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I don't understand this! Math is a super set of algorithmic wizardry and if you include heuristics in algorithmic wizardry (why would you not?),isn't organizational skills a part of the Algorithmic Wizardry? So he's saying that knowing all skills in the subset is better than knowing all the skills in the set? And that's just the headline
I'm not sure what your link is supposed to show?
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I'm aware, but from that perspective I don't know what the parallel to crack cocaine is supposed to be.
They release less than 2 a year most years
There is a big difference between having no money and feeling underpaid.
Could it be just because that galaxy has no central black hole? And if so that rises more questions:

Does each galaxy have black hole associated with it?
What if black hole is not a "point mass source" (a.k.a. singularity) but rather something with different curvature of space/time that we treat as a dark matter effect?
How would we possibly know it passes through other matter?
I have, to this day, never once used any kind of social media or forum, not even HN.
It’s true “Obamacare” is a form of socialized health care. But the bottom line is that it chose to implement the subsidization of poor peoples’ health care through the mechanism of health insurance. It’s simply not the case that poor people included into the plans are having their care covered through the mechanism of increasing the premiums of the healthy, which is what Paul Ryan is implying.

Poorer members of the insurance pool have their premiums subsidized. From the insurance companies point of view, they are (theoretically) managing the pool and premiums using the same actuarial tools they used previously.

The rules about not being able to reject people for pre-existing conditions force them to broaden the set of (heterogeneous) members included.

The plans are provided by “health insurance companies.” The product you buy from them is called “health insurance.” The imaginary, purist notion of what you are declaring to be “insurance” is like a simplified model of economic theory you might find in a textbook. It’s used to gain insight about how an insurance product works. There are no real world example of “health insurance” that conform to your simplified definition.

Health insurance in the US has long included coverage for routine care, which already falls outside of your model.

I’m of the theory that the meaning of words is defined by how they are used in everyday language, not how I think they should be defined.
Why? Is being pessimistic a crime? Or just negative opinion about some companies should be forbidden?
There is a big difference between being worth billions and having a market cap of billions.
Me too, but I guess it would be different if I didn't have a job/hadn't had one before.
Yes, but we also need soldiers to keep other soldiers from taking the food. And stone keeps and villages with market places to trade food for goods. And better farming techniques to increase our food production. Also, some more advanced machines to allow better food processing and some textiles. We probably need something a little more efficient than water or steam power. And logistics! Definitely need a way to get people and goods from one place to another. At some point, we'll need to organize all this activity better and start to specialize. Maybe there's a better way to track all this stuff than manual ledgers. Wait, we can leverage electricity and simple lever machines (up/down or 0/1 if you will) for tracking this stuff. Perhaps if we connected all these machines together into some kind of a network . . .
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When you're printing your own money, it's easy ;-)

Not to take anything away from Ripple: good for them!
I'm assuming the poster ran up against an ~80 character limit to the title, but leaving out "wrong" makes the article feel more click-baity than necessary.

Perhaps removing "hacking" or "controversy" from the title to make room for "wrong" would preserve the author's original intent without editorializing.

EDIT: Removing either of those would also likely leave room to re-include "the" before "CA", as is in the original, in addition to "wrong".
Or, the situation that they run out of money no matter what they do with production
Automation pays off over time. I'm rooting for them.
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> The vast majority of software written today has precisely 0 ability to kill anyone.

There's lots of ways software can cost corporations money if it fails to operate. The recent failures at Delta, Southwest, United, all come to mind. The IT industry has a myriad of certifications to, say, prevent some tech-idiot from touching the routing table on the routers.

The ISO has standards for software engineering (similar to ISO9001 for hardware) but so far the market does not feel that standard provides a competitive advantage. If I could guarantee my processes gave you 99.9999% uptime with our software, would you prefer that or another company that can iterate faster?
The problem comes when Tesla has spent immense amounts of capital on automation AND is hand assembling.

Disclaimer: I work for a Tesla competitor.
Bad and pointless article.

Users don't care whether it was hacked or Facebook gave it away, they care that their data was exposed in ways they weren't aware of.

If anything, the reality (it's intentional) is worse than the misunderstanding (it was hacked). This is no defense of Facebook, nor a counter to the broader narrative.
>I will take the other side of that bet

The stock ticker is TSLA, all you have to do is load up. No need for chest thumping.
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April Fool’s pranks written by neural network
I Co-Founded Waze and I'm No Longer Going to Own a Car
Junior Developer is an entry level job title.

As a qualifier, it is a demotion from “Developer” alone. A Junior Developer is less than all the other ordinary, plain old general Developer roles.

It’s basically a paid intern role.

The only people who would ever accept such a title are kids who don’t mind being marked, appropos of nothing, before first impressions are made, as a lesser subordinate, untrusted with serious decisions.

When a recruiter, hiring manager or HR contact offers a Junior role, it means you get paid less.

In a world where business cards and email signatures serve as pretext for introductions, you see a title with Junior in it, and it reeks of green college grads.
Clearnet can't see tor but tor can see clearnet.
Facebook will no longer allow third-party data for targeting ads
Organization is a mathematical and algorithmic problem regardless of the context. And if you think people go to school so that they mug up algorithms, you're missing the point of school. You go to school to learn how to problem-solve, how to model problems mathematically and incidentally become aware of a repo of solved problems which may help you in your own problem solving adventures.
The word caries with it a history of a workforce dominated by men.

If there's going to be a new made up system for standardizing and measuring the proficiency of software developers, then we may as well make up new words too that don't have this baggage.
"production bottlenecks" == issues with the automation. Their solution is then more use of manual and quick fixes during QA.
I already bought in. "Overusing automation" is a new one.
Do you have an alternate means of signup available for those that don't have Facebook?
Care to suggest some? I've tried truereddit and even truetruereddit but they've become mostly politics
That's amazing! Kudos to Ripple!
I have a sneaking suspicion this guy is a plant or something for the C.I.A. or NSA. The interviews I have heard, he starts to ramble on about Russia, and making bizarre connections. There is such lust for a ward with Russia it is nuts.
Another article from Medium in favor of Facebook. How surprising.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16703659
Many private schools run fundraisers throughout the year, so that cost is likely subsidized.
There seems to be a pretty simple solution to this - you blacklist the obviously unacceptable.

Not the ones you 'don't like' - the ones that don't even make sense.

That process of filtering out folks using the blacklist should be automated and the blacklist should be public.

I wonder if that'd make recruiting jobs almost pointless in a large number of cases however. It sure would make one think twice about spam-applying, knowing you might get blacklisted for spam.
The NPM library is pretty insane. A slightly more advanced package than this parody is 'is-odd' (https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd). It has 3 million downloads within the last 7 days.

Other than that, I must say that the repo is quite hilarious. The numerous references to blockchains did it for me. "Perhaps adding a blockchain would solve this problem, although at this stage I'm not exactly sure how."
Overdraft fees haven’t been this bad since the Great Recession
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I have to agree with you. You can go to any country with a fetish of some sort and have "surprising results" for innocent searches. Go to google.co.jp and search for "Russian Women" [ロシアの女性] Is that a racist algorithm?
> The FBI for example, probably isn’t still in their Atlas Shrugged phase.

Where can I read about the Objectivist FBI phase?
Or, he thought critically, just not about the stuff we would think a good actor would think about. Which is sort of the problem, and would explain why people are put off.
The Constitution is written on hemp. Truly, legal hemp is what The Framers intended.
Yea. I wouldn't be surprised if this was Tesla's PR itself. Make a bunch of people say you can't do something and then do it.

10x the PR and the you have successfully projected the illusion of capable of doing the impossible in front of the naive public...Worked well for Elon till now..
If I remember correctly you had to allow yourself to be searched for like that, essentially it functioned as a really cool way to search for people interested in talking and for the most part it worked. There was this really awesome young lady I met on there once and to this day I consider it a loss that we lost touch. She was big into Python programming and I learned a lot from her.
Amazon Takes Fresh Stab at $16B Housekeeping Industry
Time efficiency is still important for live streaming. Last time I checked (OK that was one year ago) x265 was way too slow for live, even at not so high resolution.
Do you have better suggestions?
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The barrier is lower for applying, but as many other posters saying, there is simply just interest in quick ROI and zero willingness to think long term.

I recruited for several years for my companies too. First thing I noticed, there is huge variability in CV for each country. When I receive a CV from an indian person (from India), I don't know if I should expect 100% lies or what, even from qualified seniors. On the other end, I could put my hand on coal if the same CV was written by most germans. Which is bad, because the CV or cover letter become essentially useless as a metric.

To reduce the number of applications we introduced simple tests to submit along with the CV. It does wonders, but I personally hate it. As a senior dev, I keep asking: would I apply to my current application? I have to answer that no, I wouldn't. I have plenty of public projects to investigate my abilities if needed, and I do expect some minimal amount in investment from both parties when hiring.

We also raised the requirements from applicants ridiculously, essentially expecting them to work on core features from tomorrow. Again, completely unrealistic. And again, by our own wording, I would be afraid to apply. We are definitely selecting over-confident candidates (or desperate).

And it's sadly also true that the industry has no apprentice jobs anymore, although there is plenty of need. There are some career paths where I would jump ships despite my lack of expertise to follow my interests. Starting from zero doesn't stop me, but there are simply no opportunities: junior jobs are not really junior anymore. They are simply paid less.
>when I was fresh out of college all the entry positions I saw required several years of experience

Same. That struck me as particularly BS'y. I asked career counselors at my school about that and they said to "embellish" my background a bit, but not to lie. The specific advice I got was if you worked as a developer on a short term project a year ago that would count as a year of work. If asked about it the advice was to just explain what you really meant. It made me feel uneasy because if seemed disingenuous, but I went with it because I needed a job.

This made me really question what does a "year of experience" really mean? 60 Hrs/wk for a year is not the same as 20 Hrs/wk for a year. If you could use a month of work a year ago as a year of experience, what else could you stretch? At that point you could question what does anything really mean on an application? If it has super high qualifications, how could you take it seriously? You can just rationalize away anything! Can't you? 4+ years of experience? I basically got that. 2+ years in some specific programming language? How different could it be from C++? I got the basic concepts down, I can figure out the rest, just give me money!

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take and the worst you will hear is the word 'no'. You need a job to pay off the loans you needed to get the degree to apply to the jobs in the first place. If experience inflation is a reaction to an insurmountable volume of applications then what businesses are really doing is filtering out the honest people.
I got a guy up in portchester who recommends me sweet nugs of music, wonder if he's ever used your service...
Letter to a young programmer (Guido van Rossum, 2013)
It didn’t work so well for Theranos.
$29M worth of XRP going to a good cause. Great, cash out and make good use of it.

The cynic in me sees this as a cheap PR move (an SVP of marketing promoting it doesn't help). Associating your token with a good cause gives it credibility in the eyes of the public which in turn leads to an increase in the XRP price in USD. Here's what I understand about ripple:

- 100 billion XRP was created at inception with 20 billion going to the creators and 80 billion going to Ripple labs.

- It's supposed to be a payment layer between financial institutions and XRP is the underlying token.

- Distribution of XRP is arbitrary. Ripple labs can allocate it to whoever they see fit.

Donating $29M worth of XRP costs them nothing since Ripple labs holds 80 billion XRP. Only 40 billion XRP is currently in circulation though and XRP's price is currently $0.5. I don't know, I find Ripple quite ridiculous. But the silver lining is donations such as these.
What does landing rockets have to do with building cars?
what is not substantive about raising awareness regarding the genocide that is underway in Palestine? Trying to silence this makes you complicit in the abuses occurring there.
LOL. Analysts are correct, but musk is more correct! (intuition!) Its like uno, automations not perfect yet, gaps in process, missing feedback signals and other signals on various fails. Solution! Densify all of the problems and hundred dollar hour guys in your super factory, raise TC, phase transition to factories making factories as a service, earth conquered, again. We are just getting to the full spectrum buildup, next.. red alert, its a tank rush!
I think the massive amount of churn in the web world is the exception rather than the rule. If you learned C programming 40 years ago it would still be relevant today. Even Android is almost 10 years old now.
On the one hand, I’m very proud of how much it can help with such a small donation. On the other hand, I’m depressed it has to come from donations. Seriously, what is wrong with adults these days kicking the door closed behind us?
Wear OS gets an Android P developer preview
Person has a public karma of 59, using an IP to a direct VPS that allows bitcoin for payment. It has multiple business names in the DNS and points to a naked .ogg file. Yeah I wouldn't click on that either.
Travis Kalanick's new gig
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> But while all that exotic capital might allow Tesla to remove 5 workers, it will then need to hire a skilled engineer to manage, programme and maintain robots for $100 an hour (our estimate of a robotic engineers’ hourly rate).

These analysts, what are they analysts in?
Adversarial patch
Reminds me of this old post from 2013: http://jamespmcgrath.com/why-i-am-not-buying-an-autonomous-c...
I don't think it is intended to protect users' privacy, indeed it seems to me that it is against Facebook's interest to protect user privacy from advertisers - the platform is primarily valuable to marketers because of the user data that is available to them.

I think by shutting down the marketplace for 3rd party data, Facebook is allowing it to continue elsewhere but also washing their hands a bit, so next time they will have better optics when explaining themselves to regulators if data misuse hits the headlines again.
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Very good article. It explains how it come to the point where the data is exposed. Without understanding it, you can not take measures to change it. If it were "hacking" or breakin, the change should be to have stronger security, while if it's intentional data sharing, the change should be modifying privacy policies and data sharing guidelines.

> Users don't care whether it was hacked or Facebook gave it away

You say nobody makes a difference whether some company was a victim of security breach or gave away your data voluntarily? Maybe you personally don't but a lot of people do. Scenarios are completely different and responsibility is different.

> This is no defense of Facebook, nor a counter to the broader narrative.

It is, however, the truth, which seems to be more important than whether or not it defends Facebook or anybody else.
Great, but if the problem is marketing, how do you market it? Loool
Bitmovin produced an AV1 live stream a year ago using 200 cores: https://bitmovin.com/bitmovin-supports-av1-encoding-vod-live...

And six months ago they had improved on that to do live streaming with 32 cores: https://bitmovin.com/constantly-evolving-video-landscape-dis...

So I'll be interested to read about any live streaming demos they do at NAB in the next couple of weeks.
One benefit of automation they also failed to consider is customization. All sorts of exotic designs, configurations, adjustments and test iterations could be made. Hopefully with a standard base so they can be repaired or swapped out later, but the less human training that's required to get an assembly line up the faster you can change and improve it

Another aspect is potentially repairs itself. If every part can be added by a machine, they could later be removed and swapped out as part of the maintenance cycle too
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How is that a downside? It's too bad that schools are underfunded and can't meet every funding request, but given that is the current state of affairs why not post a grant request on donors choose? It's not that difficult, and some projects that have no chance of getting funding from the annual school budget have a pretty decent chance of getting funding online.

My wife's school strongly suggests that she submit a project every year. If it's funded, good for her and the students in her classroom. It's also good for the school since they can then allocate available funding for infrastructure or larger programmatic support (e.g. ESL, special needs, etc.). It's not that the administrator doesn't want to fund her projects, it's just that her requests sit in a huge pile of unfunded requests and something has to give.

Source: wife is a teacher who has successfully funded projects through donors choose.
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Yeah, that's much harder to define than people generally assume. Cleavage, for example, is generally perceived as sexy, but seldomly as pornographic.

In general, in our Western society, the whole breast seems to be fine, as long as the nipple is covered up. So, what they could do is show you nipples, if you actually search "nipple". But maybe you're looking for male nipples, which obviously are not pornographic at all, so that doesn't work either.

"Vagina" and "penis" have enough educational material behind them that that may actually be what you're searching for.

"Pussy" could be a cat, "dick" could be a Richard.

Which is another aspect, making this harder. Our society loves using non-sexual words to refer to sexual things.

I suppose, if you actually throw in the word "porn", there's hardly ever going to be a scenario where you were not looking for pornographic content, but it's not entirely impossible either.
Someone doesn't like your comment, but when I searched to find context for a quote from the article, I found this expanded paragraph from the Bernstein Research report:

"What is the inspiration behind Tesla's automation? Tesla has bought German robots and a German automation company (Grohmann). But the German OEMs – traditionally the most enthusiastic proponents of automation – have actually been rowing back on it in recent years. The best producers – still the Japanese - try to limit automation. It is expensive and is statistically inversely correlated to quality. One tenet of lean production is “stabilise the process, and only then automate”. If you automate first, you get automated errors. We believe Tesla may be learning this to its cost."

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/03/28/1522248619000/No-one-...
The average cost of a solar power plant is $1 per watt. So this budget would build a 200 GW plant. It would satisfy 10% of the world's demand of electricity. This is huge!

Edit: taking into account the capacity factor it would really only represent 3%; still impressive though.
It's a step in the right direction, but still I don't trust Facebook making a decision like that. In the end they'll just replace it with something else which might turn out even worse than before. You cannot make money selling user data by cutting off data channels to your third party customer base. So, I'm waiting. Off Facebook.
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Somewhat ironically given today’s political climate there was a minor scandal in the mid 90s when a prominent Guardian journalist was found to have accepted money from the KGB [1]

To a Telegraph reader the Guardian looks very left wing (in british political terms) but it’s probably only about as left as Tony Blair, which is to say that it’s basically centerist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gott
...surely you didn't mean 700 jobs?

70 jobs? 700 applications? Or am I completely mistaken and you are a much more well-traveled person than I am?
This is what I read in this article. The author has a problem with people thinking that rote-learnt algorithms is the best thing ever, and proceeds to say nope a stash of the most subjective heuristics to produce 'good code' is wayyyy better. All in all the way I see it, the author is proposing to supplant a shittty misconception with a bs idea that is nice short term solution but a complete disaster in the long term which has inculcated into this idea that programming is an Art and not a discipline.
Or Visual studio.
Interesting. I guess it's the economist's version of the physicist's spherical cow. Sadly, I suppose the computer scientist's version would be something like "assume infinite memory/time/etc." which is not nearly as catchy.