skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's often possible to find work in tech without a degree. It doesn't always work out, but unlike many other industries, if you have the skills and can prove it, there's a good chance you'll get hired.

I started my first job as a network admin/engineer at age 17. I'm no longer doing anything network related, but this was a jumping-off point for the rest of my career.

The best advice I can give you: tinker on your own. A lot. Look for small companies that might be willing to give you a shot despite the lack of degree. Once you've established yourself at one place, the rest will follow.

This path doesn't work for everyone, and it's not always easy, but I'm one of many that have had great success despite the lack of that piece of paper.

Edit: Curious, why the downvotes?
Slack waiting times are horrendous. Glad they are being called out on it
Choose a measurable fund or a weighted set of them such that one can do an easy comparison of returns, net of fees and expenses, against VTSMX and I'll create the bet on longbets.
Also not good for people with soy allergies, and soy is one of the major food allergens.
Please describe how someone in the US illegally can survive without committing other crimes (if they can't work legally and they can't obtain welfare legally, how do they support themselves entirely within the law?)
I'm French so I'll pass on that one...
Full stack predictive analytics app dev with Python/Kafka/Spark Streaming
Animations aren't just useful for when you have an audience. They convey a sense of space that's important to help the user orient themselves within the operating system. Things instantly appearing and disappearing is jarring, and you can easily lose your place unless you maintain an internal model of how everything works. Remember, Apple is laser-focused on user experience, and subtle animations are a part of that. Users have a hundred other things to do and the applications they use should be as low of a cognitive burden as possible.
"much like Musk’s Hyperloop"
Based on the fail of Musk's Hyperloop I really don't see this to be a good idea. And I assume this will only launch capsules without humans inside.
Given that Slack is IRC on steroids, I always think about e.g. the Freenode webchat - it makes you wait something like 20 seconds or so. Yeah, they do it for antispam/antitroll, but the effect (initial delay) is the same.

Once the apps are loaded, it's a simple alt-tab.
No bankers, but we do have a rather dapper gentleman pushing (over?) sixty. One of my strongest leads.
The Kafka bit is in ch08
You can mouse over the icon to get it to stop. Took a while before I realized that, not sure how to make it more obvious though.
Collect and analyze data from your interactions on FB
A bit like the ending of "God Emperor of Dune".

I have nothing but great things to say about the quality of the engineers at Google . . . but I do think our purposes are suboptimal.
You seem to be operating under the same sort of "cryptographic hash functions are magic!" delusions as Linus.

CRC and SHA1 both produce a uniform distribution. SHA1 does not magically do this better because cryptography. The only things that make CRC and SHA1 are any different are:

- SHA1 produces a longer tag (of course CRC256 is a thing)
- SHA1 is hardened against preimage attacks
- SHA1 was intended to be secure against collision attacks (not anymore!)

SHA1, truncated to 32 or 64-bits, will produce a distribution just as uniform as CRC.

In a non-security setting, we can pick the size of the tag based on the rough number of objects we'd like to be able to store before we'd expect to see a collision (i.e. the birthday bound). If that number is ~4 billion, then CRC64 is sufficient.
Why is this downvoted? There is, indeed, a typo there.

EDIT: Alrighty then.
They will more likely just sell at a loss to undercut AMD, it will cost them less than R&D.
Wait what? Can you comment at all on what that 'team' is?
I agree with you, but particularly with 4 and 5. As far as 5 goes N. America had/has enormous iron, copper, uranium, gold, natural gas, coal, and petroleum deposits to an extent that I don't think many appreciate.
Absolutely one of my all time favorite movies. And to this day probably the most impressive live action/animated movies.

Although these days it would all be computer animation and compositing, making it all the more impressive imho.
> And if all "food we eat is GMO", why are some labelled non-GMO and other, GMO?

Because enough people believe - without compelling evidence - that foods which have had their genomes modified using modern methodologies are somehow more hazardous than foods which have had their genomes modified through millennia of selective breeding.
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I'm native from Rio Grande do Sul. I often tipped taxis (usually by "rounding up" the value to make change easier too) and I don't think I've ever tipped at a restaurant. Might depend on the region, but I was under the impression that this was pretty universal.
It is very possible, the best way to do this is to purchase the latest CCNA and CCNP material from Cisco, a Cisco CCNA/CCNP lab kit from Amazon and apply for a Junior Network Administrator job at your nearest regular business or government contractor. I would recommend going for routing and switching as this will give you a good base foundation of networking in general. If you buy a lab kit insure that the routers and switching equipment you get have K9 which allows strong AES/3DES encryption (SSH for example).

https://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywo...

As you move through the certification process you will move more towards being at the professional level (understanding BGP, GRE tunnels, advanced routing, etc. at the internet level) instead of just switching and routing for a datacenter or building.

The most important thing is to get hands on experience and actually understand how routing and switching works in detail. Nothing is more sad and embarrassing or worse than seeing someone with only book smarts and no practical knowledge due to no hands on real world experience. The longer you work at networking day to day on a job and at home using your home lab kit the better you will become.

I started off learning networking at 15, and it has given me a wonderful foundation for everything else, especially understanding TCP/IP UDP and many of the various protocols in depth when doing software development, systems engineering, and various in-depth security work. Plus if you like it and want to do it for a career there is a ton of high paying jobs waiting for you as you gain more experience.
Bah. I hope his patent application gets shot down. LINAC/railgun launchers are an old idea, described in HeinLein's 1966 novel "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", for example: https://books.google.com/books?id=HtuRSsAb2fEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...
Societal Limiters on AI Coming
Reading this, at least from my perspective, makes it seem like the author asks three questions, then provides an answer that doesn't really actually answer the three questions.

In particular, from my own experience in blogging/twitter etc, getting an audience is a really hard thing to do, so much so that years later I haven't succeeded yet.

On top of that, what about people who don't blog because they feel they have nothing interesting to say? Why should I write about my experiences with moving to modern javascript practices when 500 other people have already written the same thing, said all the same things I would have and actually have an audience that gives a shit?
I was thinking about this a while back, wondering if these self-driving cars were any better at "seeing" bicycles (and motorcycles and pedestrians) than humans are.

I haven't rode a bicycle since I was a kid but I do put ~10k miles/year on my Harley. In the last 10 years, I've been hit head-on twice, ran off the road once, and had too-many-to-count "close calls" by drivers who weren't paying attention (not to mention the friends that been killed) -- and that's on a loud, relatively visible (compared to a bicycle), 900-pound piece of steel. I can't imagine the average bicyclist is "seen" better than I am, especially in busy traffic areas/large cities/etc.

I'm all for anything that can makes the roads safer for those of us on two wheels!
> It's a little reductive to use "past performance is not an indication of future gains" as an argument. If you extrapolate that with the premises that I am using (namely, that it is possible to intentionally and consistently beat the market), there is no reason to have faith in the continued investment in anything, private or public, because you cannot use any past measure of success as guidance.

No, the point is that any of these outliers that beat the market will, given time, revert back to the mean. Given this, you are simply wasting money on fees for actively-traded funds.

> Facebook has done well since its IPO. But since we're throwing out its past performance entirely, we shouldn't consider it a sound investment.

The market has already factored this information into the price of Facebook. Facebook, the company, may continue to perform well. But if everyone believes this, the stock will be trading at a premium compared to what its current situation looks like.

Facebook, or any other company, could have ten years of record-breaking quarters and the stock not move a dime if the market already assumed there was a significant likelihood that this would happen. It could even decrease if these record-breaking quarters fell short of what the market was expecting.

> I don't believe in EMH; I believe that past success for firms like those has been caused by skill and strategy…

Then invest in these funds and make a killing.

Funnily enough, few of the people who claim to disbelieve in the efficient-market hypothesis are billionaires.

> …I feel confident taking on this bet when Protege Partners Protege Partners, LLC is losing is because I'm choosing a small, specific subset of the hedge fund industry that I believe in for the reasons explained above. In contrast, Buffett and Protege's bet is over a basket of funds, a "portfolio of funds of hedge funds."

That "portfolio of funds of hedge funds" was chosen by Protege Partners exactly the way that you are doing. They picked a portfolio of hedge funds they believed were most likely to succeed over the long haul, and they are losing. Badly.

At least as far as the bet goes. I suspect they've made more than the million dollars lost in the bet by marketing themselves as being confident enough in their picks to make such a bet against Buffett.
> 100 / 10 Mbit/s fiber internet
Interesting. In UAE, it's 6/12 even though the country is 100% metric. Actually, it's not weird at all in my experience, because: 1) you get used to it, and 2) you can "see" the sub in front of you, so it doesn't need any conversion or anything.
>Nutrient density per calorie is the magic formula. High nutrient density, high ANDI scores.

The "magic formula" is the problem. There are many approaches to nutrient density scoring and ANDI is among those horribly flawed. Why? I'll defer to someone credible:

> According to the explanation of this ranking system posted on Fuhrman’s web site, he also excludes a number of other important nutrients. The B vitamins biotin and pantothenic acid, preformed vitamin A, and vitamins K1 and K2 are among those absent. Major minerals such as sodium, chloride, potassium, sulfur, and phosphorus are excluded. Essential trace minerals such as copper, manganese, boron, molybdenum, and chromium are nowhere to be found in Fuhrman’s list. Essential fatty acids like EPA, DHA and arachidonic acid are likewise absent. Finally, none of the eight essential amino acids is included in his ranking system. - Chris Masterjohn, PhD Nutritional Sciences [1]

A bit suspect to exclude essential nutrients from a nutrient score. He also doubles the ORAC (antioxidant) importance, when including ORAC at all is very controversial. Please read [1] for the rest.

A more objective formula [2] will always include organ meats, like liver, at the top. A serving of liver is practically a multi-vitamin and if consumed daily will cause an overdose of vitamin A very quickly.

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WLAXWpG...
[2] http://ketopia.com/nutrient-density-sticking-to-the-essentia...
Space elevators are a possible alternative, with cargo lift OpEx estimated at $10/lb. (mostly electricity).
You asked in another sub-thread "what do people need >64 gigs for on a consumer desktop?" but jeff_vader started this sub-thread asking "what do you do if you are interested in >64gb workstations?"

AFAICT nobody on this sub-thread is claiming that consumer desktops should cater to our niche use cases. We're just offering examples of application domains where a high RAM-to-CPU ratio is useful.
If you're trying to locate them after the fact it's quite easy, nothing hard about it at all. It's using skill to identify them before any given period that's hard. Plenty of people do in fact end up identifying them before any given period, but no more than would be predicted by chance, so it is quite hard to prove that anyone at all identifies outperformers using skill; it's laws of chance at work, even though many like to think they used skill (or like for you to believe they used skill, if they're trying to get you to pay them to manage your money).
>I've found learning and creating to be more fulfilling activities than videogames.

>I wonder if other people share the same joy of learning that I feel

Yes, but... Most of my learning and creating has been inspired by games. I started with AD&D (pen and paper, not a video game), then historic tabletop miniature games. By middle school, I was reading 1000+ page college-level books about history because the games got me interested. School taught little or nothing about ancient civilizations, the napoleonic era, or the pike-and-shot era. There were also the WWII, Cold-War, and near-future games that led me to learn a lot about geography, geopolitics, and recent history.

By the time I got a PC (still before high school), I was playing some really complex detail-oriented games. There was a lot of paperwork to keep track of game state, tables to do lookups on, and rules details to remember. I learned how to program trying to make things that would ease the paperwork burden and let me focus on the strategy. (Coincidentally, that turned out to be a valuable career skill.) I also tried to make my own PC games, of course. As PCs got more powerful, PC games got better and more detailed (and better than I could make) and I mostly switched to them. Playing simulators like Silent Hunter and 688(I) led me to learn a lot about geometry and such. At the same time I started trying to make PBeM and PBW client software (again, useful career skills involving networking, client/server programming, and data processing/presentation).

As a fan of serious strategy games, I was interested in creating an AI player that could actually handle those types of games (which are exponentially more complex than chess-like games). I read a lot about AI and played around with different types of heuristics and other ideas. Nothing really came of that (yet) but it was very interesting learning about learning and thinking and planning.

Another genre that interested me were economic games like Wall $treet Raider and Capitalism Plus. That led me to many interesting books and movies to try to understand why companies did things like mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, spinoff subsidiaries, holding companies, etc., and how that related to the stock market.

Much enjoyable time was spent drawing illustrations and doing digital art, and learning a bit about 3-D modeling and CAD. That too was largely gaming-inspired, or trying to make art for games. While my skills have atrophied, I'd probably never have gotten as good as I did if I hadn't had inspiration.

Generally, my bookshelves are lined with books about topics that gaming got me interested in. My career is built upon foundations of things that I learned because of games. But I can't think of a single time when watching a new episode of _insert favorite TV show here_, or any other leisure/hobby, has led me to the bookstore to learn more, or led me to experiment with new creations, the way that a new game is likely to do. I'm happy with what I've gained from it.
Physically yes, but perhaps not surprisingly he has the early signs of PTSD... waking up screaming, flashbacks. Fortunately his family is taking that seriously and he's going to get some professional help. Hell of a thing to go through for days. It seems the people who kidnapped him kept telling him that they were going to kill him, so he was terrified most of the time.
That's one of simplest yet not awnsearable by google questions I've ever seen. Would also love to know how.
Please grant a bit of charity in extending beyond their illegal status to include working for businesses who are willing to (illegally) hire undocumented workers and other similar cases where documentation is the only hold up.

I'm aware that one of the reasons some people are for increasing enforcement and deportation of illegal immigrants is that they're perceived as a drain on society by consuming public services and jobs. I also know that there are many illegal immigrants who pay use taxes and otherwise contribute positively to their community.

Please also note that I'm not arguing against 'mordant's position. I'm trying to understand more fully what that position is and encourage actual discussion and understanding (even if there isn't agreement). If that's not something that interests you, that's perfectly fine.
Make sure your drivers (and BIOS) are completely updated.. when I went to a GTX 1080 for a 4k display, I had a lot of weird issues... they all went away with a BIOS update of all things. Have to say, being able to trigger a BIOS update from a windows software was a weird experience... more scary when you come from having to create a dos boot disk with everything needed to update something.
And thank you for your thoughts as well. Your last sentence caps it; what I am saying is that there is a broken tool in the toolbox - we should be able to make profit an ethical value - as an estimator of how much good we do on the world - but because accounting practices don't isolate rents ( SFAIK ) from consumer surplus, then that makes profitability a shakier ethical metric.

But yes - the ethics of a company are a serious part of the architecture. Good ethics are of self-interest even more than they are a collective good.
While I recognize it is a 'what is there to lose' kind of move, I think it is really awesome that AMD is unlocking all of their Ryzen parts. Seems like a when for the "I want to smoke my own processor thank you very much" generation.
> Albert Ellis came up with an early form of cognitive-behavioral therapy, based largely on Epictetus’ claim that “it is not events that disturb people, it is their judgments concerning them.”

This actually is presented in Buddhism too, which was where I first encountered it before re-discovering similar principles in stoicism and Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. See this sutta: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn36/sn36.006.tha...

Quote:

"When touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical & mental. Just as if they were to shoot a man with an arrow and, right afterward, were to shoot him with another one, so that he would feel the pains of two arrows; in the same way, when touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical & mental."

But what is nice about Buddhism is that there is a practical skill-training that comes along with the theory. When disagreeable events happen to you, mindfulness training teaches you not to grasp on to the events automatically and start your own narrative about it, but instead, observe them mindfully. This gives you the opportunity to skillfully deal with the situation. REBT in addition implores you to consider the situation rationally.

These are troubling times (especially where I live in India), and I think a little bit of stoic + Buddhist teachings can go a long way in maintaining our composure even as we engage with the world. I still struggle with this from time to time, but I would have been completely lost without these teachings.
Not really. As the actual editing being added to the base image is what could push that. I think the question you'd be looking for is, "what amount of photo editing, effects, etc. would make the editing process of a 80mpix photo consume >16GB memory?"

Additionally, as for your original question: For hobby or even 'normal' professional photography, I'd guess none. But rigs like the ones used for Gmaps Street View, the recent CNN gigapixel, etc. would probably have the capability to approach that size.
There's some clear differences, and it's alleged not confirmed. That said, I'll look into it.
He's talking about the stock market as an investment, not trade in general.
So no basic income just let them steal everything they need? If you're suggesting that everyone can just get a job, the idea is that we are moving toward a time when there simply won't be enough jobs to go around. By the time this program is ready for prime time if it is ever is, that gap between available work and people might be well underway. This in addition to how many people are ready for retirement? There are a lot of trends coming together that could generate the perfect storm that drops us into to utter dystopian chaos.

I've probably spent way too much time on this thread today but this is the most hopeful thing I've seen a while. The news every day is relentlessly negative sometimes horrific.

I don't think this idea would turn that neighborhood you lived in into a utopia, either.
Are self-driving cars really worse at noticing bicyclists than pedestrians? The first paragraph makes it sound this way, but there's no way it's harder to track them than birds, and it's hard to tell whether the quote from Steven Shladover is making a comparison to pedestrians.
It's almost unfathomable from a Western perspective that this could cover someone's basic living expenses for a year.

That is, at least partially, because it can't cover someone's basic living expenses for a year. According to the World Bank, the global poverty line was US$1.90/day in 2015, after adjusting for purchasing power.[0] This amounts to $694/year or roughly $57/month. Of course, while it is possible that, after adjusting for purchasing power, those 2280 shillings amount to $60 or more of purchasing power.

I think most Western grocery bills amount to more than $60/person/month; never mind shelter and clothing. And yet, for all of our society's wealth, I wouldn't be surprised if the average Kenyan had a greater net worth than the average American. Without much wealth to speak of, access to debt is likely to be greatly limited.

[0] http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2015/10/04/wo...
> Most food labeling in the US is done this way. Gross measures (total volume, weight, etc) are in imperial while the nutrition facts are in metric. So milk will say, serving size 12 Oz, protein XX g.

Both net contents and serving size include metric measures.

"Food labels printed must show the net contents in both metric (grams, kilograms, milliliters, liters) and U.S. Customary System (ounces, pounds, fluid ounces) terms." [0]

"The serving size is expressed as a common household measure followed by the equivalent metric quantity in parenthesis." [1]

[0] https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocument...

[1] https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocument...