skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is in a bit of a different position. The most information that a malicious app on my friend's phone can access about me is what my friend has stored on their phone about me.

Personal things like messaging history and contact information are certainly enough to build a 'social graph', but what Google does not let apps do is access the information that Google stores about me on their servers just because my friend has both my number and a greedy app on their phone.
the other side of the coin is the group assignment where three of the five do all the work and all five live or die on the benefit.

oddly, post degree, we're actively encouraged to re-use code.
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Public cloud is not cheap. Public cloud is really expensive. The value of public cloud is that it's flexible (my current employer, which is massive, uses AWS in part because it has poor governance of leased data centres) and has hosted offerings that save time and operational overhead - it's quicker and easier to use SQS and DynamoDB than to host Kafka and Cassandra. Cheap it is not, however.
Another thing that will not tie us together is continuing to ignore conversations that are uncomfortable, or as you put it unreadable, to you.
I think he meant the /dev/urandom part being unix specific
Looking at pure numbers, when those are actual people, with lives and families, is the absolute wrong way to frame the question.

"an omniscient (this is an sincere attempt to stop people from avoiding the question being asked) being would judge the younger employee to have objectively superior cost/benefits to the company."

There's no evidence that's true in the least.

"In other words, for the context of this particular question only, the older work does NOT offer experience-based value superior to the younger worker."

You might as well be asking about unikitties, then.
In other words, we have made studying in groups a crime. Normally, to study a subject you would pose yourself problems and solve them, sometimes with friends. But we insist that homework be done individually, and we insist to assess every last little thing. I think this is a problem in the American university.

The other problem is that we have reduced scientific ethics to the subject of plagiarism. But there's other things, like publication ethics, medical ethics &c, and they don't even appear on the kids' radar screens.
Aaaaand it's down.
What does "relevant" mean? Relevant to what?
Was going to post something similar -- to protect myself as a student, I'd quickly adopt git to keep a history of my work. Not that this couldn't be forged...

Does git count as a block chain for proof of work? :)
I wonder how much of the 'plagiarism' is just people copying the same StackOverflow snippit.
I started my tech career at the age of 18 and my colleagues on their 30s and 40s. I rarely shave those days to create an appearance, I am mature enough to participate in serious tech discussions. Now I am nearing 40 and this story worry me. I may need to do the other way around to stay relevant.
from anecdotal experience (my father actually designs and architectures car factory assembly lines for a living), it usually takes around 1 to 5 years, depending on the amount of work involved and what kind of car is produced.
> These people don't have to be very old at all, actually. I've seen plenty of young people start acting like this at a company after working there only a year or two.

I do remember a guy hired when we were in our twenties basically say something like "we're not paid to think/above pay grade," when trying to come up with solutions to problems. I was young enough to be surprised. :D
"Why would anyone be upset at a company shooting themselves in the foot?"

Because the company is never the one that suffers. Meanwhile, the person they laid off is struggling to feed and house their family.
i think it's the crap-ton of processed cheese and beans in many tex-mex dishes that tarnishes it's authenticity. (the long and rambling article mentions this, but i didn't have the patience to figure out what they really thought it was.)

i like a good breakfast taco but i'm not generally a fan of most tex-mex. it hits you over the head with lard, carbs and over-cooked meats with no balance to it at all.
If it turns out its a mockup, that would be very sad. I feel slightly misled.
There's already a flag for that: chrome://flags Autoplay policy.
Policy and mechanism.

A dangerous mechanism introduced to support a good policy is still a dangerous mechanism. Proponents of policies requiring expansions of power should be very careful about the consequences of giving that power to someone with different goals, because that will happen at some point.
I really don’t get what you’re suggesting.

Why would the reports be anomalous?
Another good video:

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/976245751259971584

BBC news interview with the Zucks.
Here in north Alabama, El Palacio (of Mexican Food) on the parkway in Huntsville closed a few months ago. Another part of my childhood is dead.

(I grew up in Texas, frequently eating in dimly-lit Tex-Mex restaurants with pictures of toreadors and dying bulls, sometimes on actual felt. This was before even fajitas became popular---burritos, enchiladas, tacos, and chile rellanos were the popular fare. Walking into El Palacio made me feel like I was 6 again.)
It might just be a slightly mislabeled desire for new/good food. People probably say "authentic" when what they mean is "something different from what I've been getting in my hometown for the last 20 years". And they probably say "authentic" when they really just want quality preparation and ingredients. Quick, cheap American interpretations of ethnic food has become synonymous with inauthenticity, but obviously that's not always the case.

idk, I get what you are saying, it's a bit of an empty cliche, but at the same time, I think there are interesting things people are trying to ask for, just using the wrong words
I agree fully. My initial comment was simply a reaction to the idea that getting racism out of video games would be a first step on the road to getting it out of politics. I think it would be absolutely desirable, but I don't see the issue as one of serial progression. I am afraid it may not have such a causal link that cleaning up some games would lead to cleaning up our politics. Many of the people acting abusively in games may be unwittingly participating in behavior that is encouraged by a smaller set of malicious actors who also influence things outside the virtual world.
Yes, the - at the “End of the Day” EOD
There may be some truth in there somewhere, but I'd like to see more studies.

The Washington Post article is written by a registered dietitian and there is some kind of editing process. The other link is self-published.

It says things like, "our ancestors just didn't evolve eating this type of food and our immune system can't handle it".

but humans have been eating grains for 100,000 years:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/humans-fea...

I'll keep an eye out for lectin research though. Thanks for the tip.
Firefox for Android has been using Quantum for some time. It's just that they haven't switched Focus over to using it (it currently uses an Android WebView).
Assess the homework, give them a grade on it but don't have it factor into their final grade at all. Just let the exams / big projects take care of that.

If you're regularly failing your homework, it probably means you won't be ready for the exam that actually counts. Which should be enough feedback
if google glasses launched after this technology was ubiquitous...
Would things like “dimensionality reduction” and other cutting edge ML techniques at least help? As in, help you become a better “manual” quant researcher or help you develop shitty (relative to RenTech), but still profitable strategies?

Do you have any other keywords? “Learning from few examples” comes to mind...
Firstly, these displays promise brighter colors and a wider gamut.

Secondly, you only get long battery life in a small package one tiny step at a time, and you want them, either to increase battery life or to make smaller watches. The latter is particularly hard. A typical smart watch is around 10 mm thick, nowadays, 2 or so of which are taken by the display and the back panel. So, if you want to make it 8 mm thick, you lose 25% of inner volume and, ballpark, the same on battery volume (taking into account that the battery is shielded, likely closer to 30%)

Finally, I’m not sure that transflective display is that low power if you want to frequently update the display. Looking at the data sheet of https://eu.mouser.com/new/Sharpsma/sharpmemorylcd/, page 14 lists power use of 15 μW on a static display, 50 μW on a display that updates at 1 Hz. Extrapolating, I get 2115 μW at 60 Hz, or about 2 mW. The capacity of a typical smartwatch battery is less than 1 Wh, so that display could display video for 500 hours or 20 days (rounded up a few times)
CA was able to extract a personality profile from just likes.

Imagine what an app could do if they had access to your entire message history! (Why would anyone give apps access to their messages? So that they can send / receive special emoji, for example.)
I did a 1st year Uni project using GA to evolve neural network topology in 1996 ... maybe I should dig that out and get me some VC $.
Here's an idea: why not make the assignments personal enough that you cannot cheat on them?

"But wait, that would require huge amounts of time investment from the professors/TAs"

Yes, it's almost as if paying $65k a year for someone to teach you something should result in that person teaching you that thing instead of just checking in to see if you've learned it on your own.
Ah, right, makes sense thank you.
Yes, I'm very bummed about the EPA direction. It's part and parcel of the general GOP plan, which is to roll back the Great Society, New Deal, and Progressive Era policies. Very bad for the country on many axes.
It strikes me as a little distasteful to ask for a roadmap to that business model these days.
My recollection of CS-50/51 from decades ago is that the final project with the most value was an individual one. It seems infeasible to make all projects individualized, if you have a student/TA ratio greater than 3.
> If anything goes wrong on a car these days it has been my experience it's quite unlikely to be anything specific to ICE.

This is very much correct. For the warranty period (after which the OEM doesn't care and the customer stops taking it to the dealer) most maintenance is suspension components and leaks.

This doesn't eliminate dealer service revenue. If anything it makes it better because you remove the entire class of time consuming but low paying warranty jobs.
Orbitz says a possible data breach has affected 880,000 credit cards
My experience with BMW dealerships is that they are borderline criminal organizations. I have never taken my car in for a repair without them breaking something else.

I was quoted $15,000.00 for a new head because they failed to gap a spark plug.

They remove the access panel in the aero pan when doing oil changes and don't replace it. They over torque everything (drain plug, filter cover, etc).

They broke a wiring harness mount when doing routine maintenance. Just ripped it off instead of releasing the clips.

They scratch up the interior when pulling the steering column apart for airbag recalls.

They broke a headlight housing when replacing a light bulb.

They curbed my wheels and then told me it couldn't be them because "there are no curbs here". The service manager said this while standing on a curb.

These people are predators. The incentives are perverse and they do nothing but exploit their customers and the manufacturer.

My hope is that Tesla's approach will push the costs of these unnecessary repairs and shoddy workmanship up the chain where the parent company actually has an incentive to fix them.

At this point the only way I would consider buying a new BMW is if I was able to find an independent shop that can still do warranty work. Still searching for that.
The problem is, tesla is not a car manfucturer. They make a tiny amount of cars compared to the masses that BMW, VW and the likes produce.

Also, tesla has an enourmous fault tolerance compared to these guys, not to mention they produce cars which are quite more complex.

You cannot afford to "patch up" cars if you are producing thousands a week, that would make you run out of money very quickly.
Well, messaging history is just an example; I'm not actually sure if that is something which apps are allowed to lift, but I figured I'd err on the extreme end.

Either way, discrete and easy-to-digest information like 'likes' are exactly what they wouldn't have access to from Google, and honestly it seems like automated sentiment analyses are still very error-prone; large corpuses of text don't seem ideal for this sort of targeting.
I had a friend once who complained about the baby corn in Chinese food not being authentic. I just looked at him.

That's like complaining about tomatoes in Italian cooking.
I use noise canceling headphones to prevent disruption to my teammates. They also reduce distractions to me. That said, most browsers have options to disable the auto-play. I also use NoScript and only enable javascript for sites that really need it.
Last time when Trump imposed tariffs on steel, Carl Icahn (Trump's "former" adviser) dumped millions in steel-related stocks week before tariffs were announced.[1]

It would be interesting to see which stocks and derivatives his inner circle and friends dump or bought this time.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/03/02/s...
I think me editing overlapped your comment: yes, that's an option, and I guess then you do not have to care about plagiarism so much. There probably still should be some effort against it though.
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"But you're really just protecting the shareholders."

And the people who need to take care of their families. You keep forgetting that letting these people go has a very severe negative impact on that.
$180 per month seems a bit expensive for just a Minecraft server O.o
I understand you said you don't have networking skills. I too find networking pretty awkward and tedious. But in my experience the best kind is the kind that does not feel like networking at all.

You could go to relevant meetups for your skillset and find people who could use your help there, but this still feels like networking. (it can be awkward to talk to random strangers there)

However, there are other kinds of 'meetups' where it's just developers having beers together and discussing our trade or whatever else. If you go to these you'll become acquainted and maybe just make friends with some of them. This does not feel like networking at all! Work will naturally come your way after that.

Another good source of work is people you have already worked with in the past. Drop them an email or invite them to lunch, it feels pretty natural to just keep in touch (not awkward at all).

Anyway, these are just the ways I find work as someone who dislikes networking and recently became a full-time freelance developer.
Here are a couple. The keyphrase is 'evolution of evolvability'.

http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~lionelb/downloads/EASy/publicatio...

http://dynamics.org/Altenberg/FILES/LeeEEGP.pdf
I have a big problem with the general theme of this article, which is that plagiarism detection software is infallible and every student who disagrees with its findings is wrong and dishonest.

You claim

> We have virtually eliminated false positives at this point

but offer no explanation for how you verify this.

You later rant about the fact that students have the audacity to challenge these (very serious) charges and the university actually expects you to follow up when they do. The horror!

IMO it's your system of senseless programming exercises and automated grading that is broken. Instructors need to put in the time and effort and assign homework where students have to actually think and be creative, rather than reuse the same assignments for the 10th year running and be shocked when submissions turn out to be similar.
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Way I see it Tesla proves that a mass market EV is still not possible. Either you take it from the fact that they failed to come up with anything revolutionary in terms of the Model 3; price/range still on par with other offerings. Or you take their lowest cost estimates for their battery packs and then you try to build the rest of the car with the remaining $12k (for the total price of a people's car that everyone can afford), and you realise that it is not possible.
Isn't "driver" and "autonomous" mutually exclusive?
I can see China running with bootleg x86 chips.
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If the questionable hypothesis is correct, this would surely factor into the assessment of numerical IQ.
I was accused once in my undergrad and I thought it highlighted an interesting issue.

It was my senior year, and I attended a systems programming course that was being piloted and was very challenging. Work in the CS department was very group heavy, especially in courses heavy on theory. I benefited a ton from working with groups with other students outside of class. In your data structures/theory/math courses, this wasn't an issue - But in this class in particular, peoples submissions started to look similar.

It was resolved rather quickly because we just had to be honest, but I thought it was interesting - Specifically because, in classes that were so challenging heavy collaboration was what pulled me through, I barely remember the course content anymore. But, the soft skills I acquired from hours of collaborating with my peers after class hours has followed me for life and made a noticeable impact on my career.
That's not been my (limited) experience with Tesla. They build all the components in the car. Things like electric seats and door actuators seem to fail frequently. A Tesla still has a lot of parts to go wrong, even if the drive train is simpler and more robust.

Most new ICE cars don't have massive power train problems either. The reliability issues are in auxiliary systems.
as a grader, it is already hard enough to keep up with the work that gets generated by thirty students attempting the same weekly homework assignment. i don't know how i could possibly grade thirty different projects in a week, let alone in any fair or reasonable way.

i've always wondered why they don't do something like select a random number of students and ask them to explain their work in an interview with the professor or TA.

i figure, even if they cheated, if they can give a satisfactory explanation, they probably learned the damn thing anyway. plus, you don't have to select even half the students before word gets around that they better understand the work they are turning in.
Oh? Just find a new employer? And if they get sick while unemployed, should they "just" cure cancer?
Agree with taprun. It is easier to communicate when you are specific. What do you build or like to build? Lots of people would like to work with an engineer like you on projects, myself being one.
I don't see them turning off auto-playing videos on YouTube (after finishing watching one) -- seems a little hypocritical.

Netflix is now in this game too, auto-playing trailers as you scroll titles with no way to turn the feature off.

Clearly force-feeding users videos boosts traffic (or they wouldn't do it) but it annoys, what? At least 50% of users?
It's almost as if we care more about workers who are people, than big, faceless corporations.
College isn't about education, but about signaling your value as a contributor to capitalism.

Otherwise, we'd be promoting collaborative learning and letting those who don't contribute or cheat simply cheat themselves.
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Isn't it like quatre-vingts and ten, eleven, etc?
I think it is both. Human lives are at risk, so I expect solid battle hardened software and hardware.
"What is the 'Shariah Sexbot IP' and why is it on our balance sheet?"
"I took a sabbatical to backpack around Asia."
What I'm referring to is the increasing frequency of newspaper and TV to use language that technically doesn't claim things to be fact, if you parse the words veeeeeeeery carefully, but a casual reader (aka the vast majority of the public) might easily conclude what is presented is fact, rather than just possibilities or allegations. Or in other words, language that hides uncertainty from the consumer.

As I noted, this probably wasn't your intent, but I'd like to think it doesn't hurt to point out.

Sometimes clarity matters, sometimes it doesn't. For example, not that it particularly matters, even in this conversation, based on your last comment I'm still left with somewhat of a feeling that you don't necessarily agree with this notion. On one hand, who cares right? On the other hand, large portions of the general public absolutely believe with 100% certainty things that are at best allegations at this point, because they have read or watched so many news stories that intentionally or not are worded to make possibilities sound as if they are facts.

I think this is a very big deal, and if the higher caliber of people on HN don't, to me that also is a big deal.
I'm not making the claim that age discrimination is rational or optimal. I'm merely suggesting that you may not have enough information to claim that it isn't optimal. It's fairly easy to show that age discrimination exists, but far more difficult to show that it's not optimal, especially in an environment in which it's both illegal and socially taboo.

And secondly, even if keeping the older workers is both rational and optimal for the business it's not clear to me why we should force a company to do it. If the shareholders feel the company is not acting in their best interest there are mechanisms in place for them to deal with that.
Citizens United was a Supreme Court decision that said money was free speech. The result is that it is perfectly legal to “bribe” U.S. politicians now.
Needs a [2011] in the title.
I'm a full-time freelancer and I'm super specific on my niche, new music technology. I find that works pretty well. Sometimes I'm applying for gigs, sometimes folks just cold email me, and sometimes people refer others my way. But being a specialist seems to be the one thing that works best for me.
Saying America was discovered is correct terminology from the colonial perspective hundreds of years ago, but I think today the proper term would be when America was colonized. It had been discovered a long time before then, and it might strike native Americans and others as a eurocentric way of speaking about history.
Tires are definitely still a factor, but regenerative braking reduces the wear on the brakes quite significantly. You also don't have a lot of the "regular maintenance" items like oil changes, transmission fluid changes, coolant flushing, spark plugs, air intake filters, exhaust gas sensors and so on.
A lot of great engineers get laid off simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, especially in bigger orgs. When it comes time to cut down expenses, the more experienced (and hence higher compensated) engineers are usually prime targets to get axed. Its really stupid and short term thinking, but there is a reason why it happens.

OTOH looks like your org actually benefited tremendously from having those experienced engineers, so in a morbid way their being laid off turned out to be good for everyone involved.
honestly I think that the current generation of gasoline-powered cars are the ugliest that have ever been made