skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that they identify striding as the culprit. Striding is also, according to some people at Google AI, the reason why VGG is one of the few good CNNs for doing style transfer (which is otherwise quite mysterious: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/7rrrk3/d_e...).
Well, it takes a degree or 5 years of relevant experience to enter the front door. Better have both.

I wouldn't call it a bias, companies have different expectations and needs. At big name, there are a hundred people applying every day, the bar is higher than no degree and/or little experience.

There is also the fact that the lack of education puts one at a disadvantage. For instance, I know of co workers who ask questions about complexity, compilers and graphs. It's common for candidates with no formal education to be completely oblivious to these.
GDP might be a flawed measurement for the reasons you mention, but it's worth keeping in mind that for all it's flaws it has a very high correlation with "general goodness", almost regardless of which measure you choose.
> If REM sleep was to warm up the brain you might think people wouldn't do it in hot climates but I don't think thats the case.

Isn't internal body temperature kept constant (or at least the body tries very hard to) irrespective of environment?
My personal theory is that REM has many uses - one of which is giving the brain an opportunity to do reinforcement learning.
FWIW: Email is a crappy medium for prior art.

Most emails rarely delve into the how to actually do something, most stop at suggestions of things to try.

If i email you a problem, and you email me "you should try a hashtable", and then i reduce the problem to practice using a hashtable, i will likely still be able to patent it.
It depends on the country/details, but yeah.

At best, you may or may not be named co-inventor.

(Even here, you can see that one of the arguments the examiner has to make is that it would be obvious how to implement the suggestion. This is because if it wasn't true, it would still be patentable)

Code is a better medium, but there is no way for most patent offices to understand what code does.

But i would never rely on issues and emails being a good medium for prior art.

You'd really need a design doc and reference impl if you want it to be considered for real.
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You inserted the word "solely", which is utterly unsupported by what I said, and seems pretty clear evidence of your intent not to engage with what I actually said. So I'm not going to bother trying to explain to you.
(I think you might have inverted the "I" and "you" in my scenario making your comment a bit confusing. But I think I understand the point you were intending to make.)

Why is the risking of money deserving of special tax treatment but not the risking of time?
Well it depends on kind of notes you take. At first I was using Evernote, later in Lumia 920 I was using onenote( still do in my new android ). Currently I wrote a webapp and I am using that now. https://stash.bobbydreamer.com
i keep my lab/research notebook in org-mode.

i take class notes and pdf markup in Notability.

during meetings i use paper.
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The things that people choose to pay money for, in software, drive an incentive system that results in polished user experiences.

The things that people choose to donate for, in software, drive an incentive system that results in ever-increasing code quality and security and a bunch of other things that developers themselves care about, and feel that users should care about, but which don't actually affect application polish very much.

It's not even down to the companies choosing to do this or that with your money. It's a response to incentives. They know that, under a paid model, they'll keep getting money only if they do X; and under a donation model, they'll keep getting money if only they do Y. And so they prioritize X, or they prioritize Y, regardless of which one they think should be prioritized.

If you want X from your software, you should advocate for an ecosystem of paid software businesses. If you want Y from your software, you should advocate for an ecosystem of donation-supported software organizations.

If you want both... I'm not sure. Maybe support both ecosystems, and encourage the donation-driven organizations to put their work into "cores" or "engines" that can be wrapped into polished experiences by the paid companies?
The first 8 years of my career was in South Florida progressing from tech support -> web hosting sales -> NOC -> Jr. Sys Admin -> Sys Admin -> Sr. Sys Admin. Only then did I make the move to the Bay Area to work for Google in 2010.

I don't think everyone should take the path I did. If you can afford it, college is a really good option and I would never discourage someone from going that path. But there are other paths, if you work hard, and have some luck.

I'm now in a position that interviews and helps make hiring decisions. I still know a lot of people from South Florida that have spread out all over the country. There are many of us who don't come from traditional backgrounds that have progressed into leadership roles where we impact hiring who do not require college.

Yes it is very competitive, yet so many companies are constantly turning people away, people with and without college degrees. I'm so happy that there are so many more resources today compared to what I had when I started. MOOCs are awesome and I use the to this day for continuing education. I've been part of apprenticeship programs to train bootcamp graduates as SREs. And I've helped mentor people internally transferring from support into SRE.

College is definitely the most typical paths but there are still paths for humble people willing to start that the bottom and work hard. College just isn't an option for everyone unfortunately.
A meaningful idea in software engineering at least is, in many many cases, an algorithm (until we're talking about ideas like "lets make the best compression") Straightforward implementation of the algorithm in say C is hardly a novel thing on it's own. So what is patentable here as an implementation, and what -
isn't as an idea? (Note: I do have several crappy ideas software patents myself :)
Sticking two 32 bit numbers (e.g. `(uint64_t(a) << 32) | uint64_t(b))` will not introduce bias.

IIRC, the PCG C++ distribution has a 64 bit variant (it uses 128 bit integers, which are implemented in software). I don't know if the performance is better or worse than calling the 32 bit variant twice.
The body tries to keep the core temperature constant around the heart and internal organs and will divert blood there and let your feet get cold. I'm not sure about the brain but in a 40C climate say I doubt your head would get cold inside.
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Chunky pixels? =) [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACb0h7mmcQ8
Asus' dual-screen Project Precog laptop is an AI vision of the future
https://youtu.be/hJtrZrPCUuY is a full episode on U2 from Smithsonian channel and has lots more details.
I kinda disagree with this. If you cannot stop in case the car in front slams the breaks as hard as they can you probably don’t have and appropriate following distance or you are not paying attention to the road.
> I’m still not sure why people are complaining.

Of course you know why as the arguments of both sides were presented here ad nauseam, you just aren't convinced by them. In short, people who witnessed faul play by Microsoft that lasted for many years and their attitude towards users as presented in Windows 10 aren't convinced they should be the owner of GitHub.
This seems interestingly lopsided. It says EB2 wait is 151 years, while EB3 is 17 years. It used to be the other way round.

So it seems in recent years a lot of folks got the Masters degree to get on to EB2 that the folks with just bachelors now have an advantage.
To play devil's advocate, I've been hearing sentiments along those general lines for a very long time. And, in fact, soccer/football has increased a whole lot in popularity among kids in particular. Hardly anyone played soccer, at least in my circles, when I was growing up.

The wildcard is what happens with American football if parents and secondary schools start deciding it's not a sport kids should be playing. Rugby is the more natural alternative worldwide but it's got its own concussion issues (albeit not to the same degree) so it's hard to see American football phasing out in favor of rugby.
> I highlighted a fairly small portion of the article i believe is shoddy reporting

> Jarek (and the author's) claim was the emails are important

The claim is: "Duda says he suggested the exact technique Google is trying to patent in a 2014 email exchange with Google engineers".

Which is true. Neither Jarek nor the reporter claim that these emails were the first instance of prior art. They emphasize the emails to show that Jarek was working with Google engineers before they stole his work.
As human civilization progresses, we're trying to move the goal-posts up a bit from "survive".
One of the main reasons football (soccer) isn't that popular in the US (as opposed to the rest of the world) is that it's not as easy to marketize as other sports, i.e it doesn't have many adverticements opportunities.

Take for example basketball: It has 4 periods with pauses in between, and a number of time-outs; on all these occasions adverticements can be played.

Football on the other hand (usually) has only one 15 minute pause at the half-time. There won't be any other pauses to play adverticements, actually the 45 minute timer for each half never stops. Also, because of how the field is laid out usually the camera will be far away so adverticements in the field or in the players' clothes won't be easily visible.

For women's football, it's more or less non-existant in the rest of the world so it can't be a proper measurement of success.
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It doesn't matter who created a copyrighted work first, because independent creation is an absolute defense to copyright infringement.
Sounds like pseudo science to me.
The commenter you're responding to doesn't need cryptographic security.
Then I will! I've always preferred taking notes on a computer due to how much easier it is to

- edit

- organize (heck, you can even search!)

But I'm a maths student and I never came across anything where I can efficiently write equations and formulas, before Emacs + Org-mode.

I have now been using Emacs + Org-mode + Yasnippet for a year, and it's bloody amazing. When it comes to efficiently including latex-expressions in my org-notes, Yasnippet is an absolute must.

And because this is Org-mode, I can export all my notes to HTML, PDF, etc. Adding a bit of customization, you get something like this http://www.retiredparkingguard.com/notes/. If you go to one of the note-pages with a bit of maths on it, e.g. mathematics/geometry.html, you should see a bar on the right displaying the notation used in each section. This requires javascript.

I also make heavy use of customized named blocks in my note-taking, e.g.

#+name: def:schrodinger-equation

#+begin_definition

...

#+end_definition

And then, using org-ref, I can do a `M-x org-ref-insert-ref-link` anywhere in the document and I can search through all these definitions, theorems, etc.

These blocks, when exported to HTML, are also given CSS classes, hence you can easily give these styling, making the reading experience into whatever you want.

Finally, I would also suggest org-ref by John Kitchin (https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref); it makes organizing papers and the corresponding notes so incredibly easy.

All together this makes note-taking such a breeze and lowers the barrier for me to re-read and edit my notes significantly, compared to handwritten notes.
I hate how people don't mention the quality of work one is doing on Github, or anywhere for that matter.

I've personally seen people make one-liner commits deliberately, to get a good graph.

On the other hand, some people write code because they actually created something real, which solves a real problem.

And the difference is quite clear if you're looking for it.

Arguably, the github community suffers from the "celebrity" effect that facebook/Instagram have.

But I digress.

Comparing a Github account to a college degree is crazy.

Once a piece of paper, and the other is a full history of the guy's work, presented at a mouse click away.

I am about to clear the first year of my univ, and honestly couldn't care less about what the univ taught me. I can't even recall most of it.

What I can show you is my Github profile, where I did real work, and built real software that actually works (including some IoT projects that I personally use myself, every day)

Not to mention the other projects that didn't made on Github, but did make it on a Bitbucket private repo.
sounds like blabbering to me.
As for the security (against illegal copying), I'm thinking having a basic stuff - so it won't be very easy to crack, but also it shouldn't be very hard, so people in 3rd world countries are able to use it - these aren't the loss sales anyway, and also help in popularization. What might be a reasonable price in the west, might be worth of monthly salary for some living in poor countries - I wouldn't want to charge anything to such people.
Has anyone successfully transitioned from SemVer to CalVer? Especially with a large customer base who is familiar with the the major product versions but gets confused with the minor/patch variants and what’s included ?

I’m interested in your war stories, pm me.
Yep, Red Hat (note - not "RedHat") does employ several of the core CentOS team these day, although it started out externally.

> ... just a rebuild of all the open source parts of redhats software.

That seems like super weird description of things. :)

All of the Red Hat OS software is Open Source. The only significant pieces CentOS don't include are the Red Hat branding and artwork:

https://www.centos.org/about/

As far a dual licensing goes... that doesn't seem related to this? :)
I don't want them to go through my data for advertising purposes or to sell my personal data to advertisers (often called "partners" in privacy policies). I also don't want them to sell my personal information to foreign governments (like Facebook selling personal information on US tech users to Chinese tech companies).

I am fine with a privacy policy that has a section for using my data to provide the service (Service Providers section) and to share my data with companies that they use to provide services (as long as those companies must adhere to the same restrictions). As per your example of Twilio, that is fine as long as their contract with Twilio ("trusted business partners are subject to confidentiality agreements") states that Twilio won't sell my phone number to advertisers.
There is still research continuing into the Thibodeaux Massacre - https://tulane.edu/earth-beneath-dumpsite-offers-clues-racia...
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You're perhaps forgetting that people use price as a value indicator. If you take FOSS and package it for sale then people may well buy it who wouldn't "use that shitty free software". Humans are complex beasts.
As the root source mentions, the analysis explicitly ignores the fact that anyone qualified for EB2 can also qualify for EB3 and if the wait times in practice were anything like what is suggested, EB2 qualified individuals would file EB3. (Which means the numbers are pretty much meaningless, even before accounting for the giant methodological errors that aren't explicitly noted the way that one is.)
Not at all. The ruby equivalent to Flask is Sinatra: http://sinatrarb.com

Rails and Django are equivalent to each other from the sense of providing an MVC based framework to build a web application.
They're not creating money from nothing, hence fractional. And to the extent they don't have anything at stake, it's because they get bailed out, which is a different concern altogether.
As I said, you should try working out a scenario with actual numbers. The lien balance will just never get that large.

Prop. 13 limited the tax rate to 1%. So to see how much the lien can increase by in a single year, you take 1% of the amount the property value increased, less 2% of the previous year's tax bill.

Let's take, by way of example, a scenario where values have been flat (so the payment has been equal to the assessment, so there's no lien yet) and then jump 10% in a year. What happens? Let's say V is the property's value before the 10% jump. The assessment, after the jump, is for 1.1% of V; the tax bill is for 1.02% of V, creating a lien for 0.08% of V.

If values plateau again, in the following year, the assessment will again be for 1.1% of V, but the bill will be about 1.04%, adding about 0.06% to the lien. It will take 5 years for the bill to catch up with the assessment, at which point the lien will total about 0.2% of V.

0.2% is just not a scary number; compare it to the 6% that an agent typically charges to sell the property. Even in a crash, it's just not going to make the difference between making it possible or impossible to sell.

The only scenario under which the lien value grows to a significant number is the one in which property values go up a lot for a long time (as they have, in the SF Bay area, for the last 20 or 30 years). In that case, it would take a hell of a crash to bring values down to where some properties would be worth less than their liens. A 20% drop wouldn't do it; it would take something more like an 80% crash.

An 80% crash is not going to happen. But if it makes you feel better, I would be willing to accept a provision that says that if the amount of the lien at the time the property is sold exceeds 50% of the gain on the sale, the difference is forgiven. (No refund is offered if the property is sold at a loss.)
Is there a reason why you are considering only those two?
This is cool, I installed and gave it a try. If I can offer some unsolicited feedback:

This opens up directly to recent images, this is somewhat unintuitive and jarring- I wasn't sure I was in your app to get started, and didn't realize immediately I needed to select a photo.

I used one of your promo codes, thanks for this. I found the blur feature to be the most useful, I'd suggest making the free version of the app allow you to experiment with this feature. Maybe have the free version watermark images? Or limit the number of images you can save.

A walkthrough/intro screen to get started would go a long way.

Anyways, cool project, thanks for sharing
Then you'll have to point me to a real world example of an API that works like that, because this is balderdash (seriously? Implement malloc and free on top of a stack-based memory pool just to decode a buffer?) to my eyes.
Count me as a data point. I have a family, children, relatives, friends and a house to keep in order. And some other things that takes time.
You make a good point about football being played in many countries globally. However, regarding the point about continents, football is not the main ball sport in Australia. It probably ranks third or fourth most popular (after Australian football, rugby league and possibly rugby union), although Australia will be at the upcoming football (soccer) World Cup.
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Your example seems to have nothing to do with carried interest. There's a single investor; no investment manager. The question around carried interest is whether certain types of income earned by investment managers should be classified as labor or capital income, whereas you have one person with labor income and one person with capital income, and are asking who should be taxed more heavily.
My point was, the line in which you think your contribution to the system is impactful is arbitrary. So for example is paying taxes the line for when you should protest? What about living in the state of California? How about being an employee of Google? Maybe it's being part of the program as a PM? Maybe it's a labeler for the dataset for enemy combatants?

So yes, the line of demarcation between when you feel you are complicit with the "immoral" behavior is arbitrary and not based on any legal basis.

extrajudicial killings of political opponents

It's important to note that this is not true legally. It conflicts with EO 12333 [1] [2]. The targeting process for any airstrike (except in VERY rare cases like Op Neptune) goes through a very complex, legal de-confliction process in close coordination with local governments/militaries and is not done for political purposes. In this sense "political" is a term of art, not a statement about the philosophical position of a potential target.

I think the major problem here is the massive disparity with what the general public thinks they know about airstrikes in general and UAV strikes (aka drone) specifically. The general public has about 1/1000th of the information they need to understand it and how it actually happens in practice. The DoD is largely to blame for not being more explicit about this, but there are real concerns with security/secrecy.

[1] https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/execu...

[2] https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/cerl/conferences/target...
Unsigned types should be possible to translate reasonably well. Addition is just the same, multiplication and division is performed via Integer.xxx methods and should be replaced by proper machine code by JIT.
Physique is extremely important. Soccer is just not as selective towards tall players like Basketball is. In fact, I think soccer is slightly selective towards smaller players. Height seems to be an extremely important factor for header ability, but small players tend to have advantages in mobility and they probably also better reflexes. Just look at the Spanish team. And Messi has an excellent physique, doesn't he? Ibrahimovic (at 1.95m) is one exception, but he has outstanding mobility and awareness.
This is the other issue with 'linux on the desktop'. The linux desktop is massively fragmented. Notably this goes for desktop environments and package managers.

This makes it hard to target 'linux' in general with polished software. The issue of package managers seems on its way to being solved by containers. However, the issue of desktop environments is much more thorny. As you can't really abstract away the metaphors with which a user communicates with his PC.
Sinatra[1] is more like Flask. From your list Rails has an ORM (ActiveRecord) and built in ActionView form helpers, but no default admin interface or authentication. The standard authentication library in the community is usually Devise[2]. What ‘etc’ includes is difficult to comment on :)

[1] http://sinatrarb.com/

[2] https://github.com/plataformatec/devise
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There do seem to be others. The author of Vue.js seems to be doing ok as well:

https://www.patreon.com/evanyou/overview

And yep, I definitely agree. The long term sustainability of projects via Patreon clearly hasn't been established yet.

But, at least some _are+ actually now making decent money, so we can find out how sustainable things are over time.

Hopefully it mostly goes well, but yeah... it's unproven thus far. ;)
I think it's a bias to assume the candidate won't understand those things or be suitable for the job based on lack of college alone. If you require people to understand complexity, compilers, and graphs to do the job effectively then test for those. I've encountered plenty of people with degrees who similarly didn't understand those concepts.

I definitely agree that lack of education is a disadvantage, it just means you have to start a different way. that could mean your first few years is coming in through a side door before you start getting relevant experience.
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