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I couldn't tell from your site which positions are available in Berkeley (and by the way, the site says San Mateo?). Would appreciate that information, thanks.
The terms you are using are too vague, and seem disconnected from the reality of these algorithms.

How do evolutionary algorithms let you evolve the architecture? You define a model space, and explore it stochastically (with different evolutionary strategies). The model space you are exploring is linked to a specific architecture.

Regardless, there's also efforts in Deep Learning to automatically learn optimal network architectures ("AutoML").
How does SQLite FTS compare to things like Sphinx and Elastic Search?
Is there a precedent of the SEC causing extradition?
One advantage that may seem too obvious to mention: using SQLite allows you to work with data using SQL, which is far, far easier to learn (and be powerful with) than trying to learn Python or even R if you are new to languages.

Even as an experienced programmer, I find SQL to almost always more elegant for expressing logic than Pandas or R. My workflow is usually having a script execute a SQL statement to do the heavy data work, and then importing the results of that SQL statement into another programming environment (e.g. R/ggplot2 for visualizations).
I'm not sure about the "too" part. This approach has worked quite well for SpaceX - it might not work out for Tesla, but it's too early on this period of massive transition to know for sure.
Startups and the art of the “one thing” – yankeesabralimey – Medium
I am currently a contractor//temp at a particular company. I am there to do particular work in order to support the real people doing their real jobs for The Company.

Often times I come against some form of permissions issue which prevents me from doing my job because of my non-real status. Because of red tape and nothing else I promise you, nothing about "but proprietary data" or anything like that. It may be root access to a specific computer, it may be casual access to a particular online processing system. "Oh, just go to the group github and... oh, you can't. Let me find a thumb drive and the latest release..." or "Can you access the group's shared data access website yet? ... but, we filed a bug about your access for this a few months ago, and still nothing? Are you sure? Can you try again and send me the error and cc IT?" ... and so on. Everyone's frustrated; I do what I can, push it up the chain, make the noise to maintain hope for improvement.
Let me give a concrete example from my past. We had a public API of POJO domain objects that could be used to render templated files, think string replace. It worked great until one day someone had a special character that caused it all to fail. How do you fix this? Ask all customers to clean their values? Good luck with that!! However from our side we just added the code to clean the output, escape the special character for the templating engine, and everything worked great.

The only other option was to have thousands of customers with live systems edit their templates and or data to fix that one bad character. It affected a lot of people due to another unrelated update. Anyways had we not been forcing the use of setters and getters a solution would have been on a whole other scale! And no we couldn’t edit the template engine, etc, because in most cases it was valid.
I think this is a bit unfair. The Deathadder is widely regarded as one of the best gaming mice ever made.
Please don’t.

When people are sending or sharing a document, they don’t expect to leak edit history of that document. And SQLite inherently leaks that edit history, in database freed pages and unallocated space. You can VACUUM the database after each save, but that’ll negate the performance benefits. Also VACUUM was designed to save space, not sure it reliably cleans up unwanted data.

OTOH, these zipped XMLs are free from unwanted data, they (hopefully) only contain the data user wants to save, i.e. the content of the last version of the document.
Thanks! That link was really helpful.
I guess some optimisation methods using a Hessian take those interaction effects into consideration, but they are too expensive and not used in practice.

> doesn't work for most optimisation problems - you get stuck in local optima.

This bit is not necessarily true. In practice, and given the high dimensionality, it is (apparently) quite hard to get stuck in local optima. [0]

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-come-neural-networks-dont-get-stuc...
Where is this based?
cool. but any plan to add delete button in future?
vue 2 has the best component structure hands down.
In my general experience, bond traders tend to be a savvier (if more jittery) lot than stock buyers.
>The problem isn't the tedious boilerplate, it's that it isn't necessary most of the time

I just don't understand this POV. The cost is essentially zero so I don't see what there is to object to. That it isn't "necessary" is just a strange thing to optimize for. Unnecessary code that adds to the cognitive burden should be eliminated. But this isn't an example of that.
Alas, didn't quite work. Turns out DPC's are not allowed to wait, so the first condvar we hit in zio makes us die :)
So what, GRPN fell to 1/5 of its IPO price in its first year.
I knew which rant that was going to be before I even clicked on the link. Great memo. Really refreshing Software companies need leadership who actually dogfood the software they make and who care enough to rant when quality, usability, performance, etc. has gone to shit. Too many seem to simply have their noses in their competitors' feature checklists, so their E-mails are all "Company X has Feature Y. Why can't we have Feature Y??"
> Sqlite is great but it is a poor substitute for a "real" database

This is true, and explicitly acknowledged by the author:

> SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen().

https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html

If you're deciding between Postgres and SQLite, in most cases you're doing it wrong (there are a few exceptions, such as serving a low-traffic almost-entirely-read dynamic website can be accomplished easily with either). Usually you want to choose between SQLite and "anything else that involves writing directly to the local filesystem".
If swap is not present, memory access can be deterministic.

Disk access can never be deterministic, which is terrible if you care about latency.
"In classical thermodynamics, a single particle doesn't have a temperature."

This is false. A single particle can still be described by the maximum entropy probability distribution given its average energy, and that will give rise to a definition of temperature.
if it's just used for display, use a new value.

if there's more to the domain context, i'd call it rename(~). i think from the outside, it's better to articulate what you want in domain semantics, rather than implementation semantics.
I have a MSI GS60 ghost Pro (https://www.msi.com/Laptop/GS60-6QC-Ghost.html). There are newer models now but the specs are great and the look is (relatively) clean. There's lights on the keyboard which can be dimmed, but the slightly silly dragon logo on the lid can't. It's fairly inconspicuous though.
Understanding the Basics of a Proof-Of-Stake Security Model
> Any reviews that describe reviewer participation in illegal activities ... will be removed.

As bleak a reading of that clause that this is, you can say if you are the victim of an assault you were a participant in that event participant (albeit an unwilling one), and the review must be removed.
Anyone tried the inference speed?
Given Bancor is in Israel, this case is interesting:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-fraud/israel-approv...
I find the idea awesome. Once the spec for such a document format is created, there would be a tool or two implementing it.
Drone regulations for India finally announced by the Government
>is the fastest static HTTP/1.1 server in the world

As you're the author and you're promoting your own work, may I ask what sort of testing this claim is supported on?
Ask HN: Starter app for Saas businesses?
So is there a starter app or boilerplate for getting a Saas up and running. Basic user management, emailing, integration with Stripe, bootsrap based templates, etc? I've done a little searching and there doesn't seem to be too much out there that is more recent. Thoughts?
Nim can be Haskell :-)
How I hacked Google’s bug tracking system itself for $15,600 in bounties
The article seems oddly gushy about Blind or "the anonymous employee chat app for employees" -> There must be a better way to write that.

It "ask them the kinds of sensitive questions that you normally can't ask: Do you think you are paid fairly? Are you interested in leaving your job?"

The sample size is 4174 people across ~40+ companies. So I am not really sure this can be trusted, looks more like a click bait article.
How to create MVC folder structure in Flask similar to Codeigniter
Hi

I'm a PHP (Codeigniter) developer who needs to work with Python for a new project. I have decided to use Flask on Google App Engine. However I'm confused on how to create the models and controllers like in Codeigniter.

Can someone guide me on how I can go about this?

P.S. I'm new to both Python and Flask
Maybe you should start coding, you may actually like it too
It's really weird to have to write on every request.

If you're logging user visits for example, you can queue those up in a list (in the code) and flush it to the database every few seconds instead of flushing it on every visit.
Much easier to work on data with SQL. I can cleanse, deduplicate, fill in default, update, merge, join, and generate reports with a few SQL.

I had an interest rate app where the backend data collection process consists of a shell script to run curl to download rates from various places as CSV, import CSV into Sqlite, runs a few SQL to clean up/merge/fix default/dedup the data. The process is idempotent and can add new data to existing data. At the end I got a long history of clean up-to-date interest rate data in a Sqlite table.
allege criminal acts that in many cases are not proven in a court

... which the media does all the time, often even before/without formal criminal charges being filed.

I think they would be justified in removing such reviews with allegations uncorroborated by supporting police reports. But if there is an open criminal complaint or indictment, review removals about such a case looks improper.
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I'm just taking a wild guess that this person isn't being technical and talking about an index fund, but is disclaiming that he or she purposefully purchased shares of Tesla stock
I'm going to chime in here also. I sent an email quite a while ago and heard absolutely nothing. Considering I have basically an unbelievable amount of experience related to this I was surprised that I didn't even get a followup or inquiry.

Hiring is hard, this could be just the result of poor hiring practices, or it could be something else entirely. Either way, it gives a very poor impression, and considering how small the pool of talent in HFT and Smart Contracts is that isn't something a new company can afford to do.
Why do you need to implement multiplication in software? Does your target architecture not have a hardware multiplier?

FYI, even microcontrollers nowadays have efficient hard multipliers. It would make more sense to emulate floating point multiplication imo.

Anyways, keep up the good work!
That Glassdoor reference on Netflix software engineer salaries is wrong/outdated from my understanding - I don’t know a single Netflixer making less than $300k.

Netflix seems to have an unusually open culture in general, including topics such as salary - they put their money where their mouth is and basically egg everyone on to beat them. Gotta respect that a company is willing to do that (I don’t work for them, but I do work for one of the big public tech companies listed in those charts)
It's going to also eventually revolutionize warfighting, and I suspect that the US will be slower to adopt it than other countries because of the ethical and moral considerations of turning over decisions about life and death to machines.

I worry that in 5-10 years, we might be facing a blitzkreig sort of a surprise as an ai powered drone army captures a huge amount of territory before human soldiers even manage to get their pants on to defend it, setting off a new and deadly arms race.
When I did my physics undergrad I skipped thermodynamics and went straight to statistical mechanics, so forgive me if I missed something. Ostensibly, it would seem a classical version of thermodynamics wouldn't deal with particles at all as the current model of particles(even Bohr's model) is much newer than classical thermodynamics.
The best method for neural networks robust to l_infinity bounded iterative adversarial attacks is this https://openreview.net/forum?id=S18Su--CW (although it is still currently under review).
According to this [1] it’s not.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/c...

I don’t think that one was released in the US.

I seem to recall a Lumia device shipping with a 120Hz display, too, but I might have imagined that since I can’t find it now.
My wife and I are writing books based on the same prompt "living in two worlds".

My strategy was a brief outline beforehand then just write.

My main tool is Ulysses.
Venezuela Bond Holders Are in the Dark on PDVSA Payment Status
The article says this is based on extensive hands-on use.

It still seems overly negative, but it does seem to be a review.
Not to mention the folks on this app aren't exactly drawn from a random distribution. I wouldn't be surprised if there are extreme biases at play.
Netflix has a lower rating (3.6) than Google (4.4) and Facebook (4.6) on Glassdoor.

Obviously Glassdoor isn't completely reliable since anyone can write a review, but Blind is also subject to selection bias.
> Public forms on the internet != democracy.

I disagree. I think that's exactly what democracy is. That's why the Founding Fathers decided the US should be a republic.
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Anecdotally (but with n = many), I see many more scratched/broken iPhone screens than premium Android. Similar prices, same peer group. There are probably other sources of selection bias I'm not seeing, but it's a large enough effect that I'm cautiously positive of my determination absent an actual survey.

It took two years for Apple to acknowledge[1] that #staingate was a real issue.

I do think their hardware is generally high quality, but there are holes, and they are magnified by their positioning as a premium brand and certain high-profile denials of said holes. Which for a brand that lives and dies on its reputation seems less than smart. Adding to the weirdness is that I've alternately received excellent support in cases of hardware issues, and next to none. My guess is that the frontline has a whitelist of issues that they can okay, and have no little latitude beyond that.

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/02/24/apple-extended-anti-ref...
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It doesn’t sound like you’re disagreeing with my claim that forks under PoW (at least of a specific kind) can make the branches vulnerable to attack as soon as the hash power sloshes away; your comment is only speaking to PoS and a different kind of Bitcoin fork that doesn’t match the BCH one.
People should publish PDF version of a document. But if they send the working copy around, then the history may be helpful for other collaborators. Think of git. They can even merge the changes easily.
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Despite a lot of habitual nay-sayers, this is absolutely correct. The vast majority of sites simply do not need the black-boxery of handing stuff off to external storage. SQLite will carry the load just fine, and not only be as good as, but an actual improvement.

I have written fairly large web-apps taking fairly decent traffic, and relying solely on SQLite, unless really pressing circumstances required otherwise. Healthy exercise too: Sharpens your focus, "Do I absolutely need to do a write here?".
Have you tried sqlitebrowser? It's fantastic, I use it a lot.

http://sqlitebrowser.org
Here's a Google Trends chart for 'WakaTime':

https://i.imgur.com/VHeJPYY.png

That first spike is December 2014. Interesting timing!

The last Slack notification email I have from her is from 10/26/2015. Why is it so hard to believe that she did a year or so's worth of work for WakaTime? Why are her contributions to be valued less because they aren't code?
I'll quote my reply[1] to 'spike021

> Anecdotally (but with n = many), I see many more scratched/broken iPhone screens than premium Android. Similar prices, same peer group. There are probably other sources of selection bias I'm not seeing, but it's a large enough effect that I'm cautiously positive of my determination absent an actual survey.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15607637
Error Handling in Reactive Systems
Facebook raises duplicate and fake account estimates
The "PRAGMA secure_delete=ON;" command will fix that for you. Or you can make secure-delete the default at compile-time using the -DSQLITE_SECURE_DELETE option. There is a (small) performance hit, since extra writes have to occur to overwrite the obsolete data with zeros, but it does work.

See https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_secure_delete for further information.
P.S. Even fragmentation can leak data. E.g. search for the most fragmented portion of the document in the DB, and you'll likely find out the most heavily edited paragraph of the document.
For me, using PostgreSQL is like using static typing: a bit more work, but it catches a lot of bugs.

SQLite favours a very permissive approach, while PostgreSQL favours locking everything down with strict types and strong integrity checks, and it's very easy to verify lots of details of your data before it's accepted into the database. That takes work to set up properly and maintain, but it catches bugs early and reduces the number of headaches you get when trying to use your data in new code.

Scalability is a very different problem that happens to favour PostgreSQL, but most projects indeed never get far enough that this matters.
Not a fire scientist, but solid blocks of dense dry hardwood are actually comparatively quite resistant to ignition. They are not completely fireproof, but superior to many other modern building materials and furnishings.

supposedly the safest thing to do if there is a fire on another floor is to shelter in place

Of course, that's what they said about Grenfell.
> rules also protect the employees from bad managers

To offer the other side of the coin: I am currently working in a situation where the rules are protecting bad managers against employees.

My current manger is clearly lacking in "good" manager skills, and his direct manager is protecting him. A group of my coworkers is working together "to survive" the both of them. Hopeful questions about re-orgs are asked, regular private meetings about sub-group self-reliance are held. "I'm worried about ageism", "I've lost total hope with this manager", "I'm in survival mode", and similar quotes are regular weekly features.

The team has clear and obvious elevation in productivity and moral when the manager is absent [vacation, off-site business, sick, whatever]. The manager's manager doesn't want to hear it; "just work together" type of "advice". Yea ok that's been tried for a long time now, it's time for departures or re-orgs and those are the solutions at this point.

/rant
Just in case (Sciter's author is here):

This is prototype I've made to give an idea of how the same thing could be done in Sciter: https://sciter.com/htmlcss-desktop-ui-solutions-distribution...

In general it is expected that such thing can be done in 5% of VS Code distribution size.

Sciter draws things faster than Electron as e.g. on Windows it uses DirectX directly. Electron uses Skia that is mostly CPU based rasterizer.

Yet to make syntax highlighting I've introduced "marked runs" - https://sciter.com/tokenizer-mark-syntax-colorizer/

That allows to do syntax highlighting without change of DOM. In VS Code, in order to make things at least somehow moving, they were forced to implement sliding window editing - DOM represents not full text but only viewable portion. That creates a lot of problems and significant portion of Code is the fight with limitations of browser's DOM.
You may not like it - but thats how TripAdvisor has always interpreted the policy. Specifically, sexual assaults have always been considered not family friendly. They are removed from the site and referred directly to the hotel for investigation. (disclosure: I worked there from 2010-2013, including a short rotation in the content moderation arm that makes these calls)

My broader point was simply that this isn't a new interpretation of this policy, they've been doing this for years.