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Big-O is mathematically rigorously defined, but has nothing to do with wall-clock time. It's about the asymptotic behaviour of functions. How you interpret the values of these functions is up to you - of course you can model wall-clock time, but then you'd probably be interested in all the constant factors and lower-order terms that asymptotics hide from you, so Big-O analysis is the wrong tool.
I wish it was easier to convert "standard" dynamic web pages into static HTML easier. There's one or two Wordpress sites I'd really like to get rid of updating over and over again (which is still less work than actually reading mostly meaningless Changelogs and making a decision if there are security issues that actually apply to me). Probably, my solution to this problem will be "wget -r", plus a bit of sanitizing.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12385458
anyone knows why they disable -pie by default? I know a lot of others do so as well, but this should be really pushed forward and be the default. Full ASLR is most likely the strongest exploit mitigation mechanism that's available right now.
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Can you elaborate on why you think this would be more difficult in Europe?

I can imagine Europe wide fitness chains not being so common. http://www.basic-fit.com and friends seem to be building something like it. But then again, public swimming pools, and even public showers are more common and often highly subsidised.
A new landcruiser would probably cost twice as much, but a 10 to 20 year old won't break the bank. It actually makes sense buying an older vehicle because they're much simpler, mechanically.

Will the old landcruiser break down? Maybe, probably even. But the good thing is that any mechanic in even the remotest African village can fix it. Good luck finding a bush mechanic who can sort out a CANBUS-error in your Jeep...

Having said that, I have to admit I'm just an armchair warrior. I read your story on Reddit and I massively enjoyed your undertakings. Hats off to you for actually persuing your crazy plans!
Almost all universities public and private in the US are 501(3)(c) nonprofit organizations. (Some public ones are more or less an extension of the government and don't count)

For-profit universities ... aren't. They're owned and operated by for-profit companies, the accreditation is usually terrible and in no way comparable to other universities, and they deceive students into thinking they'll be getting something similar to a university degree.

For example, ITT is run by ITT Educational Services Inc

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ESI

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What really needs to happen, is the US needs to restrict federal student loans to programs on a whitelist of accreditors (whitelisting the accreditation organization not the program, like ABET for example) as well as restricting organizations calling themselves "institute", "university", etc. as well as giving out "degrees" without matching the whitelist.

I have _no_ problem with the concept of a for-profit university, but they're being allowed to exist with very low standards and it needs to stop.

In fact I think the whole university system needs to tighten it's belt and be made smaller and more elite. Too many people think that ticking a university box is necessary to get a job / to hire a person, especially when so many people get such low quality degrees.

I'm not even railing against soft degrees, but their contents instead. "Liberal Arts" ... if you deconstruct that you can get to the original meaning which might be rephrased something like "the skills necessary to live a free life" which a whole lot of university degrees these days do not do at all.
> Which means Swift, .NET Native, Java/C++, C++17, on the OSes from Apple, Google and Microsoft.

You've seen where their OS code comes from, and what it's written in, right?

Just to be very clear, I'm very well-versed in life outside C and imperative programming. This isn't "UNIX culture". This is "systems programming" culture, and it's simply pragmatic.
Why is everyone hating on the answer “it depends” in software development?
Like people working for the government, or elected politicians? They get all their income from somebody's else taxes (), have obvious conflict of interests as they make laws that affect their job and income, and I see no chance they won't be allowed to vote.

() Actually most of those money goes back to the state, minus the ones going into savings, private properties or leave the country to pay for imported goods.
But in the Burton film, ultimately, it's a story about Wonka reconnecting with his estranged father, explaining all of his weirdness and childlike behaviour as being somehow related to this event. Charlie is a second runner in that respect from the moment Wonka enters the screen.

My other issue is that Depp is insufferable, irritating and took the "child-like" description to an extreme. I dislike the Burton version more than I dislike the Hitchhikers film... which is to say, a lot. Both took a well trodden and loved story and changed it in a way that seems to add nothing to the narrative. The Hitchhikers film[1] fell back on the "but Douglas Adams never told the story the same twice in any medium" as an excuse. I don't believe Burton had that one to fall back on. Especially as Dahl felt Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory didn't capture his vision for the movie[2].

[1] http://www.therobotsvoice.com/2011/05/the_15_worst_things_ab...
[2] https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/why-roald-dahl-hated-willy-wonka...
I find this extremly hard to read and I don´t get why you have to push feminism into this topic.
The hard thing about salary ranges is that there are multiple levels of an engineer, some of which can't always be factually expressed in terms of work experience or any other variable. Although, a great deal of companies claim to hire the best, in most cases, this is not the case. It's always a mixbag of "Ok-hires", "Brilliant-hires" and "Ok-hires-who-turned-to-be-brilliant".

Taking in account of all three, the salary ranges can be too broad. Yeah, Buffer and StackExchange are doing good but then again, quite a lot of times they have been said to be giving low salaries which also is compensated by the fact that they are super-remote-friendly.

I can't imagine if it'd work for every organisation though.
ITT is accredited by an organization recognized by the US Department of Education. It's a shitty accreditation, but it's there. (Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools)
There's nothing cheap about a helicopter.

An airplane wants to fly, a helicopter wants to crash. The expense for the latter comes from fighting that tendency.
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This definitely has some entertainment value. However, if you want to make your code verbose, there is only one way to go. Use a language that needs just the following statement to produce a valid program:

TRANSFORM THE CURRENT OBJECT INTO THE DESIRED OBJECT.

Any other program statements are redundant.
Your own release notes contain descriptions of breaking language changes.

That may change as the language matures -- great. I keep an eye on Rust so that I can eventually try actually using it for kernel-level development work.
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Or go build your own lightning field like Walter de Maria

https://artappreciation101.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/demar...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2...

Of which there is a great description if Geoff Dyer's latest book White Sands.
Not necessarily. People have been stripped of citizenship if it was determined they obtained it fraudulently, that is lying on the forms or during an interview with an immigration official.

So, actually what gp is suggesting is not completely implausible.
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Its not misleading in that this is the correct perspective to take. It is misleading in that the devs may not have even realized that this was important. The poster came off as aggressive with the intention to start a witchhunt and make an example of raspberrian. But this is a question of security which ought to be considered important.
Look at Atlassian... $6.2bn valuation on the stock exchange, after an IPO at $5.8bn. Self-funded.
Autogyros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogyro) are very safe and cheap, compared to planes and helicopters. Plus they are very simple mechanically, so for the third-world scenario seems a good fit. They require a takeoff and landing road, though.
That's relevant to this case? Citation, please
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Wonderful link - thanks!

Found this alarmingly prescient piece on the BBC site from 2000:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/874419.stm

'The next generation of mobile phones will make it much easier for the police to carry out covert surveillance of citizens, say civil liberty campaigners.'

Hmm, I wonder how that will play out...
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> Shoulder belts

My dad (AF flight instructor) relates that crew in a fighter often release the shoulder harness but keep the lap belt on while taxiing. One day, a fighter with a tandem crew taxied off the runway into the mud, the nosegear stuck in the mud, and the jet dug its nose into the ground.

The guy in front, who had left his shoulder harness on, walked away. The guy in back didn't, and had his brains splashed all over the instrument panel.

After seeing that, my dad never took off his shoulder harness until the airplane was parked and the engines were shut down.
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>> Why not just delete it or reply no thank you?

Uh, at a guess: because if you don't expect to get a job at Google the next best way to pad your CV is to make it very publicly known that you've turned down an offer from Google?
Not to mention he is in education - a universally moral category

I sincerely hope that is not to be taken as sarcasm?

This is startup nirvana if I ever saw it. I'm sure there are famous billionaires who would trade places with him if they could

Can you be more detailed please?
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I can't believe I'm getting down-voted just because I'm not bullish on ANN.

I don't think it's that - I think it is because you are factually wrong. In particular this part: "ANN are not that big of a deal, IMHO, when you compare them to other machine learning techniques i.e. Support Vector Machines. " is wrong.

(Deep) Neural Networks are a very, very big deal because they work so much better than SVNs in every domain where there is sufficient training data, sufficient time (and enough GPUs!) to train them.

This post is a big deal because it shows a way to cut down that training time.
I am assuming that you didn't spent actively recording it but what does the time spent on sites like HN, Reddit et. al look like?
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Ok, that's half the stack... Who specialises in the lower parts?
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But is that only what the feds found they might have exfitrated more back to family back home
I created something similar recently, but more minimalistic, es6/jsx-encouraging and based on the real DOM (via morphdom).

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Programming is to CS what telescopes are to astronomy. I understand that this is not obvious to an 18 year old outsider, so in that sense you may have been misled by an admissions counsellor who probably didn't understand it either, but no - studying CS won't make you a software engineer by itself. At all.
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This is an awesome project! The demo could use some work, though. It's pretty hard to write legibly with a mouse, so I tried to open it on my phone, but the canvas doesn't work properly when zoomed in. (using Chrome on Android)
They just learned by natural selection :)
Flying cars have been "just around the corner" since the very beginning of powered flight, and ironically Santos Dumont floating his dirigibles up and down Paris streets and parking them up when he wanted to stop at a cafe for lunch in the early 1900s back when heavier-than-air transport was still experimental is probably as close as we got to anybody actually living that dream.

The appeal of flying cars is one of those things that seems obvious and we've had the technology to build them for decades, particularly after the invention of the helicopter and VTOL jets: trouble is the use case for them suddenly looks a lot smaller when you realise that (i) where the problem is traffic congestion, local aviation authorities are not going to let queues of vehicles try to solve it by taking off and landing in crowded areas and (ii) where the problem is few or no roads, helicopters make excellent off-road transport without the extra weight of wheels.
Sound like a very real concern. But I also remember the same complaints back in MPEG-2 vs h.264 times. We need some objective benchmark for this.
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Neither of these are signs of real affluence.

If you return what you've stolen the courts are often more lenient in sentencing. I imagine if you're committing a huge fraud then, if you're capable of thinking it through rationally, keeping the money until you're absolutely certain you've managed to get away with your crime is actually good idea.
Look for another job and put the history behind you.

You can offer a lot of value to a new employer, don't walk in through the door from a position of weakness.

Walk in through the door like the valuable experienced employee that you can be.
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Netscape 3.0 was 6MB? So about a cold load of the average news web page in 2016.
Unfortunately, it may not quite be true [1]. The lyrebirds that mimic the man-made sounds are not wild ones but filmed at a zoo. So far, there hasn't been recordings of wild lyrebirds mimicking human-made sounds.

I'm a David Attenborough fan, but in the interest of accuracy, this has to be made known. That video segment was made in the older days of natural history documentary where some artistic license was taken.

[1] "Lyrebirds mimicking chainsaws: fact or lie?" [ https://theconversation.com/lyrebirds-mimicking-chainsaws-fa... ]
That would be funny if it wasn't so awful.
And to a lot of us who live in Europe. Was reading a thread on reddit the other day about how people in the States actually tell you to smile, even though they're total strangers to you. What if just someone close to you just passed away? What if you've just been fired and don't have money for rent or for your parents' medication?
What is the user "bluestar" writing about in this thread?

I don't even understand the intent of the message.

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=80193&po...
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A bird kills other birds in the nest, then leads humans to annihilate bee nests? This thing is pure evil.
> To validate a user-supplied email address, you arguably just need...

See the earlier discussion. It's not nearly so simple.
By that definition a card board mock up would be a robot too. I agree with the grandparent that a squishy thing that just flails its arms is not what most people would consider a "robot", experts included.
It's not forced though, is it? You just have to pay interest.
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Good point. I guess I should have said reputable accreditation. From ACICS's Wikipedia page:

"the U.S. Department of Education formally recommended that the accreditor's recognition be withdrawn. (June 15th 2016)"

So I guess they won't be accredited for long.
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> that there's no inner emotional effect from smiling.

It likely means there's no inner emotional effect from just the specific measured physical activation of facial muscles.

Part of the problem here is, as they say, that we don't know why it failed to replicate. I saw Strack and Martin's complaints in part at least as finding that to be a concern:

Maybe there genuinely is no effect, or maybe the effect they originally measured is down to something subtle that was different due to all the changes in the experimental setup.

Personally I think that's a big flaw in the replication attempt: They ought to have at least included a couple of groups that followed the original setup as closely as humanly possible, to see whether that would give different results.

In any case, they were measuring something very specific: Whether forcing subjects to put their facial muscles into something resembling a smile while they are unaware of being made to smile will cause them to subsequently be more likely to judge a comic funny.

Can that can be extrapolated to the question of whether smiling will make you happier? Maybe. Maybe not.

Is it relevant to situations where people decide to smile with the intent of trying to force an emotional change? No idea.

Is it relevant to situations where people realise that they have been smiling without knowing why? No idea.

Is it relevant to situations where forcing a smile triggers social feedbacks that affect your emotions (e.g. people smiling back)? Probably not at all, but who knows.

It's very possible that the failure to replicate genuinely means the original result was flawed, without it actually telling us anything about typical real world situations that people wrongly interpreted the original paper to apply to.

This is perhaps a bigger problem: The original finding has been spun so much over the years into something it was not. They specifically tried to "engineer away" peoples knowledge about whether or not they were smiling or of someone trying to affect their emotional state. And that's fine for their original purpose, but it's not very relevant to most of the situations that people have subsequently tried to apply the spun version of the results to.
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Does this method make it easier to spread a neural network over multiple GPUs/machines?

Yes, but this isn't the primary focus of this work.

This is about a method of approximating error rates (gradient) back up the neural network.

This is important because allowing the use of approximate error rates means that earlier layers can be trained without waiting for error back-propagation from the later layers.

This asynchronous feature helps on a (computer) network too - there is no need to wait for back-propagation across the network.

As they point out the error will back-propagation eventually. The analogy with an eventually consistent database system (and the effect that has on scalability) is pretty clear.
I don't know if they're as deserving of the vitriol. I've interviewed and worked with several people with DeVry degrees. I can't say if it's sample size or just good luck or both but I haven't been disappointed with them.
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It is fairly standard practice to mark for deletion and communicate on the UI to the user that their data will be deleted in X days. Also doesn't hurt to spell that out in terms of service and privacy policy.
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"she shows how the algorithms [...] are based on exactly the sort of shallow and volatile type of data sets that informed those faulty mortgage models in the run up to 2008"
so the fault is of the technology, right?
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Any advice for finding dev jobs in Australia? Moving to Melbourne from London in a few months and I've only been told to look on seek.com.au. Is this where you're having issues with recruiters?
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This is why I come to HN. There are a lot of websites out there that gratify one's intellectual curiosity, but none with the same "human filter" and comment quality.
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