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My thought was actually to shut it off and pack it in my luggage so it's not with me through security. I won't see it until I reach the baggage claim.
I'm working on a startup that has a heavy focus on machine learning and AI and I don't even have 1 PhD. Or 1 Masters. Or 1 B.S. I just have 3 Associate degrees. I wouldn't worry about it. Worry about the knowledge, learn on your own and don't over-think the need for formal credentials.
And there's also the aspect of VR giving some people motion sickness.
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It is misleading, and just because it's the norm doesn't mean it's right. I'll take descriptive over clickbaity every day.
They don't even let you into Iran without making you perjure yourself into pretending to be religious. "Atheist" or "none" is not an option on the form and is grounds for deportation or execution (if you're Iranian and renounce Islam).

Iran's reputation for evil is well-deserved.
Kaggle!!! National Data Science Bowl, if you like AI / machine learning, it's the way to go. You'll know interesting people and collaborate with them, and there are chances you can win money and put results on your resume!
Being generalist is a good thing in the sense that is good to have many skills at a reasonable level. Unless you're truly exceptional, it simply doesn't happen without lots of experience. At 20 years of experience, you can have e.g. 5 "secondary" skills (in addition to whatever key specialization you might have) where you have a reasonable knowledge and "exposure" from having applied them multiple times.

At 3 years of work experience, most people have just started to understand 1-2 things. It may be that you have gotten a great, wide experience at a young age, because you started to do hard things really early - if a junior person claims that they "know" many diverse skills, maybe they truly are a generalist, but it is so much more likely that this simply shows a so big gap in knowledge/understanding that they don't even understand how little they know about all these 'secondary' skills.

This is true at least personally - there are certain skills where 15 years ago I believed that I had them, however now I know that I don't and never did so, simply because now I have seen people who actually do have that skill and can evaluate my knowledge in appropriate context.
In this instance because BBC worldwide is the for profit arm, they show adverts, something the BBC cannot do within the UK. The content is usually still available elsewhere on the BBC but I find it odd that it does not redirect.
That number is just false: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709910.

The number is computed by comparing Baby Bell profit margins after deregulation to "utilities" as a whole and calling anything above the average for "utilities" as "excess profits" that were a "taxpayer subsidy" to the Baby Bells. It is based on two fundamentally incorrect ideas:

1) That the expected rates of return of companies in an industry with exploding demand, like telecommunications was in the 1990s, should be comparable to the rates of return for your water or power company. But water and power utilities use 50-100 year old infrastructure to cater to extremely stable demand. That's exactly the opposite of what was happening in the telecom sector in the late 1990s.

2) That regulating telecom rates so those companies were no more profitable than water or power companies would not have affected investment. There is a reason our water system gets a "D" from the American Society of Civil Engineers: http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/water-infrastructure.

Imagine comparing the profit margins of smartphone manufacturers in 2007-2017 against the average profits of "phone manufacturers" before that time, and calling everything over that average a "taxpayer subsidy." Alternatively, imagine telling phone companies that they could not make any profits beyond the average profitability of the phone industry from 1995-2005. Do you think we'd have iPhones today?
Why one food executive is pledging $25M to fight his own industry
The same with sound.
How are those numbers figured? If you have a family of four living in a house (alternately, college students or professionals sharing an apartment), I'd assume you're counting that as 4 wireless broadband subscriptions? Or if you're talking about adults working jobs with business numbers, maybe 6? Regardless, it would be a lot more meaningful to look at whether a given person has access to a wired connection at home, instead of an apples and oranges count of subscription numbers.

If I had to guess about data consumed, that single wired connection probably handles more data than four mobile plans put together, thanks to mobile data caps and Netflix.

As far as broadband having "plateaued," it's not too surprising that something with a theoretical cap of 100% penetration would eventually stop growing. There are only so many houses to connect.

I don't have any particular problem with mobile broadband, my LTE connection on T-Mobile is actually faster than my cable. But there are a lot of people who use more than a couple of gigs a month, so cable isn't going away any time soon. And in the meantime, I'm not thrilled with Comcast having free reign to do whatever they want just because "the market will solve everything." It won't.

EDIT: At 20 Mb/s, it'd take me about half an hour to burn through my entire month's 5GB data allowance
http://archive.is/q0kZ5
[Disclaimer: CockroachDB engineer here, working on performance and benchmarking]

IIRC, in the case that aphyr refers to for these specific numbers, the reads are scans that span multiple shards[1], while the writes are writes to single shards.

[1] even though aphyr says it's just a hundred rows, the tables are split into multiple shards because aphyr in this case was specifically testing our correctness in multi-shard contention scenarios. In production you wouldn't have multi-shard reads crop up until you were doing scans for tables that were hundreds of thousands of rows in size[2]. It's easier to picture if you think of this performance speed difference in the scenario where you are doing full table scans spanning multiple shards on multiple computers while the underlying rows are being rapidly mutated by contending write transactions. The transactions get constantly aborted to avoid giving a non-serializable result, and performance is suffering. We agree that the numbers in this contention scenario are too low, and we are actively working on high-contention performance (and performance in general) leading up to our 1.0 release[3].

[2] Specifically, we break up into multiple shards when a single shard exceeds 64mb in size.

[3] You can follow along on one of the PRs that address this specific performance issue here: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/13501
Only if the economist was no good at economics.
It's also worthwhile pointing out that at the time MS were pushing Silverlight heavily, which provided GPU access through XNA and made itself accessible through a browser plugin by default.

MS's security side may have been against WebGL and the IE team either agreeing or using it as an excuse (and really, from this point of view, it doesn't matter!), but other parts of the company were exposing the web to the exact same problems.
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This is the for profit arm, basically resells BBC content internationally, with the website they show adverts, the BBC is not allowed to show adverts in the UK.
I can't tell about "how common", but a react web client with a go backend API is exactly what I do on my main product, currently.

It still has a few problems I haven't managed to solve, though (but not related directly to go). For example, given the visible routing is handled by react-router, I haven't find a way yet to issue proper 404 status (I have a catchall route that renders web client page, then client router displays a "not found" page, but it will be a 200 status). Not that a big deal, because the web client is an application behind auth, and not some public facing pages.
Brazil has a weird policy (the "reciprocity" law) that makes them apply to visitors from some countries whatever that country applies to visitors from Brazil. In theory that only applies to what kind of visas are necessary, but often they do so in terms of immigration/customs policy too.

So yeah, a while ago the US started requiring electronic fingerprints from Brazilian visitors (and everyone else I think?) so that's why Brazil started requiring that from US visitors.
OK, you don't build a complete project, but it's a similar approach:

Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers
http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/

Here, you learn statistics by implementing statistics functions in Python along the way and use them to solve the questions in the book.
The company is called High Q Imaging. We have a bare bones website that we'll hopefully update in the next month or so: http://www.highqimaging.com/
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Anyone who's into gaming probably has GeForce Experience installed, which manages drivers and gives notifications.

I want to say Microsoft will push them out a little later, but I can't be entirely sure since I've always used the nVidia path.

EDIT: Unfortunately the GeForce Experience is getting, as is typical, super invasive. Access to even basic settings requires an account (nVidia or Facebook account, etc).
Don't need all those Java libraries if you've got good FFI with C libraries.

Don't need AOT compilation; if you want performance, just stick with regular Clojure on the JVM.

I'd love to just see a small general-purpose interpreted Clojure (quick start up, small memory footprint, easy access to C libs), even if it lacked concurrency features.
What question, specifically, do you see being begged?

I remain unpersuaded.

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/begs-the-...

Begs the question is a term that comes from formal logic. It’s a translation of the Latin phrase petitio principii, and it's used to mean that someone has made a conclusion based on a premise that lacks support. (1, 2) It can be a premise that's independent from the conclusion (3) or in a simpler form, a premise that’s just a restatement of the conclusion itself. (4,5)

...

Begs the question is used wrong a lot. It took me about two seconds to find examples of bad usage in the news. Many people mistakenly believe it's OK to use the phrase to introduce a clever or obvious question.
For sure, with 6,000 comments and 350,000 daily users.
Now I can see where the Hacker News Hug of Death comes from. That's enough people that even a subset might kill a small server. More than I thought, too.
- Put down debugging time from hours to minutes, by improving developer tools.

- Automated the manual week-long test and QA procedure for critical aerospace devices into a daily 1-hour automated routine.

- Increased application performances by over 9000%, allowing us to save 1M million a year in AWS server costs.

- Ensured we delivered consistently and with due diligence, every single day, month over month, to our 586 millions users.

- Interviewed and graded 23 candidates.

# Typical stuff you'll find in my resume.

As you can see, there are plenty of numbers to talk about, no matter your position. Costs, time, users, revenues, latency, percentage, improvements, progress, duration...

You just need to think harder about what you've done and put numbers on it. ;)

It doesn't have to be perfect, approximate and round if you have too.
Nice! There is a real need for this in the market right now--especially among students, who struggle to setup working environments. I really benefited from your early Github project aimed to make setting up DL machines easier. Curious how defensible your product will be in the event Heroku/AWS come in with a competitor?
Altitude, yes. Lack of humidity, nope. My body shrivels up in Denver.
It is so easy for the 'bad guys' to carry a burner phone with fake google, Facebook, twitter, etc, accounts and log into them when requested. That way they don't have to refuse anything and there is nothing suspicious. This policy harms law abiding citizens and travelers but is completely ineffective when it comes to stopping criminals.
Ideally you would have a separate phone that isn't logged into any of your important accounts.
They were definitely welcome in Bulgaria and the Balkans
Here’s the full (37 min) interview at Valve:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMpQWSqQFK0
What's a BluRay? ;)
My Nim book[1] is sort of like this. Instead of working on a single project, most chapters have a little project (for example a chat CLI app or a Twitter-like website) which teaches you different things about Nim.

1 - https://manning.com/books/nim-in-action?a_aid=niminaction&a_...
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Obama, the president that estimulated racial fights, did not have too much respect for the law, for police officers, etc... So under Trump, a president that respects AND shows repect for policemen, expect stupid policemen having a much harder time than before.
Flights of Fantasy

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Yes, the argument that they should be widely implemented is definitely implied and valid.

Regarding your analogy, end to end encrypted content is not readable by the ISP, they can see metadata for encrypted content, but not the content itself. Whereas webmail providers can see the content[1]. Another example is Google who run a public DNS server. Another example is Apple keeping all phone numbers[2]. So the data that edge providers have access to(in theory) is fairly significant. I think definitely to be consistent the law has to be an all or nothing kind of thing.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/04/yahoo-scans-email-for-nsa/

[2] http://www.macworld.com/article/3125570/iphone-ipad/apple-ke...
I've had a lot of time to think about that (been unemployed for a couple months now), and have come up with a few reasons.

* All of your reputation within an organization can vanish following the wrong change in management (especially executive management) or organizational structure. A new manager may take for granted all the great things you automated if he/she never saw the prior pain and inefficiency. That new manager may then look at you, see someone who doesn't have a clearly defined role anymore, and fail to understand the long-term value. You can only sell yourself for so long; if you can't pull another magic rabbit out of your ass for the new management, and quickly, then you'll be gone.

* Once you've automated yourself out of your own job, naturally people will notice and you'll start getting invited to work on other problems throughout the organization. In domain professions, which are often occupied by folks who have been doing things the same way for decades, this can be hugely intimidating and even threatening for others. I've been aware of this throughout my work and have always sought participation and consensus from those who might be affected by my work, but some minds are easier to win than others. Combine a few of these bad apples with the above change in management, and poof.
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"This isn't about opposing privacy."

I cannot accept that statement at face value. Supporting this is absolutely about opposing privacy. You are supporting a move whose only purpose is to lessen privacy.

"There is a reasonable expectation to privacy people have but the privacy laws adapted by the FCC in the past have only been applied to ISPs and not other edge providers, such as Google or Skype. So in short, they are just bad laws."

No, they aren't. They are very good laws. They're just not as broad as they could be. The proper response, if you feel this way, is to expand those privacy laws, not to remove the little protection consumers have.

" Second, it also means that edge providers(Yahoo, Skype, Google) have an unfair advantage. "

No, it absolutely does not. Mainly because ISPs are not competing with them. There is absolutely, positively zero reason why any ISP should need that data. None.
Also could suggest that by mandating periodic group-connection-reinforcing rituals, like daily/weeky religious or other activity, that a society can reach a connectivity state that's quite inflexible.
What's the going rate for a used tunnel boring machine?

EDIT:

"New machines normally cost at least $15 million, but a decade of frantic subway construction in China has created a glut, and lightly used models can be had for 90 percent off sticker."

I could Kickstart a tunnel boring machine purchase. What a time to be alive.
Per second pricing and jupyter mode is pretty nice. Like heroku you're trying to resell AWS and stay competitive which is a challenge. Anyway, this is indeed a common problem and this looks like a solid approach.
It's not inherently antisocial. It's just easier to make "experiences" that are passive and singular, so it's going to take a while for developers to adapt more complex interactions. There are early examples though: http://elevr.com/some-rather-different-social-vr-experiments...
Visiting Colombia recently, Bogota felt like an absolutely brilliant place to work remotely from. Housing and dining are ridiculously cheap (and high quality), but one can easily collaborate with the US (it's on the eastern time zone, and flying in for meetings isn't particularly far away).
As usual, others are far ahead of me. Thanks for the citation!
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I think they are either ignorant on the topic of surveillance and its breadth and implications, or they have some kind of belief that the intelligence community is fighting for our country.

I'm conservative on a lot of issues, including 2nd amendment rights, and my family is full of "right-wingers." None of them would support spying on our own citizens or the violation of the privacy of American citizens.

The Republican party at large does not reflect the values of most modern conservatives that try even a little bit to not have hypocritical views.

However, while conservatives tend to believe in small government, they have never believed in small military/intelligence/etc.
Colorado Springs is about the same altitude (~6000ft), Denver is only a little lower. By and large you don't notice unless you do something that makes you breathe hard, in which case it'll take you a while to catch your breath for the first few weeks.

Honestly the biggest annoyance about living at altitude is baking recipes require adjustment pretty much all the time, you can't just use a bread recipe designed for sea level and expect it to work right.
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They aren't all too stupid to understand it, which would be why it would eventually be illegal to use such technology to deceive border patrol or other agents of the lawful government.
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If Go were to dramatically improve (now with generics! exceptions! nil == nil!), that would be interesting to people who don't currently use it.
Because it will make my shares in those ISPs go up a quarter of a point!
To me, make VR available as the primary "desktop" for a system and you might have a better market. Why buy more monitors when you can just look sideways?
I was in Bogota earlier this month. We flew in from sea level, and felt some degree of crappy for a few days (and a bit scared that we were suffering mosquito-borne ailments from our previous adventure before we realized the altitude).

We eventually settled in, but 8000 ft up is for real.
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I just build an open source TNW application for Android On Cordova/Angularjs/Ionic. Currently in beta. You can test from here: https://github.com/progcode/TNW.Mobile
Actually, you're wrong. Just recently Obama opened up data sharing between the NSA, FBI, CIA and hundreds of other agencies.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/12/obama-expands-the-nsas-a...
Third-party libraries change very rarely, if ever.

[a bad pun] This is the Make believe world in which languages with linkers live. In an alternate universe, there are NPM and Github and internet connected build tools.
> This sounds like a canard. If by "regulate more" you mean the available profit margins are smaller, then yes. However, if profit margins are very high, you can place quite a lot of expensive regulation (not all regulations are expensive, some of them tell you not to do injurious things) and people will still invest.

But they're not. The telecom industry as a whole has among the lowest returns on investment of any industry: http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corp....

The idea that telcos are "very rich" is an alternative fact. Look at the actual operating profit margins of the wireline divisions of the big telcos. Huge amounts of money comes in, and almost all of it goes right back out because maintaining physical wires is expensive.
I would always suggest checking with your country's foreign travel advisories before planning a trip. It doesn't mean you shouldn't go, but you should at least be educated beforehand. For the record, both the warnings from the UK and the US seem equally concerning.

From the UK government on Oman [1]

>Attacks in Oman are likely. Attacks could be indiscriminate, including in places frequented by expatriates and foreign travellers.

>Terrorists continue to issue statements threatening to carry out attacks in the Gulf region. These include references to attacks on western interests, including residential compounds, military, oil, transport and aviation interests as well as crowded places, including restaurants, hotels, beaches, shopping centres and mosques. You should maintain a high level of security awareness, particularly in public places.

From the US government on Oman [2]

>Potential for Terrorist Activity: To date, there have been no terrorist attacks against U.S. citizens in Oman. Regionally, terrorists continue to target U.S. interests in the Middle East and North Africa. Please review the Worldwide Caution before traveling.

>Safety Precautions:

>Avoid public demonstrations and large gatherings.

>Monitor local media broadcasts and consular messages.

>Vary travel routes and times when possible.

>Report security concerns to Omani police and the U.S. Embassy.

From the UK government on the Philippines [3]

>There is a high threat from terrorism throughout the country. Terrorist groups continue to plan attacks and have the capacity and the intent to carry out attacks at anytime and anywhere in the country. Attacks could be indiscriminate, including in places visited by foreigners like airports, shopping malls, public transport and places of worship.

From the US government on the Philippines [4]

>U.S. citizens contemplating travel to the Philippines should carefully consider the risks to their safety and security while there, including the risk of terrorism. Separatist and terrorist groups continue to carry out attacks and kidnappings in the areas of the Sulu Archipelago, the southern Sulu Sea, and the region of Mindanao. Kidnap-for-ransom gangs have targeted foreigners in the Philippines, including Philippine-Americans. For further information, see the Travel Warning for the Philippines.

[1] - https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/oman/terrorism

[2] - https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/country/oman.h...

[3] - https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/philippines/terrori...

[4] - https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/country/philip...
I think MiniTest is a good starting point even if you end up going with Rspec, as MiniTest/jUnit style testing feels a little bit lower level. In the same sense, the book implements authentication from scratch, whereas many apps will end up using a library like Devise.
If you're already on top of caverns, the tunnels might actually be able to stabilize and reinforce the ground. In theory... the actual digging would undoubtedly be complicated by caverns.