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Go to his office hours, definitely. A common trap I've seen a lot of students fall into is that they think they can't approach a professor until they are impressive enough (have enough personal side projects, have read enough of their papers, have perfect grades in their class, etc), or they try too hard to appear more knowledgeable than they are. It's totally fine to just go and say "I'm interested in this, do you have any advice on what I should do to learn more?". You'll have a better time impressing him by following up on that advice successfully than you will trying to make a side project on your own.
I did the same, bought an XPS 13 become it seemed everybody would recommend it but got many problems (battery died, wifi range is very low, suspend on disk not working, no hdmi, ...)

I then discovered Clevo, they sell very customizable laptop where you can have crazy specs (two HDD, 64gb ram, latest i7) for very reasonable prices (compared to apple). I'm waiting for mine but it seems like the perfect solution.

Also, that's what System76 and many "custom linux laptops" shops sells but under other names.
I would not use C++ on firmware though. Usually memory/space requirements are far more important than OOP lang features. And good software can be developed without them.
Looks very interesting (and slightly scary) but does seem to a bit under the wheather right now.

I drew a boot, got a cat [1]. That's some serious over-fitting, or something. I hope no cats were hurt.

[1] Perhaps this works: http://imgur.com/a/xvg6q.
I used to have a subscription to crashplan but that wasn't flexible (or cheap) enough when you try to backup multiple machines/phones.

Now I have a raspberry pi with an encrypted USB drive attached where I sync all files from laptops/desktops/phones/truecrypt-drives (I have an instance of pydio-cloud running too).

Then, once a week (or once a day depending on the folder) I sync everything to rsync.net.
This looks a lot like monod

https://monod.lelab.tailordev.fr/

I've been using it as a private, sharable wiki for quite a while now.
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The link to the RSS feed is right down at the bottom ;)
I've been thinking about this problem for Airborn OS. In my opinion, the best place to put signatures of the "main resource" would be the website's certificate. [1]

I created a Firefox extension that can check signatures both in the certificate and (in the meantime) hardcoded in the extension. [2]

[1]: http://blog.airbornos.com/post/2015/04/25/Secure-Delivery-of...

[2]: http://blog.airbornos.com/post/2016/02/23/The-first-web-appl...
I'm a big fan of the CSIRO too. But I think it's fair to say that under the current government they've pushed towards a more commercialisation / applied science view of the world. For instance, NICTA (Australia's premier government funded Computer Science research... thingy) has been defunded and merged into CSIRO.

They now operate as 'Data61' on a semi-commercial basis. Again, I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing: I'm actually working with some of the NICTA/Data61 guys on one of their projects, and they are doing a number of these across the APS. If anything, it's been great to unleash these guys on the APS, where IT expertise is sorely lacking. They seem to be very good at what they do (and have a heavy focus on applying machine-learning to real-world problems).

Their new CEO, Larry Marshall actually created a number of US startups centred on lasers/optics (sorry, don't know the proper term) and holds a number of patents in this area. I met the guy when he gave a presentation at my workplace, and this carbon-fibre work is very much in line with the strategy he outlined. He's a decent guy who, IMHO, has been given a pretty unfair run in the press (who have taken a number of his statements out of context and portrayed him as some kind of anti-science luddite). Incidentally, he reads PG's essays :)

I don't really have a point here, just providing some background information in case you find it interesting (and apologies if I sound like a bit of a cheerleader). This shift in CSIRO's focus might have been the one and only thing our idiot government has gotten right over two terms of government (or, at least, the one thing they didn't totally screw up).

EDIT: And just to concur, the assertion that CSIRO is a patent troll doesn't pass the laugh test.
One could argue that we're nearly there already. There still are a few places where you can read semi-sane journalism, but for the most part the action is on the likes of Buzzfeed or Business Insider, which are an endless stream of clickbait, sensationalism, and poorly sourced rumor mongering, with the occasional fake news thrown in for good measure.
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~pml1/bayes/book.htm

Gives out pdfs of the exercises in his textbook on his home page. Thanks for pointer.
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This is really cool, since I'm currently working on a way to transmit extremely small amounts of data (~30 bits) in a situation where you cannot use any RF waves.

Of course, it's banned here but the simplest thing (for the person taking the test) would be to take a short amount of time - or a long amount of time - to fill in each bubble. A short scribble = false, a long scribble = true. To thwart the proctors you could swap the keys every other question, such that for question 1 short=false, long=true; question 2 short=true, long=false, etc etc.

Of course, for any of these answers the proctors could trivially catch you cheating. The best way to prevent this would be applying a simple one-time pad to them - exchange a small number beforehand and use that.
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Two Scoops is a great book, but it is based around best practices, so assumes you know Django already to some extent.
I don't hear much about the display on the MBP, it's as near to perfect as any display I've ever seen, using text is beautiful, the colour depth is extraordinary - and its a laptop.

I plugged in a new external 1080p monitor and thought at first there was something wrong with it, but no it's just the difference in crispness. Not only that you can run 2 external 5K monitors! from a laptop!

The SSD's are so fast, it's also so quiet - you never hear the fan. The only negative is it gets warm when charging on my lap.

I too don't see the point of the touchbar though, it's a cute gadget to play with. The sound is remarkable, though the whole laptop vibrates when the sound is turned up (edit: though there's no audible distortion or vibration noises which is pretty unique for a laptop too).

It is without a doubt the most perfect laptop I have ever owned, like everyone I would have liked to pay less for it. I'll use it for the next three years then give it too my daughter and she'll use it for another three years like my last one. I'm very happy with my purchase.
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The Ellen Pao tenure was not the Reddit community's finest hour.

Reddit stopped having a "finest hour" years ago, as is the way when online communities grow very large.
Don't overanalyze it. It just happens to be excellent science fiction.
Is this selenium forum or selenium only forum?
I think its a perspective issue when looking at market opportunities, having worked with a few dozen older Vietnamese immigrant business owners who came here at after highschool, they tend to learn a skillset and buy a business in that vertical and stick with it, operating it from rote memory with baseline rules (sell at 25% above cost) that keep them moderately profitable, but prevent them from ever having the scale or capital of Uwajimaya or other businesses like Walmart that know how to merchandise and sell more items due to placement in store and similar tactics.

Then you have the 1st generation or those like yourself who went to middle school & highschool stateside and soaked up some American culture, maybe learned some critical thinking skills or had to take a business course or two, and this group either wants absolutely nothing to do with the family business or small businesses in general, or they end up taking over the family business or starting their own to varying degrees of success, but using much different tactics that often net better results.
I have yet to see an effective use of an e-book for books that are meant to be reread not from front to back but by chapters...

Examples would be technical books and philosophy books.
Actually the patent was filed four years before 802.11 was standardised. From the Ars article:

> The premier world engineering institution, the IEEE, created a working group for the evolving 802.11 wireless standard in 1990, a full three years before CSIRO filed for its key wireless patent. The group voted repeatedly on which way to go forward and produced heaps of records, but CSIRO didn't even participate in the 802.11 committee. The group published the first 802.11 standard in 1997 and CSIRO came forward years after the fact.

The working group was created in 1990, the patent was filed in 1993 and the 802.11 standard first published in 1997.
I know. But as long as neither Fastmail's (great) web interface nor any mail client known to me builds an interface with them that is comparable to Gmail's labels they are really not useful.
Mathematics is beautiful (no, really)
Registers are also the nodes in the DAG of evaluation. Superscalar execution relies on having multiple edges active over time. Thus, good register allocation won't have bottlenecks, and won't make the evaluation DAG look like a series of linked lists.

There's a nice overview for people with a passing interest here: http://www.lighterra.com/papers/basicinstructionscheduling/
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No, A* heuristics (including extreme ones like jump point search) do not prejudice optimality of the found shortest path, the same that would be found by Dijkstra's algorithm without heuristics.
They are only "heuristic" with respect to the subordinate purpose of finding the optimal path cheaply (ignoring as many graph nodes as possible), while the RRT heuristic produces a suboptimal result (not the absolute shortest path, but the shortest path that goes through arbitrarily chosen nodes)
> (AFAIK), there isn't a good way to make the two aware of each other

When you set up FreeRTOS you configure which heap implementation it uses. They provide a number of heapX.c files you can choose between. heap3.c uses malloc directly for instance, the others use built-in implementations of a heap algorithm of varying complexity.

If you want to use your own allocator, you just write your own heapX.c file. Use the malloc one as a template and call the newlib allocator instead of malloc. Link that in instead of any other heapX file and voila, FreeRTOS is using newlib to allocate memory.
True, in fact undefined-behaviour-wise I don't think there is any mainstream
language that comes close in this respect to C/C++. Alas, this is well-known
and addressed in various publications.

Converse, things that could be eventually decided to be UB in Rust, but are not
UB in C/C++, is rarely mentioned at all. It is quite interesting what is cost
(in terms of UB behaviour) of making various optimization that are claimed to
be possible in Rust but not yet realized. Reading through some of Niko
proposals it would seems that this cost is quite nontrivial.
The 'code' probably is just assembler instructions. You can't create a game on a limited system like the NES in C#. It has only 2k of memory, so you have to do everything yourself.

There is no way to port such a game with it feeling authentic, other than the emulator.
I rely mostly on Borg backup¹.

1. First, I run it locally on my desktop against a repository I keep on the same drive (/home/backup); then

2. I update, with rsync, a copy of this repository I keep on a dedicated server with full disk encryption; and, finally,

3. I spin up an EC2 instance, mount an S3 bucket with s3ql, and rsync the copy from the previous step up to the one I keep on this bucket.

This process is (embarrassingly) manual.

The backup repository is encrypted with Borg itself, and if I am in need of recovering something I do it from the local copy. I never mount the repository in remote locations.

¹https://github.com/borgbackup/borg
Can you explain what about Nim's type system is not good?
Unfortunately I don't think carbon fibre Is even nearly strong enough.
This still doesn't explain why I've never seen a rabbit wearing glasses.
I think the point is that a circle is not the only shape that can't fall into it's own hole/fitting, so it's the combination of this fact along with other factors that make a circular cover popular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhole_cover#Circular
Depends on where you live.

If you assume that the US government is not trustworthy, and a possible enemy of you (possible if you're a journalist in these days), then an unrooted phone might be less trustworthy than a rooted one with custom software (such as a custom build of CooperheadOS)
Somebody beat me to it [1]. Hope you continue to improve. Salut.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvyKlOdhrX4&sns=em
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Thats if people know they are imbibing heroin. I dont think half the people on HN itself are aware that most mobile games are designed and sold as differently themed skinner boxes.

What hope do normal people have to even be aware? And That's something ubiquitous and only recently being questioned and condemned by people in the industry.

Awareness of the pitfalls of simple apps is an issue. Forget the really insidious stuff being made by people with the intention to deceive and manipulate.

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Holding up NYT as a survivor is telling.

The websites and newspapers that remain today are a small fraction of the Print Media industry which was thriving in 1985.

Holding these few existences as successes, ignores the huge survivorship bias baked into the example.

NYT was already a massive name, and worked very very hard to adapt to the new medium. It was one of the few magazines which attempted - very early on - to build interesting HTML/multi media articles. They tried making subscriptions work, a move widely derided at the time as a sure shot to failure. (if people forget, once upon a time subscriptions and pay walls were considered sure shots to failure on the web).

The powers and membership of the fourth estate has been vastly eroded, and the ability of people to get past a persons defences, or to build an echo chamber has been significantly enhanced.

The recent American elections were a low throughput event, but it showed how simply tweeting allows someone to significantly take advantage of (a particular) group think.
They invented the technology used for WiFi for radio astronomy, it is as legitimate an invention as it gets.
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I've recently built a system at work that interacts with AMQ and handles XML delivery.

This has give me some confidence. I would like to start developing server side systems for clients using elixir/phoneix, sqs, pgsql and docker - however I'm at a beginner/intermediate level at those technologies.

How do I go about getting small contracts to work on outside work hours to get real world experience developing server side systems using the above stack?
AWS doesn't offer any high-level services for training your own custom model. You'd have to build the neural network yourself and deploy EC2 boxes to run it.

I've had success with Clarifai's [0] custom CV model API in the past. You basically upload batches of labeled images to train a model, and then you can submit new images for classification.

Of course, I have no idea how effective it would be for your documents. Obviously it depends on how visually distinct the different types are.

[0] https://www.clarifai.com
I find it frustrating for all the power they want to give me... that some basic service design is lacking.

Polly is a stand alone component but the reverse is closely bound up into Lex which is a conversational interface API.

Amazon has internally built an engine I could ask to convert an audio file in S3 into a text content representative of the audio file... yet I can only use Lex to drive a conversation via text and audio.

If AWS really want to give me the power of their AI tools. How about unbundling them?
On a related note, you may have heard that Obama managed to push out the date that Medicare would run out of money by 11 years through the Affordable Care Act. He did this by declaring that henceforth, one of this things that requires the unsubstitutable labour and attention of human beings somehow comparable to the buyer - consultations with doctors - would henceforth go down in price at the same rate everything else. I have my doubts as to whether this is actually possible to do by decree.
That's just (weird) fashion design. The anti-surveillance thing is an afterthought. And it doesn't work in any case.
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On my case, re-writing was anyway required, so I decided to use the native languages instead of QML, specially because I would need QML versions for Android and UWP anyway.
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What did you get, out of interest?
Am I reading it wrong or are you just using/paying for Slack for a single user?
You may have overlooked that apple is a hardware company, services they offer are complementary to the hardware they sell. Their incentives follows what sells more hardware.

If forfeiting icloud privacy gives them access to a billion new hardware customers (hello China!) as iphone sales are dwindling, do you really believe they will stick behind icloud privacy ? The point being that they may have more incentive to break their privacy promises than you think.

But still, at the moment apple being a hugely succesful hardware company gives it less incentives than say an advertising network (hello google), a "give us all your data and we'll make it available online for you, also ads" (hello facebook Inc.) as their revenue depends mostly on hardware not on ads or software licencing or investor story time. This may change when profits and sales go down, we have already witnessed other hardware vendors making moves such as lowering item sale price with a strategy to recoup the loss with exploiting/reselling user data later (hello samsung).
This is pretty much exactly my k8s experience
I wasn't aware the Linux desktop needed salvation. Maybe it needs salvation for non-technical end users but it's good to excellent for end-users whose primary use involve actually using Linux for what it's good at which is basically being a fully open OS and IDE for software and other engineers.
Would it lower the fuel costs of the plane?
You don't need to fully re-code the application for every platform., I was doing cross-platform before Qt even existed, back in the 16 bit days, even in Assembly between platforms with the same processors.

The point is that you need to properly layer the common code from the platform specific code, from day one.

Also writing web apps, usually means "write once debug everywhere" due to the differences between browsers and rendering engines. And in some platforms, specially embedded ones, it is back to the days of "alert()".
Yes, looks like it's 'simply therapy', although with a nice website.

I'm sure there's plenty of good therapists in California. E.g. look at http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/features/how-to-find-ther... or http://www.goodtherapy.org to get started.
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You don't need perfect character recognition. It's just gotta be good enough. The way you determine good enough is by completing the pipeline and measuring the result.
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The table basically says it's possible to pick a set of 4096 (2^12) different vectors of T/F combinations in a way that you only need flip up to 3 (R=3) of the T/F answers to cover all 2^23 (n=23) possible solutions to the quiz. Thus you only need 68 minutes and 16 seconds (4096 seconds) in order to guarantee you get at least 20 answers correct.

You can use the remaining 1304 seconds to encode some more vectors to increase the possibility of getting more answers correct, but you cannot guarantee 21 or more correct answers in the allotted time. The lower & upper bound (not sure what this part means) for n=23,R=2 is 30686-32768 about 9 hours!

Very simple example with n=3. I have listed all the vectors with Hamming distance of 1 or less (R=1). Looking at the table, we see that for n=3, R=1, we can cover all the vectors with 2 different codes. Heads and tails for example. It's easy to see which combinations we can pick to guarantee coverage, a&h, b&g, c&f, d&e. Using any of those combinations and some way to signal to the other person 'heads' or 'tails' will guarantee they get at least 2 answers correct.

a TTT <= TTT TTF TFT FTT
b TTF <= TTT TTF TFF FTF
c TFT <= TTT TFT TFF FFT
d FTT <= TTT FTT FTF FFT
e TFF <= TTF TFT TFF FFF
f FTF <= TTF FTT FTF FFF
g FFT <= TFT FTT FFT FFF
h FFF <= TFF FTF FFT FFF
Absolute confirmation bias.

I can't wait for your quantification of the life at google twitter.
While this would be a perfect solution, there is one caveat:

Most apps (e.g Signal until today) rely on Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) service for push-notifications.
Without GCM, many apps simply crash.
Isn't Charles Schwab terribly insecure ? There was a post here a year ago about their password and 2fa policies.
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I'm going to make an assumption, if the application uses a database, then there is absolutely nothing wrong with that approach. This plays well into security models as well enabling you to 'allow' certain users access to features.