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I felt like his rant was all over the place this time. I would like to understand his definition of innovation and by that definition, who is innovating and who is not innovating. Google+ example is an ancient one, and the current Google is very different from that. Does he have a problem with Sundar's vision of making Google into a machine learning first company? Does he see the distinction of Alphabet and Google, and the notion of separating the big ideas into Google X? Does he think innovation is easy without failing 100 times?
I remember this product from the early inception. If anyone was in London back in 2014 - Front was even pitched at the Don't Pitch Me Bro event.
Having used Front in the early days it was a breath of fresh air. Being able to handle support/sales inboxes, as a team, like a boss!
I haven't used Front since 2015, but I wish the best of luck to everyone involved - not sure about that replace Outlook, more like get acquired by a big co that works in support-first with heavy email workflows. (zendesk and all the alternatives used by big telcos etc )
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Medium teems seem worse than both large and small teams.

With non-small teams, you need formal communications channels, which adds significant overhead. With a medium team, this eats up most, if not all, of the extra productivity you get by having more people than a large team.

There are some things that you just can't get done with a small team, and then a large team is needed, but at a much higher cost.
As bulgarian, there is also the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff 's computer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff%E2%80%93Berry_comput...

as we joke in Bulgaria, even Jesus was Bulgarian... Columbus too :)
Funny, I just left a job where new management was installed and promptly lost ~12/30 people in the span of 9 months. Not only was life markedly worse on day 1, it got worse every time another quality coworker or line manager left.

You'd think this would send a signal to someone that a mistake had been made. Nope!
I've actually modeled email domain as a feature in a regression model of customer spending habits. We were all surprised to find it is a very predictive signal!

Of course insurance companies want to use every signal available to them to price discriminate on rates. If you are a good driver, the insurance company wants you because you are unlikely to file claims. Likewise, you are happy to receive a discount for being a good driver. A simple signal of being a good driver is your driving record, but we all know this isn't very reliable by itself. So you end up with other signals being used. Literally any signal that is not protected (like race/gender) will get used in any insurance model. None of this is new. The color of your car is used surely, so why is it so shocking that your email domain is used as well?
Finally someone else who's been peeved by the Times' web reader! What's worse is that it captures mouse drag, so that I can't highlight words: dragging to the sides is hijacked to load previous/next article. Terrible design.
The part on bitcoin is a trivial and common opinion; not newsworthy. The part on ripple is comically stupid. And then the fact that he himself is a con artist is too much.
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There are crypto exchanges that allow naked shorting. As long as you hold the equivalent USD or EUR amount in the exchange, Cexio for example will let you margin short BTC with 3x leverage, when you don't actually own the BTC.

I'm not saying you should, just that you can.
When you say GPU + RNNs address the remaining 10% of problems... what problems fall under that 10%?
First, FastText is very similar to (a superset of) Word2Vec. Secondly. RNNs are far from being endgame for anything. In fact, recent research has been moving away from them towards more predictable and parallelizable methods (see, e.g., Google's Transformers, aka "Attention is all you need", or FAIR's approach to translation using CNNs).
In investing it's usually when the crowd starts believing the bull run that it's at its end.
I think for this to be successful you need to encourage users to server the videos. There are a couple things that might help this:

- Popularity could be based not only on views, but how many total minutes of the video were shared by other people.

- When someone watches a video, they have to keep hosting it until they share as much as they've watched it (so if they watched 10 minutes, they have to share it until they've distributed 10 minutes worth of the video to other people.
No.

Putting the organization ahead of individuals isn't what's happening. The individuals ARE the organization.

So if you put yourself ahead of the organization, you're putting everyone else behind you, including your boss. This is a challenge for millennials especially, who are used to always being put first, and having their emotions managed.

A good manager doesn't put themselves before their boss or anyone else. How often do you hear of programmers who enter management to hardly touch code again? A good manager puts the organization first, both above and below their pay grade.

But their performance also depends on the people they manage. If a worker is incompetent, they have every right to be hard on those mistakes. And the worker is fully responsible for setting things right. Work is not homework that gets handed back to you after its graded. It's something needed by someone else that needs it for something important. And nothing is redundant in a tightly run business.

When I think of Melissa Mayers, I think of bullets. Despite whether anyone agrees with "her" moves (which were clearly backed by her counsel), she was doing everything she could to increase market share and rebuild a failing business. She took on all the risk, and becomes target practice for those who despise her failures. When was the last time you were bashed on HN? And she does this so that everyone at Yahoo has a job. She is fighting for YOU.

Regardless of my word choice, to borrow your words, the CEO is a ridiculously inflated position.
The difference being that you don't submit your social media profile as part of applying for a job. I agree with grandparent though, looking for structure of commits showing organization is important.

No one is a perfect coder, but it is discouraging to look at a candidates GitHub and see that the majority of it is a mess since they included the url on their application, which generally indicates it's something that they want to show off. Not every repository or commit has to be perfect, but if you submit a public GitHub profile, expect it to be scrutinized in detail.
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Reputation seemed to largely work for The Silk Road. I mean, there might have been isolated incidents, but I don't seem to recall a broad trend of people dying from buying bad drugs.

At the end of the day, I think it always remains the case that "killing your customers is bad for business".
I think the key is to vote third (alternative?) party in smaller elections (mayor, state senate), and then work up.

Voting third party for congress is mostly a waste of time for now, and it doesn't seem likely that we're going to see a massive enough shift in voter participation to change that all in one go, but I think with enough effort to build up non-D/R party support at the local level that could change a lot faster than most people think.

I'm less optimistic about the presidency, really. I doubt the reigning parties will let that slip out of their hands.
> Does that mean that you think that it doesn't happen?

It happens, but it’s rare, at least with repos. Treasuries are tracked by the CUSIP—the U.S. Treasury knows every nominal owner. Being short-term, settled up front and centrally tracked makes it a bad place to attempt fraud.

Fraud is a frequency, not binary, metric. Fraud in crypto-currencies is rifer than anything we’ve seen in America for generations. Complaining about potential repo fraud when BitConnect and pump and dumps run rampant is a bit silly.
Personally, I don't think CS should be a core subject in primary schools. I think it'd be better to have some kind of technology competency subject, to help teach basic use, problem solving, security and privacy practices, and whatnot. A bit of programming and the core concepts of logical thinking and algorithms wouldn't be a bad idea, but I think most students wouldn't actually need to know CS.

If they want to address job demand, I feel it'd be better to increase teacher pay to get better CS teachers, so there'd be a few _good_ CS graduates, rather than many _average_ CS grads.
Say the cost in time/money/resources of coordinating between any two individuals is on average x dollars. Let's call this figure pair coordination cost.

The pair coordination cost between 3 individuals, ignoring overhead, is 3x dollars, as there are three possible pairs that need to coordinate, i.e., there are three connections in a network with three nodes.

The pair coordination cost between 4 individuals, ignoring overhead, is 6x dollars. At 5 people, the pair coordination cost is 10x dollars.

At n people, the pair coordination cost is (n(n-1)/2)x dollars, which is asymptotically proportional to n²x as n grows.[a]

When coordination costs are high, as with software development, it's not surprising that small teams outperform large teams.

Large software development teams generally cannot accomplish much -- unless they break into smaller, highly autonomous teams with well-separated responsibilities.

This applies to other high-coordination-cost endeavors, such as building a successful company from scratch.

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[a] This is Metcalfe's law, but for a network's pair coordination cost instead of value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
When I was deep into The Invisibles, I looked up "King Mob" and learned the character was likely inspired by the real-life radical group of the same name from 60s-70s London.[0]

0 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Mob]
Twitter does this too , when I want the link of the gif I can't get it. So I end up with a link to the twitter post
Odds are that these people are not reskilling and will be left out of any new boost we have. Also consider where and when any recovery happens, most people already on tenuous ground are less likely to move to take advantage of that.
You tell me. It certainly appears that the EU spares no resources at seeking and investigating US corporations and certainly they have no qualm in sticking them with record fines.
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true but it seems that the performance gap is pretty huge and the new f-strings actually come in on top for string substitution:

https://cito.github.io/blog/f-strings/
Insurance skepticism is when the product seems more like gambling or an expensive savings plan, than it is about high cost risk management. The more inevitable some costly event is perceived, then why not just save for that event, rather than pay a premium for only partial coverage, etc.

This is my complaint with referring to health insurance, a huge amount of which is b.s. What we have is an aging payment plan. We're all gonna get old, and it's gonna suck, and be expensive, might as well start paying now: oh guess what, you are, it's called Medicare payroll tax.
See also: John Carmack's plan file updates. https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive
I built a docker image exposing spacy.io (with their largest en model) as rest endpoints

http://github.com/artpar/languagecrunch
I set up a time-series Postgres 9.6 database last year with traditional table partitioning (based on entity id, not time). I looked at TimescaleDB but it was about a month old at the time so I wasn't comfortable recommending it. Also I got the impression that it was little more than a wrapper around traditional partitioning, just to make it easier to use. Looking at their Github now it seems to be more than that though. I will have to give it a closer look! But also you might want to clarify your literature about what's going on. Is it something like cstore_fdw with its own files (but not built on FDW)?

I have a Postgres extension of my own for fast timeseries inserts that gives you back the data as an array (https://github.com/pjungwir/floatfile), but it is much less developed and comes with a lot of caveats. My own approach is very simple: just make a file of 8-byte floats and keep appending to it. Is timescaledb something like that (but better)? One of the drawbacks with my approach is that you have to re-implement a lot of things (like histograms). Even though you say you support "all of SQL" it looks like you are similarly re-implementing things that would be slow otherwise (histograms).

Also, I see a lot about insert performance, but I keep getting projects where inserts aren't challenging but getting fast analytic queries is. I'd love to see some examples/numbers there.

I really like the idea of keeping timeseries data quasi-connected to your main RDBMS, so I'm thrilled to see successful projects in that space. It can definitely be challenging. I wonder if something like influx_fdw is possible and would make sense? (I've never used InfluxDB.)
No, GP is pointing to a housing bill that preempts local zoning restrictions in certain cases, not the “stating future intent to adopt legislation and use existing regulatory powers” net neutrality bill.
More good footage + audio: https://twitter.com/nova_road/status/956221490785026053
Seconding the outlook web interface. It's not perfect, but it's pretty dang good. That plus all else you get with office 365 and I don't think anyone is going to put a serious dent in Microsoft's enterprise office dominance for quite some time.
saw this after posting, so epicly useful. Alreadying thinking of some nice concise, explanatory custom Exception descriptions..
Why wouldn't you want to have a copy of all your medical records? Perhaps this isn't super useful if you've gone to the same doctor your entire life, but I've gone to multiple doctors (and I know I'll be going to more in my lifetime). It'll be nice to have the ability to pull up my full history if I needed to provide a new doctor with some (more accurate than memory) history.
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Layers are good. They allow our limited mind to deal with more and more complex problems. The issue forms when layers are inadequately described, or blackbox things they shouldn't. The worst form of this issue is when people start writing introductory documentation as if it was a marketing copy.

A fair introduction to a library would be like this: "This library lets you make X, Y and Z from A, B and C. It does so using mathematical methods 1, 2, 3 - therefore, it will be great for this-and-that type of A-B-C, but will not perform well for some-other-type." Such a description will tell you where the limits of applicability are, and what to look for if you want to understand more.

(Also, neural network libs should come with a big, bold caveat: "this is magic, only 10 people on the planet know how the whole stack works; the rest of us just perform a ritual on a cluster of GPUs and pray that thus summoned entity will do sorta ok-ish job with our problem (and if it doesn't, you're on your own)".)
If there's any site that has absolutely no need to nag me to log in before reading, it's Medium. Yet every time I visit, they pop up and say "You've read XX articles, time to make this official". Why? Why? What benefit do I get from signing in unless I'm writing a blog?

It's annoying when Quora does it, but at least Quora is a question and answers site. It's designed for a back and forth and user interaction. Stack Exchange proves you don't need to make people log in for that, but whatever. Quora does it. But Medium is not a chat site. It's not a forum. It's not Q&A. It's a blog site. I'm not writing a blog, I'm just trying to read.

Stop asking me to make an account.
Glad you asked! But some people may disagree with your premises rather than directly with your conclusions.

- if you steal that's bad - few people disagree with this

- if you sell unauthorized copies of someone else's thing, that's bad - few people disagree with this.

- if you make and watch an unauthorized copy of someone else's thing, but only for yourself, that's bad - most people kind of disagree with this, especially if in a vacuum.

- same as above, but you make minimum wage (because the economy is only growing for the 1%, not because you're lazy) at 2 jobs and you like 1 tv show from 6 Netflix clones and you think 6x12$/month is too much when you're already paying 100$+ for cable TV and internet and share a small apartment with 2 roommates, and student loans, and you don't have healthcare, so you pirate 3 tvshows. - you'll probably mentally rewrite this as "no, they were lazy, otherwise they'd be getting VC funding for their 3rd startup like me", but most people probably don't think this is wrong if they don't apply egocentric mental rewrites of reality. And of course, if the response to this person's "personal problems" is "not my problem, piracy objectively bad", then of course the correct response would be "somebody watched your video for free, not my problem".

- the content cannot be legally acquired in your country - probably less people find this bad.

- you pirated the content because you don't think the people who would profit deserve money - I would consider it ethical to pirate EA games and unethical to pirate most indie games. If ISIS (terrorist organisation) released a TV show, are you going to defend their IP rights?

- you pirated content because you don't believe in property rights - this one can be interesting. The USA's philosophical mind share is heavily propertarian, but how do you convince someone they stole your TV show view count (worth less than 10$ this month) when they believe you are sitting on top of the stolen value of the entire real estate of North America (stolen from the natives) and labor (some literally stolen from Africa, others where someone worth twice minimum wage in profits is paid minimum wage), then you have the balls to acuse them of theft? In fact, if you don't believe in property rights, then you think the gate keeping on this video is a form of theft, since without the right, it belongs to everyone.

"Piracy is theft, there are no valid nuances" isn't a good position.
Yeah, the title befuddles me. I don't find it surprising at all. Scaling is hard and the overhead grows exponentially. Another thing that small teams have going for them is that it forces focus. You can't afford to waste time having 20 people investigate something or chase one customer.
Nice list. Content marketing is often underrated, but is extremely useful and important
Again, you're not really addressing what he said. You're just saying it's common opinion. Doesn't make it right or wrong.

(I'm talking specifically about the bitcoin part, don't care about the rest)
> You can know that something is wrong and the numbers are all made up but being right doesn't matter when the market ignores fundamentals.

You can participate in the market simply by not buying. If nobody offers the short, it is not possible to accept it.

In the case of BTC, one could arrange a private short (you loan me your BTC, for which I will pay you interest and return your BTC in two years) and short it that way. Caveat trader.
People are bad at managing themselves, especially when they are ill. It is a bad idea to expose patients to their health records. It will get lost, they will change things, they will fight with their doctor over what is put in the record, they'll want things clarified they don't understand putting undue burden on overworked doctors.

Health records need to be impartial and unbiased so future medical care can be given with the best possible information.
I know its wrong but I'm imagining a Hoxton based start up offering artisanal computer bureau running on a restored IBM 360 - where the punch persons craft each punch card by hand using a 18th century bradawl.

Top of the line would be leased line cyberpunked up asr33 (actualy they are quite cp as is)
So you cut your staff by 90%? Or did you devote their time to other activities?
Because if they lay people off it's bad press, and if they say they're in maintenance mode people will think the company is failing and both of those things aren't great for user adoption.

You grow until you fail, and then another competitor takes over. That's what disruption means.
Does anyone have a reference to all the expected/discussed use-cases? https://github.com/jasnell/activitystrea.ms/blob/master/READ... shows a number of activity types.
Sarcasm can be fun, but it would seem odd to leave such a thing off a list of basic things to do to clean your data.

Large amounts of text based problems that companies actually have problems I think can be solved with approaches in this article. I'd be surprised actually if many need to go all the way through to the end, which gets up to word vectors and convolutional neural networks.
> it seems to me that computer science, just over the relatively short time I've been paying attention, is becoming more-and-more abstract in a lot of ways.

But can we still call it computer science? It seems to me more like linguistics / mathematics / statistics, with the CS only to do the low-level computations and accounting of data.

Of course, if you build a global-scale efficient search engine with it, the role of CS may become bigger.
Obviously there are going to be exceptions to the rule, hence why the language I used didn't say "all" or other exclusive terms. However the ratio would seem to be in the favour of right wing politics Vs left wing - and particularly so if you also factor in copies sold of each specific publication into your analysis.
Without a rule about altitude changes or something how would you get a spiral from this rather than just a circle?
Not in all countries the train driver that takes me to London has a basic of 60k - for a 4 day week! with OT that's 75 to 80k and they have a DB pension.
Wholeheartedly agree here - definite undercurrent of protectionism in these highly publicized cases against US firms. Although I'm not sure how long the EU will be around in its current incarnation. It seems to be one more economic downturn away from serious trouble.
The great Isaac Asimov said we ought to regard Satan as the protagonist in that story, although I don't recall if he suggested that is what Milton intended. I haven't read Asimov's annotated Paradise Lost, which is out of print and very hard to find.
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It should be like this:

well-organized github > chaotic github >> no github

instead, when employers evaluate github profiles, they reason like this:

well-organized github > no github >> chaotic github
Got a degree, then got a job. That isn't depressing. That is what people do.
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Yes. They've been rather soft on VW, who got a pat on the back, just like US bankers did after the subprime mortgage crisis. I'm glad the US took a had stance against VW.
I want the spectrum to be relatively flat, i.e. lacking the spikes that we see with most fluorescing materials. The flatter it is, the more well behaved it'll be compared to what our biology is designed for: black body radiators.

Also, the aging profile is important. Just because the thing won't stop working for 10 years is not what's important. If it starts color shifting in a year, which to date they do, that's pretty much shit. Try mixing and matching bulbs, it's horrendous.