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Location: Budapest
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Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: python (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, bokeh, flask), sql, linux
Résumé/CV: https://www.kickresume.com/cv/andrasnovoszath/
Email: nocibambi@gmail.com

Interested in part-time positions/contract projects where I can learn more about ML/DL/AI.
Why is it that the vast majority of the time I see "We know[, for example,]" at the start of a sentence, the text following is one or more of:

1. A blatant lie

2. A willful misinterpretation of new research

3. A gross misunderstanding of research outside one's area of expertise

4. A misapplication of one thing for another, e.g. conflating webcam algorithms and all their issues with criminal justice algorithms
"Somehow they managed to pay more"... that's one way to look at it. The other possibility is that only those businesses that could afford to pay more are left now. If you can scale to a million users per engineer, sure, pay them more.

If you can't operate at that scale, tough luck. You need to do exactly what the article suggests: outsource and buy services. In house dev teams are now so expensive that many companies just can't afford them.
I like the mindshare of the Jigsaw generator with Laravel, it uses the Mix bundler and Blade templating, basically Laravel without the backend stuff. It might be a good choice for people who want to start with a landing page before going full saas. Strange that it's not more popular..
Daily has a lean PWA mobile version to read bookmarked articles
New Jersey's system has proven to be remarkably fair. It turns out when you design the system specifically not to be racist, it isn't racist.

Also, I'm not sure how misidentification of pictures relates to the topic at hand.
Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler Operator Reloaded
The Rise of Fiduciary Law
Implementing Word2Vec with Gensim Library in Python
> it makes me wonder, HOW MUCH better could optical fiber be if made in zero-gravity?

1-2 orders of magnitude less attenuation
Winklevoss twins launch new cryptocurrency pegged to US dollar
Thanks for diagnosing that for me, you're right blocking third party cookies does cause it to fail.

Both tests are equally valid. I just gave one because trying to be exhaustive about testing it would be mind-numbing. The test I provded only does localstorage, but FPI also isolates DNS cache, H2, image cache, favicons, cookies, localstorage, indexdb, etc etc

You can do yours by visiting https://anonymity.is/misc/ff/fpi-iframe.html first; then visit the ritter.vg and rittervg.com links.
This is an awesome idea with inspiring projects. Pinar is showing both the functional and artistic applications of machine learning, and is ironically making it more human than robotic. I had a lot of fun to be part of the projects, and will hopefully be more involved in the future.
I think you may be able to tell from the first photo here:

https://twitter.com/jdhoek/status/881243775288389632

And the second photo here:

https://twitter.com/jdhoek/status/876126132734656514

So beaks at the front and back, with trapezoidal blocks that fit in between. The shelves rest on those blocks.
In my opinion, it’s mostly ambiguous. Most compiler optimization researcher focuses on particular programming languages and particular targets rather than denotational or operational semantics and abstract machines.
You're advocating for breaking a country's laws. What makes Russia's laws worth less than any other country's? Whether you agree or not with them, you have to respect them. They are a sovereign country and have the right to establish whatever laws they want within their territory.
I struggle a lot with the idea of the tyranny of the 51%, though. I don't like Jeremy Clarkson's politics, but I really like a point he frequently makes in his columns: everyone loves the idea of a jury of one's own peers until they realize that their peers are all idiots. Same goes for democracy. It sounds great, until 51% of people start making dumb decisions about how you should run your life.

Example: a slightly larger majority of my town than that wanted a slightly better deal of waste management, so they voted for a town-wide contract. Now I'm forced to pay for a recycling program that is so inconvenient I pay to use a different one anyway. Enough people (that it will probably happen) are now pushing for a measure to make it as convenient as it used to be, but raise taxes to pay for all the abuse that ruined things. I don't want better voting, I want the ability to opt out and be left alone.
> This seems to run counter to the idea that Google wants to promote democracy. Hell or high water, if a country has stifling civil liberties, a company with real principles in cultivating discourse and democracy would stick to their guns regardless of local laws.

I don't really think pulling out of the United States is a viable market strategy for Google
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I think understanding the why of mathematics makes all the difference between forgetting it soon after an exam, and being able to use it later in life.

I sometimes find myself needing to return to something I once knew in high-school / university to solve some problem, not being able to remember the specific methods, but the underlying bigger picture of the concepts comes back to me, and I can make progress from there.
Cubesats are typically in pretty low orbits that decay fairly fast. I wouldn't worry about junk at that altitude very much.
EU Copyright Vote: A Critical Juncture for the Open Internet
I mean the man who wrote the CBA for the NHL owners now works for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

If you were regulated and you had to hire someone to help you understand what you are and aren't allowed to do by these regulations wouldn't the first person you look to hire be the person who actually wrote the rules?

> Seventeen of the 40 most senior staffers who served on the House Financial Services Committee in August 2008, as well as 15 of the 40 senior staff who served on the Senate Banking Committee at that time, later joined or took jobs representing a large financial institution.

So you train for many years and acquire knowledge of a particular area and then what? You can't actually make money from the skill you learned?

People get angry when tech companies try to limit people mobility, you really have to work hard to contort your view to see this as being any different.

Most governments actually spend alot of money on programs to get people from private industry to do a year stint with the government and then go back to private industry. They do this because everyone sees value in people moving from government to private industry.

If you are against this what measure would you consider to be fair that doesn't limit a person's mobility, wrt work, and helps get people who worked in government into private industry.
That sounds like it’s more than just bail though, because they should be wearing a GPS tracker.
Bond is severely racist too, if you take those criteria. Black people get assigned higher bond, and often have a harder time getting it together. As such there are many people in jail that are in no way a risk but are held because they can't afford bond.
Improved relations with Russia should not involve a) defying your own intelligence organizations conclusions regarding election interference, b) not wanting to impose sanctions on oligarchs and high government officials that have engaged in obvious criminal behavior (money laundering etc), c) not condemning face-to-face, the Russian governments actions of assassinations on an ally's soil (UK), or its disgusting actions to stop democratic involvement in Russia, or the suspicious deaths of opposition political leaders, or the oppression of LGBT people, etc.

Russia is a two-bit crime organization that happens to hold land. Its GDP is less than Italy and its controlled by a dictator that has consolidated power using patronage.

There is no need for "improved relations" with that nation until it has reformed.
You've got to be kidding. Just because we haven't achieved perfection as far as medical science, you think we're still just as well off as the days where people routinely died young from various infections?

Antibiotics aren't going away, they're just having to get better to cope with the evolution of bacteria.
I'm not a networking expert, but imo i think that with extreme delays, you would not want a real-time transport medium at all. The higher-level protocols would be built on top of a non-real time substrate. You would want to have so much forward error-correction that you could remove ACK completely (perhaps a higher level protocol could still be used to request retransmission in the rare case of failure, e.g. one could request a web page be resent via HTTP, but the hypothetical TCP replacement under that would have no concept of ACK).
I'm not sure what the first RPC protocol was, but could it be the SunRPC[0]? I used that at my first job and thought it was pretty magical.

EDIT: duh, search for "rpc" on wikipedia[1]. The first came a few years before SunRPC out of Xerox PARC.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Network_Computing_Remote_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call
Here's a few,

https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607955/inspecting-algorit...

http://fortune.com/longform/ai-bias-problem/

https://www.pcmag.com/article/361661/artificial-intelligence...

Ethics and Bias in Machine Learning: A Technical
Study of What Makes Us “Good” https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
It serves everything that is required for an ad-server.
> What type should this function have:

If you don't call it, F# simply guesses "int -> int -> int". If you pass a float, you get back a curried function taking float and returning float. Now that the "add" function's type is known, you now can't pass an int: that's now known to be an error.

Seems sensible to me. No problem.
Congrats to Serverless! I'm strongly considering it for a new project I'm working on. I was initially thinking about Terraform + AWS Lambda, but Serverless looks like a much better choice.

I think I should probably go to the next API:World conference, because I'm working on a product called FormAPI [1]. Not sure if it would be worth it, though. I went to a tech conference earlier this year, and I didn't get too much out of it.

If you were working on a product like FormAPI and wanted to go to one or two tech conferences per year, which ones would you choose? I'm thinking about RailsConf (since FormAPI is written with Ruby on Rails), and maybe API:World.

[2] https://formapi.io
OK, dumb question - do all applications need push communication? Apart from IMs (and maybe e-mail) I would say that everything else should rather do pull than push.

And Google is doing virtually that, with enforcing push via their services and controlling Doze, making some apps receiving notifications with (sometimes significant) delay.

What's more, I would argue that in quite a lot of cases NOT having immediate push notification could work wonders on our attention span, but this is slightly less technical problem :-)
"Maybe they are planning for the audience they want rather than the one they have?"

That's definitely a reasonable possibility since it appears to me to be formatted for the Instagram crowd.

"Or maybe they just feel safe since there aren't any alternatives?"

Possible as well but ironic since its creating a space for an alternative.

I like this sites design. Clean, simple, and nothing superfluous. Seems to understand people are here for the user shared content and not the site itself so it stays out of the users way.
Yeah, you have to give it to Mark Z for his prescience on that one.
Very little actual research has been done on the ISS. The occupants spend most of their working time on maintenance and housekeeping. So I don't think it's reasonable to label it as a research facility.

The ISS was primarily built to prop up the US aerospace industry, maintain human spaceflight capability, and give Russian rocket scientists something productive to do so that they wouldn't sell their skills to hostile countries. (And those aren't necessarily bad reasons to build a space station.)
Just ecommerce 3.0, all the benfits of Amazon but decentralized, supporting your local environment. This could be an open source project, a public good.
Auto theft is by definition not "petty theft".
QE and printing money are supposed to INCREASE inflation and interest rates. According to econ 101, anyways. More supply of dollars means the value of the dollar goes down.

At the time these policies were enacted, deflationary spiral was a real risk. And the politics in 2010-2014 meant that increasing the money supply in any way besides handing it directly to rich people would be blocked by the Tea Party people. So we got QE instead of, say, big infrastructure projects or something.

The fact that inflation has stayed persistently low despite all of that and the recent fed rate hikes says that something else is afoot.

The really scary thing? The 'adults in the room', 'real experts', etc have no theoretical model that explains this. They're people with 40 years experience in saying this is impossible. Yet none of them are fired -- they're still churning out think pieces in DC and people still take them seriously.
That's how a lot of the demoscene stuff works I'm sure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY5Vrc5G0lk

> The secret behind all this is procedural content generation. in a nutshell, instead of storing a movie as-is we're storing a certain number of mathematical formulas for image and audio manipulation as well as the "recipe" how to apply those small bits of code in a way that what you see comes out.
Hey bflesch, a year ago we weren’t even running our own ad server and had just released an early v1 of our new ads management interface. It probably felt like the “worst ad management experience [you] have ever witnessed” because the other major ad management platforms have multiple years and hundreds of engineers/designers on us :) We’ve made substantial progress since then, I’d encourage you to not judge us too early and give it another shot, the platform and products are improving rapidly.

p.s. If any engineers or PMs are interested in helping us build out a world class, high-scale ad platform please get in touch (email in profile). We are hiring for senior and above positions in NY and SF.
Yeah it is all heuristic at this point. There is one radical theoretical solution for regulatory capture that I can see which could have its own issues both economically and incentive wise: regulatory jobs are the last job one takes. In exchange for a lifelong pension they can never work or accept any form of compensation ever again. This would include running their own business and indeeed all forms of compensation including speaking fees and even amenities. You are free to go speak at every Ivy league after retirement but that is essentially just a hobby. It would no doubt be expensive in itself but it could pay off in reduced corruption costs.
FB Messenger has an encrypted mode (though I've never seen anyone use it!).
The Arnold Foundation model was implemented in New Mexico after May 2017[0]. In 2016 Albuquerque was No.2 nationally in Auto Thefts[1], in 2017 (before the model was even in-use) you had risen to the No.1 spot[2].

So this seems quite disingenuous. Auto thefts were a HUGE problem before this, you were No.1 in the nation, and it has stayed that way for six months after the Arnold Foundation model was enacted.

But instead of looking at long term trends you're blaming something that is barely one year old?

[0] https://www.abqjournal.com/1011380/courts-to-implement-new-r...

[1] https://www.abqjournal.com/813721/city-grabs-no-2-spot-in-ve...

[2] https://www.abqjournal.com/1015730/report-albuquerque-area-w...
In Gaining Currency the story is told of the argument between the confusions and Chinese government about what makes a real Fiat currency. Spoiler, we've never had one and bolting onto the greenback won't do it either.
The main issue with net/http is that it generates a lot of garbage which is definitely going to show up in your profile if you're handling a lot of requests per second.
Man arrested after breakfast with woman in Saudi Arabia
How Many Weightlifting Sets Will Help You Gain Strength
--ours vs --theirs in git
I've met Chris and I told him that if I didn't live so far outside of the city I would be happy to pay him for service to my home. I have decent speeds through Comcast but their customer service is atrocious. Telcos have a monopoly in most areas and they know it and act accordingly.
The problem with Reddit ads isn't their tech, it's their people. The ad approval process is a farce - and human-managed. Oh, and those humans are assholes. You have to go through many denials - for no reason - submit a ticket to get another approver and approved - for no reason stated. It was the most upsetting process I've ever dealt with.
N is the first letter of Natrium, the Latin name of sodium from where the chemical symbol comes from. So I would say that the acronym makes perfect sense.
USDJPY: Faces Further Recovery Pressure Towards 111.74/82 Levels
I think the order related subjects are taught isn't always the best. Once I learned calculus, a lot of things I memorized in physics stopped being something I had to remember. Velocity is just dt/dt. Acceleration is just dv/dt. Give me a graph of velocities and I can find the distance traveled by integrating.

This became especially apparent during my first year of university where I took a macro economics course. Because I had already had a bit of calculus, so many of the mathematical problems in that course were almost trivial. Friends that didn't have any calculus found the course a lot more difficult because they had to memorize so many equations.

I have kids now and I watch them memorizing things and I can't help but think that's a waste of time. Remembering what the terms in the quadratic equation isn't nearly as important as remembering what the uses of the quadratic equation are. When do you deploy it? What does it give you? That's how I wish it was taught.
Ask HN: Advice when patent app pending for similar product?
My team has been working on a software product in an established market for some time. We're marketing and iterating, and we are optimistic about hitting product/market fit.
A US patent application for a similar product has come to light. The product is implemented quite differently based on the application, but the result looks similar to the end user. We fear the application's existence will reduce our ability to raise money and/or lead us to eventual bet-the-company litigation if granted. How practically difficult is it to prove design differences in a software patent context? We think we're clear technologically, but will the burden be on us to expose our code to a judge or adversary in litigation? Assuming the market is big enough, can we steer clear of the US without worry? Are we dead in the water from a VC perspective? As no counsel will likely give us an opinion that it's okay to proceed, we're asking, what do you think HN?

Any insight appreciated.
When did "senior engineer" start meaning "3 years experience"?
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Sounds like his state is definitely doing it wrong. This is like building a car with square wheels and then proclaiming that cars are a terrible idea.
Thoughtfulness in design (2015)
It would be helpful to see more data on this. I consider the CS degree at a reputable university (doesn't have to be elite, just a proper curriculum) to be very challenging compared to many other majors. And I do know plenty of programmers who got MS degrees in engineering, math, or other fields. But you are right, it is possible to bypass the entire thing.

I suppose getting a grad degree and becoming a software developer is giving yourself the worst of both worlds. As you point out, it's tough to get an MS in Nursing to become a NP, but once you're certified, you don't have to prove your basic competence by re-taking your organic chemistry midterm at the whiteboard 15 years into your career every time you interview.

But if you major in CS and get an MS degree from a reputable university... yeah, you're still doing take-home and whiteboard exams when you apply for a new job.

I would point out while programming has low formal barriers to entry, it actually isn't a trivially easy field to enter. Yes, you can say you're a programmer if you read the first half of a book on "PHP and MySQL" (or if you don't and say you did). But almost every interview I've been on has asked me to do data structures and algorithms questions at the whiteboard. It isn't just fizz buzz. It's "fine all matching subtrees in a binary tree", or "find all subsets within a set of integers that sum to a different subset of integers within the set". Others have asked me to do elaborate take-home tests, though I now refuse to do that (this has cost me some good opportunities, but I'm just not willing to do it anymore).

So software development does have a set of entry conditions - it's just that unlike a proper profession, they are applied informally, erratically, inconsistently, largely in secret, and administered and graded by people with widely varying levels of competence, and you have to go through them every time you apply.
Except they didnt steal his car just broke into it.
In other words, typical cubesats have a low ballistic coefficient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_coefficient
That's his populist position that gets him the cheering crowds, but his trade position is based on his complete misunderstanding of how international trade works, how tariffs are a tax on US consumption, and his misconception that trade is a zero sum game, that for every "winner" there is a "loser".

Ford isn't going to import the Focus from China, because of Trump's misguided policies. They will sell the production elsewhere. The US is deprived of an efficient small car, but it hasn't gained any employment, production or anything else.

Harley Davison will move production of motorcycles to be sold in the EU to the EU and elsewhere. This deprives the US of manufacturing and the associated jobs. It doesn't deprive the EU of Harley Davisons.
And even that oversight is only required in some circumstances, mainly when the project involves potential risks to public safety. Not every project needs to involve a PE.
Tagesspiel is a part of the Lügenpresse network.

See how easy is to label someone? Address the points, do not ad-hominem the messenger.

Wimmer spent decades in CDU, with results to show. He "toes the Kremlin line" because he disagreed with the wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan, and we cannot have that.
Na is the chemical symbol for sodium because natrium is the Latin name.
Race is indeed an ambiguous term in general, as there are overlaps. But I have to wonder whether it's the stigma associated to the word especially post WW2 and Nazi eugenics that made some anthropologists reconsider and say "most differences are cultural". There are obvious aesthetic (not functional) differences between populations. These are enough to distinguish between races within other species so I'm having a hard time finding an authoritative explanation for why it would be different for humans.

I find no challenge in treating people as equals without the need to think they are the same race so such an argument based on sociology is not as convincing as a biological one.
If you work in the ad group, my advice is to fix the ad approval process. I've never had such a disappointing experience in my life. Seems like the approvers have editorial control based on personal preference over any objective evaluation. Since reddit is all about the ebs and flows of whats hot and whats not, sure is a shame your advertising platform is a joke at monetizing that because of the terrible approval process.