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Technologies: Python, Java, C++, Ruby on Rails, Flask

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Completed MS in CS. Looking for a full time/Part time/internship
opportunities. 2 years of working experience in Web Development.

Also interested in Mobile Application development(Android and Hybrid), Game Development, Security, etc.
There's a fedora port to RISC-V, you should be able to find it pretty easily.

There was also a GSoC project I think last year which ran a linux distro on the FPGA of a parallela board. I guess this will require purchasing something. But if you are up for purchasing something, get the Nexys 4 DDR, which is what Fedora project recommends and you can use open sources RISC-V designs like SiFive[1]

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14283272
References for you and the other poster who asked:

Peter Gärdenfors: Conceptual Spaces - the Geometry of Thought. MIT Press 2000 (Paperback 2004).

It is very easy reading. The problems of geometric meaning theory are compositionality and quantification - how to get the expressivity of logical representations in addition to nearness measures, fuzziness and so on. There are some interesting approaches:

Martha Lewis & Jonathan Lawry: Hierarchical conceptual spaces for concept combination. Artificial Intelligence 237 (2016): 204-227.

Diederik Aerts, Liane Gabora, Sandro Sozzo: Concepts and their dynamics: a quantum-theoretic modeling of human thought. Topics in Cognitive Science 5 (4) (2013):737-772. [and other work by Aerts]

Aerts work is fascinating me personally, but it's unfortunately above my level of mathematical maturity. This is a general problem in this literature, maybe some solutions are already there but they also need to be sold in a way that allows linguists to understand and use the methods. Montague was lucky (well, not personally, of course), because he had scholars who were able to package his dense ideas in more verbose and easier to access textbooks.

Another short book worth reading in my opinion, though very programmatic in nature:

Jens Erik Fenstad: Grammar, Geometry, & Brain. CSLI Publications 2009.
Yes this self deception is strange, both because it's so obviously wrong, but mostly because math genius doesn't have a lot of correlation with success in life. Why not just accept that some people have a much easier time learning some subjects but that anyone can learn a bit of it and definitely enough to live a happy and fulfilling life.

We don't all have to be born with the potential to reach the top in all areas. The idea is ludicrous.
Interesting list. Coincidentally, I was checking F# out briefly just a few days ago. Read a lot of positive things about it, including that some people think the language is fairly well-designed. I'm not a language design expert though, so can't comment its design. But this makes me want to try it out properly. Thank you.
That's excessively cynical. They have a lot of problems but keep in mind the reason this article exists is that they're doing an internal investigation and there's a potential for a big shakeup to address some of these problems.

There's plenty of time to be cynical later if it turns out this is just kabuki theater. I'm suspending judgment until we see what will actually change.
Nobody thinks Kalanick's brohaviour is in any way similar to Steve Jobs.

Jobs was (sometimes) hard on people when he felt it would lead to a better product. Kalanick allowed a toxic work environment to spread because he though it was funny.
Everything you said is also true of modern desktop computers, see intel's ME and AMDs equivalent.
I don't understand the negativity either.

It's very, very difficult to build a successful car company, especially one that can produce affordable cars at scale.

The technology for self-driving cars will become commoditized, just as the technology behind smartphones did. When that happens, it will be the companies like GM, Ford, VW, and Toyota that produce self-driving cars that people can afford at large scale.

Tesla wants to join that club, but their production scale is not anywhere near that of GM or Ford, and they are about to learn that the biggest obstacle to building millions of cars in multiple factories is not technology and production processes -- it is dealing with worker unionization and the local/national politics of the places they try to build factories in. This is something the large players like GM and Ford are good at, after decades of experience.

Tesla is also getting an easy ride because it has a lot of very happy shareholders right now. Imagine trying to surmount those challenges while angry activist shareholders are trying to get you to split the stock, or forcing out your CEO when the stock price is flat.

I think Ford and GM are bargain stock deals right now for people who want to invest in self-driving cars. Ford and GM are may not be the first to develop that technology, but they are probably going to build more self-driving cars than anyone else once the technology becomes available.
They prob cant fire him but they can say that hes a big punching bag right now and bringing extra negative attention and he needs a break.
Check out this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14283050
Ah, but that brings us to what I took as the main give-away the post: the fundamental mistake is talking about mathematical aptitude in terms of a gift that one either has or has not, because it hurts the motivation of everyone who is not immediately recognizable as ranking on the most rightmost tail end of the spectrum when they start their formal schooling. And that group still includes many people who would benefit from further improvement of their mathematical skill.

Consider the famous story about Gauss, baffling his teacher by coming up with a formula for 1+2+...+n [1]. Or Kolmogorov who reportedly started his own 'journal' at age of 5. Or Terence Tao, who already had his M.Sc. at the age of 16 and was a professor by 24 [2]. Sure, such people exist and they can be spotted early. But the humanity needs also regular engineers and statisticians and other math-capable people, especially in non-obvious fields such as journalism.

[1] http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/gausss-day-of-re...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao#Childhood
I can't tell if this is sincere or satire. :/
I agree that the IE decision was practically braindead and killed the utility of DNT. Because of it, we have no idea if the user actually specifically wants DNT (and this may degrade the user experience, so it should be opt-in), or their browser vendor simply decided for them.
> You're right, MAOIs and tricyclics are usually more effective than any of the newer classes. They also have drastically worse side effects, especially when you look at discontinuation rates. We're talking about the difference between making eating cheese extremely dangerous and possibly fatal (some MAOIs) and sexual dysfunction (most SSRIs).

You're looking at the older class of MAOIs. Although it is probably a bit overhyped, Selegelline has all the advantages of MAOIs with hardly any of the dietary restrictions. Only those who subsisted on a diet of aged, stinky cheese like Roquefort or otherwise consumed excessive amounts of Tyramine are at risk. You still have to be careful not to take certain medicines, mostly those containing pseudoephedrine. As selegiline is also used as a treatment for parkinson's, it has shown to be neuroprotective, and enhances/induces the differentiation of neural stem cells into neurons (neurogenesis) and is used off label as a nootropic. (Disclaimer: I was taking this prescription until I no longer needed it and saw tremendous results)

Modern anti-depressants certainly are more effective than a placebo and have saved many lives. However, I think that a significant % of people would also receive the same or greater results from exercise or mindful meditation. I don't have any numbers in front of me, but anti-depressants are over-prescribed to people who are not clinically depressed but who aren't as happy as they feel they should be.

As we glean more results from the various public/private brain research partnerships our undeerstanding should lead to more effective modalities of treatment. How long it takes to get through clinical trials.
As it turns out, "employment at will" isn't "the end of the day". And "people on the outside" won't "stay out of it".

Because if they did, we'd still have slavery, 8-year-olds in coal mines, and women in the kitchen.

So I'll continue to make my opinion known, as a consumer no longer using Uber, as a citizen supporting laws mandating sane employment law, as a software engineer discouraging everyone from taking a job at Uber, and as an investor making sure none of his money ever ends up at Uber.

And luckily, CEOs are much further, generally, than these Randian fantasies of masculinity. They have, for example, mostly recognised that it costs them money to rely exclusively on white bros in their 30s with identical experiences.
If you do that, you might want to add a message saying that you disabled all JS functionality on the site because of DNT, because it is not something users would expect to happen. If I set DNT and go to youtube.com, I would expect to see video anyway. The same for embedded videos on some blog.

I am not saying this is a bad way (it is much better than many others), just that users should be made aware of the cause.
While we're on the subject of survival activities, another worthwhile approach might be to focus effort on more thorough adaptation to the conditions at hand in ways that more primitive cultures had no other choice but to thrive under.

Hey how about living and working without air conditioning near the gulf coast of Texas or someplace like that, rather than expending such significant energy maintaining quite small enclosures in a state of foreign climate simulation?

Sessions of virtually zero energy consumption for other reasons can be rewarding too if you wanted to go a step further.

A bit of that and you might be better prepared for some of the more realistic threats such as hurricanes, floods, power interruption, or whatever there is in the local environment that needs to be adapted to.

It's not that difficult especially when you realize locals lived better adapted for centuries, but people are about as likely to practice applicable survival skills as they are to be taking Neanderthal lessons.

If it gets real bad I expect we'll go downright medieval long before we reach full cave man.
>I realized in my math undergraduate studies that mathematicians have merely "sat" with the material longer.

Even if true, this just moves the issue to the ability to make yourself "sit" with the material. The variability here is at least as high, most people hate doing mathematics, some love it.

In any case this only concerns "mathematicians", not "people considered math geniuses". There are plenty of mediocre mathematicians.

EDIT: And it is of course not true that it's just a matter of spending time. Some people learn maths 100 times faster than others.
Honestly, I don't understand why not everyone knows about every single Android app ever made.
> that the initial choice of C++ tends to come from a requirement somewhere in the program for the low-level control that C++ needs

Even that doesn't always come from such a requirement. Maybe it's just, "the common denominator of expertise on this team is C++ so we will use that".

That original requirement for low-level control is now 5% of the code base, 95% of which is still C++ because of the effect that it's easier to just add more C++ than to balkanize the project with new languages. The parser adds 1%, and scans a config file only about every 100 days days when the C++ server is restarted; why would it have to be fast ...
Thought I'd add my own pod to this great list. I certainly listen to it :)

This Week in Machine Learning & AI
The problem with this is that it eliminates the value proposition of E2EE, which is designed specifically to protect you when you don't trust the server operator. If you already trust the server operator, you've obviated the issue that E2EE ostensibly solves.
The article cited combustion-derived particulates, not concrete/tar. They specifically point to strongly magnetic nanoparticles containing Fe. EVs will certainly not release these, though the power plant used to charge them might.

It seems they could be pretty easy to filter since they're strongly magnetic.
Edit: probably doesn't count as fine particulate matter, but I would also consider fluorocarbons (PFCs etc) as a contender. They are in everything from clothing to carpet to food packaging and are emerging as a pretty bad thing for humans and the environment.
There's no way that a huge portion of the blame for this is not Apple's. Some of the ways they run the App Store were pretty silly starting out, and now just outright ridiculous.

Little distinction between ads and search results? No filtering or approval for ads? Scammy $100/week subscriptions for nothing? Meanwhile you're not allowed to make fun of the presidents elbows or whatever. Come on.
Some of those aren't PaaS, but container orchestration frameworks.

If you're reading this list of comparisons out of genuine interest, I would suggest also looking into Nanobox: https://nanobox.io
Interesting idea, but oh, the irony!
Swarm is used but I have heard many companies migrating from swarm to k8s and openshift. Swarm is just unstable, network connectivity is flaky, not sure how can you run it in prod (maybe you can't?).

As for k8s - would recommend it for anything from hobby projects to large prod deployment. Easy to set up anywhere.

This article is indeed very shallow and clearly author hasn't bothered to do some research.
>They "looked younger"? Stop - that's just way too objective for me!

What part of this kind of process:

they showed before and after pictures of them to third parties who didn't know them --nor did they know the order the pictures were taken-- and the majority identified the latter as younger looking

seems "too objective"?
Thank you, Trump
There are relatively cheap, unlocked Chinese phones available -- e.g., ZTE's Axon 7 -- with the aforementioned specs. One doesn't have to spend 600 USD+.
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There's a difference between "signing up as a sailor" and "going where you want to go"...
We've banned this account. Commenting like this will eventually get your main account banned as well.
Uber Chief Business Officer Emil Michael to Resign on Monday
Physical activity is the likely mediating mechanism between acting younger and gaining modest benefits by some measures. Since the development of lightweight accelerometers, studies of physical activity have demonstrated strong correlations between even modest activity of the housework/gardening variety and health in old age. There is a mountain of further research demonstrating the benefits of increased moderate exercise and lesser forms of activity in older people.

But ultimately the end is the same. You can't reliably exercise your way to 90, even. The majority of people who are exceptionally fit die before reaching that milepost in the environment of the last 90 years of medical technology. The future of health and longevity in later life will be increasingly determined by medical technology, and nothing else. Aging is damage, and that damage can be repaired given suitable biotechnologies to do so.

DNA methylation patterns correlating strongly with age are a very promising tool when it comes to assessing treatments for the processes of aging. Companies offer various implementations now - see Osiris Green for a cheaper example, to pick one. In the SENS view of aging as accumulated molecular damage, epigenetic changes are a reaction to that damage; a secondary or later process in aging. We'll find out over the next few years how the rejuvenation therapy of senescent cell clearance does against this measure, now that things are moving along there.

But you shouldn't think it impossible to construct useful metrics of biological age more simply. There are a number of excellent papers from the past few years in which researchers assemble weighted algorithms using bloodwork, grip strength, and other simple tests as a basis into something that nears the level of discrimination of the epigenetic clock.

When it comes to a biomarker of aging, there are lots of promising candidates. Researchers will spend a lot of time arguing before they come to any sort of pseudo-standard for that task. Industry (today meaning the companies developing senolytic therapies for the clinic) will overtake them and, I'd wager, adopt one of the epigenetic clocks because it basically works well enough to get along with, and can be cheap in some forms.
... in markets where they can and do operate. Uber might be widely used in large cities but elsewhere it has little impact. Uber exists because American public transportation infrastructure is awful, nonexistent, or otherwise inefficiently designed. If they get to the point of running self-driving car networks then there will be much more to talk about. Until then they've only created a solution for a very small portion of the population.
From the actual trial: "Patients were randomized to either open-label placebo pills presented as “placebo pills made of an inert substance, like sugar pills, that have been shown in clinical studies to produce significant improvement in IBS symptoms through mind-body self-healing processes” or no-treatment controls with the same quality of interaction with providers."

Sounds like they didn't give them pills that the patients "know don't work" as the Vox title states, but instead told the patients that trials showed that these pills did work just not through a chemically induced action.
I immediately thought of ELIZA, with it's DOCTOR script. ELIZA was a chatbot from '64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

There will no doubt be privacy issues with people spilling their hearts to a Facebook chatbot, though.
Where is the "compare" part?
That's a good point, but the question is not just how to maintain security and usability without account recovery, but how to do so without device redundancy. There's no speculation about how to maintain true E2EE with a network of trusted key pairs, but without multiple devices the user is very vulnerable to permanently losing access. I think the recovery key is a clue.

As I speculated elsewhere in this thread, I think they're going to do it with multiple recovery keys ostensibly written down by the user and never transferred directly to Apple, which each then redundantly encrypt all user data before transmitting respective copies to iCloud.

That would pull it off, and it basically just shifts the trusted device redundancy problem to a trusted key redundancy problem. The only remaining usability obstacle is to make sure the user has safely recorded all recovery keys.
Too much honesty can hurt your business if you are doing sales or negotiations.
Firstly, there's no requirement to read other unrelated threads before commenting in this thread.

Secondly, what's more relevant: Siri, Cortana, and Alexa, or random assistants on the Play store? (I'm ignoring Google Assistant, as that's named after a company, not a male or female).

To be clear, I don't think it matters whether assistants are named after males or females, I just thought your comment was needlessly dismissive. Had you provided a link to the other hacker news thread[s] and not been as aggressive, your comment would have had much more value.
> getting old

'aging' is the word you are searching for
There's that old friction between physicists and engineers. Perhaps Feynman wasn't good at building experimental rigs.
"Pick on somebody your own size" isn't particularly bizarre.
I see it as "doing what you know" keeps one comfortable, less anxious, and more active in its discussion.

If all you know are references to pop culture from a bygone era, however, you're going to be really limited.

This comes up a lot in discourse among older and younger generations: kids should just get a job (because in my day they were all over and paid well), or not realizing college tuition has skyrocketed. People are locked into the era they were most active in participating in.

Some people like to sit and ogle others creations; their novels, films, code, etc. All those neckbeards and "critics" who are simply consuming others creations, and being annoyed by things they don't like, without dipping real toe in themselves.

IMO, forcing people to trade, and filling their lives with shallow knowledge like the new Ian Fleming book, is the problem.

I'd rather our cultures move to protecting one's freedom to create, both experience in their mind and in the physical world. We tend to favor protecting trade, which generally means people are forced to create then trade it away. Why should forced trade be something we care to protect? Seems ripe for exploitation.

If you're busy trading to survive, you're not creating. You get stuck in 1959 when you were most actively trading and watching the world. But you end up with nothing of your own. You've been trading for others.
Also, any doctor will tell you that.
Thanks for pointing this out. I am looking forward to a homogeneous scrolling experience. Still, I don't understand why google's AMP team they would change scrolling behavior in iOS 10 and lower.
The funny thing is that Kalanick may be pushed out over sexual harassment of a few people. Not for systematically underpaying several hundred thousand people. Not for creating a financial structure that's about a year from collapse.
tl;dr Ian Bogost (of CowClicker) reviews Dan Kurtz's free ios app. Binky operates as a fidget toy with the social app interactions. One can scroll through random pictures, like them, and swipe them. Typing a 'comment' just reveals the pre-generated comment, word by word. Users are hence able to satisfy a need for endless novelty, without spending mental energy on social calculations attached to liking/commenting on the posts of other people.

I've encountered this at, perhaps, the best time. I just read volume one of the DC comic _Prez_, written by Mark Russell. It's another satire about American social dysfunction, centered on a _Mr Smith Goes To Washington_ narrative. This app would fit right in as a vacuous gimmick mentioned in passing.

Kurtz has not made it a transaction: the app is free and has no ads. And yet, I feel ambivalent. At least typical skinner boxes are limited by my bank account or my sleep needs. I know it's a far cry from plugging a current into my dopamine glands. But I'm of a kind that tries to stay away from unregulated stimulation.
How 'OK' took over the world (2011)
If people actually think the math gift is binary I can agree that would be harmful, just as in any other discipline. I also think that most people can be pushed much further than what is done currently in western countries. Just look at Russian children, I don't believe there are fundamental genetic reasons why they are often years ahead of for example Swedish pupils.

I don't think it's helpful to downplay the role of genius. Top athletes inspire millions of children to work hard on their skills in football, basket, hockey etc, even though almost all of them obviously lack the genetics to reach the top.
The difference being that if they were as unethical with other companies' tech as they were when expanding into markets and failing to protect their employees from harassment, then it could be an existential problem for the company. If their future relies on self-driving tech, which they never get a chance to implement because the only tech they have is stolen and they thus can't use it, they're fucked.

And the relevant legal standard here would be "preponderance of evidence", not "innocent until proven guilty" (which is a right for individual citizens in criminal trials). Corporations aren't fully people yet.
90 min, after finishing the first problem i think i had 40 left.