skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it doesn't match your society or customer base, and you think those things are important (I do), then it's bad.

Mismatch between company demographics and society/customer demographics is common in all industries. It is not a unique phenomenon. Before asking what we can do to change the discrepancy at tech companies, we must first ask why this is a problem in the first place when tens of thousands of companies in different industries have the same problem.
Dont need DP here since there is an obviously better iterative approach, BUT, the easiest demonstration of DP value is the naive Recursive algo for Fibonacci sequence generation vs the DP+Recursive algo.
Προγνωστικά στοιχήματος Serie a στην εμβόλιμη αγωνιστική
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Oh, so that's what happened to them.

I recall seeing some really good content from them a while back, but it never was quite good enough that I'd go there explicitly to check them out. Then without really realizing it, I stopped seeing links to their content, and sort of forgot they'd ever existed.

Some quick googling shows why: They'd gone totally off the deep end. What a baffling way for them to end. I wonder if it was just a (very ill-advised) tactic to try and boost traffic, or if the owner/editors were actually true believers?
A couple months ago I read an article about how the immune system "reboots" after 3 days of fasting. I'm not read yet, but I've been considering making it a quarterly event.
AMD open-source drivers (new GPUs: amdgpu; old GPUs: radeon) is way better than NVIDIA open-source drivers (nouveau) and is competitive with their own closed-source drivers (new GPUs: amggpupro; old GPUs: catalyst), while losing to the NVIDIA close drivers [1].

If you want good performance using open-source drivers, AMD is the way to go with Linux [2].

[1]: A old comparison (Jan/2017): https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mesa171-.... Nowadays the performance is even better.

[2]: Open-source drivers is important not only because FSF and all, but because the open-source drivers follows the advancements in Linux graphics stack much closer. Things like KMS and Wayland works much better with open-source drivers than NVIDIA proprietary drivers. Even things simple like Xrandr is ramdomly broken in NVIDIA drivers.
Worth noting that "not measurable" doesn't mean it's not a problem, but that there is no easy metric.
What differences in your thinking did you personally notice while in ketosis?
Very nice idea. Since I'm a newb at PHP, I would prefer it to be in a language I can hack in, but this is a clever way to solve one of the most annoying problems in the world :-)

(I totally do the Google Drive thing right now)
It can be. But it has a medium-level initial complexity so that it can scale really well to very complex systems (see caveats above).

So there's a learning curve, sure. But when you want to jump on a new system, or prototype a small algorithm on a large system, ROS will save you a lot of trouble. Also it's everywhere. Any academic or industry roboticist will know and probably use ROS, at least for prototyping.
I am not sure I agree with you.

Given that you get ~16 electrodes, and some greenwood-like frequency-place map along the basilar membrane, and given that the place specificity of stimulation from those electrodes is significantly larger than the width of an inner hair cell, I'm not really seeing "200 bands".
Why is it that glucose levels correlate significantly with self reported “energy” and mood levels?
Would anyone know how good this series of books are?
If the ship was unpainted steel, perhaps the overpainting would draw excess attention, like wearing a mask in public might?

Like this 314:
https://jpbpa2.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/new-image.jpg
Read highscalability's Youtube story.
Is this a big deal? What are the noticeable offering here.
In Utopia there are no poor people.
It assumes a math background implicitly. I feel like you need some context already to get value out of it. I wouldn't bother reading it without doing something hands on or going through another course like cs231n or fastai first. It's an excellent book regardless of the above points.
Agreed. Also not helped by sustained low interest rates.
Now the wait for our region to gain compatibility.
Based on previous applications (just doing a quick search) it looks like it is 10-11pm EST.
Navy Autonomous Safe Harbor Demonstration (2016)
At that point they would be better off using full RTLS and landing the rocket on land back near the launchpad as much as possible.

Also based on the BFR / spaceX airways teaser video, they might be planning this sort of offshore refurbishment / no refurbishment needed mode anyway.
Aurora is very interesting especially in terms of removing storage management from the equation. I just wish they (and the regular postgres RDS offering) had support for TimescaleDB (http://www.timescale.com).
I played around with Chrome in 2008 when it first came out in beta, and I remember finding Chrome Devtools an improvement over Firebug.

By the time the Firefox 4 betas were out, it was no contest; Firebug was very crashy (which, to be fair, it's hard for an extension to support a beta browser, but Chrome's dev and beta channels always had a reasonably stable devtools thanks to it being built-in).
Does anyone know if ephemeral/automated cert issuing and renewal exists as an open source project yet? Most of this is Netflix internal but I feel like letsencrypt has made short lived certs an inevitibility
I agree. It's better to bring the pain now, than delay it later when it's much more intense.

It would also be great if we would quit blowing huge bubbles in the market with poor monetary policy and attempted centralized control of something we don't understand.
I don’t know editions subsequent to 2e, but I kind of liked THAC0. Tough to explain, but flexible. A useful abstraction.
Ya. but I think it's fixed per team. However, I'm not sure!
His reading is simplistic, but so is the article: there is no mention about different metabolic states, for instance.

The brain depends on a very small quantity of glucose to function - it arguably is more efficient with ketone bodies, for instance [1] - so covering not only glycolysis seems like an incomplete research.

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/the-fat...
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Good question. Another part of that question is why still sell the 7 or 6s at all? I think what we are seeing is Apple slowly filling all of the price points. There is a large group of people who want the latest, but also a group who traditionally were priced out of iPhones.

A question I really want answered is what will they call next years phone? Will they have 9 and XI? :P
Wanted to use this, but doesn't support small enough instance types.
User Wastra didn't claim to have done any work beyond reading the paper critically, or have any results. He/she gave a concise review of the paper: that's the output of the reading. What are you asking for?
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> I don’t have a record of every signature I made

Use opentimestamps git wrapper. Each commit is signed and timestamped. When you revoke your key, the original signed commit is still timestamped, presumably before your revocation date.

https://github.com/opentimestamps/opentimestamps-client

https://opentimestamps.org/
The reasoning is that this is a brand-new feature that just landed in the Alpha release of the browser and they're just not done yet with every secondary implementation aspect.

Manishearth, who's a Mozilla dev, commented in another thread that he's currently looking into making it configurable.
Absolutely not true. I remember getting servers from one of the colo providers in the early 2000's (The Planet, which became EV1 Servers, I think?) This was all available with a credit card, no legal or purchasing department required.

AWS didn't launch until 2006, which was actually pretty late in the internet game. x86 Linux hosting was ubiquitous then. If you're talking Solaris, AIX, and HPUX, you're remembering the late 90's...
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I cast magic missile at the darkness!
As a bootstrapped company, I would already be thrifty about travel with my own money, but I'd be even more thrifty with somebody else's.

So be thoughtful about your spending. Just because you can expense it, don't use it as an opportunity to charter a private jet, pop bottles of champagne and stay at the Four Seasons. :-)
Forget about cars, this tech is applicable beyond cars. They could potentially scan colors by changing the frequency, discern materials and even use different resolutions, which could make scans much faster. I have no idea why nobody did it so long ago.
Useless side conversations that spun off from the original email. Or even worse, when gmail smashes a message in there that doesn't belong in the thread at all.
Nice. BTW, I do not know what you guys are selling (the home page did not tell me much - you may want to improve on that), but the blog post itself was kind of engaging.

Nice story - $100 in December, then we do this, then $100 in March, then we dont cry and despair but do that, then $3,500, "but how do you possibly live on $3,500/mo?" - answered right away.

So I thought it was a nice read. Also, good luck :)
That story sounds very familiar. :-)
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In what sense? An attacker can already see the endpoints of a TLS conversation, and worrying about hostname disclosure is security through obscurity; the client already divulged the destination hostname with a probably-cleartext DNS query, too. Not worth worrying about. SNI is fine. If hostname disclosure is a security threat, the system needs rearchitecture.

Systems that hostname their customers (mycompany.example.com) should use wildcards for that scenario instead of SNI, among other reasons. That’s the only possible concern I can imagine.
Really exciting news! Hope to see it added to the BAA quickly.
It's almost a meme. I was often told Companies RAC, experience RAC-caused outages, and then they de-RAC.
You might be surpised how far you can get with DP on a modern computer! For example, in https://www.gwern.net/Coin-flip we consider a gambling game with 300 rounds and at least as many options each round, and while it initially sounds infeasible, you can still compute the optimal strategy in under a minute with some optimized C/C++ implementing the DP solution. Modern computers are fast. (And you can define a solution in like 5-10 lines of R/Python if you don't mind them being a lot slower. I don't know how you would solve it with LP or MIP but I suspect it will be both slower and longer.)
we are exceptionally good at hearing. Our ears are truly exquisitely precise things.Where "hearing" ends and "understanding" begins is, shall we say, a point of contention.

My vote is for the auditory nerve as the inflection point. Anything above the cochlear nucleus on the auditory pathway is black voodoo magic and anyone who claims they understand it needs to reevaluate their kool-aid intake.
I have no problem with the use of std::vector (in 90% of cases it is all you need), my problem is with the new trend of shunning any use of new/delete or naked pointers in modern C++.
When I took Algorithms II in college at a top 10 CS program, our entire class involved ZERO coding or programming of any sort.
Interesting that you should mention that because not being able to do those problems is why I want to learn it!
How many kilowatts and kilowatt-hours?

Like here's an island hospital with 3.2 megawatts of generators:

http://www.generac.com/resources-and-tools/engineer-resource...
That is highly disappointing to hear.
The same top tier schools claim to value diversity very much. Are you going to do better? If you decide to pull from another college at random to counteract only going to the same top five, chances are that college doesn't value diversity as much, and you'll get a less diverse candidate.

If you're focusing on good hires and not necessarily diverse ones, then yeah it's not smart to aggressively filter by school. Talent (even amazing talent) is not exclusive to any member of such a broadly defined set classification.
Thanks, But I'm asking it because we are 3 co-founders in a team. so, as a bootstrapped company we can't afford to move with my 2 co-founders for an interview.
Control theory is already ubiquitous.
A broken clock is correct twice a day, too.
A perfect morning, wrapped up in a fogbow
Haha, very true, and good perspective. Although if I had more confidence that the FBI isn't being misused as a weapon by politicians members of leadership with their own agenda (cough Comey cough), I might be more willing to permit them visibility.
Obligatory Demaine lectures - https://youtu.be/OQ5jsbhAv_M
I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion of disaster capitalism around this.
Corn starches and the products created from them are some of the most versatile things we have in commercial food production.
Is the Bible a True Story?
> The system, which includes 200 kWh of solar energy generation & 500 kWh of storage, will supply power to the Children's Hospital in Guaynabo

https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/922868816387833856
You're right with respect to reading the paper critically. What I'm looking for in particular is how 'wastra arrived at "there is a very weak chain of experiments, poorly reported, with borderline statistical significance. Poor charts, no tabulated results, just terrible."
I don't think anyone could answer that question, except with anecdotes. Personally, I think there is plenty of room for disagreement about code "goodness" in Python, C++, or any other general purpose language.
Can these panels be protected from Hurricanes?
WHO NEEDS a ETHICAL HACKER?
I never knew hackers could improve a low credit score until i met one on a discussion forum when i googled how to improve my credit score, i read a lady’s comment on how capable the hacker is of solving issues that has to do with hacking. So i mailed him and asked if he had the ability to raise credit scores(all 3 companies) and also eliminate eviction off court records. Then he replied yes and asked me to provide him some info of mine he’ll need to run the hack. when i did just that, he completed the hack within 72 hours at a price that’s worth it. I give thanks to the ethical hacker for coming to my aid when i needed him the most. Reach the hacker at spystealth(.)org(@)gmail(.)com and you’ll be amazed by his skills.
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15544370
Somewhat related: Vault has a PKI backend that can help facilitate this. You'll need to create some tooling around it, but we've had great success rolling it out at my company.

https://vaultproject.io
I don't think it's that common to solve, say, shortest paths by solving the LP/MIP formulation (unless maybe the problem at hand isn't strictly a shortest paths problem). Is it?
Well, Firefox is not Chrome. Firefox usually supports things more completely than Chrome, partially because that's just what they do, they safeguard webstandards, so delivering a standards-compliant browser is a main-goal, but in large parts also because the community will make Mozilla go the extra mile with code contributions, if they don't do it themselves.

And a Mozilla dev, Manishearth, has commented above that he is in fact currently looking into making it configurable.
True, but (at least for now) planting a listening device requires significant effort and a warrant. Chances are they will have to be pretty interested in you before going through that kind of effort/expense.

Storing and sifting mountains of data and metadata from everybody, and mining it and mapping it, just waiting for somebody to do something wrong is just too tempting to resist.

That said tho, I tend to believe that most encryption is crackable due to mistakes made during implementation, or mistakes made by the user. In a cryptanalysis class I took my mind was blown by how easy it an be to decode cipher text using simple statistical analysis, especially if some of the plaintext is known.
Huh. Interesting.

...and it's dead. Wow. :(

This really doesn't work. Hah.

Thanks for replying though.

I have a strong theory about what inspired this account's original owner's username choice. I wonder if you're aware...
I guess I don't understand how it's become a forgone conclusion that it is a bad thing to make land productive to humans.
Nope. Wonder if I'll receive a rejection at least... :)
looks like the link needs to tracking code at the end:

https://medium.com/@jwweatherman/bitcoin-the-slayer-of-socia...
For .0 releases they’re furiously coding against a daunting fixed deadline. For .0.1 warranty releases, lingering showstoppers. The .1 releases get all the care. If I were smart, I’d wait around for dot-ones and eat my broccoli.
Does it really make sense for someone who doesn't understand the concept of 2D Cartesian coordinates to be using a spreadsheet at all?

"Battleship coordinates" are pretty darned far down the list of Things Wrong with Excel. Considering you still can't open multiple instances the way every other Windows application on the planet works...
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Same here. Odd choices, but I'm assuming there's a reason for it.
I can see this being true if the people work at the same company (and already passed the same filter).

I doubt it would be true over the entire university CS populations. If the only thing you know about two applicants is their university, then the student from a top tier university will on average perform much better than the student from a low tier university.
To make quick work of something means that you finished it quickly. This article just says that they started quickly.
Also, some (presumably) socialist-leaning mods censored the first attempt to post this. (So much for viewpoint neutrality...)
>the local community college classes were only like $15 per credit hour for high school seniors

One of the beautiful things about softwars tech is that it has offered people opportunities to self-teach and build a portfolio of their own credentials, by their own determination. This has given ordinary people the opportunity to build things that benefit others.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have privileged rich kids attending Harvard, many of whom go on to work in finance or consulting, and who knows what they produce that is useful in the world.

I would really love to see the idea that we need to open up on the limitations of world-class educations and credentials become part of the mainstream discussion.

There is almost no reason the first two years of, which are often filled with gen-ed requirements often taught in laughably huge lecture halls by uninterested staff, not be open to everyone in the world. We need a new model that promotes this--Harvard classes should be open to everyone and that includes the tests and credits as well.

And why not? The War on Poverty in America has spent trillions of dollars with little to nothing to show for it in terms of reducing poverty. Of all this money spent, one of the first things I would have done would have been to ensure everyone has the greatest opportunities available to them. There's no good reason to hold them hostage, unless you care about profit or prestige more than increasing opportunity and reducing inequality.
My theory: Google started by hiring only new grads from Stanford and then a few other top schools.

1. They're only interested in new grads, so experienced people are treated funny; they're outliers.

2. They're only interested in top schools, which act as a pre-filter. Anyone interviewed is probably a good hire anyway, so it doesn't matter whether your process is goofy.

3. We are talking Google. Anyone under the age of 30 is slobbering all over themselves to work for them.

Keep this up for a few generations and their hiring process is permanently wacky.
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Does Tesla outsource installation to third parties and just have their engineers on site to monitor for quality and testing? Just wondering, between this and the installation in Adelaide (Australia), how they can manage multiple medium to large scale installations simultaneously?
No, the 'diversity' angle is frequently tied to things like skin color, sex, ethnicity, heritage, etc. You can have two people that match in all of those categories but one chose to go to a state school because of a family issue and then they will be ignored by Google.

This is not something any diversity program I know of in the big companies is trying to address.
This is also LIDAR.
Did you say ... "speed trek ignition involved?"

If yes, say "yes" or press 1, otherwise say "no" or press 2 to speak your request again, star to hear the options, or stay on the line for the next available agent ...
I think really just "Value Iteration" (which isn't just used in RL). Reinforcement Learning itself is a problem setting and there are solutions in RL that don't use dynamic programming (for example, policy gradient methods).
Companies don't ask for transcripts because there's already services they can use to verify degree (and even enrollment).
Nah, it's been on Mozilla's To-Do list for years already, just realistically not ever really a priority.

And I'm also pretty sure they've already been actively working on the implementation prior to talks with those companies. I think, I remember reading about first design steps at the start of the year already.
> They are matching the diversity of the schools' recruiting efforts.

I think many undergrad schools actually positively discriminate based on gender/race for underrepresented minorities.
Came here to say the same - timescale support would be awesome!
In theory, theory and practice are the same thing....
As a person with ADHD I've had to learn to be aware of my current mental state at any given time. At certain times I have an extremely hard time concentrating, but those times are WAY more rare when I'm on keto.

The other thing I've noticed is that I have much more patience with my kids (4 and 7) when I'm on keto. I can take them grocery shopping with me and they don't drive me insane, etc.
Still waiting!
I ran the preview for ~2 months on a few instances. No compatibility issues, but we had queries that were significantly slower than on a vanilla Postgres instance and a problem with temp table bloat that never got reclaimed (480G as per \l+, being shown as 1050G billable in the AWS console). The preview product team never got back to us so I'm going to switch back to the regular RDS this week and hope my bill doesn't get hosed by the unreclaimed bloat. Gotta go with the devil I know... ʅ(ツ)ʃ
I talked to someone I know about this, and yes they got IRB review from MIT. It was 100% opt-in with informed consent and all the normal things required to do such a study ethically.
Note that the main benefit of Pathfinder was breaking compatibility with the huuuuge number of splatbooks for 3.x, and in cleaning up the skills system.

Unfortunately, as Paizo seeks to grow its business and publish more content, they tend to keep adding special rules and things that kinda distort that original accomplishment.
I'm just thinking about this. Can't do anything else :D
In addition to just blacking out, it's also important to screenshot the content if you are able to and then black it out. Otherwise you may leak meta data or pre-rendered thumbnails. The reason you screenshot first and black out second is that it reduces the chances of you mixing up which file to upload.
I'll have to look into it again. Lost interest in AD&D at 3rd Edition; everything from the book artwork to the game mechanics made me feel like I was hand-executing a computer RPG game.

I still use my old 2nd Edition manuals for the rare social games I play these days.
I got back into it because of the Acquisitions Inc podcasts and then the PAX shows.