skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like an overreaction by your government tbh. Not Obama's fault. He comes to NYC fairly often, and there's usually more traffic in certain parts but 95% of people in the city wouldn't realize it.
Strawman proposal for adding pattern matching to ECMAScript
Should be tebibytes (TiB) for the latter, though binary prefixes don't have much adoption outside of the software world.

http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
Inter region traffic of large cloud providers.
> We are heading onto a more closed ecosystem than we are used to up until here.

Not necessarily. Balancing forces always come up when this kind of things happen. The closing in of big players may give a big boost to open source hardware alternatives, which combined with the advent of 3d printing, may very well lead to the democratization of hardware...
I heard a proposal that UBI should provide 85% of a solid living wage, people taking it may need to work some (or sell art etc) to reach their desired level of comfort.

Then people pursuing education would receive 115% of aforementioned baseline. The conceit here is that educating oneself is always good. This would, at least, provide some impetus to develop new employable skills.
I'm curious as well. However I am actually fine with Hop being a superset of JS. The ecosystem is simply great (and admittedly overwhelming).

I stumbled upon the project while researching languages that allow me to write code for the server and the client with the same language, codebase and API. A few more interesting examples are Opa [0], Skew [1] and of course Dart [2].

0: http://opalang.org
1: http://skew-lang.org
2: https://www.dartlang.org
I work at a startup and my cash comp is inline with cash at Google et all. The expected value of equity (read: last valuation prices) is also in line but obviously illiquid.

I got ripped off at the first two startups I worked for but learned my lessons.

Don't be busy, create obvious value along the actual company line.

You're most likely not working for the founders, it's really the stakeholders and at least some of these have money. Make sure the money is found for your salary (believe me they find the money for the lawyers).

Be prepared to move if necessary.

It's an uneasy compromise at first, but eventually it becomes clear the best interest is not having the best employees constantly flirting with a healthy stream of recruiters.
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Coursera lessons for ProgrammingI Love moocs this was very informative
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None of those things are just socialist they pertain to social democracy
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> Think about it as an SSD manufacturer - what's the easiest way to wipe a drive?

That's not the reason why encryption is always on. Flash endurance is; encrypting the data before FEC means that it will have a random distribution, which avoids pathological worst cases with certain workloads. You could also use a different (cheaper) scrambler than AES (like CPUs do [1]), but since encryption is a marketable feature...

[1] Which are also switching to using AES and offering memory encryption in current mainstream architectures.
Let's say that you're trying to create a fancy internet radio for mass production. You want to base it on linux. Instead of producing a PCB with a CPU and tons of support circuitry (hard) you can instead include a SODIMM-connector (easy) and plug in a RPI compute module.

You can get away with a much simpler design and lower production tolerances by doing this - enabling you to use less time and use cheaper production techniques.
Interestingly Charles Murray's universal basic income proposal mandates that $3,000 of the $13,000 annual basic income be payed on health care.

http://www.fljs.org/files/publications/Murray.pdf
You didn't have login alerts or approvals enabled? Those would've alerted you to the need for a password rotation instantly without needing to rotate complex passwords on a regular cadence.

If anything, I'd say your comment hardened my position against password rotation given how many mainstream sites with sensitive data expose extra security measures to their users. Take advantage of all of them!
It's a twisted ideology, but one can easily argue here that anything the government does is socialist, because it supplants a function that could be performed by the private market, regardless of the market's willingness or effectiveness at solving the problem for a greater good of society.

One good case is movie ratings: by rating films for age-appropriate audiences, the MPAA solves an issue that the government could do itself, but this way prevents unnecessary overreach. If a theater permits minors to see R rated films, it is barred from playing any films associated with the MPAA, which is pretty much all of them.

The obviously bad version of this ideology is health care and health insurance, where free market incentives result in milking the state (taxpayers) while simultaneously providing a poorer quality of service at an inflated cost because health cannot be bargained with.

I don't agree with the results of the American mindset but in a way it still makes sense, just by a very narrow and cold interpretation.
Thanks a lot for the link, it's a wonderful overview of the password cracking capabilities of the modern GPUs.
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It most certainly has not: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/09/uk-eu-citize...
How about having the technical page but also having an overview page for managers (who are hopefully used to the concept of technical people writing them summaries). Maybe the main ui for such a product's site could even be explicit with e.g. 'executive summary' and 'technical summary' tabs.
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>As someone from the UK, my main reason for not moving anywhere else in Europe is the language barrier. I'm not even sure I'm capable of learning another language

I moved to Poland from the UK yonks ago, and have equally disastrous - if not worse - language skills as you.

Not long after arriving, I accidentally got a job at a startup, and I'd been led to believe everything was done in English internally: communications; client emails; heck, even variable names in the code, all was in English and I had nothing to fear.

This turned out to be a slight exaggeration; anything in English was the rare exception, rather than the rule.

You know what, though? Even without lessons and fully resenting Polish's grammar, you learn really quick. You also won't be facing this alone; as long as you're actually capable of getting the job done, plenty of local language speakers in your office will bend over backwards to encourage and help you.

Don't let language be the only thing holding you back. If I had my time again, I'd let things like bureaucracy and road safety guide my decision rather than what noises come out of peoples' mouths.
> the fastest non-extreme consumer intel processor

> the fastest or second fastest consumer nvidia card

> represents the sweet spot in price/performance, saving money on your axe is a false economy.

Care to explain your reasoning? Going with high-end components seems to be the opposite of the sweet spot. A $200 i5-7600 and $250 GTX 1060 are going to be indistinguishable in non-benchmark settings for most workloads when compared to a $700 GTX 1080 and $350 i7-7700k. Or even a $100 AMD A10-7860K and a $200 RX480.

I have a hard time believing that reaction times to differences of a few milliseconds or one extra frame being painted actually add up to matter. If they do, why not go with the extreme edition processors and triple SLI 1080s?
Fun fact -- the Reagan Library in California bought and sort of rebuilt the Irish tavern that the president visited in the 1980s. You can even buy a beer there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyJ5qJcHUNA
Those "horrific training videos" are usually made to comply with some regulatory or insurance requirement, as opposed to being actual training.

In this issue of the economist they indicate that most of the people who are using MooCs are are already working and using them to increase their skills. While the people marketing MooCs may pitch it as a replacement for school, I don't think that's the reality for most people.

Consequently I would suggest thinking of the "credentials problem" as how you demonstrate a new skill to an employer - I the answer may be not be a certificate at all, e.g. maybe a portfolio site, side project, etc.
Is your smartphone listening to your conversations?
An example of one of the opportunities -

The Opportunity

"I work in the healthcare industry as a radiologist.

A painful problem that I face is getting a hold of clinicians. I often need to get a hold of a clinician to tell them about an important finding on the imaging examination for their patient. Unfortunately, the current system of pagers is not satisfactory.

I would like a software program that allows me to send out secure texts to their cellphone with a read receipt so that I know that they have gotten the information. I could text it to their phone, give the medical record number and name of the patient, and receive a time stamp of when they looked at my text. I would need a separate program that would record the time stamp and it would need to be completely secure to comply with HIPAA.

I would definitely pay for this software. It would save me so much time. It would save millions of dollars a year just at my institution. We need to get rid of pagers, they are so out of date."
Basically splitting the trusted circuit and testing the parts separately. This requires a trusted master circuit, but it can be arbitrarily small.

See https://perso.uclouvain.be/fstandae/PUBLIS/177.pdf
If that day ever comes then perhaps a BI might be helpful. It'll certainly be cheap. Right now the problem we have is too little labor, not too much.
I think you may be wrong on the pre-existing conditions. My understanding is that previously someone like myself (Type 1 Diabetic) could not buy insurance on the individual market (I'm self-employed) because the insurance company selling me insurance is basically guaranteed to lose money.
I moved to Berlin almost three years ago, and extended/expanded my company here. I am not a start-up, though I am developing a product, but more of a one-man consulting shop.

Getting a self-employed VISA is not easy unless you have some serious credentials. My partner has three degrees, two post-graduate, from highly regarded US universities; an extensive profile of speaking engagements; a very, very solid financial standing; and a solid business plan. The IHK (who reviews all business plans for self-employed applications) still said "No" but begrudgingly gave the green-light when presented with a book contract from a well known technical publisher.

I have no degrees, but a financially viable consulting business of some years, and a lengthy professional background. Three years later, over 12 foreigners office appointments, a UG (affectionately known as the mini-GmbH) with over 12K founding capital, a high-priced lawyer, over a 120K in USDEUR transfers, and a visit from the police to confiscate my passport over Christmas, my self-employment visa is no further along than the day I first submitted it.

Still, incomparably better than US immigrations. I'm certainly stuck in some weird, exceptional state that has confused even my lawyer.

Consider Berlin. It is wonderful here, definitely. Rents are rising, however, and (sadly, in my opinion) you do not need to learn German. I know of far too many people who have spent numerous years here without speaking more than a phrase or two of deutsche.

If you want to start a company/be self-employed DO NOT follow the (typische amerikanische) DIY process. Factor in costs for tax advisers and lawyers.
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You know, a lot of CS people in the US seem to really love the US and say stuff like "it sucks not to be in the US." They usually mention how they can afford everything since they make so much money and how they prefer to work 600 hours a week instead of having forced days off and that health care through Employer is so much better than through government.

Admittedly, this was on Reddit, which is just a huge echo chamber, which led me to stop using it.

However, I wonder how your point of view on this subject is?
Thank you. I will now plead the case to my wife.
Yes, as others have pointed out, I was referring to Brexit, which has created a lot of uncertainty for those wanting to start or grow a business (and others, too).
Any avenues for self-employed/single-person-company folks? I know Netherlands has DAFT but I'm interested if this opens any similar options in France.

I have dreams of living and coding by the Mediterranean Sea. :)
You may be hired for a singular problem / job to start. But if the startup grows, that problem is going to change or go away. The opportunity to grow with a company and take on new challenges often is the best reason to join a startup.
Indeed. There are actually two offences one could commit in such a case: The underlying offence (say, speeding) and failing to provide information requested under S.172 of the Road Traffic Act. The two offences are unrelated in law, being committed at entirely different times (the s.172 offence is committed 30 days after you receive the notice requesting the information) and possibly by different people.

Failure to respond to the request will often lead to a summons to court for both offences, although a successful prosecution for the underlying offence is fairly unlikely as the prosecution will usually be unable to prove who was driving. Additionally, the penalty for failure to provide information is higher than most standard traffic offences, partly as a deterrent and partly to avoid refusing to identify the driver from being the "better" option in all but the worst of circumstances.

There was a loophole for a while whereby you could return the form, correctly filled in but not signed, meaning that you have provided the information, but it is not admissible as evidence in court. This is currently still effective in Scotland. In England, case law has been established such that the form is not valid unless signed, and would usually result in the police placing the defendant firmly in the "smartass" pile and proceeding with a prosecution for failing to provide information. Just lately, police have been increasingly taking the more pragmatic approach of calling the motorists bluff in cases where he nominates himself and the case can be dealt with by way of a training course or a simple fixed penalty. They will often now offer the course or the penalty, and still charge for both offences if the driver elects for the case to progress to court.
have you read the first line?

> Home Office says in letter that it cannot give unilateral assurances until status of Britons in other EU countries is protected
Interesting that you do not mention any alternative European country instead.
Rather than releasing this, I wish they had instead ramped up production (or something) of the Pi Zero.

It was supposed to be the "5 dollar Raspberry Pi" - but instead, due to some reason, you can't get an Pi Zero for $5 - or if you can, you are limited to "one per customer".

It feels similar to what happened a while back with the ATMega328P uC chip - they were being bought up in droves to such an extent that you couldn't get the IC thru Digikey and others (well, the DIP version - the SMT versions were almost totally unaffected).

It seems like something akin to ticket scalpers and the like buying all the tickets in a venue to sell them on to purchasers at a higher price; which is what I have seen on the Pi Zero - lots available on Ebay and other retailers, but for a much higher price than "5 dollars".

So people (apparently) are paying this extra cost, and that is what the "market" sets the price for the board. Even though it was marketed to be the "5 dollar Raspberry Pi" - it's true market cost is much greater (in some cases, you could only get the board with an extended "kit" of materials - driving the cost up and beyond that of a single bare Raspberry Pi 3).
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Let's be clear: The customer never wins when the product is closed. Google used to understand that: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html

In realty, mom-and-pop don't need these security developments, because mom-and-pop have much less attack surface on a server running in their back room. The cloud necessitates it be possible to manage a server over the Internet, but for many situations that isn't necessary. And in many cases, the limited needs a mom-and-pop company has doesn't require their infrastructure be public facing on the Internet at all.

I'd argue the only reason one needs these "world-class security developments" is because Google itself is a world-class target. The sort of threats you're defending against would almost never be necessary for a smaller business with an on-premises solution to be concerned about.

Many small business internally need little more than a shared network drive, rudimentary user management, etc. And you'd be stunned how many businesses today still operate off a single AOL mail account.
We've been looking for a better way to give and get feedback on our teams (I've been yelled at once too often for giving a candid "I'm not sure that's a good idea" to a manager).

We built this so that teams can have real input and feel safe, while managers can get early warning on problems. What do you all think?
OT, but for a hilarious account of travelling on the UK's canals read "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/308
>> He assumes that it is a bad thing to not require work.

And that's probably a good assumption. There's wisdom behind the old adage, "An idle mind is the devil's workshop, and idle hands his tools."

Experience tells us that people who don't work tend to spend their time not in beautiful creative ventures, but in frivolous (TV, gaming, entertainment) or destructive acts (drugs, crime, violence...).

A person who works is likely more well-rounded (better at handling responsibility, working with others, contributing to society in some small way, etc.) than a person who instead spends his day watching day-time television.
"Like its predecessor, it's unclear that this amendment will make it through to law." - did it?

Edit: Don't need to remind you that other countries, too, have discussed or even introduced fairly ridiculous legislation (crypto wars, DMCA, ...)
(2015) Where are all the remote tech jobs?
Ah, got it.

Sorry, I didn't know what you were referring to.

:-)
I always thought part of the value of a degree was the people you meet, so if you're getting a degree purely through online interaction it's hard to see how the school could compete long-term.
This migration of physicists to the Silicon Valley and computer industry is not new. It has been true at least since the first big physics employment bubble crashed in the late 1960's, early 1970's. The post-Sputnik boom in physics degrees and grad students produced a huge surplus of physicists by the late 1960's. Dennis Ritchie started at Bell Labs in 1967. Back in the 60's, 70's, early 80's a fair number of physicists decamped for Bell Labs, mostly to work on computer and telecommunications related activities.

A high profile example is Emanuel Derman, author of My Life as a Quant (2004) and later books, who worked at Bell Labs from 1980 to 1985 before moving on to Wall Street. He mentions quite a number of other physicists at Bell Labs at the same time.

Most physicists end up in some sort of software development. The high profile "quant" jobs are actually rather rare and hard to get. The Wall Street firms are typically going after very strong physicists, especially theoretical physicists like Derman.

Nathan Myhrvold of Microsoft and Intellectual Ventures fame (or infamy) has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Princeton. Did not go to Wall Street. :-)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produced a huge surplus of experimental particle physics (high energy physics) Ph.D.'s with no jobs in the field. Experimental particle physics involves large amounts of software development for data acquisition, instrument monitoring and control, and data analysis, mostly in C and C++, although there is still some "legacy" FORTRAN software. The heyday of FORTRAN in physics was a long time ago.

Although there have been attempts to use neural networks and other machine learning methods in particle physics, the workhorse of data analysis in the field is Ronald Fisher's maximum likelihood estimation and classification -- primarily estimation of parameters such as the mass and width of the Higgs Boson. The discovery of the Higgs was a maximum likelihood analysis.

Although it is undoubtedly possible to map maximum likelihood onto neural networks, in practice they are different. Neural networks are an attempt to simulate the low level structure of the neurons in the brain and solve problems by brute force fitting of data to models with huge numbers of adjustable parameters. In contrast, maximum likelihood involves attempts to understand the phenomenon under study and model it as a small number of functions corresponding to higher level concepts such as the Higgs Boson. A neural net could exactly fit the Higgs Boson peak yet never produce or confirm a physical model of what causes the peak.
Don't a lot of people in France look at you badly if you only speak English? I read that this is especially true in more "proud French areas" like Paris etc.
Worse, actually: <script> content is only terminated by </script> and not other end-element tags, but <!-- --> comments within script content are treated as JavaScript comments [1] (though I'm not aware of template approaches that need to compose the content of script elements).

[1] http://sgmljs.net/docs/html5.html#script-data
We've reverted the title from the submitted “New Australian Square Kilometer Array Generates 5.2Tb/s”. One of the reasons the guidelines ask us to prefer original titles is because it's surprisingly difficult to generate new ones that remain accurate.
A computer program is a mathematical object. If you want to rule out misbehaviors, you prove that such misbehaviors won't arise - just like any other theorem. And that's it.

I'm not a malicious person. I don't purposefully abuse any system's flaws. But if anyone else does, my sympathies aren't with the designer of the flawed system.

P.D.: Appeals to authority won't help make your case.
powershell does have its own command for normal scripting stuff...For e.g. Test-Path, etc...but if at all you are stuck with something you can always revert to the .net framework...but I still like curl hence I stuck to git bash
> Is the dream of the open Internet already dead?

At most, the dream of ad-funded websites might be dead. (I wish!)

This dream created a lot of value by providing free services to Web users. But it also created a lot of harm by enticing those users into closed gardens full of surveillance, which service providers created to gather data to drive ad revenue. I think on net the harm is much greater; we'd have a much more open Internet today if people had gotten used to paying a few dollars a year for ad-free webmail, IM, social networking, search engine access, etc.
SimpleSAMLphp is definitely still quite a useful tool. Beyond the integrations with our (Tozny's) auth service, it's super easy to configure as a canonical hosted IDP for web services like Gmail and Office 365. There are a lot of potential uses out there, just not a lot of approachable docs/tutorials for users trying to get started.
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