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Money. Asking an American how much they earn or how much they paid for something can be perceived as rude.
There's also Bach's Coffee Cantata.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweigt_stille,_plaudert_nich...
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Please add https, now with Let's encrypt there's really no excuse to not have it.
Going off-topic from the OP: Not only that, but when I was a foreign student, the Indian and Chinese students had networks of past-year students, who'd built up databases of exam questions. While perhaps strictly not cheating, this gave them an advantage, because some professors repeated questions from previous quarters/years. Some of us thought that was unfair, and talked with the professors and they were unwilling to ensure that questions were not repeated. So we asked the professors to give us exam questions from the last few years, and made them available to everyone in the library. Hopefully this at least leveled the playing field a tiny bit, but I'm not sure it mattered in the grand scheme of things. (Disclosure: I'm Indian too).
Spanner was announced in 2012; Cloud Spanner was announced this week. The clone is CockroachDB and has been in the works for a few years.
"All the engineers and others in predominately-male Magic Leap could conceive of to make the product female friendly was to produce a version in pink"

However sad, this is not grounds for a legal case.

Most of the items in the article are like this.

She's offered evidence that ML is maybe not a great place to work for women in some ways, but none that they are acting in a discriminatory fashion.

Your first quote is particularly crude, but I don't even understand the context - why would they stay away form 'Old People' 'Ovaries' and 'Orientals'? There are tons of Asians in tech. Obviously extremely crude, but I don't even get the point of it.

Maybe there's more to it, or I missed something.

Seems like they need help, not to be sued.
Yes! Winforms is extremely underrated these days. I find it much more productive (and efficient) than WPF.
For those looking for a larger dataset (~500GB), the European Space Agency has made available last September a similar dataset with 1B star positions and magnitudes, including 2M with velocity information.[1] One nice graph is an impressive sky map generated using simply a density plot of the object positions [2]

[1] https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr1
[2] http://sci.esa.int/science-e-media/img/61/Gaia_GDR1_Sky_Map_...
There are no major faults in that area, however. Folsom is on very seismically-stable ground.
What hashing algorithms are you using? Are you updating that hashing algorithms as cipher-suites are being broken? Are we as a user required to set a random seed? Just because it is encrypted doesn't mean it is impossible to decrypt. Especially if default settings in the hash are being used and someone uses a poor password found in another breach. Its a great idea, but I would still worry about security issues around publishing a password hash.
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I read this as "Music professor receives patent to help fight Beatles ravaging Western music."
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CockroachDB is referred to as the clone here. They once gave a talk literally titled "Towards an Open-Source Spanner" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndKj77VW2eM), so I don't believe that's an unfair characterization.
It's CockroachDB. The guys who created Spanner just left (the clone) called Cockroach Labs.
>I also took some specialty classes at a tech college and their students have nothing at all to do with each other socially as near as I can tell. A nineteen year old kid living in moms basement, a 40 year old retired disabled army vet living in a house, and a 30 year old single mom working three jobs and living in an apartment walk into a bar together sounds like the start of a joke but it was pretty accurate description of tech school. Socializing with classmates seems to be a purely 18-22 residential/dorm/greek thing. And thats still a lot of kids... but gotta be realistic, its maybe only 3/4 of total students, maybe even less.

Sooooo true. It's become, for all intents and purposes, a series of parallel universes that just happen to occupy the same space.
I would have said Fortran is still the King :-)
Here, I gather, is the patent (from 2014):

https://www.google.com/patents/WO2012078814A3

"Use of acoustics to disrupt and deter wood-infesting insects and other invertebrates from and within trees and wood products

"The invention comprises a device and method for impacting the behavior of invertebrates that infest wood, without the use of chemicals. In particular, the invention is useful for impacting the behavior of woodboring invertebrates, which infest wood products, lumber and the woody portions of plants and trees. The invention utilizes acoustic (sonic) agents which may be optionally modulated with specific signals, to cause negative effects on the normal behaviors exhibited by wood-infesting invertebrates, which may result in the invertebrates being injured or killed, unable to reproduce, or caused to flee the wood that the invertebrates are infesting."
I'm incredibly skeptical of this. Graphics are ripped from Wikipedia, Basic SquareSpace site (Low effort), All accounts social created in the last few days.

Seems like an easy way to get some cash.
I don't know about the person you're asking, but I'd rather not have a state prying into my business at all, in fact I'd lke it even less than if someone else did it. The idea that a person or group has the right to intrude in my privacy is something I oppose, and I see no reason why having force (And claiming you have the right to use it against people you don't like) and calling yourself a state changes that.

The government can mind it's own business, as I pay it only to avoid government threat to my autonomy. It is illegitimate, propped up by no more than the monarch who claims God props her up.
As someone who spends millions of dollars on computers - yes, absolutely.

You severely underestimate the cost of rolling out another cable type one per server. In fact there are entire billion-dollar segments of the industry that specifically exist to remove said cables.

Anything more than power and a few ethernet connected to a rack full of 40+ servers gets real messy real fast, and starts to actually impact cooling and thus power usage in a very measurable way.

Even things like screws in server rails vs. tool-less impact the bottom line in most large scale server ops.

For the 3 total servers that actually need very precise timekeeping we effectively do this. For the tens of thousands of others, that's what IP and network protocols were made for.
This is one thing I really really liked about Go, but unfortunately I don't really like the rest of Go very much. What are other languages that have this property? Building an ".exe" I can send to a Windows user is not a pleasant exercise in Python.
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It's not necessarily a hostile work environment because of the game, but that's used as a minor piece of supporting information in the lawsuit. Other sources say that Campbell tried, in her capacity as head of strategic marketing, to get the developers to modify the game without success.

It's also worth noting that this game is one of the four default games that shipped with the product. It would be one thing if it were a game that was produced by the company and offered for purchase, but the fact that it came with the headset lends more credence to the argument.

This would be more like, if Gillette claimed to be targeting both males and females, but every single pack of razors had a bunch of unisex ones, and also one that had a picture of a shirtless beefcake fanning a fully-clad woman on a chaise lounge. ...And 97% of the engineers were female. And most of the men they hired were in marketing/office administrator roles. And a lot of other things.

I'm also not saying one way or the other about the suit having merit (no idea if the statements were true, there's always another side of the story), but it's a little more than just "someone thought a piece of art was sexist."
The idea of factions in Microsoft fighting for control is interesting to me from a historical perspective - do you have any books or sources I can read to get the full story?
You can become extremely proficient in the language and be highly sensitive to the culture. You can also spend 10 years in the country to the point were you grasp practically everything, no matter how much randomness is involved in the conversation or the place and time it takes place.

It does not matter. Majority of foreigners, westerners or not, won't have real local friends in English speaking countries.

Even though you do acclimatize to the culture and language you might still not be fond of it. I lived in countries were it would have been easier than in others to interact with people, but in the end I wasn't able to because I either wasn't a fond drinker (commonplace in all english speaking countries) or I didn't enjoy being involved in mundane silly-office conversations during the smoke break.

Most of the fresh expats can't even realize what they are getting into when they move into another country. If you are deciding to do so and you come across this post, do it, go and check it out, but beware that your inner you will never completely mold to that place.
ASLR is a mitigation for ROP given certain constraints - the ability to arbitrarily execute code, allocate memory, would break those constraints. This is true of any mitigation technique, there are capabilities an attacker can have that will make it less relevant or irrelevant.

ASLR is still totally viable for defending against an attacker who can not already execute arbitrary code. This article makes it sound like ASLR has been completely defeated, but it's only defeated in a context where the attacker has significant control - even if that's a likely scenario.
So basically reimplement IMDB?
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You may want to check out ACA plans for insurance, too. Depending on what your needs are and how much your employer was paying, COBRA coverage may be significantly more expensive than your options under ACA. Also, COBRA will only last as long as the company does. (see discussion downthread)

Losing a job allows you to enroll in ACA plans outside of the normal enrollment period, but only for a limited time, so check into that soon if you want to.
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Not necessarily about the article so may get downvoted, but is there a good book for TensorFlow/Machine Learning?
I'm used to reading inaccurate descriptions of Google and Googlers in the press, so I wasn't surprised by this from the article:

"... be usable as a single database for Google’s developers, who could care less about how a database or datastore is architected and implemented so long as it gets closer and closer to the SQL-based relational database that is the foundation of enterprise computing."

I don't think I've ever heard a less accurate description of Google engineers. The idea of implementing anything at Google scale on top of an enterprise-style SQL database would be vociferously shouted down by the vast majority of Googlers.

And the rest of the article is pretty much a mess without a discernible point.
Yeah, the HoloLens form factor currently is great. Had a chance to try it a few weeks ago.... When it becomes available to consumers, I'd definitely pick it over Vive or Oculus for gaming applications.

The wires on the current VR setups are a nightmare, as is the requirement for a $2K PC setup.
I'm not premium though. What about when you search for something? There should be a little button that says "advanced" on the lefthand side.
I'm not terribly addicted to coffee and actually prefer decaf (hate the jitters), but for the last few weeks I've been drinking 2-3 cups a day at work. I got a terrible headache on Saturday, just because there was no longer a steady supply of caffeine. Caffeine hangover is real.
My wife studied at an American college. She had no friends. The college had over 100 students 100% of them from India, Middle East and Turkey. The college was nothing but a way for H4 women to get F1 so that they could eventually get OPT and instead of being deadweight at home they could stand on their own legs. This is probably one of the N colleges out there.

There aren't too many American citizens in these colleges and I will not be surprised if these student constitute 50% of total F1s.
http://www.deeplearningbook.org/
Great effort. I see some broken images here: http://www.moviechat.org/movies/search?name=westworld

I'm surprised there isn't enough interest in people to recognize tMDB as relevant. Especially since iMDB is ignoring users by taking down the forums.
That just seems like a guy testing his authorization code. I would expect the next commit to put it back to its functional state.
I can tell you why it will: stability. A post here a while back showed CockroachDB just recently started focusing on it where F1 RDBMS and Spanner have been running large workloads reliably at Google for some time now. I have high hopes for CockroachDB but Spanner has a lead here for now. Plus it's available so an ecosystem will start forming.
It was the first thing those unusual names made me think of. But I'm a long-time Mac developer, so probably pink and purple colors as OS names won't have the same connotations for other people.
Is there a good birds-eye overview of what people are creating with TF or ML in general?
As someone who's worked as a Software Developer in Toronto for the past 13+ years, I totally disagree with this assessment.

First off, very few very early stage startups expect you to work for free until you get funded. Exceptions being that you're a co-founder or an unpaid intern that never touches code.

Secondly, while the startups in Toronto are probably less well funded than the ones in the US, not all require you to work for 12+ hours a day while paying you for 8 hours. It looks really shady to set these expectations especially since we have clear laws around overtime pay in Canada (describing such a work situation to friends will raise eyebrows -- definitely not the standard practice, whatever industry you work at).

Lastly, I'd say that any place worth working at (big or small) will be insanely picky about who they hire. Current employer included.

All of the above are from personal first hand experience. Of course I haven't worked for every single tech company in Toronto but I have worked for several (mainly early stage startups).
Do we have such treaties, can you point me at one of them? IIRC nuclear reactors have been explicitly targeted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability_of_nuclear_plant...) and would be so in the future; although common sense states that both parties would want to avoid a Chernobyl-like event in their battlezone.

Furthermore, this would be a perfect example where a "digital Geneva convention" would not be needed; you'd want a treaty expressing mutual agreement that everyone understands that destruction of such facilities is not in anyone's best interest, and everyone agrees not to do it in principle - without any reference to specific means of destruction; the same principles should apply for digital attacks as for bombing or insider sabotage.

The Geneva convention Protocol I states that facilities like nuclear reactors "may be attacked but only in ways that do not threaten to release the dangerous forces", and that seems a perfectly valid description - there is no blanket prohibition to attack them, you are explicitly allowed to bomb or sabotage the nuclear plant in a way that disables it but not in a way that causes a meltdown; so you'd be also allowed to hack it in a way that disables it but not in a way that causes a meltdown.
This definitely seems true. Although, it seems that a shared experience of a known duration can create a stronger bond. Lots of people make strong friendships during specific time-bound periods (high school, college, military tour).
So how does the patent fight beetles? The article never explained the technology. Disappointing.
I'm sorry you're so jaded, but how is textbook/online pricing not relevant to the financing model? There's no need to dismiss that avenue of conversation.
Depends on body mass obviously, but it's closer to twice that. Also depends on the coffee, whether you're talking traditional 6oz coffee cups or standard English 8oz cups, etc.
Seeing all the complaints in here of how hard this is to setup brings back memories. I was the lead consultant on a project between a very large US retailer and Centrify to build a product called DirectSecure. It's generally very easy to deploy IPsec policy in a Windows environment via GPO and the customer wanted that to flow down into their nix environments. Centrify, having good hooks in to AD already, was chosen to build a product that did just the same thing in their nix environments by consuming IPsec configuration out of GPO.

While not a sales pitch, and in fact I don't think the product seems to have sold well anyway, it was very interesting to work with them on the test harness we built to validate correct IPsec operations, configuration, validation that data wasn't leaking outside of the SAs that were being provisioned, and performance via the translated policy. The relatable component was this was mainly done against StrongSwan implementations of the IKE daemon if I remember correctly (Linux, AIX and Solaris mainly). I wonder if any of those bits flowed back upstream or if the bolt-on aspect kept that from happening.

StrongSwan isn't complex if you are well versed in IPsec implementation as a whole. It's no more or less complicated than other implementation and is "better" than TLS in it's own right with regard to things that could go wrong. In static environments it's relatively painless once the learning curve is overcome.

That being said I feel like IPsec has a badge it will never get rid of and people discard it before attempting implementation at this point. Hopefully, as mentioned amongst the comments, things like WireGuard will mature and become more mainstream. I very much like the concept carry over that both IPsec and WireGuard can be silent actors within the network not giving away hosts as things like OpenVPN and SSH do. IPsec can, unfortunately, also be implemented to squawk at spurious connection attempts - but at least doesn't rely on the premise as much as things like OpenVPN and SSH do.

And for the record - you can tell someone who's dealt with IPsec extensively since they won't refer to it as IPSec. o_O Microsoft is notorious for getting it wrong.
Well, the context of working within a company is different. Especially if you rely on the money you're making.
No.

Not the worst idea, but if i want to donate $2.50 to a charity (and who picks the charity?) I'll just do it myself.

The biggest downside I see here is that we already have a huge problem with recruiting agencies blasting job ads all over the place just to collect resumes. Robert Half, for example. Do they ever actually get back to anyone? Seems like all they do is collect resumes. Why would I pay to apply to something like that?

I think that companies should be responding to applicants no matter what. It's just the right thing to do.
As someone who recruits and interviews ML engineers, specifically for computer vision applications, I only barely look at your educational background.

I look for actual projects you have contributed to, published research, OSS contrib etc... that shows you can actually build something deployable and robust (mod your experience). Why? Most ML researchers are terrible at actually deploying products using ML.

School work can be relevant if it is part of a thesis, or research effort but in that case it's really still just [goto contributions].

At the application/implementation level you won't be making a new version of eg. gradient descent (and if you are you shouldn't be in industry as that's probably* a waste of resources), you'll be implementing existing ML systems and optimizing parameters. The most important thing you should be able to do is identify sources of data, structure data inputs flow and manage variability for the data you are using for both training and classification.

This doesn't answer your question directly, but it answers the implied question: What skills should I have to be a professional ML engineer?
Let's Encrypt can still be pretty convoluted and is not headache-free, even using the officially anointed tools.

Despite your comment and the (well-intentioned) plans from browser vendors to do what they can to squash unencrypted HTTP, failure to use HTTPS, even with Let's Encrypt, is still a totally forgivable sin today.
Not everyone is up to making that effort (I agree that they _should_).

For me personally, I could easily have ended up in the 40%. I was not very social, and would have had problems making friends with anyone. As an Indian, I'd probably have welcomed Indian friends, just because I'd have felt less ill-at-ease with them. Luckily, my English was good, I loved playing sports, and some American students made an effort to make friends. That made all the difference. I really appreciate those classmates who made an effort to know a strange-looking, strange-talking kid. They made a massive positive difference in my life.

Also, I did some free tutoring. I probably wouldn't know anyone outside of Engineering, had I not done that.

Another large difference nowadays, I suspect, is that a critical mass of students of certain cultures has been reached. So it's perhaps difficult to break out of a default behaviour of hanging out with "your own kind". When a foreign student arrives in the US, the local <insert foreign-country here> students association welcomes them and helps set them up. Right there are laid the potential foundations of remaining in the comfort zone of fellow countrymen.
Honestly, I did not understand what this article talks about. I was expecting something along these lines (at least): https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner
For windows, you can use .Net (which usually comes by default on windows distributions, so you should be able to send it and run without any issues). C# is a good language that uses it.

So it's not really native (it runs on a VM), but it produces the .exe that can be easily shared.
As you say, the Azure Key Vault helps making things more secure (by allowing to control, log and revoke keys usage), but it does not help at all with the problem of API keys in the source code - it's just another set of keys that you need in your config.
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No, but if you listened to him and understood his world view and listened to the examples of why he thinks that, rather than his provocative headline, you might be able to come to some understanding.

Arguing about "feminism" is stupid anyway because "feminism" has become a motte-and-bailey concept.
Yes. As someone who was not familiar with Ghostery ad-tracker tool I thought I was about to read an article about how a private search is not really a private search.

Edit: Private search browser Cliqz buys Ghostery’s anti-tracking tools.
A lot of one-time-use functions aren't necessarily more readable either. You can start to the lose the context of when, where, and why it's being called. Many small functions or nested anonymous functions are just two ways of dealing with a difficult situation.
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Unfortunately it doesn't work for me, it's stuck at 60%.

Edit: I'm stupid, I disabled WebRTC on FF, works fine with Chromium.