skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an MS in Applied Math and work in machine learning (for the past 3 years). The only real advice I can give is I am not sure how much a BS will help (it certainly wont hurt) you with getting a job in machine learning. I ended up here but I spent my entire MS studying wavelets and signal processing. I did take a few courses in machine learning, but nothing super crazy.

I think if were in your position, I would spend six months taking free courses, writing some open source projects, making some cool visualizations with d3.js, and then leveraging that to try to get a job (or transition into a job). If I was hiring someone for a position in ML at my company, I would be more interested in seeing that type of stuff than asking questions like "How does an SVM work" or "Where did you get your BS in Math from?".

With that said, if you can afford the classes, have time to put in (a lot of time to really understand math), and you have always wanted to get a degree, go for it, and dont let anyone here stop you.
Friends. The principled and empathetic. Those who give one another the benefit of the doubt and default to altruism in the absence of specific threat.
So, Darpa is providing remotely accessible hacking devices to companies as test equipment and encouraging them to install them in sensitive locations of their buildings. Is this some advanced form of comedy security trolling on the part of Darpa? Like an "If you install this, then you have failed the test already", kind of thing.
Huge difference.

Minified files, more often than not, have the original identifiers, original code structure (e.g. you know a for from a while ). With a decompiler, you lose all of that.

Google closure is a compiler (and thus loses a lot of this data), but most minifiers are not semantically destructive.
Actually retirement is a modern result of societies that have gotten wealthy. No one saved at all until relatively recently. Longer lifespans and lower marginal profits from having children have made saving necessary to sustain a rich lifestyle.

How does keeping people in a poor house help them find jobs?

On a related point it doesn't seem that there is any relationship between the generosity of the safety net and savings rate. You are right about cultural attitudes being a factor but this really doesn't have anything to do with saving. Wealthy societies and classes in general are more thrifty because they can afford can be.
8000 Facebook members die every day. What happens to their profiles?
PR only matters to them if their relationship with their customers is consensual.

This is not the case with a patent troll.
There could have been plenty of reporters who fact checked then didn't bother contacting him after discovering he was lying.
The IETF datatracker link is pretty useless. Pretty much anyone can make any claim they want there and there is no way to remove it. Its just a statement collector, not a review.

Most of the results returned are against old versions of the specification, too.
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I believe that when Anonymous hacked into HBGeary's email server they found software products being pitched to businesses and government agencies that was designed to support astroturfing forums.
Suppose a person is in the same situation as you were in? Is it possible to say something different to the guy so that the story does not end in this way?
Google's closure is a compiler, not a minifier (the distinction being: if it does semantic analysis it is a compiler; although I've never seen a minifier that does even real syntactic analysis -- they all do lexical)
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But the obvious correlation is that of the million situations that could cause someone to sit more, more of them lead to early death than extended life. For example, asthma, arteriosclerosis, and obesity are known to lead to both situations.

When a study comes out that exhaustively controls for at least all of known factors that cause both situations being correlated, give me a call.
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What Coursera courses have you taken?

I've taken the game theory course, and the second run of machine learning, and both were fine.

I've also taken Udacity's courses on programming a robotic car and on cryptography, and am currently doing the second run of Caltech's machine learning course, so when I say the Coursera courses were fine, I do have some other offerings to compare to.
It's probably going to cost a gazillion dollars for Mojang to defend against, since patent lawyers are expensive.

The troll can probably determine how small Mojang really is and just try to use legal procedures to make things as expensive as possible. No need to actually fight for real (as they presumably did against Microsoft.)

This is why we should have a mandatory award of attorney's fees to the winner in IP cases. It would make lawyers more willing to take Mojang's side on a contingency basis (they only get paid if Mojang wins).
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"You're ignoring the possibility that sitting is bad, but the negative impact is outweighed by the other advantages accompanied by education."

I mean that's basically what I believe to be the case. Even if sitting is bad for you, which I'm not convinced of but which wouldn't especially surprise me, I'm sure that for many people the good effects of sitting can outweigh the bad, not just in school but all throughout life.
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Examples of CIA doing 'impossible' things:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company#History_in...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkultra

I acknowledge this is not proof of shinanigans on HN.
Many people who claim they have a sense of empathy, could probably lose it or deal with the occasional conscience pang, if a seven-to-nine figure sum was involved.
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If it is worth nothing, why is it insured? And why would they want to hide the details of said insurance?
Nominee for the procrastination award!
A majority of startup folks I run into from Berlin do not speak any german at all. Many of them have been living there for a while, some for several years.

You will need German and or a translater when you talk to officials and you should get somebody with german knowledge before entering contracts, but by itself you will have an easy tiome getting around Berlin when you are in the startup relevant areas.
In Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc. the 'live2 crew' won on their parody of "Pretty Women", because they were making a comment on the original song. While family guy lost "when you wish upon a weinstein" because they merely appropriated the "when you wish upon a star" song to comment America's stereotype of Jews. But they weren't saying anything about the song.

Basically I can parody your work to make a comment on it. I can't appropriate it to parody someone else.

Weird Al gets permission from the artist - but that's mainly a, don't cause trouble, keep the record company happy.

He would still have to pay for the rights to the music owners when the song is used, although the owner of the music rights may well not be the artist. Which is why some songs are performed live but not on the albums - the payment for singing "happy birthday" at a concert is very different from putting out a cd of it.

ps - I am not a lawyer - although my dog has been trained to piss on their BMWs
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DHS monitors a huge list of sites with forums and comment sections via automated software. They have a big list of terms, like a threat zeitgeist.
> Apologies if you find the stories lousy. I try my best to dig up interesting stuff. Obviously the quality of the reporting isn't as good as if a professional cryptographer/material scientist/engineer etc wrote it -- but... I do the best I can :)

Um, not mentioning the "details" thankfully supplied by this comment [1] is quite a big omission.

The topic is super interesting, but it's hard to be sure if the reporting is inaccurate.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4271999
Things like tequilla or vodka. The way people seem to drink the stuff despite the taste - rather than inhaling a good scotch
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Thank you for this post explaining the background of some of this.

I submitted it here after stumbling onto it at cryptome. I wanted to see if it would be suppressed -- it has not been!

Sorry to annoy the oldgs
It's an artifact of prohibition that was later captured by commercial distillers as a way of reducing competition.
Better maybe, but when the kill list is secret and the reasons are secret that's not exactly "accountability"
“The fact is that this is not in any way remotely an "American phenomenon"”

The list of spree killings you linked to contains 54 incidents. 24 of those happened in the US. Your other link has a section on school massacres. 5 out of those 15 listed happened in the US. Another section, workplace killings: 6 out of 15. ‘Other notable incidents’: 10 out of 34.

Hamburgers may be served all over the world, but they remain a very American foodstuff.
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"The official work experience I have on my CV is more enterprisy stuff"

That already is your point. You are coming from an enterprise thinking and payment structure - Berlin is everything but Enterprise.

With your kind of payment expectations, they will simply expect you to step up the game, and that probably is at least CTO if not co founder. If you want to be your specialized dev, you need to be extra good to work around this area and _understand_ what startups are about.

Also, judging by your nickname here, your name still sounds German. If you are from A / CH by definition (and if not proven otherwise on your CV and through experiences) you are not automatically startup material. Don't get me wrong: it is just about different skillset and mentality and if you cannot provide proof that you are not tainted by that obstacle, you will have an even harder time getting a job in that environment.
I like to think of the current structures that define and drive of our 'civilization' as a legacy design that is very difficult to replace, sort of like PC and Von Neumann-ish architecture, or a giant Perl codebase.

I think that in this technological era, secret government (or private) killings, war, domination of resources by force, etc., is completely inexcusable. I think that the structures are unfortunately supported by primitive Social Darwinist belief systems.

I am actually optimistic that when violence and violence suppression really becomes an information technology (i.e., a non-wealthy person can run a program/device that fabricates and launches his own swarm of protective robots) that will lead to a more equal distribution of resources and generally less violence and coercion. May sound far-fetched, and maybe it is.. but things are so fucked up, I have to hope for some science-fictiony sounding solutions.
The IRS computer system was built in the 1970s. It does not have the capabilities you ascribe to it. Consequently, the IRS still uses the following system to determine who to audit: (1) errors in their returns, (2) types of income, and (3)randomly based on type of return.
For humor, I started to read responses here on H/N to see how they match up.

> I had problems reading all of this because the tin foil hat I'm wearing kept slipping down over my eyes.

From the article: "5. Sidetrack opponents with name calling and ridicule. This is also known as the primary 'attack the messenger' ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach. Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as 'kooks', 'right-wing', 'liberal', 'left-wing', 'terrorists', 'conspiracy buffs', 'radicals', 'militia', 'racists', 'religious fanatics', 'sexual deviates', and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues."

Overall, well-done on this post.

In support, I would say that it is fairly easy, depending upon your perspective, to apply most of the various "rules" in this article to about everyone's post.
I find feedback mechanisms that allow readers to react to individual parts of text to be useful, especially when the text is of a technical nature.

What I dislike about this particular implementation is the UI: You don't know what happens when you click the button until you have actually clicked it (the same problem has for example the 'kudos' widget on Svbtle[0]). Also the button is slightly obtrusive. Something more subtle with an explanation on hover or a confirmation dialog would IMO do a better job.

A good example of something similar is (the now obsolete) Django Book[1] where people can comment on any paragraph.

[0] e.g. http://500hats.com/late-bloomer/

[1] http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter05/
Looks great!

This reminds me of the 'Show HN' posted here two or three days ago. Who inspired who?

It strikes me that such a service could be almost completely cacheable (static)... which raises the question of why you're restricting usage.
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I personally find it a bit odd to see the iOS interface on the desktop, but if you want to go with it, you might want to do it properly.

Do the detail disclosure buttons actually any details, or should you have used the disclosure indicator instead?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3078665/whats-the-differe...
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Without implying that I endorse this idea, which I think will fail simply due to network effects, it's a tiresome argument that says App.net doesn't have value to end-users because end-users don't care about ads.

It's true, as the argument says, that end-users won't care enough about Twitter's ads over the next year or two to abandon the service for a competitor. The ads themselves are just not that big of a deal.

But the need to draw revenue from ads is causing Twitter to make decisions that harm third-party developers. End-users don't care about third-party developers, but they very well might care about applications; if alterna-Twitter enables applications that users care about, the plight of developers or insidiousness of ads won't have to matter, because it'll be the apps themselves that sell the service.
Many other minifiers also munge the symbols (e.g. YUI compressor). And why should this process retain anything anyways? If you want your source-code available for download then... put up a download link.
Even if you could prove scientifically that it was only worth $1000, so what? The other party owns the domain. They can refuse to sell it at any price they wish. For a pro domainer a $3k domain isn't too much. They may very well not budge much.

As a rule people tend to be willing to accept a lower counter offer. Your best bet is to make the highest offer you're happy with and make it clear that it is your final offer. Be nice, but firm. Either you get the domain at a price you're happy with or you don't.

Once piece of advice I can offer is to not fall in love with a particular domain. Something strange happens with names. You start feeling attachment very quickly and it clouds your judgement. Trust me, there are other domains that you could like just as much as this one. Don't be afraid to move on.
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It's pretty easy using package. Here's what I just copied and pasted from my init.el

(require 'package)
(dolist (source '(("technomancy" . "http://repo.technomancy.us/emacs/)
("elpa" . "http://tromey.com/elpa/)))
(add-to-list 'package-archives source t))
(package-initialize)

(defvar my-packages '(starter-kit zenburn-theme auctex color-theme-solarized csharp-mode ecb_snap find-file-in-project flymake-css flymake-php idle-highlight ido-ubiquitous ipython python-mode magit markdown-mode paredit pastels-on-dark-theme php-mode rainbow-mode smex solarized-theme starter-kit-js zenburn-theme)
"A list of packages to ensure are installed at launch.")

(dolist (p my-packages)
(when (not (package-installed-p p))
(package-install p)))

Where you add the package name to my-packages. It's kinda cool to see it download and compile everything on a new install.
That's one hell of a detailed story. Don't believe it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy

About nanotech: if we have nanofactories, nanoreplicators shouldn't be far. Beware the gray goo accident.

As for AI, it will probably go from "quite dumb" to "way smarter than we are" in a relatively short time. At that point, everything else will be moot, because the AI will do pretty much what it wants (what its programming tells it to do) and we won't be able to stop it. Let's hope (or ensure that) its "wishes" are the same as ours.
I've used the nuclear arms comparison before, but I've decided land mines are a better metaphor. Nuclear arms, in the view of some including myself, have (so far) proven to be a net good thing. They have forced world leaders to grow up and learn to get along with each other. They have cost us trillions of dollars to design, build, stockpile, and maintain, but if the MAD doctrine has in fact forestalled WWIII, its value is beyond any price. Not everyone agrees, of course, and that's reasonable, but still, you can't argue with the outcome of nuclear deterrence thus far.

Land mines, on the other hand, kill people who have no idea what they're stepping on. They are cheap, ugly, technically-uninteresting things, often resold on illegitimate markets and used by everyone from superpowers to tin-pot psychopaths.

Instead of preventing wars, or at least forcing adversaries into negotiations for their own self-preservation, land mines kill innocents and belligerents alike. And when they do kill innocent people, it happens years, even decades, after the mines were planted. They kill long after the initial conflict is over, when its outcome is no longer "innovative."

So IMHO, comparing patents to nuclear weapons is an insult to nuclear weapons.

(Edit: your metaphor fails on another level, as does mine. If I start a nuclear war or plant a land mine that kills a non-combatant, nobody will ever consider me a hero. But kids are brought up to respect "inventors" and the patent process. We literally celebrate people who bushwhack the productive and industrious. That's fucked up.)
I wonder how many groups end up with only infiltrators in them, like in G.K Chesterton's "The Man who was Thursday". There was a case I heard of few years back (although I cannot find a reference) of UK and French police importing drugs to the UK entirely by accident as each thought that the other group was the actual criminals.
Actually, it is not necessary for devs to be classified as CSAs - plenty enter under the Engineer classification (I've done this myself)

The CSA is a common catch-all, since USCIS tends to frown upon CS degrees using the Engineer title. But if you area a CE, EE, SE, etc, this is a straightforward path.

The barriers are not significant especially when weighed against the payoff, and consider that all of the major software firms do this so much that success is more or less guaranteed (e.g., if you are denied your TN at the border, the big shops will send a lawyer up to argue your case on your amended re-try). Most companies go so far out of their way to bring in Canadian talent that it greatly diminishes the systemic issues you're likely to experience.
Do your homework before moving.

It is widely known that Telekom had problems with certain areas and that is why you make a "Verfügbarkeitsprüfung" before even looking further at renting something. ;)
And how many people need a gigabit internet connection at home or in the office?

Plus if you know you are not ready to move into something long term, then you simply move to a space where you can rent this.
We forward the "looking for co founder" from the Berlin startup group to the Jobs group:

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> It's not easy but it's mostly a solved problem. JVM was designed with a single language in mind, yet it's used by dozens of languages today. Similarly LLVM and CLR are widely used.

How is this statement qualitatively different from "JavaScript was designed with human writers in mind, yet it's used by dozens of languages today"?
For a long time, they did run a lot of training as their primary business, too. (US Training Centers, in NC, is one of the best firearms/combat training centers in the world. They also make excellent reactive target systems.)
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You are very possibly harming yourself far more with a standing desk than you would by sitting. Sitting is correlated with fat metabolism issues, but standing for periods of just 10-15 minutes is correlated with vascular disease; standing was shown in studies to correlate with increased stress hormones and increased blood density.

You are better off setting a timer and, every 20-30 minutes or so, getting up and moving around (you don't have to exercise strenously; just walking for a couple minutes from one spot to another seems to do it).
The TN1 is actually not hard to get at all, despite the horror stories that you sometimes hear, especially if your employer is one of the "majors" (e.g., Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc), who will pull out the stops to ensure your visa works out.

For example, if you fail the TN application at the border, it's common for companies to send a lawyer up to accompany you the second time, to ensure success. It's expensive, but the big boys do it.

It's also not strictly necessary to renew the TN at the border just like the initial application: I've had TNs processed directly via the USCIS without difficulty, and the whole thing is done by mail, and judged by someone less temperamental than your average CBP officer.

Sure, systemically US immigration is really screwed up, but it's really not hard to get the TN, and if you're working for one of the known software companies, they will pull out the stops to guarantee success.

> "Besides, USA with its out of control gun culture, out of control politics, christian fundamentalism, and horrible health care is not really that attractive."

The vast majority of (desirable) software jobs in the US are in extremely liberal tech hubs like SF/SV, Seattle, New York, etc. This has always been a concern of mine, but it has largely not materialized.
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Just another reason that withdrawing "official" military from Iraq is a farce of the same level as declaring victory.

We don't officially torture prisoners (anymore), but unaccountable private contractors can run wild, hidden from all that pesky human rights oversight.
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> Sounds like an interesting guy, but probably not someone you want to meet in a dark alley.

True, but definitely someone to whom you want to entrust the President's most extreme authority.