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I wonder why they left out the elephant in the room: web video not from netflix, amazon or Hulu. There are thousands of YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and other types of channels replacing regular tv shows. What most don't realize is that TV is dead. It was replaced, not by netflix, but by YouTube and the rest of the online video portals. Even Snapchat aims to take away from the video content cake with its stories.

Let me say it again: TV is dead. Entertainment has changed. People want a 2 way relationship with entertainers. They want to like, snap and follow. As technology makers we should take action and build escuche for that. Hell, musica.ly showed that there is a segment of the population who will pay attention to their peers in short self made music videos (this is the new mtv, btw).
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The thought flashes by every now and then. I haven't been doing this for very long (~2 years professionally) but I've already started to see little glimpses of burnout on the horizon and plan on working in a proper break from work at some point.

I can't say for definite what I'd do. Music's always been a side passion and I'm attracted to the idea of getting back into music production. I studied it briefly back in college (UK, so I guess high school?) but I don't think my heart was really in anything back then so I let it slip through my fingers. For some reason I also sometimes get these day dreams of working in a market food stand. I can't see how i'd enjoy it considering how disdainful I was of my youth working in retail, but cooking is another little passion of mine so maybe i'd dig it, even if it felt a bit like an step down.
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* That is inaccurate: Google's ad controls panel says this (after fully disabling targeted advertising): "Ads you see may still be based on your general location (such as city or county) or recent searches"

* Even if advertisers can target audiences in groups of at least 100 people, advertisers can run multiple campaigns and make an intersection of the sets of people they find, to still "identify" me.

* Yes, they don't sell personal information directly. This one is correct, and there is no reason to believe otherwise.

You can argue that my points are far-fetched, but in the end I am the one who determines the value of my data, not Google.
nonesense. its only in America you cant talk about the difference between boys and girls. I dont care how much you homos, bisexuals and metrosexuals whine and moan, i am not required to respect your life choices.
Sexisim isnt a bad thing, its as natural as sexual preference, whichever way you swing.

https://pics.onsizzle.com/something-went-terribly-wrong-fwd-...

And you know a secret? Women really do prefer men over whiney little girls.

So what exactly is your beef with describing the web as insecure as an ugly girl on prom night?

Its not exactly scarface high on coke. is it.
We only find work email addresses, and to find emails we use a variety of methods - Some include checking the mail server, using various APIs, using social verification to see if the email is signed up somewhere, crawling the web, scraping domains, etc.
Twitter? I'm sorry this is rural India. No one knows or gives a shit about twitter. A more probable event is that police arresting me :D

But thanks for your concern we have contacted a couple of rich heads to use the situation to their advantage.
I don't understand your viewpoint. This work isn't being done by your local authorities and isn't an alternative action to their providing help.

It provides clear potential benefits (if it performs as well as implied) for numerous people at risk in the world, which is a substantial goal that can be at least be applied in places that do have better forms of assistance. Perhaps if your local authorities do eventually implement better protocols, this will be of use for future suicidal residents there as well. I understand that you're trying to raise awareness for the lack of help from authorities, but it seems awfully dismissive of work that seemingly has nothing to do with the first problem.
Wow, so the credits are really that thorough? That's awesome to hear. I also now have new respect for movies with really short credits - I'd wondered if there were any positions deemed "too irrelevant" and not included.

I'm also particularly curious about the "no formal education in CS" bit - for various complicated reasons I haven't (yet?) completed basic HSC, and am wondering how to break into the industry in general. I'm not 100% sure where I want to start, but "simple Python scripts" sounds rather interesting. I assume there was a bit of being in the right place at the right time, but besides that, how did you get yourself noticed?
I come from Aachen. I don't think that people commute from here or colognen to Prüm. It's too far away for daily commute.
This could change with fully autonomous cars ;)
Programming is a creative endeavour. Why can't you put any art into it?

Are you suggesting that you've learned everything there possibly is to learn, you're already brain dead (and getting paid for it).

Wait a minute...you don't work for the government, do you?
I have been working on a NLP project where I needed to identify different forms of the same word. Typically, this is done by Stemming and Lemmatization. These methods are not accurate, and I needed high accuracy in my project. Since I found no libraries/packages that can do this, I decided to write a Python package myself. It works quite well now. Feel free to check it out, I would love to hear your feedback.
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If this were a stand-alone app, I would use it. For me the workflow seems better than Mail.app or Thunderbird.

+1 for using characters from the HBO show Silicon Valley.

+2 for using TPS Reports!
Thanks for the advice guys.
Some candidate submission systems at larger companies use that info to get a unique id so recruiters don't double submit candidates. At least that's what the told me. Not sure if it's true or not.
According to Wikipedia there are no longer any passenger trains that stop in Prüm.

The good thing is most Germans living in rural areas are used to commuting by car anyway. I doubt there will be many commuters from Cologne (commuting by car from within Cologne is bad enough without having to drive for over an hour once you've managed to escape the city) but it seems like a nice region to settle down.
Maybe I'm too grumpy today, but the gist of the summary of the review to me is not 'trust it' but rather 'the protocol is new and overly complex and the security goals have not been stated clearly' with the addition that no major error was found.
Some people say it's the "golden age" of TV-Shows. So much than even A list movie stars now play in series.
Code is clay. What you do with it can make you a Michelangelo or a bricklayer. Sometimes it can make you good money, sometimes it becomes tedious in the wrong job. Still if you pursue other economic means of production, code is always a way to express your imagination, a nice hobby to have.
Surely the age of a problem doesn't necessarily diminish its significance?
I wrote a short blogpost about LessPass, it's security and what should be done in near future. You can find it here: http://lsrom.cz/blog/2016/11/08/lesspass_why_holding_back_ge...
>I think you're confusing "citizen" with "civilian"

Oh indeed. Not sure how that happened.

In any case, my point is that the words are used in different contexts to emphasise different things. People don't talk about "citizens" in the context of the media market, because legal nationality isn't really relevant to the topic.
Just a result of the ruling class being so tiny and geriatric that the public is left voting for the children and wives of ex-rulers. These people have few redeeming qualities when compared to people outside of that class.

It's widespread, not just South Korea.
The UK rules are a side effect of a system where there is no national ID number that is considered acceptable for identification purposes, and no national register of where people live, which makes it very easy for people to run away from debts etc..

The various id requirements and 3-year credit history expectation are basically workarounds for this.
I cant remember worst candidates in the recent US elections. Why vote for any of them?
Yes, but it is relevant (also these were my first words btw).
Just the other day I saw a data analyst position at UNICEF. Probably not the job you're after, just wanted to let you know those jobs are out there!
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This is a fully-fledged basic business intelligence tool, which can chart data from Google Analytics, Google Sheets and MySQL an series of other sources. It is a perfect free alternative to QlikView/Tableau for some simple data projects.
I'm on the same boat. Music is my main passion, IT is my second passion.

I simply had to start working with IT. My parents were unemployed at the time and things were rough. My first job offered good pay and allowed us to survive the storm.

After my parents got re-employed, I continued working and advanced my career. With the money I bought a car (my other passion), built a home studio, and now I'm rebuilding the whole house.

I guess I became too attached to having financial security and the nice things it brings.

But I don't plan on letting my main passion die, I still have a rehearsal scheduled today after work!
I agree that the lack of coherence (spatial & temporal) of ambient lighy would makes the use of diffraction gratings to actively create destructive interference patterns on the retina a futile efftort. Ambient light is generally a white lighy (lacks temporal coherence) and many wavefronts originate closer to the eye than the optical infinity (~8m) and are therefore fairly divergent (curved and thus lack spatial coherence). The resulting interference patterne would therefore be very blurry. Too blurry to form a useful black pixel image on the retina.

On the other hand, I believe ML is proposing to use a gratings to display black/clear images. In this setup, the incident ambient light wavefronts are selectively redirected using bragg gratings (why they keep saying Braff gratings" in their literature is beyond me). This technique has been around for many years and is still captivating to watch even in this day and age - see:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

The realization that this affect retains its "sharpness" for near eye applications in concert with (I believe) the realization that you can utilize the electonically-controlled diffraction grating layers you already have in your device (for the purpose of controlling wavefront curvature to support eye depth accommodation) depth is really quite clever. It's truly an exciting prospectct!
Not really. I use programming as a tool not as an end goal. I enjoy programming because it gives me the ability to do things I otherwise could not. I also like the deep technical side of it but there isn't much to do there for me.
Let me put it like this – if OpenWhisperSystems had an explicit toggle in their protocol which, after flipping it, would allow them to access all future communications and where the user was unable to tell whether it had or had not been flipped, nobody would call the protocol "secure" or write a "Trust It" headline about it.

However, if OWS only supports systems on which such a toggle exists via a third-party provider, that somehow makes them secure?

I find this hard to understand. Yes, of course an app which encrypts data against some adversaries is nice, but it should definitely be called "secure-against-some-people", not "secure", and people shouldn’t write "Trust It" but rather "Trust It if you also trust X and Y and Z".
Well, "monitors your phone camera" is a very misleading way to put it. They "monitor" your photo library, in a way that I think most people would expect. If you take a picture with the GPS on, obviously your phone knows where you are, it's not that weird to ask you something based on your location. I don't think most people expect Google Maps to be completely disconnected from the rest of their Google phone.
The maps on the right in this article are a pretty good approximation to what I get on my last and current phones. It only touches briefly on street names and other labels but the dramatic reduction is clearly visible.
> without having to play the development workflow game with the daily standups and so on?

It never used to be like this. I think management has reacted to the traits they perceive in programmers - get distracted too easily, work on things that don't need doing, take too long, cannot provide work-time estimates, etc - by putting in place this micro-managing approach: "only do it if it's on the kanban and tell us each and every day what you have done and will be doing". I know agile, etc, weren't designed to do that, but that's what they've been used for whenever I've been subjected to them.

Programming and dev-ops used to be fun, self-directed, creative work which kept me interested for a couple of decades. Now the pace of change (much of it unnecessary or over-sold) and the constant micro-management have me looking for other things to do.
> I read the leaked emails referred to in these articles, and I don't see much that is troubling about NYT's behavior.

Imagine if judges gave litigants pre-publication copies of opinions.
taneq was saying that Google Maps now shows very few street names, but your link doesn't talk about street names, and is about city names instead.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, on unrelated stuff.)
Its not too bad, XMPP is very easy with a good client like Conversations. That being said it is not for normies, over the course of a year Signal will be used and appreciated by normies, normies using Conversations meanwhile will go perma offline after a few weeks from what I've seen.

Conversations is essentially Signal but for XMPP, the problem is it doesn't blend in normal SMS and additional value adds to sweeten the pot for normies and keep them using it.
There's one Supreme Court opening now, and a good chance of at least one more in the next four years. Who gets to make those nominations could have long-lasting ramifications.
Again: this is a point that can be made to sound interesting with lots of extra words, but all you're saying is that people run applications on operating systems you don't like. They're not going to switch.
I find this rather surprising. I used to work for Hailo, and we failed mostly due to bad business decision (focusing way too much on regulations/instead of disrupting the taxi industry we tried to partner) with way-way less funding ($100 mil in all - at the time less than 25) we built an app of such high quality, almost every driver or passenger we talked to (tens of thousands) said while Uber's network is superior, they wish they could use Hailo's app because it's just faster, nicer, feels more polished and less buggy.

It is not rocket science, really. I don't think it's about tech quality. As our case proved, it's all about the extent of the network - people want a (cheap) ride, if they get it, they are happy.
I have not had a cable type connection with regular tv channels since 2012 or such.

Why accept a forced programming on you at specific times when you can chose what you want to watch whenever you want.

Even my 70+ father is making youtube videos about everything photos and watching/commenting similar channels of his own.
start at java (the most commonly used language, making up most of google - gmail - for example) and work your way down the list, to php right at the bottom. php is fabulous for quick and cheap web dev when it doesnt matter if all your users data gets sent to haveibeenpwned.com and not much else.
You remind me of The Fifth Element, when the main bad guy starts choking on a piece of fruit and doesn't have a back slapping robot among his legion of other robots.

The other side of the coin is also in security, people by nature make your house less secured (albeit based on your relationship with them, the area, country and so forth).
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I've been using the same basic chair I bought at Staples when I was in grad school almost a decade ago. I'd like to upgrade to something really comfortable and supportive that I can sit in for several hours at a time. Good posture is really important to me so I'd like something that will help me when I start to slouch.
Not only is it not relevant, but your summary of the thread and of Signal's security model is inaccurate.
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Russia is one of the few countries other than the US with a 100% native war industry so I imagine they would get good bang for their buck. US would too if the military-industrial complex didn't have such a good grasp on the nation's purse strings.
These competitors are trying to do too much. Someone should instead build infrastructure similar to Amadeus or Sabre. Not an amazing business, but probably good enough to make a profit. It's The Right Thing and likely better for both the general public and transportation providers and drivers.
Unlikely (s)he's interested in disclosing, judging by the throwaway name.

I'm in Toronto looking for agency work as well. It's been a while since I've done some.
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This has come up before... you need to get redirected to the site to be able to access it.. it gives you a pythonic shell in the browser to do a recruitment test.
Many Large Engineering companies in Germany have their headquarters in relatively small towns. See Waldorf for SAP, Wolfsburg for VW, Zuffenhausen vor Porsche... There's many examples. Germany is pretty dense so many services are available Nationwide, and even the smallest towns usually have a few food delivery places that deliver to them. Normally the next larger city is less than an hour's drive by car away, so it's very doable to live in small towns. It also has a bit to do with salaries in Germany, which tend to be on the low side, even for highly qualified engineers if you compare it to SV levels.
Exactly why I like XMPP, it allows me to protect my metadata from leakage, if I could get normies to use it for more than a few weeks.
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I disagree, what they've done is externalized many of the risks (battery fires, unforeseen supplier bottlenecks, etc) and maintained focus on building cars that people want right now. They haven't been able to keep Tesla from entering the market and becoming a competitor. Perhaps the next disruptive innovation in transportation will prove to actually be disruptive but so far EVs haven't. Most people don't up and buy the newest car as soon as it comes out, so 3 to 4 years might not be as damaging as all the risks could have been.
Completely agree. Although if your binary classes are perfectly balanced then accuracy is a valid metric, but that's rarely the case.

I guess the problem is that an ROC curve wouldn't create flashy headlines.
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I'd love to create some kind of career swap service someday. Can you imagine signing up and trying all sorts of different jobs.
I can appreciate the effort made in the research, but classifying possible human behaviors is exactly a field where I don't want machine learning to go.

There is behind machine learning both a phantasm - artificial intelligences that can guess what humans can't - and a reality - it's just statistical models that are never 100% accurate because, well, that's an attribute of statistics.

Those two elements combined and applied to behavior classification sounds like a scary thing, not unlike the kind of errors eugenics made, over trusting their science to apply it on social facts, totally discarding empathy and individual context.
Also autobahns make a lot of distances seem very small in Germany.
I thought about it so many times I lost count.

My dream is writing for a living, and I'm currently writing the first draft of a novel. I'm about 1/5 of the way there, began a couple of weeks ago. I've tried a few other times, but couldn't get past the first few chapters. I'm now at 18k words and going strong, I hope this will be the one.
1960's aluminum tanker task/computer chair with adjustable height and backrest. Fits perfect, stylish, keeps me sitting straight all day. Will outlast me without a doubt. Only issue is ocassional butt sweat from vinyl seat on hot days. Will never suffer a disposable 'office chair' again.
I would say it's neat. But whoever thinks this has any use outside of entertainment, in ecommerce for example, is wrong IMO.
Thanks for doing this. I wanted to do the same things a few months back. I looked into a lot of dictionary APIs, but as you mention in the repo, they suck at connecting different parts of speeches. It's funny how simple this sounds but how difficult it is to actually do it. Back then, I gave up and went with a Lemmatizer. Will definitely use this.
I run into NAT almost every single day. It wastes time, breaks things, consumes router resources, rules out certain technologies/products/services and duplicates so much work it's just unreal.
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Well, that's not true. Many Aegis cruisers and destroyers are now armed with SM-3 missiles which are capable of anti-ballistic missile and anti-satellite.
Leather "Executive" office chair from Costco. Had it for about two years now and it still feels great, if anything the leather has gotten even softer from use. I think it was around $150-$200.

I also have foot rest approximately parallel to the seat so that I can lean back and keep my feet elevated. Being able to lean back makes longer sessions much easier on the lower back. Either way it's best to take a break every hour or two though.
Federal Circuit has been invalidating software patents at an alarming rate ever since, all relying on the Alice decision.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/patent-eligibility-criteria-l...
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And as always it will also be a battle for the engineers. I'm German and have only seen a few German companies really fight for engineering power. Only example I can think of is Zalando. The reason probably is that the average engineer is better educated than in many other countries, maybe better than in the US. But in exchange we don't have as much exceptional talent. This influences hiring preferences a lot, since a team of (high) average people can outperform a rockstar and can still be cheaper.

But here it doesn't apply, since it's a vastly new technology on all levels of production. You really need the rockstars since they will be the one building the new technologies. So when the big car companies realize what they need to do all the great engineers who can do it will already work for Tesla.

So I have to agree. The battle hasn't really begun yet, but the war already seems over.
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You were able to not work for two years, twice, because of the software money. What is the difference between you and this guy?