skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google will probably always need a number of people that have memorized every data structure known to humanity, but they would probably be better set up to avoid stagnation and continue in a position of market dominance into the future if they also have a set of people who can come up with new things and implement them.

Yep, agreed! But since there's probably some overlap in that candidate skillset Venn diagram, maybe they're getting the people that can do both, and the data-structure skillset's the one that's possible to consistently interview for.
A lot of people complained about that.

After that T-Mobile added option to easily disable it. I still think FCC should step in and not allow that because it is treating selected traffic differently.

Edit: I thought you were talking about Binge On, which probably supported your point better. Anyway in this case they are just including extra service membership in the plan what that has to do with NN?
Definitely doing this already, but there is still several years to go.
It varies quite a bit from company to company. They were founded in 2001 so I expect most of it was salary and physical plant.

The business is/was connecting resale opportunities to brands and artists[1] so you'll have a fairly significant sales and marketing effort although typically you will pay sales people for performance so their compensation will track revenue.

But to give you some things to think about, if you have an engineering team of 15 engineers, median salary $120K, and an 'overhead' (office, health plans, insurance, etc of 60%) then that is $200K/engineer/year (or $3M/year or $48M for 16 years [2001 - 2017]) that is just integrating cost per engineer over time using constant engineering. You can put any function in you want for head count (does it grow exponentially? does it grow in chunks? etc) and then add a C-suite team (higher median salary) and an 'overhead' team (IT, marketing, HR, etc) and you can burn through that fairly quickly.

It is a useful thing to build models for this stuff as your 'pre-operationally-cash-flow-positive' costs are really the health and future of your company.

[1] https://www.shazam.com/company
No because DRM like Adobe ADEPT is very mysterious and only authorized ereaders are given access to it. I highly doubt they would allow an open source ereader to implement ADEPT.
Can you open a company without visiting the country?
> Malcolm Wells, the father of underground building, wrote an article that appeared in the "Next Whole Earth Catalog" about, among other things, this simple and ingenious device for rating the desirability of a building. It's a form that you fill out by rating a building or site according to a bunch of common-sense criteria about what makes it good, healthy, and sustainable.

http://firequery.blogspot.com/2009/05/wells-scale.html
Me too! I used leapin for the whole process. Never had a more pleasant experience with bureaucratic procedures.
This generation's list isn't short, either. While progress continues to be made on many fronts, quite a few things stick out like a sore thumb over the last 40 years: tax cuts that pay for themselves, Clinton's impeachment (from either side's viewpoint), dot-com bubble, tax cuts that pay for themselves, Iraq, massive deficits, great recession, insane partisan gridlock, tax cuts that pay for themselves.
Apple Accused of Throttling CPU Performance on iPhones with Aging Batteries
I don't think anyone is suggesting that people owe anything: it was possible to keep to oneself in public spaces even pre smartphones. At the population level though, a shift in norms and behavior means that even two people who would be fine engaging with a stranger now do so less.

To be concrete, it has less to do with forcing anyone to do anything than with changing the environment such that, across the population, it's harder for those on the margin to interact socially.
This looks useful for learning the basic syntax of a new language, but the exercises look to be somewhat generic. Most of the exercises seem to be duplicated across languages.

Once you've mastered the basic syntax and control constructs of a language, it probably isn't worth your time to try a dozen different string manipulation exercises.

Perhaps this is beyond the scope of what this site is aiming for, but, I would hope for some exercises that help me understand what each language is commonly used for.

Potential examples:

- Swift: Learn to display and manipulate a GUI

- Ruby: Learn to write a web application

- Python/Julia/R: Learn to fit some data to a model

- Javascript: Learn to use a web framework

- Go: Learn to handle some network connections, concurrently. (I see they have one exercise that emphasizes concurrency, which is a step in the right direction.)

- Perl/PHP/Bash: Learn to cry bitter, sorrowful tears.
Looks like it's already resolved.
Compiling stuff is awesome. I never want to discover my bugs at runtime.
Maybe I'm a wet blanket, but I don't find it particularly funny when rich/powerful people laugh about screwing over the rest of us.
Is PowerTop / TLP Still Useful to Save Power on Linux Laptops? – Phoronix
The final paragraph gives a clue about how serious the authors themselves seem to take their claims:

Machines writing code under human direction will only further improve our ability to explore the universe, enjoy life, and stream Netflix, especially if it saves us the trouble of learning how to make extremely heterogeneous systems work together.

You go ahead and stream Netflix, I think I'll write some more code.
60k for 3 days a week is exactly the same as 100k for 5 days a week.
So they're doing this vector correlation for every song in their database (40 million)?
Apple has acquired Shazam
The non-fat-arrow one, as it does not need to carry around the context of `this` with it.
I've always found the EV validation process to be questionable. Glad to see it's getting some scrutiny.
When you're applying for online-only degrees, keep in mind what you're giving up. While the quality of the education may be comparable, much of the value of attending in-person is to build career-lasting relationships with smart, interesting, and trustworthy people. For many of us, sitting directly across from someone else while having a meaningful conversation is still unparalleled by what any communications technology can offer us today.

Of course, everyone has a different situation so an online CS program might actually be the best for you. For master's degrees, I've heard good things about programs at GTech, UIUC, and UCB (UCB is data science only)...not too much in the direction of undergraduate degrees.
This has the smell of a comment written by someone with limited real-world experience. Simply writing down the list of problems you would have to solve to build Shazam would take an entire afternoon.

Yes, deep neural networks have proven remarkably useful for machine perception, but you would still need to collect a colossal amount of audio data, fingerprint all of it, build a low-latency processing infrastructure for making inferences, and convince a hundred million people to install your software to feed you copious real-world training data that you can use to improve model performance.
You may be using a very nonstandard of "highly social", but doesn't it usually also imply that you get along well with new people?
In the UK, there are usually two streams of masters programs - those aimed at people with the necessary background, and conversion courses aimed at people who don't.

Assuming you're in the US, though, you probably had to study all sorts of irrelevant junk for your BS.
For foreign owned companies there are a myriad of complex reporting requirements a US person would never see.

Despite not even being a tax form some of these (e.g. FBAR) have penalties of 50% of the unreported amount. It's not something you want to leave to chance.
How First Supernovae Altered Early Star Formation – InsideHPC
Mailchimp Is Inc's Company of the Year
Don't worry! I study quantum computation, and I didn't notice that the |> was supposed to be a D to form the word LIQUID!
> as domain names are legally treated as property and cannot be confiscated except through due process (like a court seizure following a ruling on illegal activities).

That's just current convention, though. If better governance means being less private-property absolutism, I'm for it. ICANN or whoever could just update the terms of their contract to allow revocation of the TLD (with a refund), if there's too much weeping and gnashing of teeth over it's issuance. People would just need to understand domains on a new TLD aren't going to be as ironclad as ones on more established TLDs.
Max Born’s 135th Birthday
Why I Love Skype Meetings
Russian hackers steal $10M from ATMs through bank networks
Couldn't happen sooner! ;)
Quantum computer would enable systematic approach in areas like material sciences and molecular biology, which today are essentially trial and error.
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Investigating that topic, but taking card payments is not a part of my primary business.
Try the pomodoro technique, the concept is 25 minutes of work to 5 minutes of break time.
How I learned thousands of ways to write bad code in just ten years
> It's pretty surprising how ambivalent the guy is to public pressure.

It actually could be expected. He is not an elected official, so he can easily do the bidding of corporate masters, instead of serving the public, especially if he feels that legislative power is too dysfunctional to do anything about it. It can happen even with elected officials, even more so with appointed ones.
We obsoleted hand drafting decades ago. Yet it takes ever bigger and more expensive teams to make airplanes.
The American Bar Association unanimously declared him not qualified based on his inexperience.
https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/uncategorized/GA...
Yes.

NASA was created to fight communists. Now that there are no more communists, NASA continues to exist only as a form of corporate welfare.

Congress cares far more about where NASA sources from, then it does about what NASA does. The science (Which half of Congress doesn't believe in) is just an accidental side effect of keeping aerospace jobs in Georgia, Indiana, Arkansas, etc.
Really depends on the phone. Anything with a P3 display (iPhone>7, iPad Pro, pixel 2, galaxy 7) actually has very good color reproduction without any calibration. Even better if it has ambient white balance like apple’s TrueTone.
What they're complaining is that McDonalds is bad for the nutrition of the overall society.
Shor's algorithm is not the only potential application for quantum computers. Simulating quantum mechanics and optimization is what quantum computers will probably be used for in the next couple of years.

Regarding the world hunger and climate change claim. I think they are referring to the fact that quantum computers can simulate quantum chemistry more efficiently compared to classical computers. This article [0] talks about how quantum computers will be used for quantum chemistry; specifically nitrogen fixation.

[0]: https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i43/Chemistry-quantum-comput...
Fwiw, this doesn't align with the experience of myself and my friends. If anything, the correlation runs the other way: the people that I know who spend the most time on screens are the least active on social media, and include a couple of people who don't have any social media accounts at all.
Industry people working at regulatory agencies is an obvious conflict of interest. Taking inputs from various parties, including the industry and the general public, to then make an informed decision about the best course of action in the general interest, is a completely different thing.
Wow, this has never happened before.

HA! I was being sarcastic. Good one! Thanks!
One of the best videos I've watched in a while. Chamath accurately articulated all of the negative beliefs I've held about Facebook for many years, and some more I hadn't considered.

We're seeing the effects of this already. Never before has society been so connected for the sharing of information/data, whilst simultaneously disconnected spiritually/politically etc.

Kids hooked on social media are growing up anxious, depressed and totally overwhelmed.

None of this will end well.
I like how some people support net neutrality for the same reason - I can use my bandwidth for whatever purpose I want. Then how about paying/using my energy for whatever I want? Compared to people who would drive 1 hour per day to work, mining bitcoin isn't remotely comparable. You're just more comfortable with one thing, not the other.
Software engineering interviews are busted as hell (although, to be fair, probably not substantially moreso than other industries).

What slays me with Google in particular was they did this study a while back that found that whiteboard coding was nonsense, and then they... kept doing it. Although I'm having a hard time finding it now, so maybe I'm mistaken there.

edit: here we go, although it wasn't specifically about whiteboarding http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...
I'm the lead (but not only) maintainer and: yeh, I do alright. I've never made or taken a dime from Homebrew directly (indirectly includes it helping me get my last two jobs). There's a bunch of annoying stuff like AWS and Heroku that we can't really afford to use right now (I refuse to pay for Homebrew stuff from my own pocket) and it would be great to have more CI machines. These are the sort of things a Patreon pays for.
I'm legitimately excited by quantum computing. The field is moving SO much faster than popular knowledge, which seems to believe a quantum computer will arrive at the same time as a workable fusion reactor. Real quantum computers exist RIGHT NOW. You can even write a program and run it on one from IBM![0] Google and Microsoft are both dumping resources into creating commercially-available quantum computers. Google says it will demonstrate a quantum computer in mere months which outperforms a classical computer on some problem.[1] The real value of quantum computers is not found in breaking RSA. Simulated molecular dynamics sees an exponential speedup over classical methods; this has huge ramifications for drug & material design.[2] What a time to be alive!

I have a BSc in Computer Science, and am teaching myself quantum computing. I'm really liking the book Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction by David Mermin. All this stuff is within your grasp! You aren't required to understand quantum weirdness to use a quantum computer.

[0] https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qx/experience

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609035/google-reveals-blu...

[2] https://www.chemistryworld.com/feature/quantum-chemistry-on-...
Thanks. That [is] what I gathered as well. My OP was merely to note relevant existing results.
The other option is being a 501c3/6 foundation whose purpose is to support the particular software project, and then companies will donate to said foundation.
Explore the Origins of Space with COSMOS and Memory-Driven Computing – HPCwire
> Machines writing code under human direction

Plus, that human direction is essentially what programmers do now.
Lone paper on arxiv without any arguments but just "predictions" from "current trends".

Get real. This is just futurology. Knowingly deceptive article trying to set what people talk about.
Programming "entities" argue about golang not having generics. Initiate global thermonuclear war thanks to security bug found in Rust library. AI finds .net of no interest. World saved by humans who fired up an ancient version of Delphi and wrote a worm.
Yeah you can build the platform but you won't have any data; no history of searches. You also won't have any users.

I'm not disputing they overpaid. However, long to short, building the technology is the easy part, and just a fraction of the brand / product value.
Not prompted but were notified.
Yes there are far fewer opportunities for tech writers compared to developers.

As far as pitching, build out your site and writing samples. I would target companies who currently hire tech writers, they may require some temporary help.

Been a contract tech writer for many years but mostly get work from word of mouth, contacts built up over years, agencies, and responding to vacancies directly.
Facebook is trying to make the Poke happen again
It's like speculation on top of speculation. Reminds me of the MBS/CDOs of the housing crisis. Speculative loans of speculative loans.

> All we need now is someone adding leverage and hilarity shall most certainly ensue

Oh, it's already starting. Believe me.

Usually when you start hearing of "record setting" purchase of art, you start your clock on the next recession. I guess this could be that moment. Wouldn't be surprised if we have a recession in the next 2 or 3 years.
what do you want them to do?
The types of female orgasm you didn't know – Nude-Gals Blog
What is the cheapest route from an AS in something like computer networking to a BS in CS? I'm 5 years into mid-level development jobs, so I'm not sure if it's even worth the money.
calm down chief...
Besides, what does a version number reveal? “Oh, Apple is working on a new OS version!” You don’t say??
Will be annoyed if they break the feature inside Snapchat.
I like talking about the 2 year gap in my resume.

I chose not to work because I had saved enough money to live inexpensively, sleep in, exercise, read books, and do whatever I wanted without having to answer to anyone.

Employers who are interested in this and "get it" are the ones I want to work for.
A lousy Dockerfile or missing docker-compose.yml will do that. Just because someone took the time to lump together a container doesn't mean it's the right one or that it would be reasonably useful to someone seeking to take advantage of the containerized software.
Long term plans of IOTA at least are to provide a trustless currency. Right now it has a centralized coordinator which is a neverending source of issues. Hopefully it can be successfully removed in the coming years.
I don't see how your questions follow from my comment. No where am I trying to argue that resources aren't limited. I just said you will have to decide what to do with people who don't meet your requirements, and that you may spend more money checking that people are meeting requirements than you would save.

I also never said that letting people starve who can't or won't support themselves is morally indefensible. If you want to argue that it sucks but is a better alternative than what would happen if you tried to save everyone, it doesn't make you an immoral person. My only point was that you have to think about what you will do with the people who don't meet your requirements.
Cardanos Highlevel Primer
I think the more general market would've bought the new Macbook Pros either way. If they were the same thickness as before with more RAM and a few more standard ports, the casual users would've bought them up and the more professional users would've been happier. Maybe throw in a new color and you're done.
I"m a C/C++, Java, Go developer. I'm moving to learn JS during the hack reactor.
I bet this was done by a contractor without Starbucks permission.
I stopped reading after this:

let modifiedArr = arr.map(element => element * 10);
console.log(modifiedArr);
Cool right :)

...

let modifiedAarr = arr.filter((element, index) => element%2 == 0)
Hope you got it. And don’t forgot to notice, only the first parameter is mandatory. Other two parameters are optional.
Array Reduce
Do you scrobble your plays to last.fm? If so, it should be simple to show how right or wrong they are.
I have looked at obsfucated JavaScript code as well as webassembly disassembly. I don't see much difference. What might obfuscate is the fact, that it comes without any libraries. You have to program like in C without any library support, which is more or less what you do with bare metal programming now.
I haven’t done much personally yet, but I hear it can vary quite a bit between browsers.
Forbes, or was it BusinessWeek, actual did an article on that (i.e., selling data to record labels) a year or so ago. If I get a moment I'll try to track it down later.
You have applied for 99 jobs for every 1 that you've accepted?

I think that is rare.
Histogram of WINGS Locked on Ethereum for the Last 33 ICO Forecasts
As a dude who doesn't use social media (no FB, linked-in, twitter, vine, snapchat, instagram, whatever I don't get the big deal.

People love writing angry posts on social media about social media. If you don't like it, don't use it, nobody is stopping you, quit the drama.
Huh, you just made up a bunch of stuff and said I believe it. I'm not the strawman you were attempting to beat.
I suspect the hardest part of their business was not doing the technology, rather it was building relationships with the brands and artists. Making it frictionless to push a button on your iOS device to recognize a tune and then put it in your Apple Music playlist for many future billable plays would seem to be a better model than Spotify.
This is a supremely good point that we (devs) normally fail to grasp-- you think the CFO gets talked to like that? The answer is no-- at the places I've been.
Friluftsliv: The Nordic concept of getting outdoors
y'all realise they run a music service too right? Having access to cross-platform data that gives them insight into bleeding edge emerging/trending artists and songs is priceless.
It's actually pretty easy to support older browser's without getting into the packaging mess if you don't need a modern framework. Learning webpack is a distraction from learning programming and would overwhelm a lot of the audience IMO.
The wikipedia page on Subjective Logic goes into more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_logic
I can definitely relate to this. I was an early Ethereum adopter and mentioned it to friends fairly often when it was around $2. I’m usually pretty dispassionate around others, so my friends took my zeal for Ethereum seriously and bought a bunch of it.

Once Ethereum hit $6, on a market cap basis it felt overvalued for what was essentially an early stage startup. I was afraid it would have scaling issues with smart contracts. I convinced myself it was overly hyped, even though I now realize that very few people outside of my bubble had heard of it. I sold the first time it dipped from $6 to $3.75.

As soon as I sold, it started heading higher. Every day I told myself it was overvalued, and yet it continued higher. New coins that contributed nothing of value were suddenly raising tens of millions of dollars, so I refused to believe that the bubble could continue much longer. This was early 2016.

I then repeated the cycle with Monero—bought early, told others, sold early, missed out on 2000% gains.

Most of my friends have enough money to retire at 25 and while I’m happy for them, it’s definitely negatively impacting my mental health. Crypto isn’t my first case of bad luck, but it’s the only one that I’ve had to relive nearly every day—it’s practically inescapable with the current hype.

Try not to let it impact how you view yourself, though. You seem like an intelligent person who made a couple of impulsive decisions that ended up being magnified by hindsight.
This is a heap of nonsense. Not only does this summarily dismiss the enormous challenges in digital signal processing required for removing arbitrary background audio, it exposes some confusion associated with the ideas of correlated random variables, inner products, and affine transformations.
I'm getting ready to do this but haven't figured out a way to open a bank account there without visiting the country. How did you do that? I saw there's a service that will do it for you but it seems like an expensive monthly fee.