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I agree with the sentiment. Most people view them as distinct frameworks. I believe the use of the name Angular for major version 2+ helped retain a lot of users. I've seen a lot of uninformed devs and managers assume that because they already have so much code in AngularJS that Angular is the next logical tool for their team to use.
Sadly there is no transparency mechanism. I'd like to say "of course not, the mods would not do that" but at this point we have no idea, and there is in effect zero accountability for moderation decisions, and every mysterious drop from the home page leads to speculation and mistrust.
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What does the publishing industry bring to the Web?
And how many years was it before early Dropbox employees allowed to cash out?
30s isn't really typical; the average is in the ballpark of 10s. When I worked at Square we got our average down to 4.2s [1]. Modern Verifone terminals seem pretty quick as well. Long term, "instant" contactless will probably become the norm (though it's taking hold very slowly in the US).

[1] https://squareup.com/townsquare/weve-chipped-away-at-emv-tra...
0-conf isn't fine in many trustless scenarios with Bitcoin because of Replace By Fee.
There is important work being done to create a general framework for valuing cryptoassets. We might consider a few key concepts, total addressable market (TAM), percent penetration of that market, velocity, and number of coins outstanding. It's essential to understand the token velocity, and the degree by which a network is effectively capturing some of the value it delivers to its users/token holders.

Chris Burniske, a crypto fund manager writes "these aren’t companies; they don’t have cash flows. Hence, using a discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis is not suitable. Instead, valuing cryptoassets requires setting up models structurally similar to what a DCF would look like, with a projection for each year, but instead of revenues, margins and profits, the equation of exchange is used to derive each year’s current utility value (CUV). Then, since markets price assets based on future expectations, one must discount a future utility value back to the present to derive a rational market price for any given year".

“Cryptoasset Valuations” @cburniske https://medium.com/@cburniske/cryptoasset-valuations-ac83479...
One could select for people who were not subject to an actual explosion?
Huawei’s CEO going off-script to rage at US carriers was the best speech of CES
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That's one reason radio stations often have contests. Having X number of people call in demonstrates someone is listening.
I know I'm not being original when I say I'm really not optimistic about their future. There service is extremely easy to replicate, as seen by all the giant companies who have done so, and all of these giant companies can give better service for free just as an incentive for people to increase their dependancy on their ecosystem (like microsoft and apple do quite aggressively, and google, to a lesser degree)
I’m not sure it would help, but maybe stimulating self-awareness can help victims come “back to reality”.
It's weird to frame this as 'neglect'. Some minority groups are uniquely distrusting of medical professionals (I'll cite this later when I'm not on a work network) - that's going to impair testing participation.

In the past, medical researchers went out of their way to use minority test subjects and that's been understood to be more problematic than our volunteer-based system.

The vast majority of medicine was developed in white and asian countries, it's not surprising that medicine is optimized for people in those clusters. And it's only unethical that it winds up this way if you think it's unethical for people to advance their self-interest. Personally, I think that motivates most of the research so I'd rather have medicine that isn't tailored for me than no medicine.

I'm sure we can make things better, but to act as though any disparity is conclusive evidence of neglect/racism/prejudice/structural barriers isn't helpful and isn't going to get us any closer to improving medicine.
This isn't specifically explored here, but a theory put forth by Michael Graziano in Consciousness and the Social Brain makes it interesting to consider whether "being able to explain itself" ultimately corresponds to a kind of consciousness...
But a main lesson you could be taking is that you shouldn't trust your own self assessment. If you think you're good at something, don't take your own word for it.
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They could get 100x the amount they've gotten so far from these companies if they had launched their own crypto-asset, which is probably by far the best way for an open source project to get funding.
This kind of resonates with me. I can do my job without much problem, I earn a decent amount of cash but I can't shake the feeling that somewhere out there is a job where I can become everything I could possibly be. In part I feel like this because my work is heavily bound to the vision of the other people and I don't have much say in how I do certain things.
No, but have met some people that have and I’ve also read the tortured writings of victims all throughout the internet. Someone has to do something!
I guess that would explain the insanity surrounding the node labels. Each number has position:fixed and a coordinate relative to the scroll position of the viewport. They update their position slightly out of sync with the scrolling motion, which is extremely unsettling to watch. Seems almost designed to induce motion sickness.
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these replies are a symbol of what hackernews has become , so political , not much real substance
This describes my situation to the point. I have worked in big unicorns and have deployed many ml based models in production which had moved the numbers significantly while many a data scientists in our team just kept cribbing about errors in data or scarcity of it.

I have no DS background, am a humble engineer but believe it's 10x better to just work with whatever you have available and get sit done.
If you have a means of determining whether or not something is conscious or merely responding to stimuli, by all means please share.

If your argument is that there is no difference, then you have to start adding a bunch of other rules to justify how you determine the moral worth of one class of things that respond to stimuli from others, which is beyond the original scope of discussion, I think.
What an amazing read! I saw the correlation between actual and perceived ability and thought to myself, yeah, because the further up you go the more you expect the scale to become logarithmically difficult, be it only to imagine (for themselves) that it's even possible they don't get to actually high score (100%).

That being said, there might be some statistical magic hidden in the graph, where the group, the further up it goes, does less rely on self-rewarding by guessing a lower score and splitting up into "actual" self-underselling for mimicking, evening out with the ambitious but really good ones.
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Yeah good point, that actually brings a lot of complexity in our player library.
There is already bugs linked to specific DRM systems, but it only becomes worse when we talk about specific devices, like STBs or connected TVs. Some who have completely different systems than those three, some who lie on more robust implementation of those three. I ran into multiple kind of bugs, sometimes CDM-related, sometimes browser-related (CEF), sometimes a subtly different EME workflow was needed on the JS-side (we could argue that in that case the bug would also be more on the browser/CDM side if it does not just follow the EME specification).

I hesitated to talk about EME-related matters in that article but here (on an introduction) it would have become too technical and less interesting for most common folks.

But it would definitely be a good subject to talk about for another article.
I was using the numbers for 2015. The years after that aren't significantly different.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/US_Feder...
According to the definition, the term applies when local majority is country's minority.

If you're no longer country's minority, you cannot be majority-minority.
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How would we even know? Parallel construction, etc. The burden of proof should go the other way.
>decentralization of data

IMO, having many cryptocurrencies above an arbitrarily-large threshold of USD equivalency (let's say $1b, which according to https://coinmarketcap.com/ right now gives us 40) dilutes the overall chance of cryptocurrencies ever becoming viable for commerce, instead positioning them more similarly to stocks or other speculative investments.

To meet my definition of "succeed" as currencies ("when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange"), we would likely need just a few, or likely, one, that works e.g. at brick-and-mortar places. Overstock, Newegg, Steam, etc give good credibility to this idea, but look at which cryptocurrencies they accept (and how the price in those is tied to the real-time market rate).

Also regarding decentralization, and again because these cryptocurrencies largely have value right now only because of their order books on a handful of exchanges, are we actually in a better place? If the feds in the US decided that they wanted to regulate / shut down the big exchanges for whatever reason (e.g. billionaire gets burned and cries to his politician buddies to "fix" it), sure the coins don't go away, but as long as you can't realistically spend them on basic needs like food and shelter, are they actually decentralized? To me, cryptocurrencies are the similar to Chuck E. Cheese tokens that vary thousands of percent in value per year; they have some cash equivalency if you're able to convert them, but alone, they have no real utility.
To be honest this was my first reaction to Dropbox as well: just set up a VPN. Looking back, it's clear that I underestimated the advantages of Dropbox and the size of the market. Drew was prescient in identifying an elegant solution to this universal problem.
I think it really boils down to a perception issue. I think more people would be happy paying a flat fee for a language package then deal with the angst of "wasted" money paying for languages that some users don't leverage. The package as it currently stands would "work" if I could assign languages to users and have that reflect back up to pricing, but that's cumbersome to manage from a customer perspective and sounds pretty painful to implement from the provider perspective.

It may be useful to consider a baseline two-language deal, as Javascript + one server side language covers a huge amount of use cases.

That said, you cover 2 out of 3 of the following scenarios pretty well with the existing model, I just happen to fall into the third, which is probably the smallest sector for you guys anyway:

1 - Small startups, probably standardized on one or two languages, 8-10 people
2 - Larger orgs (200+) where the cost is negligible compared to revenue.
3 - Medium-sized, microservice/squad based orgs, with heterogenous language support but focused within teams.
That's your final evidence that the myths, which obviously differ in details, are not related by a common precursor? I don't think it's that easy at all.

Hunters and generals are both heroes in the respective cultures, that was the point. The significance might be that the rotation of the belt at a given time of a year might have been helpful in navigation some thousand years ago. Thus the names are not to be thought of as anthropomorphisms, but as associations, namely the stars every hero knows. And with significance to navigation its obviously possible that the myths around it would spread far along with the travelers.

Anyhow hunters and generals are far more closely related thematically, than e.g. Pisces and Libra.
Ahaha that is classic!

triggered This doesn't solve a real world problem in Asperger world!
I'll happily sell unfiltered, unpurified, un-whatever'd water from my well for half that!

Any takers?
The benefit of any scientific paper is that is benefits science -- it is not necessary that science accomplishes anything more. (The fact that science benefits society is a nice consequence, but not necessarily an immediate one.)

While I think there are in fact useful insights that the individual can glean directly from this paper, we shouldn't forget that scientific papers exist for a larger purpose than to be the tools of self-improvement or the weapons of our social wars.
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> I wish there was an equally useful feature to get back to the bottom.

WhatsApp shows a small button in the lower-right corner once you scroll up a few messages for this purpose. iMessage scrolls back to the bottom as soon as you focus the input field. I don't know about the others.

But yeah, it highly depends on how the developers decide to implement it, which is suboptimal :(
From the bottom of the article, since people are wondering whether this is serious:

> The views expressed in this article are not endorsed by and do not in any way represent the opinions of their employers or Leo Strauss. They should also not be taken to express the views of the authors.
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Interesting analogy.

When I was told about this many years ago, it was described as the 'n factorial problem'. This problem assumes that directionality of the communication is important. If you have two nodes, they are 2! ways to communicate. If you have three things, there are 3! or 6 ways to communicate between the nodes. The suggested solution was similar, group components together behind a black box facade so that 30 components can be reduced to 3! main communication paths or less.
I do, and have for some years now. The topics and titles are attractive, but when I look at what value or knowledge I got from the talks, it seems like most of them have very less actionable information. The promise of the titles seems to be actionable information but the end result isn't. This inconsistency is frustrating. This isn't a blanket accusation about all TED talks, but to me most of them fall into this category (maybe I've watched more of the "here's how we can change the world" talks).
Since I refused to downgrade to WebExtensions Firefox, and I'm currently using Pale Moon for most browsing (and I'm looking at Otter as a possible #2), I don't have access to it anymore. I simply do not trust Mozilla anymore, or Firefox.
You win hacker news today for this double hitter of comments. I love your mental model regarding market cap and implied valuation. Your white paper is more honest then most!
The weird transaction cost in ripple is that you always have to leave 20 XRP to the account. LOL.
Do a lot of practice problems. There are plenty in the book "Cracking the Coding Interview"
Use the tools you'll be expected to use for an interview with one of the top 4 companies (i.e. internet text pad, pen and paper, whiteboard)
Do several problems every day and you'll be ready in a few months. Make it your 9-5 and you can be ready in a few weeks.

It's all about practice! Good luck!

Also, if you can get in touch with a recruiter at those companies, they'll give you tons of helpful tips (mostly just how to practice and what to practice)
I think this comment is the best advice here. You're young. You know a lot but have relatively little sway. Learn from this. There'll be a next time.
In more social/cultural discussions of genetics and race, there are often different assertions on various sides that race does or does not imply a specific definable genetic makeup. How might that contrast with the more medically focused approach and use of the term minorities with work of HDP Health?
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Uber has a secret system to thwart police raids
This is bad news.

> “The Intelligence Committee’s bill disregards the Constitution and common sense by granting the government the authority to search Americans’ communications without first obtaining a warrant,” Schuman told The Intercept. “Not only does this turn the purpose of the foreign surveillance law on its head, transforming it into a domestic surveillance tool, but it places activists, minorities, and everyone else at the mercy of President Trump and Attorney General Sessions, who have made clear their disregard for legal constraints and democratic norms.”

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/09/nsa-surveillance-fisa-se...
"Participants were 95 Cornell undergraduates ... from ... courses in psychology".

Bad job, "researchers". That's not a suitable pool for studying this. That group has already been filtered for competence. It's a rerun of the old joke of someone asking a drunk why he's looking for his keys near a streetlight when he didn't lose them there. "The light is better here." (In tech, some clueless types do user experience testing on their own staff. Same problem.)

Try recruiting some subjects at the unemployment office.
"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather."

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
Try "Cracking the Coding Interview" by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. There's some pretty good coverage of what you might find in an interview. I think what struck me is the author has worked for at least three of the companies you listed, but never seemed to stay at any of them for very long - it makes you wonder if working for the big four is really all it's cracked up to be (pardon the pun)!

Google has also created some interview videos you can pick up on YouTube. They are (obviously) staged, but are quite interesting and informative.

Good luck!
The way I wanted to make it look was that those who thought they knew what they were talking about have no way of knowing on which side of the pond they were. :)

EDIT: ...because your tools are useless in the face of ignorance.
As long as "easy" also means "cheap."
I'd chalk that up as poetic license and national differentiation. The contested point that most scientific history necessarily ends with Greeks or Egyptions is only due to lack of evidence and a heavy local focus in research. But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, at that scale at least.
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> large winslet

heh I hope that's a typo

Boy oh boy it is a depressing book/movie: prepare like you prep for an episode of black mirror I guess.
Timing doesn't have to be in seconds. You can spin up a second thread, that increments a variable and use that a your meter stick for elapsed time. Another though is to have the timer on some external server.
I am using it on Linux and I was very wary in the starting, but then it works so smooth, it is my preferred manner of video call instead of hangouts.
You have my sympathies. Here in USA, a family friend was targeted by federal prosecutors and lost her career as a result. She was "stung" by a couple of ex-FBI private investigators, who were hired by vengeful business rivals. "Justice" Department is hard enough on random citizens in general, but if one inspires a powerful wealthy person to spend some money, they can be much much worse.
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Indeed. Companies generally have a right of first refusal on you selling your options. I experienced this first hand.
We perceive sound two-dimensionally by spectral decomposition in the cochlea, so theres that...
> Rust and Haskell programs are subject to Spectre attacks just as badly as K&R C ones from 1983. All that pontification didn't actually work!

Um, Rust and Haskell aren't about security against malicious attackers exploiting hardware/system flaws. They are about correctness against programmers writing (some classes of) bugs by mistake. The two aren't directly related. Program correctness is a worthy goal even if it doesn't protect you against hardware problems.
I know some people who joined Dropbox as new grads in 2014. The company had <1000 employees and seemed like it had a lot of upside.

The options given out at that time were priced at a $10B and have been basically under water since.

So even if you do join a fast growing company with a good brand and the potential to go public there's still a solid chance you make no money.
Yeah, you can't just grab a dolphin from the sea, chuck them in a tank, and run experiments on them. You'll have to build a rapport with the dolphins to get any meaningful data.

There should be better ways of studying them, like passive observation in the sea, or by making a mecha-dolphin that can follow them without interfering too much.
I used to play a game when I'd read TechCrunch for whatever misguided reason: I'd read until the first obvious spelling or grammatical error. I don't believe that I ever made it beyond the second paragraph. US journalism today is largely awful clickbaity crap, and the ad revenue encourages a race to the bottom for content quality. It'd be awesome if there were a way to align incentives for this to not be case. So far, nothing I've heard of seems to be working very well aside from running ads and trying to sell subscriptions, sometimes despite low-quality content.
It wasn't a policy it was a spam heuristic
I don't, just basing it on the comments in the previous megathreads [1]. But any kind of prohibition on "lying to the police" is going to be bound up with the issue of the defendant's state of mind. They're guilty if they believed e.g. a particular man was a cop and were deceiving him on that basis. And it looks like that applies here and was what Uber was doing.

Believing that you're merely lying to "the new guy" or "an abusive user" isn't enough, as you note, so that part of the program (send spurious data to likely bots) wasn't illegal.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14269708

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13785969
You really only agree with scientific papers that have "positive effects"? You do see the irony here, right?
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>Why do we need Style Transfer for Music?

We don't. Most of the applications of ANNs to music that I've seen so far are solving problems that either don't exist or have been very successfully solved by much simpler methods with much better results.

If you want to apply AI to something useful in music, how about:

- Machine learning for reverb generation. I.e. being able to "record" reverb from real space and apply it to sound.

- AI/ML for high-quality sample transposition.

- AI for pure sound synthesis. Imagine something that does PCA a set of sounds and then allows you to generate new sounds by changing components with a bunch of knobs.

- AI for real-time sample morphing. For example, being able to synthesize a choir that sings the words you need. Or, how about transforming your own voice into a quality choir vocals? Hey, style transfer!

- AI for high-quality music transcription (sound to notes or MIDI). This is being done to some extent, but I don't think it's very good yet.

And so on.

I can assure you, every singe one of these would be something musicians would be willing to pay good money for.