skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit can easily be considered a "quasi-public palce" http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment1/annotation20.html...:

>In Marsh v. Alabama, the Court held that the private owner of a company town could not forbid distribution of religious materials by a Jehovah's Witness on a street in the town's business district. The town, wholly owned by a private corporation, had all the attributes of any American municipality, aside from its ownership, and was functionally like any other town. In those circumstances, the Court reasoned, 'the more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.''

Which was later refined:

>Food Employees Union v. Logan Valley Plaza... Henceforth, only when private property has taken on all the attributes of a town' is it to be treated as a public forum

The first case, which set the precedent, involved the distribution of written materials in a "company town," the second case created a stipulation that prevented the law from applying in strip mall shopping centers.

Basically, the case can be made that Reddit, for its own advantage, has opened itself up to the public to as a public forum to as great of an extent as possible. It obviously is never going to carry "all the attributes of a town" but I feel to see why that is the only way "to be treated as a public forum."
Don't bet against text (2014)
One of the ideas floating around after Parkland that seems to have gotten bipartisan support (even the National Review warmed up to it! -- https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/gun-control-republica...) is a "gun violence restraining order". This provides a framework for those close to someone, and law enforcement, to temporarily restrict their ability to purchase weapons. I think (as the National Review columnist says) there is broad conceptual agreement that someone can demonstrate through their conduct that they should not possess a weapon. Parkland was a clear failure in this regard -- the perpetrator was this close to being "Baker Acted" (Florida's involuntary institutionalization law).

From my perspective, I welcome ideas like these. Limited access control ideas along the line of this framework is where I think the focus needs to be.

Some discussion also could be reserved for equipment like "bump stocks", that at first glance seems to solely be designed to circumvent existing law (it is highly illegal to modify a semi-automatic into a fully-automatic gun). Again, treating these type of equipment like the extremely highly regulated machine gun class is something even the National Review agrees with. (https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/10/bump-stocks-machine-g...)
All other things being equal yeah you have to screen resumes somehow.

But I think the point made in the OP is worth reflecting on: job hoppers may actually illuminate desirable candidates.
OP should register himself as an S-Corp, hang out a shingle, and market it as a consultancy. Now the pay triples, your short stay at various companies is downright expected, and everybody's incentives align - OP wants to do the best work he can in the shortest amount of time possible (so he can move on to the _next_ client), and his employers^Wclients will pay more to collect on the value OP's work provides sooner. Ironically, if you start spending more than a year at any given client, future clients will start to get antsy about '...why were you there so long? Are you a foot-dragger? What's the matter with you?" This is why you should NOT do hourly-billing, to make sure everybody's incentives stay aligned as described above. :-)

Difficulty level: stop thinking of yourself as a 'programmer' or an 'engineer', and start thinking of how your programming/engineering work impacts the business' bottom line. See: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...

tl; dr - humans are weird.
Wikipedia says this is 17-23 light-years away. So it moved between 16.2 and 22.2 light years in 70k years. This means relative to us it is moving an average of 0.0231% to 0.0317% the speed of light.
Respectfully,

We've had "learning-to-learn" algorithms for a few years now. Including LSTMs that can be learn the gradients for other LSTMs, and deep-RL algorithms that can optimize neural networks.

Its hard to say its inventing new things... there is still a clear goal - a loss - and we are optimizing it; poorly in the case of genetic algorithms.

I would say genetic methods are simply poorly described reinforcement learning problems, which means that there is a 1-to-1 mapping between Deep Learning and Genetic Algorithms.

PS. Making a distinction between "Genetic Algorithms" and "Genetic Programming" is like calling Deep Learning "Differential Programming" -- changing the name of a thing does not change the thing itself.
This runs counter to your initial statement: "I don't really care why your career has played like that."

Which is probably why he's had such a hard time explaining it in the first place. Lots of people aren't going to take the time to actually read and understand the situation.
Crunchy tacos. All day long. I don't care where it's from, it's genius.
You don’t think there’s a difference between people who signed up/registered/interacted with Obama and just buying 50 million records from a personality quiz that was on FB 4+ years before?
Airbnb hosts can kick you out after you’ve checked in
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Just make the heading on the section be “4 month internship at blah”. That should be fine.

You may have met a CTO that wasn’t paying attention but that’s not the problem here. Having short periods of work while you’re studying is fine.

Flipping more than a couple of full time jobs is a big red flag. You need a really good reason.
Second the recommendation for Golden Curry, it's a staple of my cabinet. And it's not just Asian food stores, I've found it in the "International" sections of small-name grocers, chain grocers, and even in the Wal-Mart of the podunk Appalachian town where I went to college. I also buy it in bulk from Amazon when I need to pad out my order to get the free shipping. Highly recommend.
The Chevy Bolt's service schedule starts with a coolant flush at 150,000 miles. I've been driving two Nissan Leafs for 4 years (a 2012 then a 2018) that have not seen a dealer since I purchased them. The brake pads are good for the life of the car; you have to purposely slam the brakes every few months just to avoid them sticking and rusting from disuse. Well-made EVs generate virtually no revenue for dealer service centers.
You make a very good point here. I too have taken on freelance work that ended up consuming much more time than expected and I found it very draining. Even when you aren’t working on it, the knowledge that you have to work on it hangs over you.

These days, if I’m working five days a week for a client, I will only take on small side projects (something that I could probably do in a few days full time work, but I will spread out over a month or so) for people who understand that is all I can take on and that I will be working at that pace.

I’d advise starting small, overestimating how much time it will take by quite a large margin, and taking breaks between projects, as it’s a horrible feeling when you realise something you’ve committed to is going to take much more time than you expected.
Might I suggest getting an clerical or administrative job at local State or Private University? Most benefit packages provide tuition assistance to their staff. That is what I did, though it was a bitch trying to get a sysadmin position at my desired schools.
Millimeters over what area, though? A millimeter depth over a kilometer^2 area is a decent amount of water; a millimeter depth over a meter^2, less so.
The LaserDisc Craze
The Dawn of Multimedia (2013)
Not evenly remotely true. It means that citizens don't lose their free speech rights when they form groups.

It was about a group who made a "documentary" about hilary clinton and were banned from releasing it near the election.
GWAS of depression phenotypes in UK Biobank (n=322,580)
The market cap of Crypto doesn't really have much to do with a systemic risk. System Risks, like what we saw from certain mortgage backed securities, arose from investors thinking something was safe when it really wasn't safe. There isn't really anyone professional who thinks Crytos are a low risk asset. The way certain mortgage backed securities were advertised, professional investors thought they were low risk and dumped a large amount of money into them. Banks and other investors also structured different products that also depended on them (with the assumption that they were low risk). In the end, we found out they got the math wrong and those investments weren't really low risk. That's what created a systemic risk.
While I can’t predict that we can solve intelligence completely any time soon, I would argue that machine intelligence allows us to examine the phenomena of intelligence more thoroughly than anything else in the past.

I would expect this to yield new insights. So at a minimum, I’d think we can learn more now than we have been able to before. Maybe that will lead to a great increase in understanding of intelligence or a slight one, but it will lead to an increase in our understanding of the phenomena.
In an intro CS class, many of the students don't want to be there. They're taking the class because it's a requirement for the degree they actually want, which may have little or nothing to do with CS. Intro classes aren't just for people who want to specialize in that area.
Well in the UK as a DevOps my role is in such a high demand that many workers (including me) only take contract roles as they pay roughly double than permanent. But as a contractor my CV is going to be 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and not years at a place.

This is how it is here and personally I think I have accelerated experience accumulation as every contract excercises a different set of my skills.

Maybe other markets don’t have a contracting culture but I don’t think my CV should automatically be trashed for having short but concentrated employers.
Or just offer 2 tranches of advertising. A higher rate for those that only want to be next to “vetted” content.

Another cheaper rate for those that don’t care.
This sort of method is used in the Canon DSLR custom firmware Magic Lantern for HDR video - it brackets the exposure by ISO. However you have some problems with moving subjects: https://youtu.be/5me5jEr4ldQ?t=415 (warning - flashing images)
Folks hate on Upwork.com but I have used it to secure and build good long-term relationships. Once the relationships grew we could take it offline to a more formal relationship. Because I started my career as an accountant, I have been able to start 2 of these relationships as an accountant and move over to data analysis.

A good note to include is I do this part-time while working full-time and don't think I could simply expand this contract deal flow to fill a full time schedule if I needed to. I also have ruined a relationship early on by not respecting the part-time work enough and slowing down the folk's timeline.
> Bolt is reasonably comparable to the Model 3

Not as judged by buyers.

According to https://insideevs.com/february-2018-plug-electric-vehicle-sa... Model 3 is already outselling Bolt (in February 2.5k vs. 1.5k)

Model 3 is on track to sell 20k per month within months, which will be 10x Bolt sales.

If buyers show 10x preference of X vs. Y, Y is not "reasonably comparable".
Don't they have an e-Golf? They know how to build an electric car. It's building one that's actually profitable without heavy tax subsidies and at VW's build quality that's a problem. Tesla hasn't figured that out either.
Micron reports Q2 2018 earnings; sales grew 58% to $7.35B
Maybe you misread my message: the debate was between two Mexicans. I think the "Tacos only!" guy was mainly being anti-USA though
While I agree that the quotes you made sound more like marketing than science, antirez has a point here: They might be using GA to evolve a new activation function represented as a GP tree.

But that's just my guess. And even so, I am not terribly convinced that would lead to astonishingly new activation functions that are better than the known ones.
The problem is that an executive order isn't exactly a 'law'. It's the president ordering the executive branch about what to do, so it has no inherent permanence.

I wouldn't expect most executive orders to stay the same here if the president changes parties. But that's a statement about what I expect, not about how things ought to be.
To be fair, Arizona used to be part of New Mexico
I too paid for a piece of paper. But given how expensive that piece of paper was I damn well made sure I learned something too.
I don't think it's acceptable, I just realize that I am powerless to stop it beyond supporting sweeping new regulatory frameworks, which I write to my Congresspeople about but what do you think they're going to do about it?

Nothing. And for now, Google's services are worth the data they collect. Facebook's value proposition is comparatively laughable, which might be why so many people are so upset with the scope of how their data was used.

And don't even get me started on how users, including those who have not signed up for the service, get tracked on massive swaths of 3rd-party sites if they don't take pains to prevent it - that's downright sinister.
If they can have the best of both worlds, then so can I.

I’ve enabled my ad blocker on Reddit.

Maybe I’ll suggest having it added to our corporate web filters.
Tobacco. Corn. New World squash. Peanuts. The impact was immense.
I am really close to agreeing with you on this. A few weeks ago when I saw another article about the hikikomori I also wondered if that would be my response to life if I had the opportunity.
Exactly my point! People are not upset by "psychometric advertising" they are upset that the other side making use of the technique. If you honestly think both sides don't use the technique to engage in despicable disinformation campaigns you've probably already drank a fatal dose.
I'm quite disappointed to not find something along the lines of "Hiring employees of different races, ethnicities, sex, socio-economic backgrounds, etc."
Yes. I think the biggest thing it has going for it is that it is an advanced language offering superior guarantees, but lacks the smell of academic elitism that Haskell and Scala carry. Its a working mans tool, with a welcoming culture that disapproves of intellectual status games and too much jargon.
Get involved in your local community (politics). You should get a lot of IT jobs, where you can make a name for yourself. Also, you can attribute to linux, by fixing and helping with the bugs and the kernel. When being a freelancer, you should be a bit more high profile than you are now?
This is why a documentation culture is so very important. Even on the best terms, the average tenure of a tech employee is two years. That's just today's economic reality. As a leader, a project should not be considered 'done' until its documented to such a level that a well-meaning new employee can come in, read the docs, and be mostly up to speed with at least the daily 'care-and-feeding' tasks and the top 5 failure modes.
My wife cuts to the chase: its good, but its not what she grew up with in New Mexico. No argument of 'authenticity'. Just not how Mrs. Mays cooked it!
There is a lot of risk of long term employees entrenching bad practices by leveraging their political clout due to seniority. In some ways that's worse than the scenario you describe.
Yeah this seems like it might actually have a reversing effect on platforms' stewardship of their content. Now that they only have to "knowingly facilitate", they'll probably defer to being on the safe side of not "knowing" in the first place.

Or is that explicitly disallowed by some other text in this statute or by some other law? For instance if Google made it absolutely impossible (e.g. w/ strong crypto) for them to "know" what's inside their users' emails, is there some law that could force Google to undo that (ostensibly in the name of national security or something like that)?
It's because they're beholden to advertisers rather than their users.
They're extremely progressive nowadays, but here is the article:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/portland-race-against-the-past-...
Fantastic!

I'm particularly excited about the retransmit tracepoints, as troubleshooting some of these issues on systems that can't afford the tcpdump overhead has caused me significant headache in the past.
Another option to view the article without Javascript-powered annoyances:

curl https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/556214/ \
|sed -n '/<section id=\"article/{s/.ad width=/<!ad width=/g;s/<div/<!div/g;/<p>/,/<\/p>/!d;/amp-img.*cdn.theatl/{s/amp-//g;s/layout=.responsive.//;};p;}'|tr -cd '\12\40-\176' > 1.htm

firefox file:///1.htm ;

The file "1.htm" contains no Javascript.
Ugh this was also what got me to stop my Apple Music and then Spotify subscriptions. Songs or entire albums can disappear simply because the licencing changed.
I'll offer a counter point to this, we hired a senior SVP from IBM about 2 years ago (he spent his entire career at IBM). IBM also tried to sue him when he left. My company is a "born in the cloud" company so we have values and an attitude that I would consider in alignment with modern, inclusive, customer positive values, etc. He passed interviews and all the numbers showed he was a high performer etc.

We brought him on hoping he would use his experience to grow our cloud business into "the enterprise". What we found was we had hired a guy that scoffed at ideas like UX, frequently bullied his team and the extended team in calls. Would often go off on monologues and was extremely rigid in his top down approach to management. It was a complete culture shock to the team and customers. We understood that some of these things were part of the deal but what we didnt expect was a near zero openness to ideas.

He had classic double speak of stating his door was always open to differing opinions or ideas but a week later he would be telling the company on conference calls that if people didn't like it there was the door. He brought in his entire exec team from IBM and things continued to go down hill from there. Some of his own team would make fun of our sales leaders until one of them called these guys out and discovered they had little to no understanding of how cloud pricing and subscription worked. It was a big moment.

My experience of him and his team makes me wonder if IBM is doing the right thing, if that experience is common across IBM they are going to struggle to compete with firms like my own and even worse attract talent that has no interest in being bullied for decades before a promotion.
Sure, I’ve owned multiple Volts, and I’ll keep buying them because they’re affordable (until a “luxury” car is mostly* electric).

I’d love to have a BMW. I’m finally in the bracket I can afford it, but I refuse to own a non-electric vehicle.

People want electric vehicles and they want luxury, but Tesla’s are out of the price range for most people (for now).

BMW can wait til 2020, but by then they’ll have missed the boat.

* by mostly I mean a daily commute round trip
I do agree with you there. If you didn't actually learn anything in school, that should become apparent when you're unable to perform your job function. If you can perform your job function regardless, then I suppose it doesn't matter all that much either way.
This is my experience, yes. I suspect many hiring staff look over the job titles and snap onto company/dates employed -- and never see the word "co-op". Thus my idea.
Agree with you. Caveat is that a "couple" can vary based on the length of your career. If you have been working for 20 years and in that time, you had 3 jobs that you only held for 6 months, I'd look at that very differently than someone with a shorter career span.
Why? Being unemployed is a cash-flow problem. You've got no money coming in, yet you've got this $1400+ bill due each month. Having the deed to your house means you have a (mostly) free place to live, and your cash-flow problem becomes significantly smaller.
Facebook tracks all calls and messages on Android
The media companies may have killed Napster, but that had no long term effect on piracy.

1 provider falls and 5 more grow from the ashes, less vulnerable than their predecessor.

It plays out the same way every time.
I am obviously referring to the overall media portrayal of the Facebook/CA scandal.
There are a ton of them. Look at any open-source email/dav/webserver/etc projects.

As an example: Dovecot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovecot_(software)) doesn't require me to connect to their servers for anything. They have no idea what I'm doing with my data, and they've designed their software so that they can't violate my privacy.
I wonder if that could be applied to film/tv. Is Rambo bannable? Can gaming channels be banned?
Shipping a security update of Firefox in less than a day
Batteries can be repaired, just like an engine. And the battery rarely goes immediately bad. But I think this isn't the main issue, as cars already have to deal with the same problem of being totalled.
Are you sure it's only 10%? The markup in the US is generally much higher, pegging the expectations quite high even though you're receiving a fraction of that.
Plastic within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is ‘increasing exponentially'
>> could authorize FB to download that data for your friends

I don’t believe this is true. You could authorize apps to download a very limited amount of info about your friends. If you have a reference to some authoritative source that proves the opposite, do share.

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and all that.
I am FPGA developer and have not much knowledge about GPUs. I just can make a guess, that no one can guarantee execution time on GPU. There are all little details well defined in FPGA design and result is always available after defined delay.
Correlating genetic variance with clinical diagnosis is chancy. e.g. Maybe you get a worse headache after drinking - so any depression you suffer from gets worse. Is it a 'depression gene'? Maybe a correlation can be argued as cause-and-effect, but surely not a direct 'disease marker'.
The book of Job really should have never allowed prosperity theology to prosper, and should be a lesson why it's absurd.
Practically speaking these platforms do receive blame from outraged members of the public for "providing platforms" for whatever X topic they dislike, so it makes sense to behave that way.
Software developers aren't considered in the same league as doctors, lawyers, civil engineers, or architects. Software developers are viewed as construction workers by most people and businesses.
So GitLab's CI/CD is now modularized and theoretically can be used in place of Circle CI or similar?
You probably should just hire the best person for the job and ignore their race, ethnicity, sex, socio-economic background.
The foreign tourist might happen to be correct this one time, but "I'm a tourist who has been there" is not anything I have ever heard gives one power to be quite authoritative. Visiting one or more times is not remotely on par with "I have a PhD in the subject."
Looks like Facebook is already abusing it https://mobile.twitter.com/dylanmckaynz/status/9763688456350...