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It isn't a choice between attention to your case and attention to substance. If people who respect you heed you, and those who don't, don't, then your name by default becomes a cultural prop for the auto-da-fe. That's worth countering with an occasional dissenting web post.

I agree that our most critical current tech challenge, maybe on par with energy, curing disease or extraterrestrial diaspora, is the decentralization of internet services. You are peculiarly positioned to make a positive contribution to that. If the inquisition succeeds in quashing you they may accomplish genuine harm.
"Even extremely basic commands are routinely misunderstood by voice assistants"

I think the three most popular voice assistants (Siri, Google & Alexa) do for the most part get the basic commands right and even some complex ones.

The struggle I think with using voice assistants for me is the human interaction. When I am in a social setting or walking outside on the street I can't see people using it. When I am alone or maybe with a significant other I can see it being used a lot. I rarely see people actually using Siri on a train or when they are out and about.
In the US it is basically a form of hazing. If you can make it through their process, you'll be accepted as part of the "family".

blah blah.
Sure an algorithm can get the low hanging fruit that you say but what we really care about is computers competing with the best that can be made by humans.
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I don't think I understand your comment. There are people we don't know how to save, but there are also people we do know how to save. The Against Malaria Foundation, for instance, claims that every ~$3k donated results in the prevention of the death of a child under the age of 5 (https://www.givewell.org/charities/amf#Cost_per_death_averte...).
I mean that it's more boring, not that it's intentionally set up to be that way to find certain people.
Is this just denied a new passport? Or the ability to leave. If it is just a new passport that would drop the numbers considerably..... also it depends on what the owing the IRS actually means.

I noted in another comment that I've had my run ins with the IRS before. Provided you respond to them in a timely fashion (they give a lot of time) they consider it is in one phase.

If you don't respond, then it is another phase.

I'm wondering if we're talking about situations where the situation is in a particular phase. Not just the IRS asking, but if you already chose not to respond....
This is exactly it - the airline is responsible for returning you home if you are denied entry to a country.

My wife used to work as an air stewardess, and one of her longer flights was a 16 hour non-stop flight from Dubai to Brazil. This involved a 3 day layover, and on the inbound flight she saw some (rather tired) passengers who had been on the outbound flight.

Apparently they were denied entry, however it was too late for them to go back on the same aircraft, so they had to wait in the airport (airside) for the next flight.
Sort of. Some aircraft can detect targeting radar or missile launch thermal signatures to a limited extent from some directions. But it isn't very reliable or precise. Human eyeballs are still more effective in many cases.
Is this enabled in the iOS 12 Beta 3? I can't find it.
Pretty sure that if you are deemed to have owed taxes, that must be settled before you can renounce.
Not in my experience. I used to try to screen resumes and to pre-screen on calls. And it mostly doesn't work. Some people ace the pre-screen and are assholes in person. Some people totally fail the pre-screen because it's the first ever call they had in weeks and they get super nervous.

I will use a 15m pre-screen to verify some basic tech skills but I also then offer candidates to follow up in an email if they think they could have done better.

> If anything your engineers did, anything, had a 20% success rate,

They don't have a 20% success rate. The success rate is 100% if they hire the number of developers they need and to the standard they want.

Saying it's a 20% success rate is like saying interviewing 100 people to determine the best among them is a 1% success rate. But it's a 100% success rate if you did actually figure out who the best programmer is among the 100.
Well, at least something that passes as a joint "direction," publicly announced, and upheld.

None of those types made me feel that they have that "we are going there"

Nowadays politicians have very generic "liberal," "democratic," "socialist" action plans they give to the public, but you never sense that there is any "prevailing idea" or strategy formulation behind them. All of them can easily come out of random number generator.
Tachyons, the CSS component library he used, has a fucking gorgeous website.

http://tachyons.io/
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Which is doubly disgusting, since the US is one of the only countries that double-taxes its expats.
The Librem 5 will have hardware switches for the microphone and camera I believe. But at the moment I don't have a smartphone (I used to have one but eventually figured out it was a much bigger burden than it was worth).
You're absolutely right, but I'd wager it's mostly because they haven't been exposed to 120Hz yet. The moment Apple introduces a 120Hz screen on their iPhones, people are going to want it everywhere. Much like HiDPI displays.
Sounds like you need to clean them https://lifehacker.com/the-gross-but-effective-way-to-clean-...
OS X has never done gamma correction properly with subpixel antialiasing. Instead, it “dilates” the shapes slightly, but this is actually wrong. I suppose half the problem is getting used to the new, correct, line weights. This is more problematic on retina displays because the dilation affected the weight far more than the gamma deviations would’ve at high resolution.
Wrong. Go is a game with a small number of defined rules and zero ambiguity in the inputs. It's not even remotely comparable.
Just an anecdote, but no my haven’t changed at all.
> This is the reason text looks bad on transformed HTML elements in browsers, or when you click a button on Windows and it tilts slightly.

It's pretty common for regular AA to be borked in those situations, browser support for AA under transforms hasn't ever been awesome, and it's only been decent in the major browsers pretty recently.

> Text rendering should be aware of the (sub)pixels, even post-transform. While we're at it, this can apply to vector art, too.

Text & vector rendering with regular AA are currently aware of virtual sub-pixels, when they're not borked by transforms like in your examples. But making the browser rendering engine have to be aware of the order and orientation of your specific LCD hardware sub-pixels of your monitor would be very difficult for browsers to support. There is a reason subpixel AA has never worked everywhere.

When I first glanced at this article yesterday, I got the mistaken impression that Apple was turning off all AA, not the LCD specific ClearType style of subpixel AA. That would be a big deal, but that's not what's happening. The difference between regular AA and ClearType style AA does exist, but it's pretty small. I'm a graphics person, and I'm very much in favor of AA, but the outrage at losing subpixel AA feels overblown to me. It helps a little, but also has the downside of chromatic aberration. I'm honestly wondering if most of the hubbub here is people making the same mistake I did initially and thinking that they're losing all anti-aliasing?
I've found they lose sync on Windows, as in, you hear an echo as left and right and perfectly aligned. Could be the bluetooth dongle I use I suppose, but it's an Asus rather than a no-brand off Amazon.
I would love four hours and the chance to talk to that many tech people on the team. I'm going to be spending the large majority of my waking hours with these people five days a week. I want to get to know the team as well as possible before making a decision like that. A good interview process isn't just about seeing if I'm the right person for them. It's also about me deciding if they are the right people for me.
They independently evolved a structure similar to the mammalian neocortex called the avian nidopallium.
I’ve never heard this complaint about AirPods. Mine certainly don’t seem to have experienced any reduction in volume after about 15 months of use. Have you gotten them wet?
> 7. Performance is a NOT a feature.

I think you meant to say "Performance IS a feature."
(That is what the page says as well)
Batteries are replaceable for $49: https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair/service
> Surely the AI is going to out-perform the human in this task.

Therein lies the problem. We don't have good AI to achieve these types of tasks and are not nearly close enough to achieving it for military applications. The notion that we can just make an autonomous killing machine at this stage is absolutely laughable marketing hype.
> Just a comment to underline the bias generated by images

Here is a much better picture of him in the later days:

Helmut Kohl with two of his friends:

https://www.bz-berlin.de/artikel-archiv/welcher-berliner-erk...

A classic picture:

https://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/DE/Artikel/2014_Deuts...

George H. Bush about Helmut Kohl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnysQpIlP2g

What a contrast to today.
No because AIs don't yet have optical sensors equivalent to human eyeballs, nor can they perform real time sensor fusion as effectively as a human brain. Maybe someday, but not today.
It lets you use the AirPods to hearvwhat the phone’s mic picks up.

That’s it.

It won’t replace real hearing aids all the time. The battery only lasts 4 hours after all.

But for people without hearing aids it may be useful in lour places or to hear quiet talkers.
Genuine question : how does the pilot can see the missile if the missile is chasing the plane or under the plane?
More lines of text.

Historically 16:10 monitors have had the same width as 16:9 ones (e.g. 1920×1200 vs 1920×1080) so there's no difference as far as having things side by side.
So "John" owes over $51K to the IRS but simply doesn't have the money or assets to pay. $51k may seem like a lot but it isn't when considering many years, penalties, fees and interest. So, is he condemned for life to never travel outside USA to visit ailing mother and so on? Or just apply for humanitarian exception passport and hope?
however, voicecode's use of dictation as I outlined in my sibling comment means keeper will type out all the nonsense words too (which is some of what I meant by voicecode's approach affecting accuracy)
Oh shut the fuck up you sanctimonious cock.
I'm not saying get rid of the null hypothesis. I'm saying set the "interesting hypothesis" as the hypothesis to be "nullified" (ie, tested).
That private company is constrained by rules established in the countries it operates in. It's weirder than you might imagine. I regularly fly between the EU and USA and the immigration and security rules are different for American operators than for their EU counterparts.
Oh well, the good old times.
I don't know much about these phases, because I have tried to respond as soon as requested (although there have been some scares because of lost letters).

I do know of a several people (4 to be precise, in the last several months) that have (had) non-expired passports denied permission to leave the country (the US) to return home to work, and one person who was no able to renew an expired passport at the embassy of their host country of 20 years (Japan)[fn]. This is all anecdote, and maybe they were in Phase 1+N of your scheme...

[fn] One could argue the wisdom of spending one's entire life/career working in Japan, knowing that they will boot you out as soon as you hit 65 y.o., but that's a different conversation!
B.Sc. Computer Information Systems, Wahresleben University, 2014.

(Wahres Leben = “real life” in German)

If they actually check they won’t find the university but they can’t discount the fact it might exist. So HR is more likely to follow up with you then throw your resume out, and you can take that chance to explain you being more to the table than a university graduate.
Imagine you need senior embedded programmers with QNX and safety-critical systems experience, or someone with strong skills at understanding poorly-documented code in a software-defined radio system designed by consultants.

You're in a smaller city, and when you run job adverts, you only get a handful of applicants who can code and they're mostly Javascript+Windows guys (that's what the other big employers in town use).

So you'll have to train them on new languages, new problems, new conventions, new tools, new platforms, new build systems, new ways of debugging, new quality standards, and so on.

Initially they'll need to spend a bunch of time developing those skills - which means they need the attentions of your existing team members - and their early code will reflect their inexperience. I know my early code did! It won't be until they've spent quite a while working on the new system that their productive contributions will outweigh the sunk costs of their training.
I read all the negativity (I am not a big fan of the touchbar on my MacBook Pro) about Apple on HN but one thing they deserve high praise for is accessability and privacy. Going back to the release of the first iPhone it had great accessibility features.
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Ironically physical brutalism often fails because of poor usability and discomfort, while the brutalist web design manages to be faster and more accessible than whatever the conventional (baroque?) style is.

I think we all benefit from a little bit of useless ornament. Unadorned brut concrete rapidly becomes so ugly that some buildings became notorious suicide spots.
No it wouldn’t, you just also implement nation-wide, government-controlled price setting like they have in Japan, as well as debt-forgiveness for doctors. They have 120 million people and it is works fine. Cheaper, everyone is healthier and lives longer.
If you invest a few billions dollars to the task, you will have your specialized AI with all the sensors needed to out-perform human at this task in less than a decade. There is a reason Google employees refused to work for military.
This was a good listen but I’m curious why it’s on the front page of HN?
Anyone have good experiences with an SPA architecture?
It's nice that we have studies to confirm this, but I always thought this was common sense. Just the difference in air quality, compared to a city, is worth being in a pristine location -- every breath becomes pure pleasure. As a remote worker I take advantage of my ability to work anywhere in the world and venture with my laptop into nature as often as possible.
That depends on what you mean by "platform." Professional quantitative traders do not use services like this one. Virtually all of them - profitable and otherwise - work within firms that have separate teams for strategy research, strategy development, infrastructure, IT and internal software development. Typically there are sub-teams specializing in research and implementation (each) for risk management, execution, data processing and portfolio optimization.

So the most honest answer to your question, insofar as the question makes sense, is that algorithmic traders roll their own under the auspices of the firm employing them. In fact the way that this service structures their pricing is strange and unintuitive to me, and I can't imagine professional traders would agree with it.

While I have known people to trade on their own in a way that can be legitimately called "quantitative" (and even do so profitably), they all worked within a firm before doing that, and all of them targeted strategies that allowed them to capture a greater amount of the profit for an otherwise small total revenue that would generally be considered too illiquid and capacity constrained for institutional trading.

Quantitative trading in a solo capacity is basically a myth. Most of those who actually have a non-trivial attempt at it think they're doing it because they're working with a large amount of data and doing "backtesting", but that's well below table stakes. To put it in perspective, that's like saying you wrote and maintain an internet-wide search engine half as good as DuckDuckGo. It's a meteoric amount of work for one person to keep all aspects of an algorithmic trading strategy running smoothly.
I wonder how likely it is people would renounce their citizenship.... that US passport / citizenship is pretty powerful.
From an art/fashion perspective, this could be interesting in a playful way if the industry saw reason to 'mechanically play' with machine designs in the same way it does with it's own history and the history of art. This would make the production and consumption function more like a stream of information that is bidirectional, rather than just a unidirectional cyclic aggregation of historical data.
A lot of the problem isn't that they owe taxes but that they have trouble filing correctly. You're required to file even if you owe no tax. The US has fairly high reporting requirements.

Think of all the tax forms you've received in the US. W2. All the various 1099s. All the docs related to stocks, SPP, interest on mortgage, real estate transactions, etc. The IRS still needs all that paperwork even if you have these deductions. As you live abroad and conduct these transactions abroad, it becomes entirely your responsibility to fill out these forms properly as they're only going to give you forms relevant to their country's taxes.

This proves burdensome enough that a lot of expats pay thousands a year to tax firms to get all this info and file on their behalf. It's too time consuming and risky to do it yourself. For those lower income folks it's cheaper to renounce than to keep paying these fees.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11185764
I've tried a few:

- Quantopian: Was good, has tons of data and makes things very easy. Unfortunately you can't easily live trade your algorithms anymore.

- QuantConnect: Open source, works okay, at the time I wanted it for options trading though and their support for options chains isn't so good.

- Zorro: Closed source, paid, uses a weird custom variant of C but works surprisingly well. Mainly focused on forex though.

- Others: There are others, like this one, that are mostly unusable because they miss something essential, like broker support or data.

QuantConnect is the only real packaged option these days I think but it's also not hard to roll your own. There are brokerages with _really_ easy to use APIs (Tradier is the first that comes to mind).
Please, missiles dynamics are easily predictable. You can cover your plane with detection systems, not only optical, at every angles. How would an human be better at that is beyond my understanding
doesn't seem to do GC or TCO!

I've got those in my scheme https://github.com/rain-1/scheme_interpreter but it isn't perfect
That would depend on the application’s needs, but isn’t a part of the approach itself. It is only guaranteeing delivery of the job to a worker at some point in the future, on average half the duration of the polling interval reading from the database. You can still use the strategy of only encoding object IDs in the job to avoid stale data.

If the worker can’t reach the database, the job will just fail as it would at any other time and retry later.

This is changing an at-most once delivery of the job into the queue into at-least once. Combine with idempotency you can get “exactly once semantics.”
You may be experiencing hearing loss. Please get your ears checked.
And depends on culture - I have had negative reactions in the UK when being interviewed by IBM and by a French company.

I also why its why I didn't get a call back from Ebay I suspect spain where the hr person was based might have some biases.
"You can just hang outside in the sun all day tossing a ball around. Or you can sit at your computer and do something that matters." -- Eric Cartman
Doesn't work for basic C++:

#include <stdio.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <iostream>

int main() {

int someNum = 52;

printf("Whale exists that does %d hz\n", someNum);

std::cout << "Out";

return 0;

}

/var/obfuscator/code_624952c3a4d4ebc7df41c830d3572272.c:3:10: fatal error: 'iostream' file not found

Stopping due to parsing error of severity Fatal

-----

Removing the include for iostream yields:

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/var/obfuscator/code_c963503bab4beb00483856ecd675548d.c:7:9: error: expected expression

Stopping due to parsing error of severity Error
There are number of recent very high c level executives who where fired for this.
Title should say “fending off”.
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> [T]he US has the only global taxation system in the world

Not exactly, Eritrea is another case.
I experienced this (but mostly as a mild confusion of not being sure if they had ever been as loud or if I had just forgotten what volume setting I often used). I lost one in a restaurant and bought a new pair a few days ago and it was amazing how much louder the new ones were.
You can't extrapolate the rate of technology improvement based on current trends. It may slow down in the future. For example we're already hitting serious obstacles in basic physics when it comes to semiconductors.
Its how teachers in the UK put most effort in getting D level students to a C and tend to ignore both the struggling and high achievers.
Having learned this myself over a few decades through both trial and error and also researching best practice, I have to say this guy gets a ton of stuff right. I also read a few new things I now want to try.

Just to reiterate one of the more important points from the article in my own words: resumes (CVs) have almost zero correlation to the quality of candidates. Pre-screening calls can really only screen out people who are completely unqualified due to not actually having the skills listed on their resume. So I will pre-screen with some very basic tech questions. Or more likely, I'll just use a recruiter to pre-screen for me.

I'm going to finish up with a copy paste from a past comment I made to a different article with some tips that have helped me over the years:

1. Unless you've been trained to interview people, you are probably really bad at it. Think about how bad someone is at coding who never did it before and has no training. Interviewing people is no different: it is a skill that takes time and effort to learn. Get trained up and practice. As much training as you have time for. Educate yourself in your free time on a regular basis with articles about best practice. Adding more words won't make this sink in more, but I will end by saying I can't stress this point enough. You are bad at interviewing. You need to fix that before anything else if you want to hire good devs.

2. How are you measuring success as an interviewer? This is a really difficult thing to measure because how can you find out that your interview process is rejecting candidates who would make great employees? I'm not going to try to answer this here, but it's an excellent question to think about. One thing that might help is the next point.

3. Whatever your first impression is of the candidate, spend a good part of the interview trying to prove yourself wrong. Candidate seems like a perfect fit for the team and a great coder? Instead of relaxing because you're sure you already found the right person, see if you can figure out why they might be a bad fit or if their coding skills aren't as good as first impressions. Same for someone who seems weak at coding. Maybe they are just nervous. Can you make them relaxed enough so their awesome skills can come through? Maybe in both cases your first impressions will be proven correct. But if not you might have just found a diamond in the rough that other companies are skipping over.
As usual, the classical book for anyone interested digging into Lisp development environments, is "Lisp in Small Pieces".
I didn't agree with the bailout.