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Ex for a reason, I see :)

There's a bit more to it than just leverage. Writing naked options carries huge potential downside, unlimited in the case of naked calls.

With a stock you're long, or short. Prices go up and down. Four outcomes to consider. Options are a bit more involved: covered or uncovered? call or put? long or short? Then you've got the option price and the underlying price to think about. Until you're comfortable, it's more than most can manage in their heads.

Since we're doing 'sharp tool' analogies, I'd be more inclined to go with hand saw and chainsaw. The level of potential harm you can do to yourself in an instant with a chainsaw is far greater than that you can achieve with a hand saw - and it's a much bigger difference than that between the efficiency of using a chainsaw and a hand saw. Yes, it's powerful, but it's disproportionately hazardous in untrained or careless hands.
http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/ is a good place to start. It's open source, in Python, has a few tutorials that lead you towards some rather state-of-the-art methods.

There's no secret sauce for how to choose the number of layers and the activation functions (and anyone that tells you otherwise is lying). It's all application-dependent and the best way to do it is by cross-validation.

Can answer questions about this topic in conjunction with mr. bravura (I'm working with the code referenced in that paper by Dean et al., here at Google, and did grad school at the same place as bravura did his postdoc).
Study shows people capable of reading and solving math equations subconsciously
You forgot 'Tickle me Elmo' back in 2008.
We definitely support open source. I'm very active in the Chef / DevOps communities, and have been using/supporting OSS for over 10 years. The first iteration of our storefront was built using a 31 line chef recipe, rails, spree, nginx, unicorn, and postgresql.
Ok, now I'm curious... which medium/channel are you talking about?
Ok, when I was last talking to them[1], they did not have anything at all for security but a vague idea that it was important and a possible "would something like this work?" that was more about securing the API than the data ;P. Their FAQ still states they are working on it, but maybe they have something more in-depth now for the beta users (such as yourselves)?

[1] https://twitter.com/Firebase/status/190954896764305408

The pretty sane and "simple" (easy to implement on the server, but difficult for developers to use correctly) way of doing it is something like StackMob or Parse's ACL feature (but even that tends to be misused, and as soon as data can be shared between users is almost impossible to get right without using custom server-side logic, which these kinds of companies are now supporting).

(FTR, I try to hit on these things pretty hard, as I'm highly concerned that these online middleware companies are short-changing the importance of security in the cloud, if not often in their implementations then almost always in their documentation and tutorials. I gave a talk at 360|iDev this year discussing solutions like StackMob and Parse, doing live demos of ripping keys out of apps and dumping their databases.)

(One of the apps I ran into--which I did not demo dumping data from during that talk ;P, although I did show a totally anonymized snippet of the kind of data it was storing--was an online dating matchup app that was storing all of its offline Facebook full-access auth tokens trivially accessible in StackMob, along with all of the "private" messages sent between the users... all of this despite the app supporting nicknames for "anonymity" and listing "security" as one of its defining features :(.)

(Firebase, to their extreme credit, is very honest about the fact that your data is all public: it is the very first question in their FAQ, and they state the situation 100% clearly and entirely outright. "However, it’s not ready for widespread use yet, so right now all data in Firebase is publicly accessible. Please keep this in mind when building apps!" <- emphasis is thankfully theirs, not mine ;P)
It's not obvious to me what it means to have "better than human-level performance" since most of the time the ground-truth itself is defined by humans :)
No, you made a declarative statement at the very beginning of your comment that 'This is a rather subtle advert.' By doing so, you're poisoning the well for any questions that you pose afterwards. Your theory about the product image turned out to be wrong, and saying that you're just asking questions when you've previously stated opinions as fact is not really convincing.

I don't even like Jeff Atwood much, but I advise that you let this one go and next times ask questions before shooting.
"Nameless"

Not kidding, I think that'd be a cool name.
We lost an engineer recently because of a desire to change careers. I still see him once a week - as he still works one full day a week for us as a contractor. It has worked out very well in that the knowledge has not been lost and provided continuity in that area. I wish I could work him more time - but he likes things they way they are.

This is probably a fringe case - and I do not recommend you pursue it unless you are in excellent standing with your manager and are not currently overloaded with responsibility. This type of transition doesn't work if many people are solely dependent on you - which may give you something to work towards - others cross trained directly in your task - so you can have time away without impact to the company.
What's missing from your article is a demonstration or theory that outlines how transmission over CPU-interconnects of immutable messages as blocks of memory outperforms the cache coherence algorithms already in place.

Immutable message transmission has no way to say "I already know about this message; don't send it again."

Most of the good characteristics of Erlang that you describe are achievable in other languages.

So what I'm asking is, by what concrete mechanism does immutable message passing outperform cache coherence?
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tickle me elmo was a craze in 1996
Can one make tables?
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I don't get your point. Is there a problem with fresh CS grads expecting to end up in strategic roles at startups? If not, then I'm not seeing why the analogy is relevant.

From what I've seen, fresh developer grads expect to take entry-level positions. Fresh MBA grads generally don't; they expect to be listened to as high-level advisors or managers. That is not an unreasonable expectation, in that their programs train them for that.

Another way to look at it: It's well-known that large-company execs often adapt poorly to working at startups, partly because they are used to having other people around to do the actual work. An MBA trains people for that sort of large-company position, so it's unsurprising that people fresh out of MBA programs would have the same issues.
Yes yes yes yes yes. Discovery/play is crucial to expanding creativity, and creativity is crucial to solving problems, especially really hard ones.

Take breaks and do stuff to break the norm. Of course, rigorous scientific literature on this topic is kind of lacking. But if anything, it keeps life interesting.
Eh .. off topic, but why did you write lawyer with Y and W switched around? You emphasised it, so I assume it was on purpose?
Not really that insightful... [0]

[0]http://www.wbenjamin.org/passageways.html
I'm actually on the other side: currently writing my bachelor's thesis in statistical physics, having a lot to do with probability stuff, statistics and data. I'd like to take a year off and work in a company to get some real life experience before I start my Master's degree, because I don't want to stay in academia after that.
But I have no idea where I can find companies which could need my abilities and where I could work for 0.5-1 year. Any ideas? I live in Germany.
Salaries are the minimum figure that allows companies to hire the talent they need. If they go too low, people just start looking at other options (i.e. starting up, freelancing...). If you're easy to replace, someone will do the same for less, if you're difficult to replace, it'll be expensive to do so. Etc.
But only if you buy enough contracts to cover your costs. One of the big hiccups in straddles is that the stock has to move far enough to cover your costs, plus a bit.

It's very easy to make small amounts of money on options, but you can probably put that time into a minimum wage job and make more.
Why not "Statistician," "Computational statistician," or "computer engineer/statistician"?
Awesome, I'm really excited to really start learning some stuff about the tech/start up world. It seems that I've read more interesting articles on HN in about fifteen minutes than hours on other forums
http://www.sierratradingpost.com/clothing~d~5/holbrook~b~280...

FromHolden: "the highest quality shirts"

Seems like Holbrook is a nonstarter.

o Word Mark	HOLBROOK
o Goods and Services	IC 025. US 022 039.
o G & S: men's suits, sportcoats, and slacks.
o FIRST USE: 19970201.
o FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19970201
o Mark Drawing Code	(1) TYPED DRAWING
o Serial Number	74551492
o Filing Date	July 20, 1994
o Current Basis	1A
o Original Filing Basis	1B
o Published for Opposition	November 5, 1996
o Registration Number	2089513

o Word Mark	HOLBROOK
o Goods and Services	IC 025. US 039.
o G & S: MEN'S AND BOY'S SHIRTS.
o FIRST USE: 19391213.
o FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19391213
o Mark Drawing Code	(1) TYPED DRAWING
o Serial Number	72318672
o Filing Date	February 7, 1969
o Current Basis	1A
o Original Filing Basis	1A
o Registration Number	0917690
o Registration Date	August 3, 1971
First performance tests of Nvidia  Tesla K20
A set of synthetic tests to measure NVIDIA GPU performance. We ran it on several test environments: GTX 580, GTX 680, Tesla K20Xm, Tesla M2050.
Well, the point is, Apache comes with enough modules that I never had any need to actually go and compile a custom one. And since they can be loaded at runtime, in terms of memory you only pay for what you use.

I haven't used nginx often, but the default Debian nginx doesn't come with many things included, I find.
People want a chicken omelet, but god forbid someone suggest we work on getting an egg or a chicken first.
Link didn't work for me. Mobile version did: http://mobile.nytimes.com/bitsarticle?articleId=123018

I didn't see a link to the actual web app. Here it is: http://here.net/

It looks like they don't have an app store app but have a mobile app available at here.net.
So Hyperic started with PostgreSQL, added MySQL and Oracle, dropped PostgreSQL, and now have dropped MySQL and Oracle and have gone back to PostgreSQL.

Why would I go with a product that's going to require me to change the backend database every few years?
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PyCon US 2013: Big data? How about PyData
From Burton?

Just kidding. But seriously, pay a lawyer to do a trademark search when you decide on your new name. It's fairly cheap and can give you a great peace of mind.
Take CBC mode for instance. The CBC block cipher mode is a fine choice for bulk encryption. Low-level crypto libraries must provide it, because CBC is the most common block cipher mode used by preexisting cryptosystems (like TLS). And a generic implementation of the CBC block cipher mode must expose the CBC IV.

The library designer hasn't done anything "wrong" by providing a CBC module for use with cipher cores, but if you just pick up CBC mode and AES and go use them, you're likely to build a vulnerable cryptosystem, because the CBC IV must be unpredictable, it must not be possible to introduce controlled padding errors to the ciphertext, and because CBC ciphertexts can be bit-flip rewritten.

The problem is not with the CBC code; the problem is with exposing crypto at the "CBC mode" level of abstraction.

But what's the author of a low-level library to do? There isn't one simple solution to these problems. Some cryptosystems HMAC-SHA2 the CBC ciphertext. Some use cryptographically random IV's and tack them to the beginning of messages. It all depends on the system; the library designer can't predict all the different ways the code will be used, even though most of the way the code is used will end up being insecure.

This is why developers should use high-level libraries like Keyczar and NACL; by sacrificing low-level control and compatibility with legacy cryptosystems, they allow generalist developers to not have to worry about all the implementation attacks.
Every craigslist post defaults to "You are not allowed to email me about related services." It's not up to them to try and enrich my life with their new services I didn't ask to hear about.

It's blatant spam. But blatant spam and lawbreaking resulting in money hats is apparently okay around here. (It's not shady or illegal -- it's hustling and hacking the system.)
SSL Scanners - Why is Opera probing TLS 4.1?
They should have been careful to access the Gmail account only via TOR. One slip, and the game would be up.

Actually, using Gmail was a reasonable COMSEC plan for what they were doing. Much safer than using his official email.

Problem was, she couldn't restrain herself from frightening Jill Kelley into calling the cops. Once the FBI got on the case, Gmail was worthless. They'd see the unencrypted texts and get to correlate and trace the IP accesses, leaving no hope for the communicants to remain anonymous.

Ultimately, this was a case of a general and a major letting their privates call the shots.
So is there an equivalent for Mercurial, i.e. automates best-practices recipes for common dev workflow steps?
More like 7%, because that should be 4% after inflation...
Do you actually believe their numbers? If they where true, it would mean that the US has been in a depression for well over 10 years. That would be the longest depression in the history of the US, but somehow nobody noticed because the BLS managed to cover it up. It would also mean that there was never any housing boom, house prices where stable relative to other prices.

Do you actually believe this?
It was an interesting sales pitch - they said something like 'it can take awhile to get the money refunded from groupon (1 month) if you don't pass the screening, but it is very unlikely you are not a candidate - you can pay through Groupon and get full refund if things don't work out, or you can pay at the front desk'.

I chose the front desk as easier all the way around. I was shocked that the dollar amount I was quoted included tax (I'm in California).

As for cost/profit - it sounds like base cost in the facility is around $300 / eye, as this is what I was quoted as a 'redo' if it wasn't working well at the 6 month period. so $1800 - $600 = alot of 'profit' from a customer. the overhead for groupon rate seems negligible compared to the cost of acquiring new customers.
If it were just the syntax, it'd be ok.

The paradox of Erlang is that the sorts of environments it's used in and that initially supported its development are often fairly conservative, so the features and choices it started out with are not easy to get rid of. This means the language is saddled with some ugly warts.

It's really good at what it does and is definitely worth a look, but I agree that sooner or later someone is going to come along and steal lots of the good parts and add them to a more modern language.
New wave of robots is changing face of global industry.
Not always true: even if you own the shares outright, you may be subject to obscure SEC regulations about what you can do. When I worked at BAC, we weren't allowed to engage in any speculative transactions in any security. Covered calls only.

At my current employer, no options transactions are permitted on company stock, not even covered calls or protective puts. Of course, you can just sell it and do whatever you want with the proceeds.
You cannot work double the hours and be more productive

You can't simply put typical workers on a schedule that's twice as long and expect more productivity, that's true. Individually, though, you can normally become extraordinarily more productive if you have the right motivation.

people working crazy hours succeed.

Why is this such a mystery? Haven't you ever thrown yourselves into a new startup or idea and spent every waking hour on it for long periods of time because you were excited by what you were doing and it didn't feel like you were working? Haven't you ever gone to sleep thinking about your ideas, and jumped out of bed right away the next morning like a kid on Christmas and then worked on those ideas, barely wanting to take time to eat, at last breaking away from what you're working on late at night because you know you need to get some sleep?
Maybe it's a gene that allows some people to go into that mode. Maybe it's just a matter of finding the right motivation. Regardless, it appears that people who don't experience it can't understand it any more than blind people can really appreciate colors.
I guess another question I have, which maybe should just be created in it's own thread is this...

I'm looking for a technical co-founder for a new business. While I'm not trying to find someone from this post, I am curious as to what would be a good path to take to begin to establish myself as a good person to go into business with. It seems that one of the most important things, beside from being generally qualified, motivated, etc. is to begin trying to learn as much about the technical side of things as possible.

Do you guys agree with this? If so, where is a good place to start learning to code on a basic level?
Nice! Small nit: If you're referencing an URL - i.e. [My text][1] and that URL happens to be a YouTube video, it removes the text and embeds the video. Probably not the desired effect.

(Or maybe it is. I'm not an embedder ;)
It is not just "matters". It is a deeply-researched and well-engineered explicitly concurrent programming language by smart and passionate people. It is a very rare example of first-class project, compared to the common nonsense, like Java or, god forbid, NodeJS.)

If it is not that popular (which is rather good) it is not a language's fault. It is due to inability to acquire and maintain an appropriate mindset.

btw, there is a nice lecture - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Erlang%2BJoe%2BA...
I'm not sure why we should even dignify questions about egotism or how we're discouraging developers from learning. Those issues just aren't relevant. You either built a system that resists attacks or you don't. As Daniel J. Bernstein once said, that may sound harsh, but that's engineering.
Schemes like this do seem to pop up from time to time. Garrys Mod was the last very well known offender in this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2447485 (I won't copy over my full complaint, read it there)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_protection#Notable_payload... (for a very comprehensive list, but without comments about false positives)

They are all similar: they are dangerous when gone wrong, damage your brand, expose paying customers as if they were sad idiots and - at worst - ensure that they are ridiculed on support boards even when they have an actual problem.

Implementing such a system shows that either the programmer or the project owner in question is a smartass that thinks of himself as more infallible and better than all the others that programmed such systems that subsequently went haywire. Sorry for the harsh words, but after being bitten multiple times by such schemes, I have no nicer ones.
What's the story? Let your mind wander.
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Ask me again in two weeks when my online course in advanced machine learning for extreme beginners kicks off. We won't start with deep learning immediately, but it's in the pipeline not too soon after launch.
In terms of cost/benefit, a cease & desist letter is your first best bet. They may not be aware of the problem. Making it appear that you're serious (name of a law firm, trademark no., what exactly they're doing wrong spelled out, snail mail a copy) will improve your odds.

In terms of what you have to stand on, your attorney will tell you. Put that C&D letter out and maybe you won't need to involve an attorney.
AMD hires bank to explore options, including a potential sale - sources
Fair use with geographic distinction is a complicated topic, with recent court rulings (ie, KP Permanent Make-Up, Inc. v. Lasting Impression I, Inc); we did our best to grok this, but in the end, it simply isn't in anyone's interests to fight.

We are not keen on harming another company to build our own. Our hope was that this would not be the case, as there is very little overlap: Holden Outerwear makes branded t-shirts only, while focusing on Outerwear; we make non-branded shirts.

Let's turn this into a positive, find a great name we all love, and get these shirts made! I'm as eager as all of you for the first run, my closet could use an upgrade.
Rails 4 compilation links
Curated compilation of interesting links. I encourage everyone to help making this grow and by giving a look at the links start guides about specific topics
I count 67 different modules in /etc/apache2/mods-available. Which means you rarely a new .so. On the other hand, Nginx is much more limited in functionalities out-of-the-box.

How do you handle deployment of your custom nginx on several boxes?
Translating "like" numbers to sales figures makes absolutely zero sense.
That's the point. A great many programmers learn one or two languages over the course of their lifetimes - look at all of the career Java and C# programmers.
I think they include lunch hours in the 40 hour count, so it's really just a nine to five monday to friday.
One example I can think of is a computer could read a house number or a street sign from 100 feet away, where a human with good vision might be able to make out the same text at 20 feet.
That is the only proper way to learn Erlang. Your first week or two becomes so frustrating, you just leave for a month. Then it starts to click when you come back.

Things are much easier now with line numbers in error messages though.
How come there are no Erlang articles start with, "this new technology is GREAT!" Oh yeah. Nevermind.
No, affirmative action is this: when a white candidate is only slightly better qualified than a black candidate, the black candidate should be preferred, even if the black candidate came from a wealthy home and the white candidate grew up poor.
If I place it as an application tab in Firefox (16), it will highlight the tab because it assumes the content has changed... it doesn't happen always, though.
That "everything else" includes eating, commuting, grocery shopping, and all the other non-fun stuff we must get done. And that's considering 6h/day of sleep, which is insufficient for most people.
The trick is not to seek 'part time' but rather seek a contract and let them know you can only do three days a week. It's working very well for me. Despite what everyone is saying its a marketplace and the demand for good devs/designers is big.
They don't have 3D maps in the "maps" application, but they do in the "nokia drive" application. I love it, I'm considering purchasing another nokia to be my dedicated GPS unit in my car.
Adding to your response: Big ones are using Erlang, such as Github, Heroku, Facebook and Amazon...
"I've got a script checking the site...but the site is just melting", apparently without a trace of irony
Not really. The Twitter API allows both read-only and read/write access. iOS, as a system-wide grant, has read/write permissions - but apparently does not allow users to specify per-app permissions to be that granular.

Moreover, the app was apparently locking out paid users from any access at all unless permissions were granted, which in itself shouldn't have made it through Apple's vetting process in the first place (exception: twitter clients). The majority of apps will only need access to the "share sheet" for posting to twitter, which AFAIK doesn't require explicit permissions (similar to sending an email; the user must hit send)