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Dyson Is the Apple of Appliances
*retired
Yes, NASCAR is racing.

Not every course is a road course, but they do run 2 per year. Not all courses are true ovals. None of the tracks have the same distance & banking. It's not as simple as you state: they just turn left.

Racing on an "oval" is certainly a different discipline and takes different technology than say Indy or F1.

Would you likewise argue that only a marathon is a foot race because they don't run in an oval? That the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m steeplechase, 15000m steeplechase are all not races because they're either only run in a straight line or on an oval track?

I doubt so. You have a preference for F1, and that's fine. I also prefer racing that isn't largely determined by pole positioning. How many F1 courses actually allow for passing? Not many. Certainly not Monaco, the premiere race. NASCAR's premier race, Daytona, sees a lot of passing. Subjectively, F1 has less competitive racing, albeit maybe more exciting. NASCAR has more competitive racing, but maybe not in a style you appreciate.

To each, their own.

Also, comparing an unregulated Porsche to a NASCAR car is disingenuous. NASCAR has strict regulations regarding engine displacement & aerodynamics to level the playing field and for safety (they were tired of killing drivers). At Daytona, you rarely see a car hit 200 mph these days when they used to hit up to 240 mph. It's not a technological decision. It's been a conscious safety decision.
Mexico has plenty of its own problems that you're overlooking. It's not as simple as problem -> cause. By that logic Mexico would be to blame for Columbia's cocaine trafficking.
I don't think it should be, unless they publicly advertise that they will help borrowers... which they did.
I think it comes down to cost. Its only effective in very dense areas. For example, right now I'm on an established commuter rail line going from downtown to a suburb. I'm paying $12 round trip to travel 60 miles total. It's just barely cheaper than driving (not including parking expenses).

At this point in time, I think it's wise to avoid laying costly new tracks with the dawn of driverless cars on the horizon.
People in this thread don't remember the NET SEND spam from Windows Messenger. (Which was a system service and had absolutely nothing to do with MSN Messenger)

You could basically do "NET SEND 12.34.56.78 my spam message" and it would appear on the screen of your victim.

http://blogopod.com/image/2008/net-send-spam-big.gif
Indeed, and even if we live in a magical world where it was 100% free to run the filter, you need to manufacture the filter in the first place, and it will have to be replaced at some point, so there is ongoing energy expenditure no matter how you slice it.
My personal feeling is that although we still have a long way to go, we're on the right track now to reaching true AGI.
It's like they're trying to anger Christian conspiracy theorists.
YES, and here you have the MBA phenomenon striking again. Reducing things to over-simplified metrics, thereby ruining it all, or betting the entire economy on a theory that "manufacturing is low value and should be offshored to the lowest possible cost provider". In this case, driving down the effectiveness of teaching by adding metrics.
When I look at this list, I see many books that look very interesting. This seems like exactly the way to look at life which I like. However, I can't read books anymore. I just find it impossible to sit down and keep my nose in front of a book for an hour or two. I am so accustomed to reading texts with vast amounts of information density about precisely the things I need or I am interested in (usually, I find such articles on the internet) that I cannot sustain the motivation to read an entire book anymore (not to mention, reading takes intellectual resources which are valuable and assigned to other tasks). Does anyone know that feeling and what do you do about it?
As I understand it, their implementation is in Sage, which can't really be considered optimized. Is their method inherently slower than Pollard's rho, or is it an implementation issue?
In any case, they have designed it for pressure. The article describes how pressure causes water atoms to line up, train fashion, and move water much much faster than without pressure.
Articles, videos, etc. about Alan Kay show up frequently on HN. This puzzles me. Kay seems like a peripheral figure in the history of CS. I know him mainly for his work on Smalltalk and his iconoclastic views on trends in CS and the tech industry.

Is there a consensus in the CS community that Kay is an important figure who deserves this kind of adulation? Do any of us really understand or care about his achievements? Just asking.
They don't need any keys to omit transactions and therefore deprive you of your coins, or hold them for ransom. It's true that they can't gain control of the coins without the keys, but that doesn't change the fact that you lose the coins. And they can potentially get keys from people by promising to pay them in stolen Bitcoin.
I am so with you regarding umbrellas. I also fucking hate them. Nasty, useless, eye-stabby, bastard things.
Great time to buy!
The Linux Foundation: Not a Friend of Desktop Linux, the GPL, or Openness
Not remotely practical against curves in actual use...
>And for me it's just a matter of I like to try new things and just see it as more of an enabler and what that would bring into the future

Please do not normalize this shit and drag the rest of us down into your dystopian horror film with you.
It's not "car ownership" that we value. It's autonomy and independence.

A teenager doesn't just "want a car." He wants that freedom that car gives him... to go somewhere without bugging his parents or friends for a ride. If you're in a big city or someplace where this is not the norm, I could see you believing otherwise.

(And I laughed at "guaranteed clean." Right. All that means is you get a refund when you find the dog turd in the back seat.)
I got one of these implanted in my wrist around ten years ago. AMA?
More risky than with the products worth that cash?
Well for a spell checker its not too unreasonable to require the triangle inequality, if there's some series of possible typos to get from word A to word B then the distance between A and B shouldn't be more than the total 'edit distance' of the typos, however you measure it.

Making things symmetrical might not make as much sense though, omitting a letter might be far more likely than adding an additional letter, for instance. Assuming it satisfies all other axioms you should be able to turn this into a true metric, by just measuring the distance both ways and taking the average.

Then again it looks like the BK-tree might not need the symmetry axiom, at least not in an obvious way.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Written by a senior researcher at MIRI, it distills all the cogsci and pop psychology books you can think of (Kahneman, Freakonomics, Gladwell) into a smart, funny, engaging, book-length book-quality fanfic. Plus it's available freely online. Seeing these methods applied by a protagonist helped me internalize them far more than any number of rereads of other books could have.
If that's too frivolous for you, Rationality: From AI to Zombies is the textbook format of all this information, from the same author.
I mentioned in another reply, that's just the flip side of the fixes I mentioned (and it's one of the things I tried before digging into xrandr's source to figure out why it was filtering).

It also has the same problems with aliasing, blurriness, and artifacts (the blurriness and bad hinting become more pronounced and the artifacts take a back seat)
I think you mean to say that correlation and causation correlate.
> they can't sign your coins

They don't need to sign your coins. They need to sign the previous owner's coins. And they don't need to literally be the previous owner, they just need the previous owner's cooperation. And in fact they don't even need that: they can omit the transaction without knowing anyone's keys, and they've still deprived you of your Bitcoins. And they don't need to go back in time, they can omit all of your future transactions and thereby make your Bitcoins worthless, or hold them for ransom.
$120M. Google basically paid this guy's lawyer fees and then some. They literally enabled and financed their own court case through this guy's salary. Since this is white collar crime this guy will not spend any time in jail, the lawyers will get rich, and either it will be settled or like Oracle case will be dragged out for a decade until Uber is out of business but since all the higher-ups are friends I'm guessing it will be settled.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/03/black-lives-matter-philly-...
There are several problems with this, namely: they don't work as well for loud conversation (they're more for things like the drone of an airplane engine). They're also not necessarily comfortable to wear for long periods of time. But most importantly, why is it so hard for people to just, respectfully, shut the hell up? I work (and worked) with people who practically yell during Google Hangouts and don't go to conference rooms, or who joke around all day. I've worked in theee separate open environments and a handful of people have always had volume issues which ruin it for everyone else. Luckily I can work remote now, but why is it so hard to be considerate of others?
I'm not saying it applies here, but it's the core of many cons that you apply time pressure on the mark. "You can make all of this money, but only if you act NOW! Everyone else is doing it, they're smart and successful and YOU want to be smart and successful! I'm not asking for more than you can afford to spend, and I'm offering so much more in return! BUT ONLY IF YOU ACT NOW!"
>I am not religious, but (bullshit nonsense from Revelations about the Mark of the Beast)

You appear not to understand how "not being religious" works.
Reminds me of Kundera's book, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowness_(novel)
Use cookie cutter Django and just prototype in Django. Maybe 50 more lines than flask but it was a got clone not code you wrote.
If they didn't sell, they would have had to do the rewrite.

There are plenty of future YouTubes who don't want to be acquired and instead are looking to be long term companies. They'd do well to avoid the pain and cost. There are ways to achieve velocity and maintainability, they're not mutually exclusive.
Revature paying students to attend coding bootcamp
I think a lot of people would say yes to that feeling. Reading is a mentally taxing activity and thats exactly why it is required. I'd say books are like a huge piece of argument for a stance and it really pays well to understand things deeply.

There are means of achieving reading without any reading too. Have you tried audio books? I haven't, my mind drifts too much in audio books, but some friends swear by them.
> Why we can find whole ATMs at junkyards is beyond me: there are many easy to spot flaws.

If there are many easy to spot flaws, I don't think finding them in a junkyard is the root of the problem here. This is good old security by obscurity.

As Bruce Schneier says (at least about safes), you should be able to publish the blueprints and source code for the machines, then maybe they'll be secure. There should be enough physical security to ensure an attack will take longer to perform than the response time of the authorities. Any components which are vulnerable to physical attack need the same level of physical protection as the cash that's being protected.

Until this happens, 'hackers' (thieves) are going to keep finding flaws and exploiting them.
It's easy to say that when you lean left. Not sure what 'protecting journalists' entails. They should by treated just like every other citizen.

Don't forget about JournoList: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList .
> Actual laughter was produced at a generator product page.

You must be a blast at cocktail parties then.

>Stationary battery storage soaks up power when power is cheap, releases it when the cost is higher and energy demand is higher and has a 10 year minimum life

I think you're making a few unsubstantiated assumptions here. Primarily that the cost differential in electricity (or the availability of renewables) is broad enough for the Tesla tech to be significantly profitable.

I ran the numbers: a Tesla PW2 gives you ~20.3MWh throughout it's useful life for $5500 limited by power availability and recharge rate. A slightly more powerful Ford generator at $1500 with $4000 worth of diesel fuel would yield ~8.9MWh of anytime power with the ability to run on waste oils and a comparatively perpetual lifespan.

So, 44% the power cost with a power wall but a substantially higher upfront cost, a considerably lower salvage value, and a number of restrictions on it's usage (hope you don't need power during sustained outages in the Northeast).

Any more chuckles?
How many years does Ford have record breaking sales? It happens more often than you'd think and doesn't really prove much.
Yahoo and AOL = Oath, for some reason
Apple's been shipping hardware DMA restrictions on Macs for awhile - that first appeared on the security radar in the FireWire era – so it's not inconceivable that it's not as simple as getting DMA access but https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf seems to be silent on that unless I'm missing something.
I'm sure he'll land on his feet. His reputation and trustworthiness, however, will forever be tarnished. And if he's convicted his career is pretty much over.
You're digging up a philosophical morass, though. Please prove that you weren't indoctrinated. In general, it's not possible if you're assuming the possibility that people can be brainwashed to the degree of rejecting reason.
Ask HN: How do you 'discover people'?
As in, people you might be interested to read about, blogs, etc
As a high traffic customer of Google, I've been this person far too many times.

[...] if it breaks, real users get affected, so canarying should be the first step in your deployment process, as opposed to the last step in testing.

It's a fine pattern and all, but not an excuse to throw stuff at prod and see what happens.
Stanford CS224N NLP 2017 Lectures
I think we should strive more to be just more than code monkeys that glue stuff from stack overflow... because that makes you or I replaceable.
While this is an extreme case, it seems to me that this highlights why aqui-hires may not be a good idea:

The founders of aqui-hired companies may get compensation which is completely out of line with what engineers originally at the hiring company earn. Furthermore, it gives them both the means and the motivation to only stay in their new job until they've earned out their incentive pay, and then repeat the quit /found startup/get aqui-hired cycle.

This basically teaches both the aqui-hired and the tenured engineers that the way to get ahead is to embark on a series of short term engagements. I'm sure that many consider this style of career the true magic of silicon valley, but to me it looks like companies are incentivizing disloyalty.
> The only angle I'm still working out is if someone finishes a degree, declares bankruptcy, and then goes back to the same degree (elsewhere) - they don't have the credits but they presumably know the material and can easily pass all the classes the second time around with a better grade.

Is that a problem, though? Presumably they still have to pay for the degree the second time around. And if they don't (say, a free community college), then sure, they're getting something "easier", but they still have to spend the time to get it, and they're getting a degree from a low-ranked college vs. the (for example) elite university they went through the first time.
Because due to random luck they happened to be vaguely accurate over 1936-2009?
Nope, still America.
Verizon Announces New Name Brand for AOL and Yahoo: Oath
You cannot have a turing award and be a `peripheral figure` in the history of CS. And of the turing award recipients he cares most about the field reminiscent of physicists, mathematicians, geologists, etc. (Last sentence is my opinion.)
Wouldn't help. Lottery tickets have the odds of winning printed right on them, and people still buy them.
Does it use active RFID, or passive? If the former, when does the battery die? If the latter, is it possible for someone to burn you from inside by emitting the right microwave frequency with enough power?
Isn't their incentive the ability to pay lower salaries?
No matter how you frame the issue, call it an abuse, or try to solve it, I don't think anything will change other than some minor adjustments. Jobs are not going to magically appear or wages rise.

India/China has a huge supply of engineers across the board (good, bad, senior, junior etc.,). And US companies always want to maximize their profits. So increasing the bar on H-1B visas will increase the quality of H-1B's making their way to US.(very competent, hard working, willing to work for lower wages in the initial years).

This is a huge benefit for technology companies who can directly recruit from these countries for US offices, which they were not doing before due to lottery uncertainties, and instead had to rely on L-1 route. (recruit for local office, then transfer)

As for the other US jobs that were being filled by low skilled H-1B's, they will simply move offshore/nearshore/remote or replaced by AI in few years. This is a big win for consulting firms as their offshore profitability per employee is 3 times higher than onsite. Given a choice, they would want all their employees offshore, and the only reason they had to bring in some % of H-1B's was on the US client companies request, which they may do away with now.

Bottomline: Protectionism did not work for manufacturing, and will not work for Tech either.
Having read the Bible doesn't mean you must be religious
There are good arguments for border patrol but this is not one of them. These guns are legal in the US and all you have to do to get them into Mexico is load them on a catapult and drive out to the middle of nowhere, or load them in one of the hundreds of small boats that make the trip. It's trivial to find guns illegally coming into mexico from a boat that can cross oceans and nearly impossible for a boat you can make in your garage. Border patrol will not solve gun violence in Mexico any more than it will solve cocaine in America.

As an unrelated thing, I find it mind boggling that immigration is still an explicitly national issue in America. Refugees and immigrants would be much better handled if they were done on a per-state basis. If California wants to let in a ton of Mexicans and issue them state-only green cards, why should Texas be able to vote to stop them? Likewise if Texas wants to exclude immigrants, why should California force Texas to give them jobs?

State-only green card programs would allow immigrants to be carefully tracked (national green card holders face deportation if their residence is not on file), gives them incentive to go from states where they aren't wanted to those where they are, and allows national money and patrol efforts to be focused where they are wanted. Immigrants can't steal Texan jobs if they live in California.
Ask HN: A question to contractors: where/how did you find your dream job?
(by "contractors" in the title I mean "contractor software engineers")

I'm located in Europe, and I'm currently working as an independent b2b contractor for the company in another European country. Back in the day, they managed to find some of my articles, and were impressed enough to invite me to an interview, and finally offered me a fully-remote job. The compensation was good enough back then, but actually it's an underpayment. I feel that I'm totally worth 40 - 45 Eur per hour, currently it's lower. Unfortunately, perspectives for a payrise at my company are very unclear, so I'm looking for other options (I can only consider remote jobs as a contractor). And I find it pretty tough.

I use resources like https://stackoverflow.com/jobs, https://goremote.io/, etc, and I see two major problems:

(1) Most remote jobs are web-related. My primary expertise is low level stuff: Real-time kernels (for embedded systems), C, Assembler; or higher level technologies: Go, C++, JavaScript. But people want "ninjas" and "super-heros" in angular, react, ruby on rails, php, etc. It's not quite about me, and I'm really passionate about low-level, so I'd like to keep working in this field.

(2) Most remote jobs are not "worldwidely" remote: e.g. if the company is based in US, they usually want US citizen to work as an employee, not a guy from another continent working as a contractor (even though the guy can easily adapt for the time zone shift).

So, I'd like to ask HN: from your experience, what are the most appropriate places to look for remote jobs as a contractor software engineer? And in particular, in low-level. How did you find your similar job?

Thanks.
Passive.

Not sure but it sits right under some thin skin so if they have a powerful enough microwave beam on that location it'd probably burn me equally from both sides.
When they get you in at an early age, the fear and paranoia they teach you can make deeper roots into the psyche. I don't claim it's a rational fear. I don't claim to be 100% rational either.
Some great quotes in here, though quite a few are effective restatements.

As usual, added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

I particularly liked the light speed analysis technique, the bold statement that a clean start is a fundamental technique in managing complexity, and the expression of effective technical management as the design of transparent, self-coordinating feedback loops.
Want to work in one of the biggest BigData and Hadoop clusters in the world?
Are we just posting anti f35 stuff now? It seems a bit tired and forced at this point, no matter your opinion. To me, it just seems like recursive subcontractor issues.
Out of curiosity: why not store hashes of the images instead of the entire image?

Or even better: a bloom filter to find likely duplicates?