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If Google are _really_ reviewing the apps, creating a 3-day backlog to get approved, then I say "Bravo! The world could absolutely use less crapware on the Google Play store." But, the cynic in me tells me this is just a ploy by them to put on a masquerade of actually caring.
Nothing is this simple in technology ever - it is extremely difficult to declare blanket rules like this.

I do think it's reasonable to try and get third party software auditing to become more normalized, if a contractor is writing scheduling system to control class enrollment I'd appreciate another contractor looking it over... but even that has it's issues.
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> The model has also been used to control dynamic allocation of resources to different projects, answering the question of which project to work on, given uncertainty about the difficulty and payoff of each possibility.

> Originally considered by Allied scientists in World War II, it proved so intractable that, according to Peter Whittle, the problem was proposed to be dropped over Germany so that German scientists could also waste their time on it.
Adding to it, there are things in life which are ineffable. This means they are (by definition), impossible to model or explain with words. Thus, these things will forever evade scientific scrutiny as science cannot deal with the ineffable.

What are ineffable things in life?
I mean this with no offense but I think you're reflecting the deficit in thinking I mention.

E.g. here:

> If you're just saying that people can use religions to make themselves feel better by believing in things that are false,

I assume you're using science's rhetoric of false here. Which is really just can it be observed using the tools & vocabulary of science.

> I have serious problems with this sentiment that there's some other way of knowing things besides studying reality

What is reality? Is science reality? Science has models. We are mistaken to think that "particle" is somehow a brutally real thing. "Particle" is a word used to model observations.

> It is perfectly possible for example to derive a workable moral systems without involving religion.

This is a contentious statement. There are intense debates about this. The Peterson/Harris Vancouver debates are famous (infamous?) vigorous but futile attempts at trying to sort this out.

Actually -- just to make sure I'm clear. You can't derive a workable moral system from scientific axioms/observations.

Now someone may report to be an atheist and report that they have a moral outlook that involves respect for fellow man. I guess I won't insist that its Religion; I simply insist its not Science that is giving them their moral outlook.
lol. Pakistan was meant to get 1/3rd, never go that.
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Not that I'm educated at all on the topic but just a guess... all the really really really dry shit burned last year? So there's less crazy at-risk parts to burn?

California was at drought level for years if I remember correctly, so it kind of setup the situation.. and now it sort of 'naturally' resolved itself when fires happened.
If you're talking about installing software on your own device, you can still do so with an apk, can't you?
with that kind of compensation and power [1], wouldn’t those laws that hold them criminally liable not last long? i would expect legal lobbying to slowly eat away at it and we would be back where we started...

[1] https://work.chron.com/average-income-ceo-fortune-500-compan...
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Debt has gone way worse since the Chinese came in for loans though ;)

PS. No sources to quote, that's a bummer. Everyone thinks to see all causes and effects. I do not agree with this one.

The West has been mostly fair in the digital age, while China doesn't. That's the cause and effect i see.
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No where does the article say they are delivering packages, but it appears rather they are shipping trailers between distribution centers on interstate highways.
I think people come up with the idea of marketing things as having AI behind them, before the implementation is fully realized. Once they have funding and employees, they can't exactly back down. So they have to put humans behind the solution as a stopgap. In their minds, it's temporary: they're just gathering more data, they have real paying customers that they want to keep until their solution is ready, etc. The little lie becomes a big lie and sooner or later it will blow up for a lot of companies.

Uber's house of cards is a very transparent example, but there are many others who don't even disclose that humans are at the wheel.
I'm sure I'm not the only one here in a position where I can re-shape my company's interview process. And it's loud and clear in the comments here that people are unhappy with the status quo. So, if you were making a hiring process, what would you ask candidates to do?
I'm curious. Why are you still long on GE given today's news?
Do you disagree with Markopolos' findings?
Seems like a stout competitor to Zapier, from my brief overview.
I am surprised how many people here considers take home tasks as an "unpaid work". You are already doing other interviews with them which costs you time as much as an assignment does. Why it becomes a problem when it is a home assignment.

Honestly I would take home assignment over any technical interview. Even if it will cost me 3x time. At least then I will be working in a relaxed state and will do my best, compared to an interview where anything can go wrong.
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Typically, intent is the distinguisher. You intended for the interaction to be transient and transactional—you say something and text appears on the screen. In reality and without your knowledge, the service provider intentionally recorded, kept, and shared that data. That puts the service provider at fault as they are the ones that arranged for he recording to happen, if if you are he one that pushed the button.
Since when engineering use the word "leveraging"? any sentence with this word is marketing fluff and should be treated with suspicion
You can actually run Windows just fine on a mac using bootcamp. The big problem is just getting a legit Windows license, and then the hurdle is just a few hundred bucks (or whatever a non-OEM non-upgrade license costs these days).

Also, I'm nowhere near ops jobs, so I don't think those people interviewing me would care much about those kind of logistics (anyways, they wouldn't want to know the details). It wouldn't score any "points" beyond just getting the task done at all.
Do you believe that these anti-GE claims aren't credible?
Take my example of the person who believes in Resurrection encountering the Scientific dissenter.

Either they are having a fair debate and they are talking in the same domain or they are not.

I say they are not.

Yet they are still having the debate.

Ergo, I say they are "tricked".

What better word to use for two people fervently engaging in debate based on a senseless equivalency?

I also point to history b/c it seems pretty clear to me that this wasn't always a dichotomy.
I assure you I'm being sincere.
Note that you don't get the full name of the type with a bad assignment in Rust, you only get the part of the type that was deduced before type checking failed. A generic type might have undeduced blanks, eg. Vec<_>. A side-effect of type inference.
Qualia are one class.
Could be really depending on location.

Current Software Engineer, for full disclosure, pondering how to move away from the prevalent web dev job market where I currently reside. Data science seems to pay on par.
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i mean they need to generate a training set first right?
> There is just limitless amounts of old code that no one has the resources to address. [...] It's just impossible to spend money and fix things that already work.

So then, "shady" sellers are pricing software solutions below cost, maybe there needs to be some standards around minimum time length warranties similar to manufacturer warranties. Somehow the refrigerator market managed to standardize onto requiring a certain minimum for each fridge - maybe we need a software association or union to do the same.
Google Photos or a similar photo-only service with sharing features may be better than Facebook if that's your main use and you have concerns about scams and radicalization.
Spot metering is one way to do it, but you might find it's actually slower than using full manual once you get enough experience in a particular area (for example backlit stage shows). In full manual, you'll set your exposure and adjust on the fly in a single click as the light changes. Spot metering is slower because you have to find a decent spot to meter, then lock exposure, then go on to actually focus, frame, etc. It takes an extra few seconds and 2+ movements just to spot meter where adjusting your ISO is a single movement is much quicker (and can be done while you are framing for example).
Well, kind of. I would call it dynamic programming if you thought of the algorithm as calling some function many times in an inefficient version, and then caching that result to make it efficient. That is probably how the textbook would describe it, too. I don't think you need to understand dynamic programming to get this, is all.
A short, straight to the point read. Fascinatingly the scan image appears to have 9 vertices.

Nit: Article confusingly uses name carbon-18 to denote a molecule with 18 atoms of carbon. Carbon-18 suggests otherwise an isotope of carbon.
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I am content with trying to grasp with it and never quite coming to an answer.

These stuff can be answered with "I don't know" or "I don't know, but this is my best guess".
The evidence surrounding hedonic adaptation you're citing is misleading. The twin studies, for example, cite a 50% heritability, which, ignoring their problems, still suggests far from a preponderance of genetic influence. And those studies are difficult to interpret vis-a-vis their environmental assumptions, as are many other studies. E.g., it's not that impressive to me to show that people return to baseline from some anomalous event, when so much of the environment is structured in a very long-term stable way. The person who gets married still has to return to their same SES background, the same vocational history, the same environment, etc and so forth; conversely, the person who gets divorced still has the same job background, same workplace environment, and so forth and so on.

I also feel like the hedonic adaptation hypothesis leads to this kind of absurd conclusion that people are unaffected by anything regardless of severity. That is, it doesn't matter what we do to others because it's their fault how happy they are.

In any event, I think these hedonic adaptation studies are really misleading in some ways.

This project (the hedonometer project) is somewhat similar. I've done research on similar topics, and one problem you run into fairly quickly is that there's nothing really "attached" to the data you're modeling. The assumption is that the verbal content on Twitter will reflect people's mood on average, which is fairly reasonable, but the content on Twitter is fairly disembodied. That is, someone might tweet about how horrible Alan Rickman's death is, but they themselves are in a fairly good mood. So you see recurring time series patterns with, e.g., Christmas because the positive language is part of what is socially entrained, even though it's disconnected from changes in your mood. You tweeting about having fun with your family this year, when everything is going well, is not the same as tweeting about having fun with you family last year, when everything was going to hell.

It's admittedly a complicated topic, but I think this stuff gets radically oversimplified.
> What is the alternative?

Stop Android from being a monopoly.

This solution has the same problem as the Windows browser ballot — it starts from the assumption that the OS must continue being a monopoly.
The idea that nature has "intuition" seems incredibly anthropomorphic. It will be a surprise when nature violates a law of physics. But since nature does not "know" physics, it just does it, I doubt it has much intuition about it.
It's still a good first step towards that future being possible. Now "we" know that it's actually maybe possible as well as properties of the material which might lead to better techniques for producing it or similar things using less exotic processes.
> if you poked around the software of the vast majority of organizations in this world, you'd find "SQL injections galore".

As a security consultant, I disagree. There is quite a clear trend in what kind of vulnerabilities web applications have. XSS is getting slightly better but still has a way to go, CSRF has much more awareness and went from "rarely prevented" to "usually prevented", SSRF is getting more common due to new kinds of architectures (more back-ends talking to each other), but SQL injections are, well, not quite a solved problem, but vastly better than it was ten years ago.

I think this can be attributed largely to better libraries that make the secure way the default (such as parameterized queries) and somewhat to more awareness (tutorials and examples will mention things like escaping variables). Perhaps people also hear more about it in school nowadays, but I don't think schools changed much.

My view of the world is somewhat tainted since companies pay me to find their bugs (they are serious about security), but I also am a normal user of random websites like everyone else. Some websites smell, and I'll investigate and sometimes find vulnerabilities. And I hear what is going on in the field, what leaks have happened, what bugs people are finding. I try not to let my paid work taint my view too much.
"That's the one day I saw a linux server crash..."

Most unbelievable part of the story. Cracked me up.
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Yet you focus only on one aspect of the linked discussion on the high rate of misimplementations, an aspect that represents the least relevant part, and then act as if this invalidates the point?

That’s not sincere, it’s disingenuous.
You need to show that, unlike the math case, it does not work the opposite way in each case.

What a coincidence it is that out of all A..Z , you should have picked math, the one that doesn't work, as your first example!
Sometimes the answer has to be yes, right? Otherwise how can you ever do something expensive which hasn't been done before?
Coding tests are completely useless unless the company doing the assessment can clearly explain up front their method for assessing the code.

I did a coding test once that was organised, met the requirements of the test spec, was documented, included tests and in identified and solved an inconsistency in the test spec.

The feedback from the employer "they didn't like your code" - right there is the point at which I realised that coding tests are, without a quantifiable, systematic assessment method, complete garbage.
What's the difference between this and choosing not to bake a cake for a gay couple? Plenty of people cheered Cloudflare for taking down TDS and 8Chan, but the same people got up in arms to demand a private business provide service to a protected class. Last time I checked political affiliation was a protected class in CA and political activity was a protected class in CA & NY.
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It may not change much now, while Google is dominant and profitable in both markets, but it would prevent using Android revenue to prop up search in the future, if say DuckDuckGo became the leading search engine.
Do you realize how intensive the interview process for a doctor is? You work as an intern and essentially "perform surgeries" over the course of a year.

>Therefore I must now conclude that a degree from that university means nothing.

Degrees always mean nothing but the educations might still be useful, depending on what the individual took advantage of.
I thought the post was pretty clear on both of these things. I'm surprised that all the top-level comments here (at the time I write) are addressing only the longer review time - it seems clear enough that the real problem is that it's impossible to schedule a release properly.
> our industry has become the 1980s Wall Street of ethics

+1
More like "functionally miserable after 3, unusable after 5".
You can install software on your Android phone instantly as well. It just has to be from outside the Play Store.
I use a somewhat different system. Each common interview question is mapped to what is effectively an inside joke about my life. Usually something related to the interview question, but the actual keyword is tangentially related in a manner that would be incredibly difficult for an attacker to guess.

This effectively allows using the security question as something that can be more reliably recalled by the user, but largely avoids the security issues of an easy to guess secret.
I feel the business model of artificial artificial intelligence / fake it until you make it, is a valid business model, unless you obfuscate your progress to investors.

If you can either hire an AWS cluster or an army of cheap human contractors for the same money, and your AI-process relies more on common sense over easy calculations, why would you not hire the human contractors?

They are basically taking Searle's Room, but instead of a robot, they are filling it with necktops/meatbags. If it works, it works. Why reverse the argument? The room is filled with humans, and not a robot, so it can't be (artificially) intelligent? Even if the humans do nothing more than following a tree-script?

I would ask them to write out/sketch out a complete project, from inception, to code delivery, which steps require humans and which steps already have automation. They should already have this. If suspect, walk through it in person.

Remember, the AI hype is a market for suckers. VC's who lose their mind over the AI hype, while they were level-headed when dealing with traditional software companies, deserve this.

From what it sounds like, it is a traditional IT outsourcing (sweatshop) company, with more focus on automation and structuring the process. If they can unify software building blocks (pagination, REST api's, user profiles, ...) and better match experts with glueing these building blocks together, they can be very efficient and low-margin.

Forward-thinking: In 10-20 years, there will be an outsourcing company that is highly reliant on decision and data science. Funding and market fit decides if it is this AI startup or another.
To be fair, neural program synthesis has been an active area of research for a while and it doesn't seem that it's going to ever take off for good, like machine vision or NLP.

I keep linking to this page:

https://blog.keras.io/the-limitations-of-deep-learning.html

But what Chollet says is still the case. Machine-learning a mapping from arbitrary specifications to programs is many, many times more difficult than classification. Unless someone comes up with a completely new architecture that is for neural program synthesis what CNNs are for vision and LSTMs for sequence learning, and then some, then there's not going to be any big advances in the field.

Source: I study algorithms that learn programs from examples from my PhD and you need three things for it that neural nets lack: a) generalisation, b) the ability to learn recursive functions and c) higher-order representations (i.e. quantified variables).

Personally, I was very excited with DeepMind's differentiable neural computers, but it seems very hard to train on anything but toy problems.
The feeling of everyone studying the natural world now is one of overwhelming loss, that everything they've devoted their lives to is disappearing before their eyes. There isn't any way to make an honest nature documentary and not include that. To do otherwise would be to pretend that the careful selection they do to show a pristine wilderness and healthy animals is reflective of reality.
Artisanal textile workers, categorically, were not as talented as elite actors because the size of their competitive pool and the barriers to creating work were minuscule compared to that of Hollywood actors - who emigrate from all over the globe and assimilate to US culture to use their talent.

While a lot of cultural products (not art) like movies and shows are created like fast food, people are drawn to them because of the unique talent, charisma, looks, presence etc of the actors that participate. I don't see Avengers: End Game breaking box office records if it didn't have those rarefied individuals.

If you go back to my initial post, I pondered whether the original comment meant celebrity.
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You don't have to appeal to religion -- in the word.

But you will be appealing to something that isn't Scientific rhetoric, call it what you will.

You can just use the word Wonder if you like.

I only object when one approaches someone else (like a religious person) and accuses them of being "wrong" and "un-scientific".

You are both doing the same thing. One is staring at Wonder. The other is staring at God.

Or call me wrong and devise whatever vocbulary you want that is better than this^^

But god-forbid anyone think they're on higher ground just because they have a different word for it.
iOS review process used to be much much worse years ago - up to two weeks at worst. It’s much better now.
NDAs being what they are, someone in the industry might be able to point us to public sources that hint in the correct direction... it seems risky otherwise.
Cloudflare is incorporated in California where political affiliation actually is a protected class.
If I recall correctly their neural network was mostly trained to judge board situations accurately. So yes, I suppose you could consider it statistics.

Of course the situation becomes rather interesting when you start training it against itself, but you're still fundamentally trying to find a good statistic to estimate your chances of winning.
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I had a similar experience being 13, but luckily for me it only involved my own highschool website and data. I found a blind sql injection and got access to the credentials of any user. I wasn't a particularly mature 13 y/o so I started messing around.

My highschool reported the incidents and I got caught in a few weeks. I almost went to trial, my hard drive with my StarCraftII campaign almost finished was confiscated (I haven't seen it again since that moment) and it was overall an instructing episode. It didn't go any further because my parents had good relations with the highschool's direction and they withdrawed the report as soon as they knew it was me.

In the following years I kept in contact with the webmaster and I remember feeling very encouraged to report any other flaw I could find to him. I found a few more things over the years, but most importantly learned a lot.

Every time I read news like this I remember how grateful I felt when my highschool not only forgave me but also helped me keep learning. I believe it can make a difference, and even more so when dealing with younger kids.