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I drove a Renault Zoe around Stockholm in the middle of winter. Great car, except for the heating... takes a long time for it's little heat pump to warm up.
Depends what the company is doing.

Most companies are going to utilise ML to some extent. Once technology and tooling improves they'll need boots on the ground engineers and not labs with R&D teams
> An IT illustration: there are still places running RHEL6 in production and not seeing an effort to migrate from it worth the while.

I recently interviewed at a startup (though a reasonably far-along/mature, if not spectacularly successful by VC standards) that was both running RHEL6 and depending a remarkable amount on "enterprise" gear, software, and support, which seemed incongruous for any small company, let alone a startup.

They did see it as worthwhile to "migrate" to CentOS6, but I'm pretty sure the interviewer who was the incumbent rejected me quickly and strenuously after I admitted a preference for Ubuntu (due to its package ecosystem better catering to a wider array of developers, making my DevOps culture evangelism and implementation that much easier) and a focus on frugality first when it comes to hardware (that being a huge benefit of it being a commodity).

> They have more important things to do.

Poe's Law aside, I do actually find this to be a valid argument, if it's presented eyes-open, rather than just through inertia.

That is, there's a difference between having considered the migration and deciding it's not worth it (or that the "more important things" are more worth it and take priority) and not having considered the migration at all because those "more important things" completely consumed everyone's attention. I don't mean to present these as a false dichotomy, just two extremes that illustrate my point.
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- The researchers claimed they could see "every Dropbox folder associated with a given researcher."

- Dropbox denies giving researchers non-anonymized user data

https://www.zdnet.com/article/dropbox-denies-giving-research...
Ecliptic Curve cryptography. In-tree driver modules for last year's 10Gb Ethernet cards. Python 2.7, let alone 3. Official support for kernel 4.x.

I've barely been in the industry for 90 days and I've already had to deal with the lack of the above in RHEL6.

(Indirectly, mind you; but I believe that the transition between RHEL6 and CentOS6 is negligible for the current topic.)
I find it interesting that you consider those activities not worthwhile. I'm sure you use the internet for things that are "less worthwhile" than those things, at least to me. But that's what it's really all about anyway right? Different things have different value to different people.
I think combining it with some sort of code escrow could work. Keep it secret while you support it, if you go bust or stop support the source enters public domain.
So, to hack such a mechanism, a $10,000,000 reward seems fair. To the right buyer, the value is potentially open ended.

Some victim out there will rely on this as a turn key security solution to protect their high value data.
Building off of that $0.000001 USD per email thing, has anyone proposed a proof of work per message sent system? Sort of like the server accepting messages says "hey find some value x where the first n digits of hash(nonce + x) are zero". So the server sending the message could decide if it really wants to complete the work.

It may be a total pain for users if servers set their proof of work really high and reject everything, but maybe it could be implemented to work well, thus limiting spam.

This would have the same effect as Gates's idea, but compute power is easier to come by than real money.
MyHealth adds reputation cancellation options to contracts (in lieu of security)
Sadly this only archived the first of four pages.
>If you accept a trial's outcome that the accused is guilty, it follows logically that they deserve to be punished more for denying it (or at least, more than they would be punished if they confessed.)

By 10x? No, I don't agree with that.
The point of consent is that it isn't your (or Dropbox's) opinion on what constitutes harm that matters. It is the person who gives consent.
> You can just take connection and activation weights and write a simple neural network equivalent in an evening. And it would work about as good as a hardware simulation.

And yet, nobody has managed to do so, despite years of effort.

Why?
Great start.

I had a similar MVP in 2010 with the intent on building a curated news aggregator for sales territories. Once you define your geographic area (zipcodes/states/draw etc) and choose keywords and/or topics, your news feed will include any local or AP story that includes these keywords and geotagged within your territory.
I think it was this one - “From Russia With Cash”. On Channel 4, not BBC.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/07/london-estat...

Key quote about the motive for estate agents turning a blind eye to the clear admission of fraud :

“Behind the deals, claims the documentary, lie easy profits for estate agents. If “Boris” had gone ahead with the purchases they stood to earn between £65,000 to £315,000 in commissions.”
I have social anxiety. I only use the interact when interacting with people outside of work or in a business professional setting.
I haven't been to NYC in over a decade, but I was amazed when I was there. In most normal cities, when the light is green and the sign says don't walk, people don't walk. In NYC, people walk constantly, and when a car (or I should say, a cab, as it always is) approaches the intersection they just maintain their speed and lay on the horn. People get out of the way enough for the car to pass, then resume crossing. So there's honking (and near misses) constantly.
A debug build of the D compiler on my (ordinary) machine takes 24 seconds. The optimized build takes 132 seconds.
Why are traditional knobs not replaced by touchscreens in cockpits?
You had it correct pre-edit. The JAGs requires its officers to serve in multiple roles. Generally, they end up doing prosecution, defense, and both sides of civil litigation based on the current needs of their respective branch. Very few JAGs are permitted the opportunity to specialize; generally you have to either be amazing at that particular practice area or be politically connected.
In political theory and International Relations studies, there is a reasonably well established set of theories regarding the difference between "A nation", "A state" and a "Nation-State" the three are not synonymous and it irks me somewhat how even in an article like this the three seem to be conflated as I think it adds t everyone's confusion about things.

Having said that, there is no "hegemon" (arbiter/judge/police/enforcer-of-rules) at international level so what is, or is not, a state is somewhat arbitrary and contingent on whatever power structures are at play at the time.
At 25 I had just started my first job as a web developer that actually paid well. I had spent 4 years studying and preparing before I even allowed myself to apply to the kind of job I wanted, and when I finally got hired I knew way more than anyone at the company. If I had believed in myself at the time I could have saved myself a few years of working $12/hr jobs. I'm 33 now.

There's been some good advice here, and I'll just add that it's really important that you take time regularly to think about what you're doing. Not a couple hours, but a week, or month if you can swing it. Something that gives you enough time to get adjusted to being yourself outside of work. You can get so wrapped up in being busy and trying to get stuff done that you completely lose sight of yourself and what you want out of life. I didn't get a chance to do that until paternity leave when my daughter was born and I had 6 weeks away from work. It was like finally coming up for air after swimming underwater and I was shocked at where all those hours of work had gotten me, which was nowhere I really wanted to be (professionally).
Have boot camps noticeably suppressed wages for software engineering in general?
So who do you expect to write all of this non proprietary software without any means of making money?
Not to nitpick, but if I remember correctly at least one of the realtors did become uncomfortable and shut down the whole thing. He was the exception, though.
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I'm certain I have friends in neighboring NYC buildings would be willing to cooperate on such a project.
Deep learning is far from slow down. The research speed has increased a lot in the last 5 years. It amazes me how fast the researchers are able to come up with new things. From one year to the next one there is something shiny and new.

I don't follow very much blockchain but seems like it was 6 years ago
That’s the method described in the end of the article.
Life may have existed on the Moon four billion years ago
The cost of engineering projects on this scale would be astronomical.

Surely there would be a better ROI if that money were spent on efforts to replace fossil fuel power with low-carbon alternatives, electrification of ground transport, etc?

If we can reduce carbon emissions by 90% or so, quickly enough, then the climate should stabilise. If that fails, then we can build the mega-projects as a desperate last stand.
The business world isn't really hiring Women's Studies majors, regardless of the impact they've had on the industry.
It's not something most developers will want to use in their apps for application security, but it is absolutely something that folks may want to use when training machine learning models based on customer data. As I understand it, this is one of the big "pie in the sky" goals for homomorphic encryption—having an encrypted model trained on encrypted data that only the customer can use for inference.
Most cars don’t have windshields and rear windows that open.
You cannot learn machine learning or deep learning in a few months. You can learn to copy what these guides do, but if you want to do something slightly different you will feel you know nothing (because you actually probably don't know anything about the maths behind why the things works, so when you want to change them you don't know how)
It’s already well known that real estate is used this way; are specific names going to change that?

Maybe if they did something to actually prevent such investment.
You don't need to make a relationship without a solid foundation work just because you had a child.

You can be a great single dad.

You can have a healthy relationship with your entire family, ex included, even after separating.

Negotiate your salary, as far as income is concerned negotiation skills can often be more important than technical skills.

Follow the breadcrumbs that come along, talk to people, everyone, listen to their advice, look for opportunities, seize them. Believe in your ability to execute.

Life can change incredibly fast. Six months can take you from bottom to top or the other way. Sometimes this may involve a perspective change more than anything.

Work Hard. Be Kind.

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At 25 I was barely supporting my little family, with very little hope of living beyond check to check..

At 33 now, I am doing better than I ever imagined possible
"I have to wonder, do we really want to a society where people are paid to report their neighbors?"

It's sad, but I think we need do need this. Too many people are uncaring and ignorant, and will behave badly if they don't think there are consequences. We shouldn't just turn a blind eye to anti-social behavior.
I have experience with both mathematics and CS departments, and I have exactly the opposite opinion. I think the Old School Mathematics model is absolute garbage and often explicitly and intentionally exploitative.

1. It's not like those math Ph.D.s are sitting around reading textbooks with their advisors.

They are TA'ing service courses. A lot of TA'ing. In addition to TA'ing, they are prepping for a high-stakes exam.

The exam will wash out the 50-70% of people who are needed as temp TA labor but whom the department has no intention of advising through to a Ph.D.

After 2 or 3 years, you pass the exam. Yay! But wait. Reading textbooks with your advisor? No! you need to take a whole slew of courses. Why? Because course enrollment == money and easy/interesting teaching assignments. And good luck getting tons of research done in-between your TA'ing and courses...

Now you're done with courses! Yay! After TA duties, you can spend 100% of your time on research (aka 50% of a 40 hour work week aka 80% of a grad student work week). Except you only have 2 years left :-(

So now it's on to 1-3 postdocs so that you can start doing, after 5 years, what that CS phd student was doing when they "hit the ground running": build a research agenda that resonates with a large enough set of researchers that it translates into a research job.

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Also, the "one singular result" style of research is unique not just to mathematics, but to a particular subset of mathematics. It's just not a good fit for most research problems, even in Mathematics. I've seen tons of well-composed dissertations focused on a singular, pointless problem.

The hodgepodge dissertations don't have a "beautiful singular result" feel, but almost invariably contribute at least one piece of useful, new knowledge.

Finally, worth noting that the best and brightest don't leave research; they might leave academia, but typically not research.

TL;DR: If you can find an advisor who isn't a slave driver (the majority of them at good places), the CS model is 1000% better than the Math model. You might be hired as a researcher for someone else's research agenda, but at least you don't spend the first 1/3rd of the phd as temp teaching labor stressing over high-stakes exams.
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> That is a myth which has no basis in reality.

No, it's really not.

> Libertarians in America adopt huge swathe of positions which are more typically associated with the "left wing" label

Libertarians in America are more likely to agree with the left on issues where the left believes the government should be inactive, sure, but they tend to agree with the right on what the important functions of government are.

> Typical American "left wing" position: decriminalize weed

That's just the typical American opinion, now. But, sure, most on the left would go at least that far.

> Typical American libertarian position: eliminate all drug laws

Not really; the scattered polling I've seen over the years have shown self-described libertarians as only slight more supportive of legalization of any drugs (even just marijuana) as the US public as a whole, much less the left.

Similarly on your other points.

> You really can't model things in a sufficiently rich way to describe Libertarianism on a one-dimensional spectrum like the left/right scale.

Libertarianism is at least another axis, sure, and even that is more about broad categorization. And it may not even be the second most significant axis in US politics; there's a race policy axis that has historically been stronger.
Yep:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

A mere 20 years ago :)
Does the US IRS have an auto-fill feature for tax software?

In Canada you sign up at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA is Canada's IRS) and get a log on. Then at tax time you can download free tax software from links on the CRA website, click auto-fill to populate with your info and then click the e-file button. That's it, done.

My dad in his mid 70s probably wouldn't do it so your dad may not either if it was available in the US. But it is a great feature to have it makes it almost to the point of why is anyone doing this it should be automatic each year.
But you’re not bored in the shower. You are doing a task. The most creative thoughts don’t come when you are bored, but when you are doing something routine or low effort.

Sitting on the couch staring at a wall won’t have the same effect, but doing housework will.
Varies by state. In California, we put the car up on a dynonometer and run it through various speeds and engine RPMs, while measuring the tailpipe emissions. Gas cap is checked to ensure good seal, and the MIL (Check Engine light) is tested to make sure it both works, and is off.
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I've never taken Ambien, but I have heard the voices the author describes. I think they're fairly normal while falling asleep–they're called hypnagogic auditory hallucinations: https://patient.info/doctor/hypnagogic-hallucinations

> Auditory hallucinations are common but other senses are seldom involved. Auditory hallucinations can range from a few sounds to an elaborate melody. Threats or criticism are also reported.

In my case, sometimes it's music (usually quite beautiful, and forgotten the next morning) and sometimes like a news broadcaster conveying quite a lot of information (again, quite forgotten the next day).
Or a spell-checker at least.
Could you provide some links?
Maybe the parent was performing a research project on Dropbox collaboration techniques and got scooped?

But seriously, as an example, I know people that share sensitive personal information with their accountants at tax time using Dropbox. Would suck for any of that to be made available to any third parties.
Oh don't do that. We have other shit running on it.
What I refer to as abusers in this context are those who intentionally use it for an altered state, and intentionally avoid falling asleep. That is, without question, abusing the drug.

Ambien is a hypnotic. If you don't fall asleep (it will push you close to the edge and you have to take the leap yourself) it absolutely puts you in a dangerous state of mind where you can be "awake" but not all of your controls are there. This is called the Walrus among abusers, and many seek out this state of mind. And when you read about people driving, streaking, doing crazy things, etc, it is usually in this condition.
> Just because there's some anonymisation

"which we [...] anonymized" doesn't sound like there was any anonymisation.
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We need a system like this to deal with excessive/extreme motorbike noise. Modified "loud pipe" exhausts are illegal where I live, but it seems like the cops are unable (or unwilling) to take enforcement action.
Your solution looks better than mine. Is there anything you've gleaned from the leetcode examples I posted?
...except in California, to which the parent comment is clearly referring; there, emissions testing equipment is attached to your vehicle and particulate output measured.
There are plenty of morally legitimate use cases for trustable computing, and not that much for trusted computing, aside of the fact that technology behind those two are often the same or similar. There's nothing wrong with Secure Boot in how it works, it just becomes bad when you keep the user from putting their key there.
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Easy solution: sell the tickets at an inflated price normally, then give discounts to people who you think wouldn't buy otherwise. Require these people show their ID at check-in. This will cause people to willingly give over their data/identity in order to receive discounts - not realizing that if they acted as a class and bought anonomously they would recieve (on average) lower prices. Of course such class action is impossible because it will always benefit some segment to defect, which will inflate the price for the rest, causing more to defect.
Having grown up in a small town in the 80's where it was hard to get access to all the media I might have wanted, I can really appreciate how great it is that kids today have access to this incredible world of content! And there's a lot of fun and engaging ways that kids use modern technology, whether it's playing Minecraft or keeping up with friends and family.

I'm mostly concerned about the specific category of content that tries to be as addictive as possible to young minds. Yes, people in the 80's tried to make content as addictive as possible, but people today are so much more skilled at it.
Engine stop-start is pretty much universal on all new cars sold in Europe in recent years. Even entry-level models.
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At the bottom of the article:

> Next Steps

> We will continue to improve connectomics reconstruction technology, with the aim of fully automating synapse-resolution connectomics and contributing to ongoing connectomics projects at the Max Planck Institute and elsewhere. In order to help support the larger research community in developing connectomics techniques, we have also open-sourced the TensorFlow code for the flood-filling network approach, along with WebGL visualization software for 3d datasets that we developed to help us understand and improve our reconstruction results.
Posting on HN before finishing the technical path? Who do you think we are?
Your data by itself is basically worthless. Your data combined with Google's algorithms to extract meaning is worth all the services they provide.
Researcher sees possibility of Moon life
The problem is the unknowns.

Let's say you are wrongly charged with a crime and the evidence is enough that the prosecution is moving forward. The max sentence is 30 years, and you're offered a plea of 2 years.

There is a chance the system will utterly fail you, and a chance that the system will correctly find you innocent.

You don't know those odds. You only know your fears. And the prosecution has a LOT of tools to raise those fears. Society has given you LOTS of reasons to trust those fears. But one thing you won't have is security that your innocence means you will not be found guilty.

2 years is a major problem, but...marriages have survived that. You'll be around to see your kids/nieces/nephews hit most of their major life milestones, and more importantly, a lot of day-to-day normality of what you call life.

30 years...your life has ended. Every relationship is over, every daily experience, everything you define as you.

You have a LOT on the line, and the system...enh, it has very little on the line. What odds of failure of the system do you find worth the risk?

If anyone takes a plea deal when they are innocent, they may very well be saving themselves some real pain. Or they may be needlessly damning themselves to life as a (ex)con. We don't know. But that it seems a viable option EVEN WHEN INNOCENT is definitely a problem. Making the system more reliable should definitely happen, but that won't remove the imbalance of incentives.
If a student wants to get a taste of research, then they will probably need a research mentor with a PhD. Failing that, somebody who has published a few good papers -- but such people usually have PhDs! So it's not unreasonable to have PhDs around for student enrichment, even if having a PhD does little to make you better at teaching undergrad material.

The actual administrative reasoning here is probably a combination of the above and "you just can't be an academic without a PhD!".
I couldn't help but think so this is how they're going to merge. I'm only joking, of course. On one hand it has the potential to give users more control...

But making it so that all the data is in a standardized format could also make Facegoogtwitsoft easier to realize. That's not to say giving us our data is a bad thing, just that I wonder if someone somewhere wanted to implement this for a more nefarious reason.