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What wee need is a pod-cast-to-text-blog-bot

A bot that will listen to the podcast, ML it and transcribe it into a blog post - when a term is stated verbally, it will look it up and turn it into a link. Over time we will teach the bot with verbal cues for what to lookup.

Basically a virtual Jamie from Joe Rogan's podcast "Pull up" "Google" "where is" "someone said" "lets see" "did you see" "did you read" etc can be triggers for the bot to pull up that relative content and put into the transcript...
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That's nonsense. Accommodated doesn't not mean removing the conflict. Telling employees they must be available 24/7 if they are exempt and/or paid for their time is perfectly legitimate. In response, an employee must tell the employer when/what time they need off for religious reasons, and the employer can offer a number of "accommodations" including voluntary shift swapping.

Again, "case law" overwhelmingly favors employers here. Here's the EEOC on the matter:

"The law requires an employer or other covered entity to reasonably accommodate an employee's religious beliefs or practices, unless doing so would cause more than a minimal burden on the operations of the employer's business."

A minimal burden is an enormously low requirement.

> Examples of some common religious accommodations include flexible scheduling, voluntary shift substitutions or swaps, job reassignments, and modifications to workplace policies or practices.

Voluntary shift substitutions is a remedy, when combined with other remedies. And even then, it was only held that voluntary shift substitutions aren't solely enough in specific cases and that was decided in January of 2018 in Tabura v. Kellogg.

There is vastly more nuance involved here then "He asked for it off the same day he wanted it off, thus Yelp is in the wrong."

Yelp is a crap company, but that's not the same thing as violating the right to practice religion.
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Is there a cap on the maximum that students pay out? Many similar programs cap the total payout expected from students.

Further, do you work with students on actually getting recruited and getting through interviews? Coding is great, but whiteboarding and interviewing are their own skillset.
Minotaurs? I would call them "Monetaurs".
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I agree. Their complaint on the use cases (pun!) for switch seem to ignore the flexibility of the syntax. I don't think the requirement to include breaks/returns is a problem if you know how it's intended to work. I prefer switches for the easy to follow flow but also the ability to "waterfall" multiple conditions, which is syntactically clunky with other approaches.
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If the addressee replied "please don't write to me ever again", then writing again is rude. But I guess TS did not do that: there's no indication that he did, and even this "open letter" doesn't contain an explicit ask to stop mailing in the future. It's more likely that he replied with standard "thank you, I'm not interested in joining your company now" or quietly ignored the message.

I personally find repeated messages from recruiters useful. Maybe I'm not interested in switching jobs now, but things may change in 3 months. Maybe a new position is opened. Maybe the salary range or compensation scheme is changed. Maybe I need more money because I got kids. Maybe I'm so desperate to find employment because of my visa status. Maybe I change my mind about the company. Maybe the company changes (like Microsoft changed in the last 5 years).
Opensphere (https://github.com/ngageoint/opensphere) looks interesting and uses the Apache License. Anyone used it?
I don’t understand. Most firms that get sued in Texas for patent infringement don’t have mortar and brick shops in Eastern Texas.

If it was that easy to avoid infringement lawsuits in Eastern Texas, Eastern Texas would be completely deserted by tech companies, forcing the people there to change their policy.
It would for the vast majority of American's just not the ones using this site. Most people here in already pay very little for medical as their employer takes care of it.
I don't understand your argument. Laws are created irregardless of the potential for illegal circumvention. Nobody ever decided "we shouldn't bother to outlaw theft because shoplifting is too easy". Creating the law provides the teeth to prosecute someone found to be breaking it.
Potentially legit use-case: electronic voting. In this scenario, you need to offer a number of guarantees. Chiefly:

1. Is my vote anonymous? (If not perfectly, owing to low level timestamps or transaction ids that can get cross-referenced with other data sources, at least for all practical intents?)

2. Can I be sure my vote got tallied the way I voted?

3. If I'd like to verify the result, is there a tamper-proof electronic paper trail that I can use to verify the result?

It's a surprisingly hard problem in practice, and to the best my knowledge the most promising venue to guarantee 2 and 3 without compromising 1 might be a blockchain-like distributed ledger. (You can solve 2 and 3 by using a git-like hash tree and letting the voter know their commit hash. But in doing so you're basically dropping 1 and inviting vote selling.)
I doubt you properly understand that other people are full thinking beings equal to yourself since you assume everyone secretly agrees with you about every detail of everything all the time and the only issue is whether they are going to admit it or lie.
Not the same analogy
Is it wasting though? Do you consider vaults a waste? Do you consider 2-3% CC fees a waste?

We already have costs built into the current system (e.g. cc fees to make up for fraud, security systems around protecting gold + cash). Electricity is just the cost of that specific system - I think calling it a waste is not necessarily justified.
It's not about Wolfram, it's about HN threads not repeating themselves over and over again. When they do, they're off topic. And boy do they do that about this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19222812
Ask HN: Box vs. Dropbox
Dropbox seems to market itself as a more consumer friendly product, but I switched to Box last week, and experienced no issues at all as a consumer. There were no significant switching costs in terms of time or annoyance, I just dragged and dropped all my files from one drive (or folder) to the other on my Mac. They magically synced across all my devices, just like Dropbox.

It's fair to say Dropbox had an early mover advantage in the consumer segment, but I can't seem to find anything special about Dropbox now compared to Box. I see a lot of articles out there touting Box as an enterprise focused company and Dropbox as a consumer first company but from consumer perspective, I see no tangible differences. In fact, Box is more enticing because it offers more free storage. What am I missing? Is it like the Cola market and I'm unable to tell the taste difference between Pepsi and Coke?
Mind elaborating a little more on this use case?
It's inappropriate and beneath HN standards to classify an entire country as being typically ignorant. Such a wild, broad generalization about hundreds of millions of people is impossible to support.
I skimmed, but feel like he should have talked about how in an interview question, you could solve this by counting parens with a 64-bit counter. There are limits on practical input size and on stack size, so arguments about infinite languages don't directly apply.

A deeper question to consider: why do we study infinite languages and then apply the results to finite problems? What do we learn this way?
https://twitter.com/etherchain_org/status/108232936094896947...
Also how it happens in the UK.
CIELAB ColorSpace is a better representation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIELAB_color_space
>they're already past viable and it's surprising they're not deployed.

Not deployed as far as the public knows.

It wouldn't exactly be hard to add a "shoot everything that comes near us" flag to the software for any existing naval CIWS
I have been making a transition to be a functional programmer for a few months now because similar concerns and stresses. I know that the programmer of the future will construct programs like mathematicians do. The madness of the old ways brings too much grief.
> a database and a contract between parties are a superior solution.

Do you believe that this is a permanent state, or a temporary one? Is there a potential blockchain-like thing that could exist which would be better than a database and a contract?

Because to me, the current system leaves room for improvement:

- resolving conflicts across jurisdictions is extremely expensive

- resolving conflicts even within one jurisdiction is more expensive than many transactions are worth

Current blockchains are expensive and slow, but I think that we will see improvements over time which will eventually make blockchains (or something blockchain-like) look like appealing solutions.
Not quite, they make the merchant write it off. And if someone brings too many disputes, they investigate.

(The small fraud problem is one reason I think micro payments can't happen: you can't investigate sub-cent fraud, but if someone can automate it they can steal a lot.)
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Thanks, I'll use they the next time.
I have no relation to the company, but I don't support unionization. The unionization in my mom's industry effectively locked her into her current employer with no hope of leaving. If she were to switch jobs, she'd have to start back at the beginning of the union pay sale and work her way back up over 10 years
I might be missing something, but the question itself seems to be false.

I already am whatever I am. Both my masks and my behavior when alone are part of me. If some part of me does not fit me for whatever reason, I work to ditch it. If there is something I don't have and want to have, I work to acquire such trait. Attaching truth values to this seems silly.

What do you mean by staying true to yourself (and the opposite)? How would you spot it?
Thanks. After digging into the FAQ there, the answer is that the data is stored in the 'OP_RETURN' code of an unspendable transaction. (Although some bitcoin is still spent on processing the transaction.)

The OP_RETURN code was introduced by the Bitcoin core developers to address (but not necessarily endorse) the increasing desire of people to store non-financial data. The code signifies that an output is provably unspendable, allowing transactions to be pruned from the UTXO database.
Yep, we cap the payment at $30,000. So if they hit that amount, obligations back to us cease.

We help with recruiting as well. If we don't offer them a role with us and our staffing company at the end of the program, we help them find a role with other employers. Whiteboarding/testing/soft skills are a part of the curriculum.
https://www.bryanbraun.com

It's been running for 9 years now and I'm getting close to blog post number 400.

Looking forward to the next 400. :)
> The solution is either no one does it or everyone does it. There is no in between.

This is the classic race to the bottom, and it's not a valid defence in my excuse.
One needs no blockchain to make a guarantee that a cancellation of the payment can’t be performed.
this clause is interesting too, they have first dibs on you as long as they make competitive offers

> After the program, graduates pay 15% of their income for 2 years if they are earning over $40,000. Furthermore, graduates agree to work for us directly if our offer is as good as their other employment offers.
The relevant excerpt is:

>The plans are significant, as U.S. law states that patent infringement lawsuits may be filed "where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business." By closing its stores in Eastern Texas, Apple is ending its established place of business in the district.

Moving a store from one district of Texas to another obviously doesn't relate to the question of the state of incorporation/residency.
Relevant: https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/

> Formed in October 2012, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that is working to ban fully autonomous weapons and thereby retain meaningful human control over the use of force.
> For any other conceivable use case, a database and a contract between parties are a superior solution.

Only if that contract is reasonably enforceable and all parties involved trust the party that controls the database - if there's such a single party controlling the database at all.

The most compelling use case in terms of supply chain management doesn't necessarily involve storing data from sensors or other IoT devices. It's doing away with the paperwork (customs documents, bills of lading, for example) involved in shipping physical goods and the friction it causes: https://www.maersk.com/en/news/2018/06/29/maersk-and-ibm-int...

I'm not sure if this is still the case but some time ago I read about an example where the paperwork involved in shipping a 20 ft container from Shanghai to Rotterdam was more expensive than the actual physical shipment of the container.

A blockchain solution could potentially help with reducing that cost. A simpler, database-based solution of course could do, too. However, there are numerous parties involved in the process not all of whom necessarily trust each other. A blockchain-based infrastructure could provide a common protocol everyone can agree on.
I think it ultimately depends on how much ARM/RISC-V's price/performance ends up being better than x86.

If it's not much better then people will not switch due to these small annoyances, and there doesn't seem to be any fundamental reason for it being much better (Intel and AMD are perfectly capable of producing top-performing x86 CPUs, and the architecture should not matter much).
While I agree this is not a good thing you could say the same thing about the 100s of millions of sites and apps that use Google Analytics.
I've had to do it once in production for an old application without source, but the changes were substantial enough that I opted to write a wrapper dll for one of the dependencies. Once in it's easy to hook whatever else is needed and add major modifications.
That was my general feeling but there is definite value to having it stated clearly and coherently and with the implied authority of a book (which is silly but a thing).
Ask HN: What do you do besides questioning?
I wonder if the art of questioning, as a concept, has limits. Are there frameworks that help target problems by doing things beyond questioning?
There has been enough tine though for it to change to just GC or AT, which it clearly hasn't.
So, this is actually not so very similar in any aspect that actually matters.
The concept at question isn't really illegality as much as alegality (which is not a word that exists). Which is to say, the use case where no legal jurisdiction exists or is ineffectual. I suppose anarchy would be the proper term.
I can send 1 bitcoin from myself living in Minnesota to my friend living in Japan for the equivalent of $0.46.

That's an improvement over the existing system. I don't have to trust anyone in between to get my money to him.

How would that be as possible and as "trustless" without blockchain?
Yep, you could go as far as to argue that criminalization of drugs is a major contributor to global warming.
That's interesting to know, I would have thought there was more physical organizaed crime there.
Yes. I'm building a relational language, after read a lot about compilers and database engines.

I probably will never succeed at it (ie: Become a small hit with this side project) but learning about stuff help to apply better solution to what you do.

Contrary to popular belief, CRUDs apps are much harder and more sophisticated than many other kinds of apps, and worse, you have a much faster release cycle with worse specifications and other bad stuff (I build apps for business, so this is my thing). So pay a lot to learn how be smart about that!
I mastered it in just one day after realizing object oriented programs are just objects in the category of medial magmas.
Thanks so much for the kind words! I'll try hard to find the balance in the future before new, old and stable... Nobody wants a bloated Redis I bet! Since I believe that many members of the Redis community have a similar aesthetic mindset about software.
Hmm.. I'd much rather have someone choose to work for me than do so out of obligation.
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If commercial flights are carrying passengers at supersonic speeds in the next two decades, I'll be very surprised.
Electronic voting wants an append-only/log-structured distributed database, but the certifiers can't be anonymous (otherwise anyone can just run a "polling station" and submit whatever "votes" they want). You'd want votes to be signed according to some centralised PKI infrastructure. And at that point there's no need for "mining" and what you have isn't blockchain.
This is his empire he has build from scratch and is ultraeffective for years.

Now compare it to how much work is involved to support politicians work style and what is the efficiency of that system.
Articles like this are becoming so common - yes, we get it, everyone in the bay wants to leave. And some people do and they're always happier. And yet, a lot of people don't, and my feeling is, they make that decision rationally as well.

I'd be much more interested in stories of people, who despite the terrors of SF (and despite not being rich/a founder) decide to stay and a build a life and family there. I feel like those stories are much less common and more interesting.
I may add that, 99% of the very big Redis users out there do some form of client side caching... at scale is basically something common for many years now.
The main downside of using any of the smaller/cheaper devices is in the I/O capabilities, which manifest both in the software and the hardware. With the hardware it's pretty obvious - a lot of Chromebooks are like phones and only have one or two USB ports. With the software, it's more like the sandboxing perpetually getting in the way of you doing things locally. Chromebooks are more flexible than Android devices in that you have the possibility of getting a full Linux environment, but the little issues will still arise now and then - and if you're on ARM, a lot of Linux software just will not be made for you.

If your workflow is just remote access with SSH and an occasional Web site, a smartphone or tablet can already do the job. Just deck it out with peripherals, a stand, etc. You can get very, very far with remote access. But for a full local development environment, especially if it involves graphics, there's a tendency to depend on a "desktop x86" stack that tends to creep in no matter what you do.
You have to do it manually. I did it using a plug in and meticulously doing each section at a time. likes, comments, posts, pictures, etc...
Thought I just had: using just "he" is obviously exclusionary because it makes males the default. Likewise, people don't just use "she" either. But given that there are people whose preferred pronouns are "they/them", wouldn't that make "they" equally exclusionary?
One article is about enforcing the exvlusive use of public APIs. The rest is about hardening the C/C++ code of AOSP. I dobnot see any "clamping down" here. What am I missing?
True, the Galleria parking and 635 area are usually what turn people off (not that Stonebriar and Willow Bend don't have their own problems these days). There are no other upscale malls in the north Dallas region beyond those three, I don't see Apple ending up in the lesser Grapevine Mills or Music City (nee Vista Ridge) malls to serve the area assuming they are within the boundary.

But in general, people in the metroplex don't rock the boat and aren't very squeaky wheels. It may hurt a bit, but it won't change anything.
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Can you unpack exactly what made this comment go from 0 to 100? I didn't get any of that from the parent post.
From my experience, these resources are worth read:

[1] Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) by Christopher M. Bishop

Andreas Brandmaier's permutation distribution clustering is a method rooted in the dissimilarities between time series, formalized as the divergence between their permutation distributions. Personally, I think this is your "best" option
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pdc/index.html

Eamonn Keogh's SAX (Symbolic Aggregate Approximation) and iSAX routines develop "shape clustering" for time series

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/SAX.htm

There are approaches based on text compression algorithms that remove the redundancy in a sequence of characters (or numbers), creating a kind of distance or density metric that can be used as inputs to clustering, see, e.g.:

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-84816-7_4

This paper by Rob Hyndman Dimension Reduction for Clustering Time Series Using Global Characteristics, discusses compressing a time series down to a small set of global moments or metrics and clustering on those:

http://www.robjhyndman.com/papers/wang2.pdf

Chapter 15 in Aggarwal and Reddy's excellent book, Data Clustering, is devoted to a wide range (a laundry list, really) of time-series clustering methods (pps 357-380). The discussion provides excellent background to many of the issues specific to clustering a time series"

http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~goce/SomePubs/Similarity...

...and a lot more.

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[1] https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informat...
Love the concept!

Some feedback on the website: The image of the man on a laptop sitting in the dark gives off an eerie feeling and reminds me of those cheesy stock images of hackers wearing a ski mask. A man sitting in a well lit room and smiling may be more welcoming to a potential applicant.
Or GDPR could allow users to send "DNT: 0" (aka "Do Track") to auto-accept all those GDPR cookie prompts. :)
>The interview process alone is a sociability test that many people with autism are destined to fail or inclined to avoid altogether.

Having lived outside of the U.S., I think this is a particularly American problem. We have strong extroversion/optimism bias here, especially in the hiring process.

One of the worst aspects about being high functioning is having to choose between authenticity and acceptance.
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The thing that gets me is the same thing I hate about politics. You build an elaborate plan on a bad supposition, and people hear the whole plan and forget it’s based on nonsense.

If the ground premise is wrong, and you see where they are going with this silliness, it’s challenging on multiple levels to “let them finish”.
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The purpose of carbon tarrifs is not to punish other countries.

The purpose of carbon tarrifs is to make foreign dirty-energy-intensive products less competitive, compared to less dirty-energy-intensive ones.

Because we already have a way of making domestic dirty-energy-intensive products less competitive. It works great. It's called a domestic carbon tax.

They remove the immediate complaint of "If we impose a local carbon tax on energy, foreign imports will outcompete us, because they don't have to pay it."
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Has served as my research blog during my phd studies in pharmaceutical bioinformatics and covers a lot of my insight gained on batch workflow systems for running machine learning pipelines (mostly on hpc clusters and locally), as well as some Go stuff.

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