent on destroying the human spirit - this is what I imagine their plans for the future world would entail.
Yeah, it came out of the Eigenbase project. (http://luciddb.sourceforge.net/ and http://www.eigenbase.org). DB internals are indeed quite fun. (I worked on LucidDB(https://github.com/LucidDB/luciddb) for a time.)
What you describe is one of my biggest annoyances too, and very common with contingency recruiters. Luckily, our internal recruiters are fantastic and a couple have taught themselves how to program to be able to carry on introductory talks better!

Stack Overflow Jobs (our job board) also explicitly disallows this sort of behavior. If a first-touch e-mail doesn't list why the person in particular is being contacted, again, I think it's spam.
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In that case - kudos for being able to clearly explain what your company is about and who the founders are.
It usually takes me at least a meeting with the founders to get excited about a company.

When trading salary for equity, it's not just about being excited about the idea, it's also about being excited about the founders ability to turn that idea in to a product, business and eventually an IPO or M&A.
Looking forward to it! andrey at briefmetrics.com (or support or whatever at that domain) will do the trick. :)
meh- are you planning to get rid of your car int he next 10 yeara? = Millenials hate cars. The core question is so broad that I'm not sure I could expect different answers.
How is that possibly if Hamcrest isn't going to be put in?

I think you misread that bug report.

>Closing this issue since there are no plans to include direct dependencies on third-party assertion libraries within JUnit 5.
Thanks Avi! We certainly think this will be a win for GitLab users.
I think it's largely going to depend on on the job, as a cover letter tends to not be a great place to give context as to technical aptitude or skills as much as it will to demeanor and presentability. The former is much more important for engineering positions, the latter for front-end folk that deal more directly with users. That is not to say that there is never any cross-over of the skill sets between the two, but you really don't want to have the "Nick Burns, your company's computer guy" dealing with social stuff if you can avoid it.
This is what I want.

I'm not too into autonomous driving (reminds me of Hal telling Dave what he can't do, and of course Minority Report go-to-jail mode) but this could convince me.

Make a car that will drift. Make it so that it can drift into parallel parking on the other side of the road, slipping between oncoming cars as required. The faster the better.
It's not a conspiracy, there's no backroom deals made through a haze of cigar smoke. The value of streaming rights is increasing, non-streaming revenue for the same content is slowly shrinking, there's multiple streaming services out there bidding up the rights to content, and the rightsholders are behaving appropriately according to their incentives.

Remember, part of what made Netflix possible to begin with was the fact that the content they were licensing had already made its money through theatrical runs, cable deals and home video for movies, and original network fees and syndication rights for TV shows. So the content holders only had to worry about marginal revenue over negligible costs -- you can get very little for the content and still come out ahead. As streaming becomes a bigger and bigger piece of the pie, it canibalizes those other revenue channels, and more and more streaming money is required to make it revenue-positive. The market is reacting.
> I have no interest in playing but-what-does-the-exact-dictionary-definition-say semantics games.

That's certainly reasonable, but actually you're responding to a statistical argument about a statistical study, made by a statistician.

It would seem tendentious to argue that these numbers are unconnected to systemic social bias, but he is not making such an argument.
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You're gonna like this:

https://github.com/TeamHG-Memex/autologin

This is a spider that can auto-login given a seed url.

I wonder how much harder it would be to make this just a sign-up tool as well?
As far as I know, not in a way that an autonomous driver can't overcome but a human can.

I'm speculating a lot, but if I had to say why driving (fast) on dirt is substantively more complex than driving on tarmac for an AI, it's because road conditions change much more rapidly on dirt. You're expecting to be constantly in various states of intentional traction loss (sliding), including having a few or all wheels off the ground with some frequency (jumps).

If you're driving slowly enough to maintain proper traction, then there really isn't an issue. But if you're rallying down an Argentinian mountain trail (take a look at some WRC on-board recordings on Youtube for an idea), you'll have an extremely challenging planning problem.

I don't think it's insurmountable for AI, it's just that racing over dirt has a lot of nuances especially to car handling that you never have to deal with on tarmac because good tarmac racing involves basically 0 traction loss and smooth, static surfaces. Not that tarmac racing is easier... where the track is simpler, you make up for it in sheer speed and the complexity of having to share a track.
There is however a certain value to being capable of doing what you're told, even if you don't understand the why of everything right off the bat. As a business owner if I need certain things in a certain way from my management or employees, especially if it's just a personal preference or a certain way I do things, I don't give a shit if my management understands it as long as they do it.

There's plenty of room for free thought in a good workplace but there are also certain things that don't need to be questioned because it's none of your business.
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To me the most interesting part of allergies is not addressed by this article, except by referring to its absence:
> Instead, allergists should be learning why a minority of people turn a protective response into a hypersensitive one. “It’s the same as with pain,” said Medzhitov. “No pain at all is deadly; normal pain is good; too much pain is bad.”

It's clear that there's a process, presumably a good one, that sometimes goes haywire, and really that's all most people care about.
When a couple uses gene therapy to ensure their children don't get stuff like mitochondrial myopathy, how is that bad?

Do you really think it's better for that couple (and society) that they do it the "natural way" and only have children who won't live to see their eighteenth birthday?
That's not what the link shows. It seems from that thread that IBM never contacted them, they just changed the name preemptively and out of an abundance of caution.
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However, e-bikes are seeing a decline and/or full ban in top-tier Chinese cities due to new traffic regulations and new road design.

I'm not sure what you identify is a trend as you suggest, rather I think it's just some exceptions. IMHO such regulations are generally for a small area, the equivalent of a pedestrian only mall zone or a few central downtown blocks. Often the motivation is to show off how "modern" the city is (as upwardly mobile Chinese city mayor / party member assumes modern exists in foreign perception, after publicly funded junket to Europe/Singapore/etc.).

I wouldn't be surprised if, in the future, we see such exceptions reversed. After all, old people have to get around and there is tremendous acceptance here of e-vehicles to cater for that market. (Theirs are often covered with a passenger area at rear, and lockable.) This factor alone adds reasonable weight to allowing smaller e-vehicles in the heart of all cities. What has been banned in the heart of many cities is motorbikes, and for good reason.
I only used VB5 in the late 90s, but yes, absolutely.

When I was doing GUI stuff in Java (Netbeans and eclipse) in the mid 2000s... yes, all the OO stuff was better but boy did I miss that interface designer that just worked.
A weak imitation of https://twitter.com/isotrumpp. Sad!
I have made a circular queue where data can be pushed or popped on either end of a vector of structs.

Adding an entry can be done on the end or the head without moving any other nodes. All that is required is to have an index for the head and one for the tail. Used as a queue, you would push nodes on the tail and pop nodes off the head. You could just as easily add nodes to the head and pop them off the tail or any combination that you like. You could iterate over the list by starting at the tail and moving backward toward the head. You could also start at the head and move forward toward the tail. If you try to move below the first element then set the index to the last entry. If you try to move above the last entry then continue on the front of the vector.

If the head and tail have the same number then no entries are in the vector.

If the buffer size (which determines how many entries you can have) is about to be exceeded then create a bigger buffer and copy the old entries to the new buffer.

Instead of creating a bigger buffer and copying all the entries, you could make a new "cluster" of the same size as the current buffer and then you could use an integer division and modulo to determine in which cluster and what offset any node might be at.

Using the cluster method, the whole struct could grow as needed, and never move any existing data entries while pushing/popping data at either the head or tail of the list of array nodes. The struct could be just a single number or any other sized structure. Memory allocations would be minimized by allocing a buffer of "n" times the size of each node.
I started working with CouchDB a few years ago, and found it really nifty, but in our current startup, we find that the couchbase community edition suits our needs well, and the sync gateway is great for managing users and delegating permissions
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> A Starbucks 16oz coffee with no sugar and just 2% milk still has over 100 calories (120), just shy of a 12oz coke (140).

That is for a Cafe Misto, which is half-milk. Most people do not put nearly that much milk or cream in their coffee.
You will still be able to buy and rent these films of iTunes or Google Play, just not on subscription packages from HBO, Amazon, Hulu, etc.
This is awesome, I wonder if and how this could grow to be used by academic institutions to help support their alum to apply to jobs.
Excellent. I'd love to see a not that handles recruitment too.
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To some extent this is inevitable and I think ultimately it will be to their detriment. One of the things that struck me during my recent "cut the cable" exercise was that while the offerings on Amazon Prime video were significantly less to my liking than those on NetFlix, if it wasn't on prime I could "buy" it or "rent" it from the same interface almost regardless of what it was. On NetFlix things vanish and then you no longer have access, period. So its fine "in the now" but want to watch an old episode of some show that used to be there and now its off the list.

I suspect that one of the things that Netflix cannot afford using AWS is to have content available that not enough people watch. They end up paying the storage charges with no revenue.
Oh?

> abject lack of maintainability
This is awesome, I am curious if iterated how higher institution's career center's could utilize this to help their alum attain jobs.
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Normally it should be beneficial for creators simply because no exclusivity increases reach. Wider reach = more potential users who pay for it. Why would anyone avoid it, unless there is some sick collusion or unhealthy market situation when publisher and distributor are merged?
This is the best possible way to burn bridges. The companies that take spammy applications aren't the companies you want to work at.
A list of stupid Trump jokes is not good HN content.
Haha, thanks for the link!
This.

I just realized one of my Ubuntu VMs was built without LVM and only found out because I was going to expand storage on it. Luckily, it's just a toy VM on the home server so no biggie. But yes, having fs-on-lvm should just be the default now since it makes expansion so much easier.
VB was the Rails of its day.

It wasn't perfect but you could make really useful apps really fast and (relatively speaking) they didn't look like shit.

I guess I should say it was the Rails + Bootstrap of its day.

I got a ton done with VB. It was a nice start to my career. I'm grateful for it.
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There are two words OP omitted in the title from the quote in the article that make the scope of the statement seem bigger than it is: "Netflix will become the exclusive US pay TV home of the latest films from Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar."
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yeah good point, what about brakes and accelerators that actuate via electronics/cpu instead of mechanically like in the old days? Humans press brake/accelerate pedals...
In block [37] of the ipython notebook, are racial main effects missing? I only see interactions.

https://github.com/propublica/compas-analysis/blob/master/Co...
Ah, yes I can see that. Reasonable or unreasonable doesn't matter because it's reality. Similar to some people being born better looking than others and thus often have an easier life. It's just the fact of the matter that must be dealt with, and pointless to argue the merits of it being reasonable or fair.
it's way more likely to be a problem with licensing terms than anything else
Hey now, don't reveal GitLab's secret trick!
> I would still say that is a substantial amount of empty calories. Its really no different than having a 12 oz coke every morning from an empty calorie point of view.

So, in your opinion a glass of milk is empty calories, no different from a Coke?
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> No, "pay TV" means TV you have to pay extra (outside the cost of a basic cable package) to access.

"Pay TV" is in contrast to "broadcast TV". A basic cable package would be included in "pay TV". HBO, Showtime, and Starz are "premium channels", which would be a subset of pay TV. Netflix is also a subset of pay TV, but I think that most people wouldn't include it in a list of premium channels. CNN, FX, and other cable networks are examples of "Pay TV" that would be left out of your definition, as I understand it.
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You are quite literally the only hiring manager I've ever heard of in tech who says they're swayed by the cover letter or really even reads the cover letter. I had concluded that, at best, it fed the inside sourcer some talking points with which to sell you internally.

Interesting to know that there are exceptions to the rule, but on the whole the cover letter isn't something I'd optimize for. I just don't think it's used that much.
The biggest thing for me, apart from emissions reduction, is habitat preservation. The climate is always shifting of course, and humans will be OK (some populations will suffer, some will benefit but probably fewer, but we won't go extinct from this). However, limiting the contribution of climate change to the very real wave of anthropogenic extinctions is pretty important. Habitat loss is the most important here because the ecological health of an area is superlinearly related to its intact area; large areas are necessary for apex predators and migratory populations, but larger areas are much better at absorbing point-source disturbances, and allowing for spatial shifts in ecology as coastlines move uphill, streams and lakes dry up, etc. The individual communities can adjust more easily if they're not squeezed.

Healthy communities mean that populations are less likely to be decimated by some of the 'chaotic', nonlinear problems that accompany climate change. For example, slight warming of winter temps mean that bark beetles can move much farther north and ravage forests. Stressed forests can't deal as well which causes massive tree dieoffs of a species or two, leading to lots of standing dead timber which helps fires spread, killing the other tree species that were less susceptible to the beetles. Etc.
You remind me of programmers who will bill a client $50k for a $2k problem under the guise of it being done "properly"...oh, and keeping it a secret that an "improper" $2k implementation was an option.

People heap scorn on auto mechanics (for example) that pad bills, but many people whose work doesn't get their hands dirty seem to think they are subject to a different moral code.
Exclusive rights is only good for the two people that made the deal.
Out of curiosity, what do you focus on instead? I've found resumes in general to be a poor way to judge developers quickly. I tend to read the cover letter, jump to their Github or Stack Overflow (if listed on it or the resume), then go to the resume last if I still need more context.
Nowadays it's almost a meme to hate on VB, but I wrote my first desktop application with VB6 when I was in high school, circa 2000.

I knew Basic and a bit of Pascal, but the GUI builder of VB captivated me. It was so easy to create things with it! I quickly embraced it and developed many applications, among which a Scalextric car controller (attached to the voltage of a real car) and a math tutor for kids which got me a grant on my first year of college. It was pretty crappy but I still hold VB6 in my heart :)
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Every country -- even the poorest -- can afford to do multiple things well at the same time. Both sanitation and space exploration have their own benefits.

As a Nigerian economist once said, "we are not a poor country; we are a poorly managed country".
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Hah you're right. I can't read!
FWIW, I would have been more likely to click on this if instead of the clickbaity title 'Solving a Century-Old Typographical Mystery', which makes me expect to be disappointed or be something I've already ready (like the typeface thrown into the Thames), it had a more informative title like 'Discovering ASCII Art in 1800s Newspapers and Why'.

(Where's dang when you actually need him to edit a submission title for once...)
Senior programmer? ...

Shouldn't a junior programmer be able to solve fizzbuzz?

I'm light years away from being senior, but I can write functions like fizzbuzz in 10 seconds and can't find a junior job
Or because I don't want ads, I want stuff on demand, I want my accounts to be independent of my physical location, I can pick and choose the services I'm subscribed to, and finally I want to use a streaming box for everything not a cable box, and streaming box, and a dvd player.
Thank you very much for your response. It is insightful and though provoking and I appreciate you taking the time to write it.
Yup! It supposedly is written in a much more efficient language, but it severely slower than GitHub and Bitbucket.
To be clear, a cold-application cover letter? First contact, yeah, but I've mostly seen it with handshakes, networking, or the type of letter that also namedrops an internal referral.
The degree to which it does this cannot be distinguished from random chance (p > 0.05).

If the predictor were biased then you could build a more accurate score based on both the original scores and race_factorBlack:score_factorHigh (and other interaction terms). I.e. you'd be building a new bias in to cancel the old bias, leaving an accurate predictor.

Their analysis doesn't show that this is possible.
Or patch the export table of the exporting DLL in addition to the import table of every current importing DLL (as future importing DLLs will look in the export table).
From my experience it is still pretty alpha quality. I ran into a weird issue with the inflector library they rolled themselves and had to dig through the code to figure out what was going on. This was about a month ago, so things could have changed, but I wouldn't recommend this for production app just yet. At least one that you have a timeline on.
One thing I always try to tell myself is that if you are going to complain about something, be clear about what you want to get from complaining. Do Museum Hack want money? An apology? Crediting? What?

I see they sort of climb down eventually when T+L explain the issue to them too.

https://museumhack.com/what-happens-when-your-startup-gets-t...
It's also the way the market should work. Content creators are selling a non-fungible product. Streaming services are to a great extent, fungible, like retailers. In fact, as content creators get their arms around streaming, I expect more of them to set up their own "shops" instead of relying on retailers, in the same way Apple and Tesla do.
But if someone could but together a list of actual John McAffee sayings on his own code, I would upvote that all day.
Sorry, you're a million miles off the mark.

The cover letter is your chance to explain Why you want to apply and Why you'd be a good fit.

The resume explains Who you are (professionally).

The Why is just as (and sometimes more) important than the Who.
I think your first paragraph is spot on.

> I suspect that one of the things that Netflix cannot afford using AWS is to have content available that not enough people watch. They end up paying the storage charges with no revenue.

Licensing is a vastly higher cost than the AWS bill. It's all about what they can afford to license.
The assistance they provided got better as the years went by up to about the time of vb2008. Even then the assistance was such that migration of existing vb6 code was recommended by microsoft as the option of last resort. By the release of vb2010 microsoft appeared to have given up on migration completely and removed the upgrade tool from the product.
Too little too late is probably a fair description of it.
I think I'd take the opposite tack, by the way. I get about a zillion job recruiter e-mails, and the vast majority are mail merge. It's irritating, but not disqualifying, for the recruiter.

If we put up with it that direction, why not put up with bulk solicitation the other way?
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More like a Neal Stephenson title I think.
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I believe he's being uncharitable to the descriptive point of view when he calls the prescriptive point of view the "words have meaning" point of view.

To flip the bias there, you could call the prescriptive point of view the "words have meaning ordained by God and it doesn't matter what anyone actually says" point of view, and call the descriptive point of view the "evidence-based" point of view.

When people say "breakfast", do they mean the moment of breaking one's fast? A prescriptivist would say "yes, obviously, it's right there in the word". A descriptivist would say "probably not, because everybody understands what it means to 'skip breakfast'."
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