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When people say "I don't do or have the opportunity to do ML at work" it's because they don't have data to analyze or actual things to program or do in order to gain the experience they need to make the videos worthwhile to watch.

One thought about that: If you don't have "work data" to work on, there's still TONS of other "stuff" out there that you can work with. And given how much Open Data / Linked Data datasets are out there, for many industries I'd bet there's a pretty good chance one could find some interesting analysis of one of those datasets that would have value for their employer. Digging in and building something like that could help with bridging into an ML role. Or, if it's obvious that it just Isn't Going To Happen with one's current employer, it's always possible to just build something cool around an Open Data dataset and plop it up on GitHub to show other people. And in either case, it provides the motivation of having a project to work on.

There are also Kaggle competitions.
We have a really innovative solution to this problem.

There exists places that take bulk case packages of products, place them on shelves and make them available to the public. You give them money, put the items in a paper/plastic/reusable bag and take them home.

They are called stores. Many are located near common places, like intersections or near commercial office areas.
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I thought it was just me. I guess this is to make it difficult to rack up points, making it more a game of chance than skill?
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What is "superhuman" if not a relative benchmark against our expectations of what humans can accomplish unaided? We watch the Olympics knowing full well a machine could trivially outdo the best athlete at virtually every event.
I think it might be embleer rah, but it's been a while since I've read the book.
Makes me think on how much is Google using open source just as a gimmick or a marketing term and win over engineers when in reality they know that is next to impossible to achieve something with the code they publish and the dependencies on their services. Even if a contender uses their code, they have all the resources to squash them by marketing their product way better.
I expected a lot more hue and cry when the guy died in June.

The upshot of what I read was - these folks are, in effect, test pilots whether they know it or not, and even a good driver could have died.
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But wanting to and being able to are two different things. I don't want to change my cars tires, but I absolutely want to be able to.
Baseball has gotten very boring since the crusade to clean it up. I miss the days when homerun records were in jeopardy every season.
I believe this post was stickied at the top of the golang subreddit for a bit: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5eubdp/the_future_o...

It should be a good summary of the event.
He was heavily supervised the first few times, and I keep an eye out still. I'm as worried that he'd eat them as I am that you would, because he pops them for apparently the same reason you do. :-)

(But, yes, of course your dog may vary, and I don't recommend this.)
> I don't really see how this changes anything.
This affects much more than the small minority that you think:
PS : its hard to differentiate between ROMs here since the Android XDA community tend to be quite competitive and sharing a lot of code
- Dynamic Tiles was first introduced by CyanogenMod.
- CM introduced ambient lighting based day/night modes
- CM's Theme Engine is still one of the best out there. While they derived their themeing engine from Sony. Google added app based status tinting into android after this
- CM/PA had even introduced a camera tile which still remains a wonderous thing
- The long press on home button for google now, seems like a concept heavily derived from PA's Pie Menu.
- Runtime permissions came in Marshmallow, But CM's privacy guard came much earlier.

There are several other minor features also which made the cut from AOKP roms to AOSP.

And once you spend enough time on websites like [Google-My Activity][1] .You would realise why many would want to avoid the google ecosystem owing to their privacy concerns. Most of the alternative android app markets like F-Droid survived majorly because of custom ROMS. While their numbers were not huge, they were the few who preferred keeping control of their devices and the information that they shared.
Almost 80% of the custom ROMs are forked off CM. With CM being dead,this would affect others too.

You can also thank CM for ensuring that devices have a much longer lifespan than what the OEMs deem.

[1]:https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
The reason is this is an activity centered really on humans understanding a problem and creatively modeling it in new ways until a solution can be made in their logics. The latter part is where much of the automation is helping us. Far as Isabelle and automated provers, I discovered another one recently on that:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a72a/066027389e7745f5ea1cc7...

It's probably going to stay like that with human work doing the part requiring real understanding, machines doing the brainless explorations they're good at, and libraries piling up for all the common stuff like what we're seeing a little with Coq and Isabelle/HOL.

Btw, your project just came up on Lobsters. I can send you an invite if you want to tell them about it. Right now, nobody is looking at it though which could just be due to time of day. Description sounds like you have broader plans than the Nizza-like scheme we discussed previously.

https://lobste.rs/s/3jgbh0/this_year_robigalia
Forgot the 'learn' part of it. Well here it is:

Where there's a will there's a way. I kept getting stuck at different points trying to automate things. I kept persevering because I figure anything a human can tell a machine to do, it should be able to do it by itself somehow. I managed to jump over all the roadblocks and achieve a reliable way to recreate a mail server (which is a real pain) altogether with SSL certificates included.
I honestly don't see a problem with it in particular. Not anymore than with other titles in the industry. The title gives you a clue, but it's far from being a very specific way to find out in detail the skills/responsibilities of a given person, and because no one enforces what it means companies will use them for similar but significantly different purposes sometimes (and yeah, sometimes just to be 'cool'). It does not come as surprise to me at all that specially relatively new titles are vague.
Yes, but this can all be done without any actual journal, i.e., no physical product, no website (other than the submission link), no typesetting, and most importantly nothing bound by a copyright. This substantially lowers costs. They are called "arXiv overlay journals".

http://quantum-journal.org/announcing-quantum/
http://www.nature.com/news/open-journals-that-piggyback-on-a...
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201602/arxiv.cfm
Self delusion on contours of arrogance is not helpful in long run. If so, even Thanu Padmanabhan's paper's abstract would have been elevated to be egoistic. I think, this work is to an extent a new one and I don't find any mathematical error, what say?
I'm skeptical. 1997 to 2017 is less different than 1977 to 1997 was. Likewise 1957 to 1977, 1937 to 1957 and a long way back.
We don't know yet whether modafinil and other nootropics have long-term disadvantages. The research just hasn't been done yet to say what effect they will have after 30+ years of use.

As a thought experiment ask yourself this: if there are no disadvantages then why hasn't the human brain evolved to operate that way normally without medication? I suspect there are some trade-offs, even if they aren't readily apparent.
FWIW: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/10/mozilla-open-source...
Stranger Things on Netflix would have to be one of my favorites for the year.
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Lucky, my dog loves them so much he gets excited when I receive packages.
Programming is an ongoing feat. You wouldn't take a drug to finish off a project and risk obvious health issues. Why? You're like an artist, as you do more work in future, the better.

Olympics is an one-off feat. You may take a drug to finish first despite risking obvious health issues. Why? You could receive money and fame for a lifetime as reward for one-off events.
Ah the clever XT/AT hardware:

- hard-drive on expansion card

- null modem cable (LapLink had two cables: one parallel , and one serial with a pair of DB25 and DB9 on each end)

- parasitic-powered serial devices

- Northgate keyboards with a ctrl-alt-del button

- game port Y cable (two analog joysticks on one standard game port)

- Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro joystick for mostly-compatible digital support (supported by Mechwarrior under DOS)

- Thrustmaster F-16 FLCS/TQS/RCS
These two are the common resources recommended for this sort of thing:

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/current/index.html

http://concrete-semantics.org/

Most work in the field is using Coq or HOL. The second one applies to seL4. I don't think it will help you understand it much given the complexity of that work. You might have better luck looking at Myreen's verifications of LISP 1.5 or CakeML in Isabelle/HOL. Or even their verification of HOL itself.
That is a fantastic goal.

Being a workaholic/perfectionist has really hurt me, and the last ten years are all catching up at once.

Take your time, and make sure you enjoy it.
Very happy that you and your family made it through all that. Have a great 2017!
I'd really like to see more serious discussion of the drawbacks to life extension, e.g. the people in power when life extension becomes practical will tend to remain in power for the rest of human civilization.
I mean by that logic, no progress is possible at all in programming languages, because at some point every language had worse tooling than the competition.

I'd say the greatest part about Rust is the community, which realizes all of the issues you've listed, and especially the really tough learning curve for beginners.

Generally, use the right tool for the job. I don't think I'd really want to use Rust in production yet, but it's really great for side-projects and other more experimental things.
Air cushions work well for me. I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old. When any amazon shipment arrives, I distract them with the air-cushions and put away the items delivered. Meanwhile kids jump on and burst the air-cushions, and I am left to deal with the remaining plastic.
Except you need to have a compost pile and become adept at identifying variants of packing peanuts.

We actually do compost, but our pile is inactive in the winter, and dumping some mysterious product into it isn't something that I'd want to do.
Any news on them and web assembly? That's going to be a huge problem if they don't support it and everyone else does.
This is great. Is your backend open source? Could you share more about how it compares to mailinabox? [1]

[1] https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
Really? I'd love to see a team of robots win at, say, soccer or basketball, but I'd bet that is still decades away.

Not to mention figure skating, or gymnastics.
There actually is a reasonably interesting story about them: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2011/4/a-round-p...

And the word you're looking for is "pizza saver".
Would love an answer also. Playing racquetball, I love how long the ball lives and I'm iffy about starting squash with the short volley time.

Keep it up!
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I finally went on the round-the-world backpacking trip I've been dreaming about since I was a kid watching National Geographic. It was surreal, hard, beautiful, smelly, and everything I ever hoped it would be.

Growing up poor and growing into a lot of family responsibility made me think it was never going to happen for me, but I made it happen, and now I feel freer even in my day-to-day life.
I was a dev in Windows from 2008-2011 so I am not sure you are aware you are replying to someone who is already a big fan of the NT native API (and not so much a fan of the crude hack that is Windows CRT file descriptors, like most things in the MS CRT...) I did mean to type PWSTR in full awareness that I'm using it as a figure of speech for UNICODE_STRING.
We started using Amazon Fresh a few months ago, and they deliver in reusable totes. You collapse 3-4 of them and stick them in an in-collapsed one and leave it out for pickup the next time you have an order. Really wish the rest of my amazon stuff would come this way.
For how many generations has increased intelligence really been a positive factor, compared to more prosaic survival traits? Outside of the Ashkenazi Jewish population, anyway, and that subgroup has the highest average iq in the world.
If the mandate fell on the manufacturer, do you think they'd just absorb the cost out of he goodness of their hearts?
In my scenario, the manufacturer would have to either provide logistics for local disposal (seems ideal to me) or do their own service (that would be rough!).

I imagine a cottage industry of recycle processing middle handlers would eventually lower the friction in this space.
We are having new languages every year. Instead of debating which language is the best, why can't we invent a way to let components implemented in different languages talk with each other easily? We have pipes, sockets and message queues, but it's never simple enough to glue everything together.
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> "PreCheck, however, is ... a security hologram — it looks plausible, it’s pleasing to the eye, but its protective value is illusory."

...making it utterly consistent with the rest of the TSA process. Its sole function is to allow rich people to reduce their inconvenience and therefore not agitate to have the TSA procedures simplified.

Where, then, is the problem?
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"Upgrading" Modula-3 is an interesting idea, but I wonder how much you'd have to tweak for it to be worth the effort. I suspect that adding a new chrome would end up as something awfully like Go.

Go, in my opinion, is currently the best distillation of the Wirth progression of languages that we have. The Go authors (one of whom worked on Oberon-2 at Wirth's ETH Zürich) took a lot of inspiration from Wirth, and Go is in many ways a reactionary language as a result: A simple, strict type system; easy to parse (Wirth's languages all famously fit on a single screen of EBNF grammar, not sure if Go is quite that small); design choices favouring the pragmatic over the theoretical (ignoring the last 30 years of type theory), reasonably performant, etc.

I'm not sure there's that much left in the original well. Modula-3 did have a "safe" construct, but it seems a bit naive today (nowhere near Rust's advanced, complicated safety features). Explicitly choosing between GC/non-GC seems like something compiler writers should be able to automatically optimize. Modula-3 did have generics, of course.
"Raving homophobe" is a pretty low-resolution picture of Card. Google "Janis Ian Orson Scott Card" for some nuance. Or see this cached post from her site:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ioaWOkC...

I'm not going to defend much of his political rhetoric, which I find is aptly described by the word "raving." And like others, I don't love a lot of his views on homosexuality. Just noting a higher-resolution picture of him doesn't fit the simple description of "raving homophobe."
http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

There may be a karma threshold for doing polls, not sure.
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The problem, like the author points out, is that you can build all the rail you want -- but you need to make sure that it goes to places dense enough to support it. When cities fail to do this, you get that ridiculousness.
I see some people giving it a try; thank you!

If you have any trouble please email me with feedback at the email listed on the homepage.

People don't seem to make it past the DNS records though. Don't know if it's because they just looking around or they're having trouble. The DNS A record at a minimum is needed for SSL certs to be installed correctly. Even google hasn't been able to automate that part away :)
> Drill + sergeant is (IMO) a nice alternative to Spark + sparklyr if you don't need the ML components of Spark (i.e. just need to query "big data" sources, need to interface with parquet, need to combine disperate data source types — json, csv, parquet, rdbms - for aggregation, etc).

I am really surprised Apache Drill is not gaining more attention / traction for reasons like the above.

> I find writing SQL queries to parquet files with Drill on a local 64GB Linux workstation to be more performant than doing the data ingestion work with R (for large or disperate data sets). I also work with many tiny JSON files on a daily basis and Drill makes it much easier to do so. YMMV.

Using drill both on a local machine and a 4 node cluster, I find it very convenient and fast, using an API that many people and tools are already familiar with: ANSI SQL.
Wrote a web scrapper backend and mobile app as frontend to scrap my university online portal to check if any lecturer announced class replacement / cancellation and send notification to the mobile app if there is any class replacement/cancellation. The original goal is because of laziness to check the online portal. I have learnt Ruby, Rails, Linux server setup, Nginx configuration and iOS (Objective-C) from scratch during the development.

The app spread in the campus with word of mouth and gained 2000 monthly active users in the first two months. University found out and sent me a cease and desist letter and then later implement recaptcha on their online portal login form.

Thanks to this app I managed to get a decent paying job as an iOS developer. Kinda wild ride
I stab them with my keys to let the air out and recycle at the store with other plastic material, since the local waste company doesn't recycle bags or film at all. It seems a shame considering how much plastic ends up in landfills, water ways, the ocean (great garbage patches in the gyres) and basically on every beach in the world. [0,1] Literally, (no pun intended), the oceans need a million or so plastic-skimming aquatic Roombas to undo the anthropogenic-damage just in the oceans.

Btw: I'm wondering if anyone here recycles plastic using a filament maker for a 3d printer, either DIY or commercial, and how well that works.

0. https://news.vice.com/topic/pacific-garbage-patch

1. https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/garbage-island/563b9c912a...
We need it to breathe.

(but seriously, what about it?)
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The original prototypes were made from shower curtains, so much thicker and stronger than what you're used to seeing wrapped around stuff.
Luckily for me, the suburbs are exactly where I want to be.
Hey I've been a follower for awhile, both you and your brother have been huge influences on my growth mindset. It's amazing to see you posting on HN and I will leave it at this: thank you.
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Oh yeah, I think you should also be knowing how crackpot was John Baez himself. A struggling mathematician who even declared Abhas Mitra a crackpot. Are you really in self control? I've gone through many papers, using first person in abstract doesn't vote it down, point errors don't make hyperloop of your own choices buddy!!
I finally got the company engineering blog off the ground! (http://engineering.rallyhealth.com)

It's nothing special and there's not a lot of content, but I hope to learn a lot and make more connections as the editor.

I definitely learned to share my accountability with other people. I had enough to launch in Feb of this year but I didn't launch until December when there started to be external pressure.

Additionally, I learned that for things outside of typical teamwork, it's necessary to put hard deadlines on things. When someone signs up to write a blog post I can't expect them to work on it in preference to sprint work unless there's a deadline or incentive.
I think calling WebRTC a behemoth is a bit of an understatement. Excuse my sharp-tongued criticism, since I understand a lot of hard work has gone into it, but WebRTC has no regard for interoperability. As of now, it is nothing more to me than a VPN deanonymizing exploit.

WebRTC leaks true IP addresses unless it is outright disabled in [supported] browsers. It is a huge annoyance, and I would be hard-pressed to view it as more than a gimmick that complicates the already messy landscape of web development.
I can second the recommendation of Forbidden Island. Got it for a 9yr old and it has been a big hit with the kids. The cooperative goal was a huge draw for me -- "we" win the game together, no one person can win. The kids are competitive enough, so having something like this was a great way to bring them together.
> So, I don't disbelieve you but I've known 20 year C experts have their WTF moments when shown code that would seem to work but doesn't.

If after 20 years they don't know the C spec well enough to know if a piece of code should work or not, I simply wouldn't consider them very good programmers.
Getting married. Definitely.
No, of course not. That's the entire point. The cost needs to be captured _somewhere_ in the private chain because right now it's just an externality that no public entity wants to deal with or can deal with.
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> It compiles and runs effectively instantaneously for me on Ubuntu under Windows as well, so that's very strange. Maybe file a bug?

Follow-up: I tried it with -O (don't know why I didn't think of that earlier), and it runs fine. So maybe the debug version is just generating terrible code, initializing by iterating through 10 billion bounds checks or something?

Anyways, more importantly, it works as I would like and does not behave as a 32 bit integer. I think I understand what you mean by "constrained" now. And clearly, I was wrong.

However, if most un-suffixed integers in real-world programs will become constrained (as you claimed), this further confuses me why i32 is the unconstrained choice. It doesn't seem like something so rare could be enough of a performance problem to justify being anything but the largest supported size.
Here's a recent lengthy FAQ Ginsparg did on the arXiv (ironically behind a journal paywall).

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.15252/embj.201695531/f...

Here's a discussion on HN of a blog post by me sparked by a conversation with Ginsparg.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9415985
If anything, what I have seen are games get simplified and play optimized to the point where each player has little downtime. It all really depends on the designer of the game and the style of games they create. I would recommend titles such as Splendor or Ticket to Ride. Both have very simple rules and are addicting to play. As for Jenga vs strategy games, its not really fair to compare these since they lie in very different genres. The preferences and expectations of the players will be towards different genres. The strategy genre is booming right now.
> just like a month ago they wanted to get rid of the Go subreddit

To be fair, this was a proposal by a single person on the Go mailing list, and it was in reaction to Reddit's CEO publicly admitting to editing other users' comments. The person who proposed closing the Go subreddit was also under the mistaken impression that the subreddit was hosted by the Go team, which wasn't the case. In the end, there was a lot of discussion, and nothing was deleted. Tempest in a teapot, as usual.

Go has a serious culture problem, but that's not a good example of it.