skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A technique that is reportedly useful for dynamic situations is D*, since 90% of the world is static and most dynamic content is clustered, you could probably get away with using that in a radius and then devolve to the precomputed technique outside of that
The story at the end is really good.
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Here are a few questions that I was asked in a Microsoft interview:

Write an interpreter for first order logic.

Define an algorithm for reordering the x87 floating point stack.
Do any engineers need degrees? Does anybody? Before you go too deep down that philosophical rabbit hole just consider one thing.

Is it a job that requires a lot of skill?

Any job I've seen that is highly skilled and not in the "get your hands dirty" kind of way usually has a degree behind it.

I've seen many kind of engineers without a degree. It's not like you couldn't figure it out on your own for any kind of engineering. The two main problems are commiting enough time to learn it on your own and getting a company to take a chance on you.

You can do it without a degree but it will be a lot harder to learn enough and to get your foot in the door. If someone takes a risk on you, you'll probably get paid like crap for a few years too.

Is it worth it to do that or just spend 4 years on a degree? Most of the time the answer is a degree.

Computer science isn't any different from any other branch of engineering even though developers like to think it's so special
Metastability in electronics
Exactly. They're not on campus (or a CPAC meeting, or a TV show or whatever) for "reasoned debate". They're there to raise their profile and signal to others like them that these ideas are now acceptable to air in respectable forums. It's foolish for any of these organizations to be used in this manner.
Apparently they do it intentionally to throw people off, supposedly making it easier to spot if they're hiding something. It doesn't really hold water with me, but that's the rationalization I've heard fwiw.
Your life was not online as much that is changing. Facebook didn't even exist under Bush
Most important current themes are reported by many sources. The site aggregates and groups similar themes from many sources and displays them in a compact layout.
Yeah, AMD can't just bump up the release by a quarter, they're on a fixed timeline as they have to wait on TSMC & Global Foundries to turn their designs into silicon (4 months end to end).
There's probably a way to determine the document type based on the differing structures (would have to see it to be sure). Alternately, is it not possible for a user to specify what type the document is?
I know plenty of Europeans who are still enchanted enough by "Friends", "Sex and the City", "Breaking Bad", etc who are dying to visit the US. These stories don't have mainstream impact yet.
Had to write postscript for "introduction into stackbased programming" at university.

We choose to make complex cylcoid "animations". We controlled the "animation"-speed by using helper routines that slowed down the postscript-viewer by painting nonsense white on white.

Downside of this was that it crashed printers and macOS Preview.

And the professor actually wanted us to write a parser or something else that could use a stack, but we were pretty satisfied with ourselves.
> The border guards could still reject your entry tho.

And that's the problem. Any steps you go to to make your data more secure are just going to make it more likely.
"Step 2: Draw the rest of the owl."
Tinkering with the book open.
If you think the Swiss SBB app is great, the Dutch Trains' NS app will blow your mind. Best transport app I've seen in a long time.
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Change a few words and that becomes a defense of SAP.

The fact is, no software can make everyone happy all the time and the software will suck if it tries to do it. Yet we keep falling into the trap of thinking crap like JIRA and SAP can be customized just right.
I can attest to this personally, im a strange and incredibly fussy eater, not going into the details im a vegetarian who is incredibly difficult to please, my main food source (and im not kidding here) is pizza

ive also always wanted to visit tokyo but when i finally did food was a slight concern, turns out this was about as far from reality as it could be, here in the uk maybe 4/5 times ill be disappointed with what i get when eating out however there it was almost impossible to mess up, i actually had better pizza in japan than i did in italy in many cases!
And also, noncitizens do not have a right to contact a lawyer when they are detained at an airport.
College is a lot more than learning about software development and computer science. I guess that's what I was getting at. It's expensive, but I don't know any other way to meet the same mix of people and get the same set of experiences. And that's part of the point: If you just want to learn development, college shouldn't be a prerequisite. I'd imagine that some kind of trade school, self-study, or job training would make more sense.
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This strategy has been a notable success in the 50 years it's been tried for illicit drugs, and for alcohol before that.
Signatory, Ratified, Implemented. These and other words making up the jargon of diplomacy mean very different things.

For example:

UNCLOS - "Although the United States helped shape the Convention and its subsequent revisions, and though it signed the 1994 Agreement on Implementation, it has not signed the Convention as it objected to Part XI of the Convention."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_United_...

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: "The United States government played an active role in the drafting of the Convention and signed it on 16 February 1995, but has not ratified it"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Rights_of_th...

Basel Convention: "Haiti and the United States have signed the Convention but not ratified it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_Convention
Other comments saying k8s (short f/kubernetes) people are in various companies are correct, but adding it was started at Google (and that's where jessfraz works on it).

Background for k8s is that Google had (has) an internal container scheduler called Borg (https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html) with which they do clever things like pack a CPU-hungry and RAM-hungry process on the same box so all of that machine's resources get used, and can use the same server for a mix of production processes (that might e.g. be latency-sensitive need a dedicated core) and non-production tasks like internal data crunching. For example, a non-production task can run opportunistically when a prod job isn't using its full allocation of RAM, and be preempted if the production tasks need that RAM later or more important tasks come along.

Kubernetes is a ground-up effort to do the same sort of thing in the open. The components are different--etcd instead of Chubby, and of course not using Google's internal container stuff for tasks--but idea's the same.
PC culture has been in the headlines a lot recently, so instead of addressing the progressive thought police, I was hoping that the author might say something about the other ways in which the universities are eating themselves alive.

What of the transition from full-time tenured faculty to adjuncts with little income, less job security, and who are terrified of students' reviews? Should universities continue to shift away from employing instructors and researchers, and towards supporting increasingly byzantine hierarchies of administrators?

What of the publish-or-perish imperative that emphasizes quantity over quality, and shiny new results over testing results obtained elsewhere?

What of dramatic inflation in tuition costs and resulting student debt?

It seems to me that these factors are all slowly undoing the universities. It'd be really interesting to hear a high-ranking administrator discuss these issues seriously instead of carefully confessing his preference for free speech over highly charged identity politics (which is a totally safe and uncontroversial thing to do).
The author, perhaps inadvertently, describes a confounding issue in the study that validates his claims. Namely, the issue stems from the author's description of how fitness trackers are useful in the initial stages of a diet/exercise plan in order to help establish a routine. However, the study that the author cites gave the fitness trackers to participants 6 months into the study, when hopefully some plan has been established. This would seem to negate one of the key benefits of fitness trackers espoused by the author. Is it explained why the fitness trackers are given later on as opposed to at the beginning?
And indeed, treatment on entry into Canada can be similarly ludicrous.
You clearly like Instacart, and that's fine, but I strongly disagree with you that they've built something better than the grocery store. For starters, right now they depend on grocery stores existing for their business, otherwise they are exactly like WebVan. Also, grocery shopping is nothing like postal delivery. You don't choose what mail you want, you just take everything that's addressed to you. Obviously this varies from person to person, but some people actually like choosing their ingredients and meals and deciding what they want to eat - the opposite extreme for this is to buy Soylent. Every time I've used Instacart they've made annoying substitutions that cost me money and weren't what I wanted, and the hassle of explaining item for item substitutions with back and forth texts is just frustrating. I've only used it a few times, but I've never had a pleasant experience with Instacart where I got everything I wanted - and this is ignoring the added cost and "convenience" of using their service.

> There is a lot to gain by becoming the market leader in a service like ride sharing or grocery shopping.

There is no evidence of this. In fact, there is a lot of evidence that these companies are losing money.

> All these are obvious next steps for Instacart, which wisely sees Grocery stores as a relic of the past ready to be replaced by something better.

Just because you don't like grocery stores doesn't mean they're going to disappear.

Honestly, you sound like a shill paid by Instacart, but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you just really like their product.
Coming from a place where tipping is nonexistent this whole debate feels extremely ancient. I don't understand why a modern country won't just kill off tipping culture.
Definitely Exit Music for a film.
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Documentation updated for the same!
Now you can run it from its source(using python) :)
check : https://github.com/guptarohit/bing-wallpaper
Ha ha... but under the hood there's some utopia lingering.

I've seen its exceptions and I figured it's made of some sort of auto-generated code translation of an Eclipse based think client.

Reminds me of the bad old days of round-trip engineering, UML and Corba...
Github is a pretty decent product. It seems churlish to criticise it on the basis that it comes at a price.
Yes, but not always. When the body of water is big enough, they don't need cooling towers.
I find the corporate environment thing suspicious. I could imagine that if you don't have admin access, you can't install to Program Files, but couldn't you still install to your home directory, and still get those lovely start menu shortcuts?
eh I've checked all the ones I know of; postmates, amazon, instacart, caviar for restaurants etc etc.
How is it too strict?
I think we as engineers tend to unconsciously disvalue non-technical roles. The fact of the matter is that there is an incredible amount of work that goes into the sales and marketing pieces of a business. To even suggest that a "major" tech company could exist without is laughable and out of touch.
what about the old My-dog-ate-my-sim-card-routine aka ditching your 2fa token ... like i really don';t know because I denied myself access:

"...Then, before you cross the border, make sure you don’t have the SIM card that allows you—or customs officials—to receive that text message, essentially denying yourself the ability to cooperate with agents even if you wanted to. Zdziarski suggests mailing yourself the SIM card, or destroying it and then recovering the accounts with backup codes"

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/guide-getting-past-customs-dig...
A very senior dev had to be explained he couldn't do a man-in-the-middle attack on an encrypted stream without the server's private key? With all due respect and I don't know much about security but something seems off, maybe you haven't explained the whole story or maybe I'm getting something wrong.
What? Why? You can still do the same search by typing site:URL in Google so it's literally zero investment by them to keep it workinf. And these people were paying for it.

I can't help think this has something to do with their AMP articles. They don't want you to leave google, ever
aaannnd... still look like a dork. +1 for effort though.

Oh wait, this is not slashdot is it.
Being too specific is only bad unless you have not listed as your experience in the domain.

But being too academic is actually good. The academic questions are constants irrespective of the domain in which the coding is done.
Are there going to be docs aimed at developers of Upspin-compatible & -interoperable implementations?
> This is partly why I don't understand the left's animosity towards Trump's economic plan - he intends to bring jobs back to the US by hobbling corporations that have been exploiting poorer countries for profit

Because it won't work. Tell a company to pay higher wages for the same positions by bringing them home, and that'll push them toward automation even faster.

These jobs may return for a short while. But that only brings false hope. And then we're right back to where we are today, hurting even more people in the process. It's extremely short-sighted.

Here's just one article on the matter https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602869/manufacturing-jobs...

Also note that Foxconn has already begun automating their plants. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36376966 So it's already a demonstratably viable option for these companies.

What we really need is to bring _automation_ home and have some serious discussions around solutions for these real struggling people instead of spouting the hand-wavy "bringing jobs back to the US" rhetoric.
Fair enough, and there's a legit argument that even identical titles from two given companies doesn't necessarily mean a automatic equivalence. That being said, when the scales are roughly equivalent, someone approaching you with a job offer 2-3 grades below where you are now is just embarrassing - you know, it's typical to offer a promotion to jump ship.
> Everyone proposing clever technical solutions. Burner phones and encrypted cloud data etc... you are solving the wrong problem.

Yes, and this is why I will happily pay airlines more to transfer in another country that is not America (e.g. Canada, Mexico). It sucks because it makes travel more expensive, but US airports are not traveler friendly (they could start by having international transfer zones so you don't have to do security again) and the TSA is a bloody nightmare.

I also avoid travel to the US. There are plenty of interesting travel destinations which are not America you can visit.

For Americans impacted by this, absolutely please write your representatives and ask they tone down this madness. For the rest of the world, if you can avoid traveling to the US, do so. Vote with your wallet and pick somewhere else.
With a little effort I'm sure his righteous indignation will have no difficulty finding a reason not to visit NZ, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload_legal_case#Arrests_...

That kind of thinking is dangerous, though, in all forms: equating people with their governments is the beginning of the end, in all directions.
The US has very inconsistent border controls and screening. On one hand, people arriving from wealthy countries at airports get hassled, on the other hand, there isn't any exit border control (I hear that's changing). So they don't even know who left or not. Sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants exist. Employers don't need to verify identity. None of it is really coherent.
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This is great for everyone! Hopefully they will get a higher salary and I guess the company will pay more in taxes and social benefits (or whatever it is called in English). I don't get how tipping can be legal, or do you actually pay taxes on tips in the US?
Would be interesting to see how it handled REM or Dubstar, both of whom have some really upbeat tunes, with really dark lyrics - "The One I Love", for example, with "a simple prop to occupy mind ", or "Not So Manic Now", a happy bouncy pop song about assault...
Isn't the point of the giant world wide surveillance apparatus run by the NSA, etc. meant to let them know this sort of thing before they even buy a ticket for a plane trip?

I know I'm being purposefully naive in saying this, but why pay for something that's not working?
Not possible if I'm stopped at the border because of my bedroom activities.
I'm not sure most gtx users doing hpc can be called "enthusiasts". After all, most research is done in these devices, and most models should therefore fit memory requirements (unless you're doing some hardcore - or lazy engineered research model) . Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK the tesla cards are designed to fit regulated markets and are not mass produced like the geforces, therefore the elevated prices.
True, but I suspect we will see other countries do the same, not as retaliation, but more because they'll want catch up to the US in terms of border security ...and it will become a normal thing except in third world counties too inept or poor or corrupt to care to implement this where the dissidents will be free from hassle, for a while.
Thank you very much for this suggestion, now I've updated the documentation for the same! :)
Now we can run it from its source also (using python).

check https://github.com/guptarohit/bing-wallpaper

Any further suggestions would be appreciated. :)
I'm curious as to why you think the world is moving towards liberalism.
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I'm not the original poster, but starting with bare MCU might be too tricky at first. A better approach imho would be to get some of many available kits (i.e. Beaglebone) and try to make it live from scratch: don't use prepared bootloader/OS, but try to build everything yourself. Setting up a toolchain, grasping cross-compiling, downloading and debugging "doesn't start" kind of problems are the key and every day problems in embedded programing. When you are familiar with the build-download-debug process, get into peripherals: GPIO, UART, SPI, memory interfaces etc. After this, you should have enough experience and spent enough time on reading obscure datasheets to start designing your first, simple boards. Sure, you also need some electronics knowledge to read, understand and layout schematics, but provided you don't get into RF or analog electronics, it's not too difficult.
Doesn't seem to support Curve25519 from their specs.
Note that Google custom site search is still available: https://cse.google.com/cse

The main difference seems to be that enterprise has custom branding and is ad-free.
It approaches 2. 2/3+(2/3)^2 = 2/3 + 4/9 = 6/9+4/9=10/9 > 1, and all the terms are positive, so as you add more terms it will get farther from 1. If you do 10 terms you get to 1.96532somethingsomething. If you do 100 terms you get 1.[seventeen 9s]508somethingsomething.
Paying gets you white-label branding and no ads.
I think this opens a new connection rather than opening a second shell in the existing one.
How many mental cycles does it take to deal with any amount of bullshit? Claims of specific "institutional oppression" rightly deserve skepticism. It's like a Rorschach test; squint hard enough and you can make anything look like oppression. We all deal with a lot of bullshit at work, and in most cases, it's best just to accept that people are complicated and messy, but mostly well-intentioned, rather than stressing out over the "potentially discriminatory" institutional patterns.

Hula-hoops? Oppression because men may ogle. No hula-hoops, only video games and ping-pong? Oppression because the management isn't sensitive to the feminine interest in softer recreational activities, like expression through movement and dance. Either of these are plausible complaints.

Open-plan office? Great, creativity-boosting boon for employees that ensures everyone will build strong working relationships, and shows the employer's interest in fostering an open, collaborative environment where there are literally no barriers, physical or metaphorical, between teammates.

Or, wait, is it open-plan offices: Degrading, dystopian wage slave farm that ensures one manager can see all 50 monitors in the room at once and pounce at the first moment that someone switches to a Facebook tab, and a disrespectful mockery of a professional's need to concentrate on their important and serious work which could literally stop the company's cashflow if a minor mistake gets made in the wrong spot?

The point here is not to trivialize or to necessarily equate sexual harassment with other types of uncomfortable working situations, but to demonstrate that when what you admit is a "complex judgment call" is presented, flaws can usually be found no matter what decision is made. Judgment calls become complex rather than simple because there are substantial tradeoffs involved in all available options.

That's a lot different than having timestamped messages and strong documentation backing up explicit and clearly inappropriate advances from your immediate superiors. There's a lot less gray area to defend there.
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What a scalable solution.
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While there's no legal obligation to know them, there's no legal obligation for you to be let through the border - for non-citizens crossing USA border, the explicit legal presumption(starting from [1]) is that you're not fulfilling the conditions of the visa and you have to convince the immigration officer that you are entitled to entry. If they want to check certain information that is not available for you (no matter if the reason is good or not) and they are not convinced otherwise that you don't have any risks, then there's no "beyond reasonable doubt" like in criminal proceedings - if they are not convinced that you're not going to e.g. work in USA, then they have not only the right, but a duty to deny you entry.

[1] (b) Every alien 10/ (other than a nonimmigrant described in subparagraph (L) or (V) of section 101(a)(15), and other than a nonimmigrant described in any provision of section 101(a)(15)(H)(i) except subclause (b1) of such section) shall be presumed to be an immigrant until he establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer, at the time of application for a visa, and the immigration officers, at the time of application for admission, that he is entitled to a nonimmigrant status under section 101(a)(15) .
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> Once you have the asm of a program, you have 100% knowledge of it if you put the time in to learn& follow the assembly.

You have all of the "what" (in an inconvenient format that will need tremendous effort to be useful for most things), but you're mostly guessing on the "why". Tons of information is discarded, and can't be retrieved. Just guessed at. This puts a good bit of distance between what you have access to in the theoretical sense and how useful it is in the practical sense.