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Ask HN: How to best advertisize my career aspirations?
I will be completing 13 years as a software professional, and my quest for that “dream” job still continues.
I am not unhappy with my current job, I am quite content in what I am doing. I have been receiving very good appraisal ratings in my current company, have been promoted recently, and I gel very well with my teammates. The work is quite interesting, and apart from the occasional management created turbulence, life is quite smooth.
However, I want to achieve more. I am absolutely passionate about coding, love solving tough problems and want to keep learning new technologies.
Developing a disruptive technology, working in path breaking research teams, working on developing of new standards or being part of a kick-ass start-up, those are some jobs that would be my “dream”.
So how I go about advertising my career aspirations ? How do I reach out to people who can help me reach my dream?
A toaster and testing
I've had the chance to troll Donald Trump. But I didn't
waiting to see what comes out of Google IoT project like Brillo, Weave it's been kicking around a Google for a while now seems long before the 2015 I/O announcement. maybe Fuchsia has something to do with it who knows.
numba is a Python JIT that uses llvmlite

llvmlite is an Python interface to LLVM

So, JIT compilation for TensorFlow graphs would need llvmlite as TensorFlow graphs aren't Python.
I am surprised they only used ~2000 samples. That's a very tiny amount of data to train a decently sized CNN, even with data augmentation.

I presume using a pretrained net probably won't help you since the features found in pathology slides are so unlike those of natural images.
Ask HN: How do you manage your cron jobs?
Hey people,

I am in the state where people don't know which cron jobs exists or in which machine they run or what they do.

I was thinking about using something like ansible as a central repository for cron jobs. We are a big company and we have no control when someone changes a cronjob or install/delete one.

What do you use for that ?
What you call the "data duplication" is actually a "metadata redundancy" which results in the faster access to the list of all the files in the archive (a good example of the pre-computed pre-cached info). The format is good, if some library can't cope with the format, the problem is with the library making the corruption of the archive. And that archive is still, even after being corrupted by wrongly written tool, recoverable because of the existing redundancy.

The concept of metadata redundancy isn't anything specific to the archives, the filesystems do it too, and it's always an engineering trade-off, and I consider the one in Zip format is a good one, based on the real-life examples I've given.
This is beautiful electron work. Any plans to support eps import?
> People going to school to learn software development don't

...usually have offered anything that even purports to be a "software development" curriculum.

They usually have a "computer science" curriculum.
You have nothing to add to this discussion. Please take this rhetoric elsewhere.
Newly Discovered Species of Bird in the Galápagos Islands Is Already Extinct
In the most abstract sense, I think you have a point, but the reality is that in America, there aren't condos a family of 4 can "comfortably" live in-- it's not considered acceptable that two kids might share a room, or have a dine-in kitchen. Americans just aren't willing to put up with as little space as Europeans are.

There just isn't much overlap in square footage between houses and condos overall-- so I think it's still valid to compare houses to condos. Condos are cheaper because they are smaller. They don't make small houses anymore; that market need is met by condos.
This. AWK is the best tool for record DSV record manipulation I've ever used. Some would say that it has since been surpassed by other scripting languages, but I disagree. It's fast to learn, and is incredibly good at what it does, with a very simple and elegant design. Simple AWK scripts can read like descriptions of what you want done. Like this script that prints all users in /etc/passwd that have home directories in /home:

BEGIN{$FS=':'}
$6~/^\/home.*/{print}
Because it is easy to automate?
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Fair. But I would consider those to be unformatted text, not symbols.
24% reduction is something like 2% more than the EU average.

about 1,000 people... reaching its 10th anniversary this year, has led to a 24 percent cut in emissions vs. "The EU(27) even with active legal measures have maintained a fairly level CO2 emission rate but have managed to reduce their CO2 emissions/head by ~22% since 2005. " http://euanmearns.com/the-record-of-recent-man-made-co2-emis...

It feels good, but that's about it. Further, per person they are probably doing more damage than the average person in London or other major city.
Fire And Rescue Services Act 2004 says they can "move or break into a vehicle without the consent of its owner". I don't know if that's sufficient.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/21/section/44
I should have clarified. There's an office in Seattle so the Seattle employees are coming in to the office everyday. That means they are subject to the same proximity based real estate rates as everyone else in the area. If they move away from that area, the scale adjusts.

Basically, Phoenix is our standard bearer for scale. Seattle is just so much more expensive that you can't employ anyone in Seattle for those rates, so the higher pay scale is necessity. If everyone could be paid at Phoenix rates, they would be. The compensation is equitable based on cost of living.
GitLab launches Issue Boards, a task management tool that resembles Trello
Money, more specifically the desire for it, knows no bounds. Apple is a multinational corporation whose goal is to deliver value (read: money) to shareholders. The idea of political boundaries meaning anything is a quaint notion that I feel was true only long in the past, if it ever was.

I'm not saying Apple is evil, merely that multinational corporations don't have to care about political boundaries.
You need to have a separate xorg.conf for your separate X instance. (Edit) and you need to hardcode each device, not allow autodiscovery.
Linux vulnerability audit. Easy way
What I wish to see in these blog posts are real-world examples. My day job is coding an MVC app in Rails / Ember. Fine, I won't be able to get past Chapter 11 in a book, but what am I REALLY missing out on? Are these solutions meant for a different problem set, or would I be able to use these concepts in my day-to-day (assuming we were written in a Scala, Haskell, etc.)?
I think you agreed with me.
It doesn't parse escapes, IIRC, but those are rarely emitted.
I might have missed something -- I was thinking more of industry STEM jobs. I truly believe a lot of people can get into software development, for example, with normal intelligence, about a year of time investment, and perhaps above-normal self-motivation.
> I'm usually dropping into the shell to run commands, change my directory

TRAMP enables this pretty well …
Xterm.js 1.1 – Full in-browser terminal with IME support and physical scrolling
Why does lack of hygenic macros matter? You can go from basic macros to Clojure's syntax-quote (quasiquote with auto gensyms for certain reader-defined forms) in 100 lines of code[1]. I've listed a few other implementations of the clojure-style of quasiquote plus auto-gensym, but there are a ton of them floating around the web for almost every lisp you can think of.

[1] As a clojure library - https://github.com/brandonbloom/backtick/blob/master/src/bac... (although you have to rewrite lines 51-56 to use explicit gensyms in a let instead of using the internal syntax-quote so that it bootstraps cleanly).

[2] Using the alternate Clojure reader - https://github.com/clojure/tools.reader/blob/master/src/main...

[3] Using Hylang - https://github.com/hylang/hy/blob/master/hy/core/macros.hy#L...
> and the idea of a cat parasite controlling or influencing my behavior (and the behavior of others) is both fascinating and frightening.

More frightening than the idea of a cat controlling or influencing your behavior (by being oh so adorable)? ;-)
So then the question becomes, what good has the blunt-leaf orchid ever done? However in my brief research it looks like other insects do pollinate the orchid also. It also grows far north so would not be affected by wiping out the mosquitoes that cause zika in the south.
This article falsely equates selling NSA tools on the black market with government whistleblowing.

Let's not get on a high horse about rhetoric in the comments?
If it's open data from api's what's the issue? There's tons of movie databases for example, and some wallpaper sites have API's as well.
I hadn't heard of YADA - anyone use it? Seems like a noble goal.
It's funny that the same authors wrote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_Begins_on_Saturday.

e: I went to college with Yuri Manin's grandson. I'll have to ask him what he thinks of that book (Definitely Maybe)
JACK existed pre-Pulseaudio and it wasn't used by very much software. Most things only supported ALSA / OSS / eSound / whatever KDE's sound system was.
Everyone knows that "Daily Shouts" is The New Yorker's humor column, right?
I haven't had this problem, but I would consider switching to a task queue like Celery. It'll be more robust/reliable than cron, too.
Love to old school charm. Dinner jackets are required but if you forget your they have some for you to wear! I went once and they burned my steak, but it was quickly replaced with one that was perfectly cooked and two free glasses of high end champagne. Love that place.
Lets forget the argument, that this sets a dangerous precedent for a moment... Even if you assume the strictest possible processes, even if you assume only the most genius techs working on a backdoor like this: In the end the people implementing and operating a backdoor are just people like you and me. People make mistakes no matter how good the skills and processes are. And if this mistake happens, as it will happen invariably, the backdoor is out in the open and usable for adversaries with even more malicious intent.
Microsoft acquisition of Genee to accelerate intelligent experiences in O365
> once the US can compel Apple to do this,

What's to stop the FBI from repeating the same process in the future? Fighting future orders would be much harder after precedent is established.

Remember that after James Comey talked about spending "a lot" to get into the San Bernadino phone, he wanted a way into the phones that "doesn't involve spending tons of money in a way that's un-scaleable."[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/04/2...
Not on here at least. I wouldn't be surprised if a large part of the population still believed it though.
Each image can be multiple gigabytes so it could be computationally difficult. Also those are probably all the lung cancer slides that TCGA has (edit: there seems to be 3500+ lung cancer slides at [1] so I was wrong. Maybe they're not all H&E stained)

[1] http://cancer.digitalslidearchive.net/
Thank you very much for the explanation. That clears my confusion.
Exactly. I tend to believe that we're taking "our" consciousness out of mutual observation of our interactions. Kinda like two machines with protocols. To themselves, the world exists because the other responds accordingly.
Hold what against them? The exploit? That makes no sense.

The Russians do not use the exact same set of tools that the NSA does. Sure, they may have discovered some of the same exploits, but the two do not have the same "toolbox" strictly speaking. Releasing a set of tools used by the NSA doesn't mean that Russia loses access to the systems that they have compromised...

Your bank heist analogy doesn't apply here.
You might also like https://sslping.com : it monitors your servers for free (sends emails if bad cert/ciphers/protocols).

Shameless plug, it's my side project, started because monitoring beats point in time checks.
i dont understand why the highest bid in the shadow brokers auction is less than a thousand dollars
I never denied that I have made an implication. I believe I had better grounds for it (or I wouldn't have invested time in checking the project's state in the first place), provided a clearer point for OP to counter, and that that my tone was not as provokative.

If you can imagine a more tactful yet still effective alternative deterrent, I'm open to suggestions. I don't believe that just pointing out the fact of the use of the inappropriate tense would have been enough.
The rates in London I've seen were pretty much the same as what I make in Berlin (400-500 GBP/day). These are from job postings by contracting agencies like Computer Futures. The only exception seems to be finance. Which, I think, requires domain knowledge.
Bamford's expertise in espionage is pretty similar.

There seem to be two plausible explanations for the Shadow Brokers release.

1. The doctrine of the US govt in cyberwar is proportionate response. This is either preemption or escalation on behalf of Russia. This assumes the attribution of Russia for Democratic political hacks are accurate.

2. This is further activity by whomever leaked the ANT catalog to Applebaum.

The Shadow Brokers are going to be difficult to attribute technically. Attribution is based more on your theory about what's happening the Russian covert escalation.
That's pretty cheap for a UK house. My 2 bed terrace was about £1200 a year, was pretty decently insulated for what is was but didn't have cavity walls etc.

My new 4 bed house is about £1500 a year for a family of 4, and I'm pretty tight with heating and light, so most houses would be more.
Yet another press release that fails to reference the study it's talking about. Not to mention giving no quantitative details about its lead ('Trounced'? By how much?).

The study is "Predicting non-small cell lung cancer prognosis by fully automated microscopic pathology image features" by Kun-Hsing Yu et al. It's open access: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160816/ncomms12474/full/nc...
GCC 6.2 Released
GCC 6.2 released
> Excusing the horrible mess pulseaudio is with the horrible state of Linux Audio doesn't cut it,

The problem is that most people complaining about Pulseaudio don't offer realistic alternatives. Saying Pulseaudio sucks and that everyone should use ALSA is a joke. Pulseaudio does a plethora of things that ALSA does not handle. Not to mention that ALSA is a low-level system, and PA actually sits on top of ALSA.

In all of the vitriol that people spew about Pulseaudio, this is the first time that I've seen anyone point to sndio. I think that says something about the "pulseaudio complainers" crowd.

That said does sndio provide the following features:

- Support for bluetooth audio devices

- Support for streaming audio over a network.

- Support for user-land mixing of audio sources (i.e. don't need root).

- Mixing of multiple audio streams at the same time (e.g. Can your system play an alert sound without interrupting your music?)

- Per application volume settings

- Per application input/output source settings
No matter the strategy Ava will get the right answer 50% of the time, and Bob will get the right answer 50% of the time.

What the strategy can influence is the correlation between Ava being right and Bob being right.
Windows 10 has peer to peer downloads for updates and apps.
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Well, if it's something like YouTube you can kind of "forgive" their awful customer service in exchange for the free hosting and search features. It's a heck of a lot less forgivable for a product you pay actual money to use.

The support page telling you to use a widget that doesn't exist is really going above and beyond in the realm of user-hostility.
Can confirm. Mid 40s, now wear socks with sandals. It's comfortable and I don't care I look like my dad.
Yeah, you're right. I just hate explaining myself to people all the time, I guess. It shouldn't bother me, but it does.
I'm sure it will come across as rude(?) but projects should provide their own infrastructure.

Microsoft did this with Windows 10 and it's just feels cheap. They have tons of money, they can pay for their own bandwidth.
I was wondering if they would approach companies like Apple with a lot of off shore cash.
That's true, but I meant to ask if there is any reason to think Apple is likely to cooperate with Russia or China, or if that was mere speculation.
the problem isn't necessarily init.

it's everything else.

The lock in, the increasing lack of interoperability, the hostility, the increasing controversies.

But also, it's a little bit the init, which could have been designed much better.
Ah ok, that clarifies things. Thanks.
I've cleaned thousands of SVGs with: https://github.com/svg/svgo

npm install -g svgo
svgo -f /path/to/svg/files
Very interesting, I recently put together a simple caffe static compiler of my own on the path to FPGA deployment of CNN inference pipelines. I looked at halide[0] as a possible intermediate representation for CPU, GPU, and FPGA, (as a step above LLVM IR), but Likely seems like an interesting option.

[0]: http://halide-lang.org/
You can choose to push off your repairs, like I do with the roof, or you can try to fix them yourself, like my house's previous owner. And if you do choose to do something, you can choose the quality and the timeframe. With an HOA you are forced to spend the money and have little say as to how you want to spend it and in what timeframe.
> You have just restated the problem of consciousness, except as an assertion that it doesn't exist.

Things that don't exist are rarely problematic. But in fairness, I cannot guarantee that there is no consciousness, just as I cannot guarantee that gravity exists — it could be part of a simulation in which I was put since birth, and the real world could have very different laws of physics. Nothing new here, it is Occam's razor.

> it doesn't stop; just as there aren't really points of view, there aren't really any chemicals, and there isn't really such a thing as (classical, let's say) information.

There is such a thing as a point of view. I object to the notion of consciousness solely because of how it is used. Plants have points of view too; jellyfish do too, without the need for a brain. They react intelligently to their environment. Are those conscious? It is clearer to talk about "brains" and "points of view" than it is to talk about "consciousness".

> The explanations which made "aether" and "miasma" obsolete are beautiful, unexpected at the time (in a trivial sense), and of course, not supernatural.

I suppose that's up to each of us to judge. I don't find the idea that throughout my body, millions of tiny unicellular parasites are having a snack, particularly beautiful. Similarly, the idea that there is an invisible energy pulling everything apart always felt supernatural to me.

> if the universe is infinite, isn't it likely that there will be copies of you

The probability is above zero, but given that space is overwhelmingly empty, and given how much information defines my identity (including my average DNA, which is inherited from millions of years of evolution in extremely specific circumstances), it seems unlikely. If there is a copy of me in the universe, the most probable location would be on Earth, extremely close to where I sit.
You're off to a good start with Flytrap. It looks interesting. You should show it here with a Show HN post. Also add somewhere in the doc or readme file that you're available for consulting engagements.

The best clients are the ones who contact you directly so reminding people you're available in your projects is important.
But asymptotically it doesn't matter because the LZ78/LZW code words represent longer and longer sequences, with the more probable sequences getting shorter codes. The additional letter (per each code word, in the case of LZ78) doesn't matter asymptotically. Practically, of course, it does.
I believe there's a font selection dialog lib that is still present in every windows system folder since 3.1.
Some numbers: there are ~120kloc of Elisp in Emacs proper. I have nearly 500kloc of Elisp in my `.emacs.d`. Granted, some of it are reimplementations and wrappers around what is in the core, and some are plugins I downloaded, tried out and forgot to delete, but still, that's a huge amount of code. That's 136 man-years, according to sloccount:

Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 499,088
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 136.18 (1,634.17)
(Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))
Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 3.47 (41.59)
(Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))
Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 39.29
Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 18,396,178
(average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).
SLOCCount, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 David A. Wheeler
> So either you've misunderstood what we're talking about or you're schizophrenic and think all cash transactions can be tracked.

Oh cash, my comment was about electronic transactions, I'm in huge favour of cash. Sorry, my bad.
You're really in the wrong place if you think this is going to go down well. You might want to give the guy some respect and not espouse religious views here.
> each bid adds ten seconds to the countdown which gives other bidders the time to counter your bid.

Why has eBay never implemented this behavior?
Lol

Sorry to be so harsh, but Google has always been this way.

Why do people keep putting essential stuff in someone else's sandbox? Your effectivly adding a SPoF, that you have no control over
>> Atom's primary innovation

They couldn't make it fast on modern hardware?

It's a significant indictment of the technology, and of GitHub's engineering that a product like Atom is slow on th high-end Dell hardware that my employer buys for me.

Atom's problem, which includes the astoundingly enormous amount of CPU and memory that it guzzles, is that the people who built it demonstrably didn't care about performance, didn't know better, or both.

Atom is a textbook example of how not to write software. I guess it's not only 'hackable to the core', but 'inefficient to the core'.

It's just bad software.
I have no problem in wishing to be rich. I have no problem is wishing to be powerful. I have a problem only when I want to be richer than someone else. Why on earth do I want to define my 'need' looking at someone else.

And if I do not base my needs with that of some one else, why should I even compare myself with others, so as to determine if I am mediocre or not.

May be I am dumb. But I am happy to be dumb. Forrest Gump is my personal hero. LOL!

Teacher -"Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?"
Gump - "Who I'm gonna be?............. Yeah..................Aren't I going to be me? "
Nova Credit (YC S16) Transfers Immigrant's Credit History Between Countries
Give it another year or two. Turning 30 in a few weeks, can feel the caring beginning to evaporate on its own.
OR MAYBE...

Seth Rich was shot by the FBI, in order to make it _look_ like the DNC shot him.

"supposed leaker" is really stretching it. there has been zero evidence to it other than wikileaks insinuating he was, which is a bit of a shitty thing for them to have done considering now everyone is focused on that aspect rather than about who actually murdered him.
Microsoft Tests Project Sonoma, a Slack Competitor
Patterns for Composition (CSS)
Psychologist reveals science behind a fulfilling single life
Until you spill water on the stove and the buttons go crazy / stop working until completely dry (which takes some effort)
Would their bookkeeping (taxes, etc.) be affected by this if they are under the impression that you are U.S. based? Do you provide invoices with an address on them?
Are people at the company actually taking at least 3 weeks of vacation every year? No? It's a fucking scam. This test works every single time.